Origicide

Name: Origicide
Author: Cpr.Sparhelt

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

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Displayby Cpr.Sparhelt62% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Best Font Pairings for Origicide

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Origicide, including combinations with Cormorant SC, Source Serif Pro and Noto Kufi Arabic.

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 Origicide 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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Origicide Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Origicide Specimen

Origicide

Origicide is a display typeface by Cpr.Sparhelt built for display contexts.

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Origicide

ORIGICIDE

ORIGICIDETYPE

Tagline Pairings

Origicide— display typeface

OrigicideBy Cpr.Sparhelt

OrigicideTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Origicide Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Origicide Body Typography

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

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

When setting Origicide 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Origicide Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Origicide's Details

Cpr.Sparhelt

Display

Open Source

Origicide is a free font from Cpr.Sparhelt.

Origicide was created by Cpr.Sparhelt. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Origicide features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for event posters and promotional materials.

Origicide is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Origicide

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Origicide

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

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Origicide 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: 62). Origicide offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

Design Heritage

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

Overview

About Origicide

Origicide is classified as a Graphic typeface, rooted 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 event posters and promotional materials. TypeSmith features Origicide in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

4 curated pairings for Origicide

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Related Fonts: Origicide

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Origicide 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 Overview for Origicide

Origicide falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Origicide's Legibility

Origicide 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.

Origicide Reading Performance

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.

Origicide: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Origicide Accessibility Recommendations

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

Origicide Usage Guidelines

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 Origicide. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Origicide in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Origicide Font Files

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Supported Scripts & Languages

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

Legal

License Type

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.

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

Origicide

Best Ways to Use Origicide

Best Font Pairings for Origicide

Test Origicide Font Pairings Live

In Context

Origicide Typography

Origicide

Character Set

Type Scale

Origicide 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 Overview for Origicide

Origicide's Legibility

Origicide Reading Performance

Origicide: Comfort in Extended Reading

Origicide Accessibility Recommendations

Origicide Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Origicide

Best Ways to Use Origicide

Best Font Pairings for Origicide

Test Origicide Font Pairings Live

In Context

Origicide Typography

Origicide

Character Set

Type Scale

Origicide 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 Overview for Origicide

Origicide's Legibility

Origicide Reading Performance

Origicide: Comfort in Extended Reading

Origicide Accessibility Recommendations

Origicide Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference