Oddval

Name: Oddval
Author: Spacetype

Oddval delivers clean, contemporary letterforms optimized for digital interfaces and modern design systems.

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Sans Serifby Spacetype86% Accessible

Characters846

Glyphs1,015

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Best Ways to Use Oddval

Best Font Pairings for Oddval

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Oddval, including combinations with Dygyn, Iota Display and Rent Strike.

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 Oddval with any font combination in real-time, optimized for sans serif characteristics.

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

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In Context

Oddval Specimen Gallery

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Oddval Editorial Specimen

Oddval in Editorial Context

Oddval is a sans serif typeface by Spacetype suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

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Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

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

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

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

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Oddval Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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Oddval Specimen

Oddval

Oddval is a sans serif typeface by Spacetype built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSans Serif Typeface

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Oddval

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Tagline Pairings

Oddval— sans serif typeface

OddvalBy Spacetype

OddvalTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Oddval Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Oddval Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Oddval 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Adding Oddval to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Oddval

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Design of Oddval

Spacetype

Sans Serif

Open Source

Oddval font is a bold contemporary cool sans-serif designed for distinctive modern brand communications with unconventional character. This confident typeface delivers visual impact through strong weight and unexpected details, suitable for creative agencies, fashion brands, and publications seeking typography that stands apart. Oddval works effectively for brand identities, editorial layouts, and marketing campaigns embracing differentiation. The cool factor adds memorable personality to bold statements. Particularly suited for brands targeting style-conscious audiences. Pairs with neutral text faces for contrast.

Oddval was crafted by Spacetype. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Sans Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Lineal classification, Oddval features no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for user interface text and navigation elements.

Oddval is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 4 curated font pairings available. Extended language support spanning Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin Extended ensures reliable rendering across global audiences.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Oddval

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

Classification

Sans Serif analysis. Typographic analysis places Oddval within the Lineal (Grotesque, Neo-grotesque, Geometric, Humanist) tradition, characterized by No serif extensions on stroke terminals and Stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. The first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Key technical strength: widest variable-font support with weight and width axes.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 86). Oddval delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles. Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category.

Design Heritage

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

Overview

About Oddval

Oddval represents a Lineal typeface, anchored in the tradition where the first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Its distinctive no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated make it well-suited for user interface text and navigation elements. TypeSmith features Oddval in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

4 curated pairings for Oddval

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Typefaces Like Oddval

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Oddval 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

Excellent Accessibility

Using Oddval Accessibly

Oddval scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. Grotesques with ambiguous letterforms (I/l/1) reduce accessibility. Choose designs with distinct character differentiation and open apertures for inclusive typography.

Oddval Legibility Characteristics

Oddval draws legibility from its no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Oddval Reading Performance

Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category. Geometric and neo-grotesque designs excel in short-form UI text but require careful sizing for sustained reading. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Visual Comfort with Oddval

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

Oddval Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Oddval: Best Practices

Pair with Garalde or Transitional serifs for classic contrast. A humanist sans body with a geometric sans display creates intra-category tension without conflict. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Oddval. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Oddval in WOFF2 format with its extended character set to ensure consistent rendering across global audiences.

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Oddval Font Files

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

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900

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 768 glyphs covering Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. 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

Oddval 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.

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

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Best Ways to Use Oddval

Best Font Pairings for Oddval

Test Oddval Font Pairings Live

In Context

Oddval Typography

Oddval

Character Set

Type Scale

Oddval 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

Using Oddval Accessibly

Oddval Legibility Characteristics

Oddval Reading Performance

Visual Comfort with Oddval

Oddval Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Oddval: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Oddval

Best Ways to Use Oddval

Best Font Pairings for Oddval

Test Oddval Font Pairings Live

In Context

Oddval Typography

Oddval

Character Set

Type Scale

Oddval 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

Using Oddval Accessibly

Oddval Legibility Characteristics

Oddval Reading Performance

Visual Comfort with Oddval

Oddval Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Oddval: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference