Ogive

Name: Ogive
Author: Cyril Kimmerlin

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

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Displayby Cyril Kimmerlin70% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Ogive

Best Font Pairings for Ogive

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Ogive, including combinations with Nt Somic, Monaspace and Readex Pro.

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

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Test Ogive Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Ogive 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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Ogive Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Ogive Specimen

Ogive

Ogive is a display typeface by Cyril Kimmerlin built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

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Wordmark Explorations

Ogive

OGIVE

OGIVETYPE

Tagline Pairings

Ogive— display typeface

OgiveBy Cyril Kimmerlin

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UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Ogive Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Body Text with Ogive

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

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

When setting Ogive 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Using Ogive in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Ogive: History & Characteristics

Cyril Kimmerlin

Display

Open Source

Ogive Typeface font is a display face featuring creative sharp construction for unique distinctive visual character. The pointed letterforms project architectural precision suitable for gothic-inspired design, structural applications, and creative projects appreciating angular geometric form. Sharp details create dramatic visual presence while overall construction maintains functional legibility. Effective for architectural branding, pointed statements, and edgy creative work. Pairs with clean geometric sans-serifs.

Ogive comes from the work of Cyril Kimmerlin. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Ogive features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers.

Ogive is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 3 font pairings curated.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Ogive

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

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Ogive 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: 70). Ogive performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

Design Heritage

Designed by Cyril Kimmerlin. 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 Ogive

Ogive represents a 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 editorial magazine covers and chapter openers. TypeSmith catalogs Ogive in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Ogive

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Fonts Similar to Ogive

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Ogive based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Good Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Ogive

Ogive 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.

Ogive's Legibility

Ogive 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.

Ogive'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.

Ogive for Long-Form Content

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

Ogive Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Ogive: 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 Ogive. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Ogive 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

Ogive Multilingual 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
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Baltic

Lithuanian
Latvian
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This font encodes 39 glyphs. Its character set does not fully cover a standard writing system, which is typical of display, symbol and ornament faces intended for short headline settings.

Legal

Ogive License Information

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.

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

Ogive

Best Ways to Use Ogive

Best Font Pairings for Ogive

Test Ogive Font Pairings Live

In Context

Ogive Typography

Ogive

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Ogive

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 Overview for Ogive

Ogive's Legibility

Ogive's Readability

Ogive for Long-Form Content

Ogive Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Ogive: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Ogive

Best Ways to Use Ogive

Best Font Pairings for Ogive

Test Ogive Font Pairings Live

In Context

Ogive Typography

Ogive

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Ogive

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 Overview for Ogive

Ogive's Legibility

Ogive's Readability

Ogive for Long-Form Content

Ogive Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Ogive: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference