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Modern Deco

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

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Displayby Ben Branum68% Accessible
Characters456
Glyphs547
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Modern Deco

01

Best Font Pairings for Modern Deco

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Modern Deco, including combinations with Sovranix, Kurier and Overused Grotesk.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Modern Deco
02

Test Modern Deco Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Modern Deco 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 Deco Specimen Gallery

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Modern Deco Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Modern Deco Specimen

Modern Deco

Modern Deco is a display typeface by Ben Branum built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Modern Deco
Modern Deco
MODERN DECO
MODERN DECOTYPE
M

Tagline Pairings

Modern Deco— display typeface
Modern DecoBy Ben Branum
Modern DecoTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Modern Deco Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Modern Deco Heading Hierarchy

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

Body Text with Modern Deco

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

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

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

Quick Start

Modern Deco Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Modern Deco CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Exploring Modern Deco's Design

Ben Branum
Display
Open Source

Modern Deco font is an Art Deco-inspired display typeface with geometric construction, grotesque influences, and modern proportions blending vintage glamour with contemporary utility. The decorative geometric styling creates sophisticated, timeless typography. This Art Deco geometric modern display typeface proves valuable for luxury brand identities, upscale hospitality materials, sophisticated packaging, and applications embracing vintage elegance with current relevance. The deco details add distinctive character. Modern Deco serves designers creating elegant retro-modern experiences. Pair with clean geometric or refined serif fonts.

Modern Deco comes from the work of Ben Branum. 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, Modern Deco 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 Deco is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Modern Deco

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Modern Deco

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Modern Deco 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: 68). Modern Deco offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Ben Branum. 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 Modern Deco

Modern Deco 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 Deco in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

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

68
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Modern Deco Accessibility Profile

Modern Deco falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Legibility Analysis: Modern Deco

Modern Deco 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.

Modern Deco 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.

Modern Deco for Long-Form Content

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

Modern Deco Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Modern Deco Effectively

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

Get the Font

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Available Weights

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

Weight Reference

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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

This font encodes 123 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

Modern Deco 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.

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