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Moai

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

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Displayby Unio Creative Solutions72% Accessible
Characters456
Glyphs547
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Moai

01

Best Font Pairings for Moai

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Moai, including combinations with Times Newer Roman, Lotion and Garet.

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

Explore 4 Pairings for Moai
02

Test Moai Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Moai 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

Moai Specimen Gallery

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Moai Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Moai Specimen

Moai

Moai is a display typeface by Unio Creative Solutions built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Moai
Moai
MOAI
MOAITYPE
M

Tagline Pairings

Moai— display typeface
MoaiBy Unio Creative Solutions
MoaiTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Moai Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Heading Styles with Moai

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

Reading Text in Moai

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

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

When setting Moai 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.

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Moai in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Moai

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Moai

Unio Creative Solutions
Display
Open Source

Moai font is a bold contemporary display typeface with creative details, heavy weight, and modern proportions designed for powerful, distinctive applications. The substantial presence and creative interpretation generate commanding, memorable typography. This heavy creative bold contemporary display typeface proves valuable for impactful brand identities, bold advertising, distinctive packaging, and applications requiring maximum visual weight with contemporary character. The moai reference evokes monumental Easter Island statues. Moai serves designers pursuing powerful contemporary statements. Pair with lighter modern fonts for hierarchy.

Moai comes from the work of Unio Creative Solutions. 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, Moai 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.

Moai is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Moai

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Moai

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Moai 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: 72). Moai performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Unio Creative Solutions. The designer's attention to character shaping and weight distribution produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Moai

Moai represents a 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 Moai in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Moai
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

72
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Moai: Accessibility Considerations

Moai 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.

Legibility Analysis: Moai

Moai 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.

Moai in Context: 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.

Visual Comfort with Moai

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

Moai Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Moai Effectively

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Moai. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Moai in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

Download Weights & Variants

Available Weights

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

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Supported Scripts & Languages

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 354 glyphs covering Latin. Latin coverage extends past the basic ASCII set into Latin Extended, so Central and Eastern European languages set correctly. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Moai Licensing

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.

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