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Madrid Ml

Madrid Ml commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Justseeds Open Type Project76% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Madrid Ml

01

Best Font Pairings for Madrid Ml

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Madrid Ml, including combinations with Yuki Code, Sun Seed and Paradisio.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Madrid Ml
02

Test Madrid Ml Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Madrid Ml with any font combination in real-time, optimized for display characteristics.

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

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In Context

Madrid Ml Specimen Gallery

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Madrid Ml Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Madrid Ml Specimen

Madrid Ml

Madrid Ml is a display typeface by Justseeds Open Type Project built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Madrid Ml
Madrid Ml
MADRID ML
MADRID MLTYPE
M

Tagline Pairings

Madrid Ml— display typeface
Madrid MlBy Justseeds Open Type Project
Madrid MlTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Madrid Ml Glyphs & Characters

Size48
Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Type Scale

Madrid Ml Used As Heading Examples

Heading Level 1<h1>
64px
Bold
72px
Madrid Ml primary headline
Heading Level 2<h2>
48px
SemiBold
56px
Madrid Ml section heading
Heading Level 3<h3>
32px
Medium
40px
Madrid Ml subsection title
Heading Level 4<h4>
24px
Regular
32px
Madrid Ml content heading
Heading Level 5<h5>
18px
Regular
26px
Madrid Ml minor heading
Heading Level 6<h6>
14px
Medium
20px
Madrid Ml smallest heading
Font SizeWeightLine Height
Body Copy

Reading Text in Madrid Ml

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

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

When setting Madrid Ml 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.

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

ElementWeightSizeLine HeightTrackingPreview
Body TextRegular16px24px0.5pxMadrid Ml delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxMadrid Ml italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxMadrid Ml bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxMadrid Ml typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxMadrid Ml typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'Madrid Ml'; }

Quick Start

Adding Madrid Ml to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Madrid Ml';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Madrid+Ml:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Styling with Madrid Ml

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Madrid Ml', 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        'madrid-ml': ['Madrid Ml', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-madrid-ml">Your text here</p>

About

Madrid Ml: History & Characteristics

Justseeds Open Type Project
Display
Open Source

Madrid Ml font is a bold geometric display typeface featuring industrial retro strong letterforms. Powerful and systematic, this design delivers manufacturing aesthetics for Spanish-inspired brands, industrial products, and heritage businesses. The geometric foundation provides systematic precision while retro styling creates vintage authenticity. Designers working on industrial branding, craft products, and cultural communications will appreciate the confident character. Pair with clean body text.

Madrid Ml was crafted by Justseeds Open Type Project. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Madrid Ml features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for hero headlines and landing page headers.

Madrid Ml is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Madrid Ml

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Madrid Ml

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Madrid Ml within the Graphic (Display / Titling) tradition, characterized by Tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and Exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. Display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Key technical strength: high visual impact with minimal typographic hierarchy.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 76). Madrid Ml performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Justseeds Open Type Project. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Madrid Ml

Madrid Ml embodies the Graphic typeface, grounded in the tradition where display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Its distinctive tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features make it well-suited for hero headlines and landing page headers. TypeSmith features Madrid Ml in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Madrid Ml
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Accessibility & Usability

76
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Madrid Ml Accessibility Profile

Madrid Ml achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Madrid Ml Legibility Characteristics

Madrid Ml draws legibility from its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Madrid Ml's Readability

Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt. Display faces sacrifice small-size legibility for visual impact and personality at headline scale. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Madrid Ml for Long-Form Content

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

Madrid Ml Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Madrid Ml: Best Practices

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Madrid Ml. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Madrid Ml in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

400
Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

Weight Reference

Aa
100
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300
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400
Aa
500
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600
Aa
700
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800
Aa
900

Internationalization

Madrid Ml Language Coverage

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

This font encodes 133 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Madrid Ml License Information

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.

Madrid Ml 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 Madrid Ml ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.