Mada

Name: Mada
Author: Khaled Hosny

Mada delivers clean, contemporary letterforms optimized for digital interfaces and modern design systems.

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Sans Serifby Khaled Hosny90% Accessible

Characters646

Glyphs775

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Best Font Pairings for Mada

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Mada, including combinations with Libre Baskerville, Literata Book and Fanwood.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Mada with any font combination in real-time, optimized for sans serif characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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Mada Editorial Specimen

Mada in Editorial Context

Mada is a sans serif typeface by Khaled Hosny suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Khaled Hosny

Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

Mada demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a sans serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Mada supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Khaled Hosny, Mada balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Mada Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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Mada Specimen

Mada

Mada is a sans serif typeface by Khaled Hosny built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSans Serif Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

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Mada— sans serif typeface

MadaBy Khaled Hosny

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Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Mada Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in Mada

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Mada, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Mada demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Mada for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Mada small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Mada delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Mada italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Mada bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Mada typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Mada typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Mada'; }

Quick Start

Using Mada in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Mada:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Mada:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Mada';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Mada');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Using Mada in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Mada', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Mada', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'mada': ['Mada', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-mada">Your text here</p>

About

Mada's Details

Khaled Hosny

Sans Serif

Open Source

Mada achieves systematic design and modernist clarity, making it well-suited for corporate branding. Its geometric forms and modern aesthetic contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for mobile applications and digital interfaces, Mada adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The font supports Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts, accommodating a wide range of languages within....

Mada was designed by Khaled Hosny. Known for serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Mada's glyph proportions, stroke consistency, and typographic color.

As a Sans Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Lineal classification, Mada features no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for screen-first digital products and web applications.

Mada is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Extended language support spanning Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin Extended ensures reliable rendering across global audiences.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Mada

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Mada's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Classification

Sans Serif analysis. TypeSmith classifies Mada within the Lineal (Grotesque, Neo-grotesque, Geometric, Humanist) tradition, characterized by No serif extensions on stroke terminals and Stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. The first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Key technical strength: widest variable-font support with weight and width axes.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 90). Mada delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles. Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category.

Design Heritage

Designed by Khaled Hosny. Known for serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Mada's letterform construction and spacing rhythm across a single focused weight.

Overview

About Mada

Mada falls within the Lineal typeface, drawn from the tradition where the first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Its distinctive no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated make it well-suited for wayfinding, signage, and information design. TypeSmith indexes Mada in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Mada

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Mada based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Excellent Accessibility

Mada: Accessibility Considerations

Mada scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. Grotesques with ambiguous letterforms (I/l/1) reduce accessibility. Choose designs with distinct character differentiation and open apertures for inclusive typography.

Reading Mada: Legibility Factors

Mada draws legibility from its no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

How Readable is Mada?

Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category. Geometric and neo-grotesque designs excel in short-form UI text but require careful sizing for sustained reading. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Mada for Long-Form Content

Mada provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Mada Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Mada. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Mada at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Mada Usage Guidelines

Pair with Garalde or Transitional serifs for classic contrast. A humanist sans body with a geometric sans display creates intra-category tension without conflict. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Mada. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Mada in WOFF2 format with its extended character set to ensure consistent rendering across global audiences.

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Mada Font Files

Available on Google Fonts

4 weights available for download

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Available Weights

400

Regular

400

Regular Italic

700

Bold

700

Bold Italic

Weight Reference

100

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400

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800

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Internationalization

Language Support

Extended Latin Coverage

Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch

Nordic

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic

Central European

Polish
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Slovak

Baltic

Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian

The font supports Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts, accommodating a wide range of languages within these alphabetic systems.

Legal

License Type

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1

Free for personal and commercial use

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What you can do

Personal projects
Commercial projects
Web embedding
App embedding
Modification
Redistribution

Restrictions

Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Mada is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Mada ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'mada': ['Mada', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-mada">Your text here</p>

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Best Ways to Use Mada

Best Font Pairings for Mada

Test Mada Font Pairings Live

Recommendation Lists

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In Context

Mada Typography

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Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Mada

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Mada: Accessibility Considerations

Reading Mada: Legibility Factors

How Readable is Mada?

Mada for Long-Form Content

Mada Accessibility Recommendations

Mada Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Mada

Best Ways to Use Mada

Best Font Pairings for Mada

Test Mada Font Pairings Live

Recommendation Lists

Top 10 Humanist Sans Fonts

Top 10 Underrated Fonts

In Context

Mada Typography

Mada

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Mada

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Mada: Accessibility Considerations

Reading Mada: Legibility Factors

How Readable is Mada?