Oldbastards

Name: Oldbastards
Author: Draw Bastards

Oldbastards captures organic, human warmth with flowing strokes that add personality to your designs.

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Handwritingby Draw Bastards76% Accessible

Characters512

Glyphs614

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Oldbastards

Best Font Pairings for Oldbastards

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Oldbastards, including combinations with Victor Mono, Utara and Gandhi Serif Gandhi Sans.

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 Oldbastards with any font combination in real-time, optimized for handwriting characteristics.

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Character Set

Oldbastards Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Oldbastards Body Typography

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

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

When setting Oldbastards 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.

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

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Oldbastards in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Oldbastards';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Oldbastards: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: 'Oldbastards', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Oldbastards: A Closer Look

Draw Bastards

Handwriting

Open Source

Oldbastards font is a handwriting typeface expressing cool creative character through decorative hand-drawn vintage construction with extended Cyrillic support for seasoned veteran aesthetics. The distinctive letterforms project veteran energy suitable for heritage branding, vintage themes, and design projects celebrating oldbastards typography. Cool creative decorative forms create vintage presence while Cyrillic support enables international applications. Effective for veteran brands, vintage products, and heritage communications.

Oldbastards was created by Draw Bastards. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Oldbastards features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for greeting cards and informal stationery.

Oldbastards 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.

Oldbastards

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Oldbastards

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

Classification

Handwriting analysis. TypeSmith classifies Oldbastards within the Scripts (Casual / Handwritten) tradition, characterized by Disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and Irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. Handwriting fonts gained popularity in the 1990s digital type boom, offering an approachable alternative to formal scripts. Key technical strength: randomization features for natural variation per glyph.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 76). Oldbastards maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments.

Design Heritage

Designed by Draw Bastards. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Handwriting with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Oldbastards

Oldbastards is classified as a Scripts typeface, rooted in the tradition where handwriting fonts gained popularity in the 1990s digital type boom, offering an approachable alternative to formal scripts. Its distinctive disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure make it well-suited for pull quotes and editorial accent text. TypeSmith indexes Oldbastards in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

4 curated pairings for Oldbastards

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Fonts Similar to Oldbastards

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Oldbastards 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 Oldbastards

Oldbastards achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Irregular baselines and inconsistent letter spacing can hinder readers with visual processing differences. Maintain generous line height and avoid setting below 16 px.

Legibility Analysis: Oldbastards

Oldbastards draws legibility from its disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Readability Profile: Oldbastards

More legible than formal scripts due to disconnected letters, but the irregular baseline limits sustained reading. Best at medium sizes for short passages. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Eye Strain Considerations for Oldbastards

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

Oldbastards Accessibility Recommendations

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

Design Tips for Oldbastards

Combine with a geometric sans-serif for modern contrast or a clean slab serif for grounded warmth. Avoid pairing with script or calligraphic faces. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Oldbastards. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Oldbastards 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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400

500

600

700

800

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 207 glyphs covering Latin and Cyrillic. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Oldbastards 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.

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

Oldbastards

Best Ways to Use Oldbastards

Best Font Pairings for Oldbastards

Test Oldbastards Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Oldbastards Body Typography

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 Oldbastards

Legibility Analysis: Oldbastards

Readability Profile: Oldbastards

Eye Strain Considerations for Oldbastards

Oldbastards Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Oldbastards

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Oldbastards

Best Ways to Use Oldbastards

Best Font Pairings for Oldbastards

Test Oldbastards Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Oldbastards Body Typography

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 Oldbastards

Legibility Analysis: Oldbastards

Readability Profile: Oldbastards

Eye Strain Considerations for Oldbastards

Oldbastards Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Oldbastards

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal