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Modern Antiqua

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

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Display83% Accessible
Characters512
Glyphs614
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Modern Antiqua

01

Best Font Pairings for Modern Antiqua

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Modern Antiqua, including combinations with Amiko, Lora and Merriweather.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Modern Antiqua
02

Test Modern Antiqua Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Modern Antiqua 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

Modern Antiqua Specimen Gallery

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Modern Antiqua Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Modern Antiqua Specimen

Modern Antiqua

Modern Antiqua is a display typeface by Unknown built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Modern Antiqua
Modern Antiqua
MODERN ANTIQUA
MODERN ANTIQUATYPE
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Tagline Pairings

Modern Antiqua— display typeface
Modern AntiquaBy Unknown
Modern AntiquaTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Modern Antiqua Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Modern Antiqua Heading Hierarchy

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

Modern Antiqua for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Modern Antiqua 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding Modern Antiqua to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Exploring Modern Antiqua's Design

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Display
Open Source

Modern Antiqua combines artistic vision and distinctive personality, making it well-suited for posters. Its distinctive character and artistic expression contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for headlines and posters, Modern Antiqua adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes Modern Antiqua is a font that supports a wide range of languages, primarily those using the Latin al....

Modern Antiqua was crafted by Unknown. Known for display typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Modern Antiqua's glyph proportions, stroke consistency, and typographic color.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Modern Antiqua 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.

Modern Antiqua is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Modern Antiqua

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Modern Antiqua

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Modern Antiqua 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: 83). Modern Antiqua maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Unknown. Known for display typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Modern Antiqua's letterform construction and spacing rhythm across a single focused weight.

Overview

About Modern Antiqua

Modern Antiqua embodies the Graphic typeface, anchored 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 indexes Modern Antiqua in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Modern Antiqua
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Accessibility & Usability

83
Accessibility Score
Excellent Accessibility

Modern Antiqua Accessibility Profile

Modern Antiqua 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: Modern Antiqua

Modern Antiqua 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.

How Readable is Modern Antiqua?

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.

Modern Antiqua: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Modern Antiqua Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Modern Antiqua: 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 Modern Antiqua. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Modern Antiqua in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

Download Weights & Variants

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

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Internationalization

International Character 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

Modern Antiqua is a font that supports a wide range of languages, primarily those using the Latin alphabet, including Western European, Central European, and South Eastern European languages. It also offers support for Cyrillic script, catering to Slavic languages such as Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and Serbian, among others. This makes Modern Antiqua a versatile font choice for multilingual projects and publications.

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.

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