Modulo

Name: Modulo
Author: Alex Chavot

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

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Displayby Alex Chavot76% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

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TypeSmith curates 8 expert font pairings for Modulo, including combinations with Lemour Serif, Saira and Warriot.

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 Modulo 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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Modulo Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Modulo Specimen

Modulo

Modulo is a display typeface by Alex Chavot built for display contexts.

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Modulo

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MODULOTYPE

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Modulo— display typeface

ModuloBy Alex Chavot

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UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Modulo Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Modulo Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Modulo 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.

Modulo 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	Modulo delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Modulo italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Modulo bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Modulo typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Modulo typography specimen

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

Quick Start

Modulo Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Modulo CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Design of Modulo

Alex Chavot

Display

Open Source

Modulo font is a creative display typeface with geometric construction and grotesque influences designed for distinctive, systematic applications. The modular concept and structured foundation create organized, memorable typography. This creative geometric grotesque display typeface excels in systematic brand design, creative corporate identities, distinctive editorial layouts, and applications balancing creativity with geometric organization. The modular name suggests systematic construction. Modulo serves designers creating distinctive systematic typography. Pair with complementary geometric fonts.

Modulo was crafted by Alex Chavot. 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, Modulo 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.

Modulo is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 8 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Modulo

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

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Modulo 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.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 76). Modulo delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

Design Heritage

Designed by Alex Chavot. The designer's attention to glyph proportions and optical balance produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Modulo

Modulo 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 indexes Modulo in a single weight variant and 8 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

8 curated pairings for Modulo

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Modulo 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

Good Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Modulo

Modulo 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.

Reading Modulo: Legibility Factors

Modulo 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.

Modulo'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.

Visual Comfort with Modulo

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

Modulo Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from Modulo

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 Modulo. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Modulo 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

100

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700

800

900

Internationalization

Modulo 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 209 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

Font License Details

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.

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

Modulo

Best Ways to Use Modulo

Best Font Pairings for Modulo

Test Modulo Font Pairings Live

In Context

Modulo Typography

Modulo

Character Set

Type Scale

Modulo Used As Body Text

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

Accessibility Features of Modulo

Reading Modulo: Legibility Factors

Modulo's Readability

Visual Comfort with Modulo

Modulo Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Modulo

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Modulo

Best Ways to Use Modulo

Best Font Pairings for Modulo

Test Modulo Font Pairings Live

In Context

Modulo Typography

Modulo

Character Set

Type Scale

Modulo Used As Body Text

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

Accessibility Features of Modulo

Reading Modulo: Legibility Factors

Modulo's Readability

Visual Comfort with Modulo

Modulo Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Modulo

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference