My Underwood

Name: My Underwood
Author: Tension Type

My Underwood offers versatile typography with carefully balanced proportions for diverse design applications.

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Typewriterby Tension Type70% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use My Underwood

Best Font Pairings for My Underwood

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for My Underwood, including combinations with Stint Ultra Condensed, RawengulkSans and Encode Sans Semi Condensed.

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

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Test My Underwood Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview My Underwood with any font combination in real-time, optimized for typewriter characteristics.

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

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In Context

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My Underwood Editorial Specimen

My Underwood in Editorial Context

My Underwood is a typewriter typeface by Tension Type suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

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Typeface Designer • Typewriter

My Underwood demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a typewriter typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of My Underwood supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Tension Type, My Underwood balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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My Underwood Typography

A typewriter typeface for UI components.

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My Underwood Specimen

My Underwood

My Underwood is a typewriter typeface by Tension Type built for display contexts.

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My Underwood

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Tagline Pairings

My Underwood— typewriter typeface

My UnderwoodBy Tension Type

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Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

My Underwood Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in My Underwood

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

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

When setting My Underwood 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'My Underwood'; }

Quick Start

How to Embed My Underwood in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with My Underwood

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Understanding My Underwood

Tension Type

Typewriter

Open Source

My Underwood is a free font from Tension Type.

My Underwood was designed by Tension Type. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Typewriter typeface in the Vox-ATypI Mechanistic Lineal classification, My Underwood features fixed-pitch spacing inherited from mechanical constraints and ink-spread simulation with slightly thickened joints. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for literary manuscripts evoking the writing process.

My Underwood is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of My Underwood

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

Classification

Typewriter analysis. Typographic analysis places My Underwood within the Mechanistic Lineal (Typewriter / Courier) tradition, characterized by Fixed-pitch spacing inherited from mechanical constraints and Ink-spread simulation with slightly thickened joints. Typewriter fonts replicate the mechanical output of strike-on typewriters popular from the 1870s through the 1980s. Key technical strength: columnar alignment without tabular-figure features.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 70). My Underwood delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

Design Heritage

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

Overview

About My Underwood

My Underwood falls within the Mechanistic Lineal typeface, drawn from the tradition where typewriter fonts replicate the mechanical output of strike-on typewriters popular from the 1870s through the 1980s. Its distinctive fixed-pitch spacing inherited from mechanical constraints and ink-spread simulation with slightly thickened joints make it well-suited for literary manuscripts evoking the writing process. TypeSmith indexes My Underwood in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

4 curated pairings for My Underwood

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to My Underwood 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

My Underwood Accessibility Profile

My Underwood achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Fixed pitch provides consistent character spacing beneficial for some readers with dyslexia. Ink-spread simulation should not reduce stroke contrast below WCAG thresholds.

How Legible is My Underwood?

My Underwood draws legibility from its fixed-pitch spacing inherited from mechanical constraints and ink-spread simulation with slightly thickened joints. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

My Underwood Reading Performance

The mechanical regularity and generous character width provide steady reading rhythm. Ink-spread effects add warmth but can reduce clarity at very small sizes on screen. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Visual Comfort with My Underwood

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

My Underwood Accessibility Recommendations

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

My Underwood Usage Guidelines

Pair with a clean sans-serif for UI elements surrounding typewriter-styled content. Avoid combining with polished modern serifs that clash with the mechanical aesthetic. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for My Underwood. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve My Underwood in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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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

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

This font encodes 92 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

My Underwood 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.

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

My Underwood

Best Ways to Use My Underwood

Best Font Pairings for My Underwood

Test My Underwood Font Pairings Live

In Context

My Underwood Typography

My Underwood

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in My Underwood

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

My Underwood Accessibility Profile

How Legible is My Underwood?

My Underwood Reading Performance

Visual Comfort with My Underwood

My Underwood Accessibility Recommendations

My Underwood Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

My Underwood

Best Ways to Use My Underwood

Best Font Pairings for My Underwood

Test My Underwood Font Pairings Live

In Context

My Underwood Typography

My Underwood

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in My Underwood

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

My Underwood Accessibility Profile

How Legible is My Underwood?

My Underwood Reading Performance

Visual Comfort with My Underwood

My Underwood Accessibility Recommendations

My Underwood Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference