Original Surfer

Name: Original Surfer
Author: Nicole Fally

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

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Displayby Nicole Fally64% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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

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Original Surfer Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Original Surfer Specimen

Original Surfer

Original Surfer is a display typeface by Nicole Fally built for display contexts.

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Original Surfer— display typeface

Original SurferBy Nicole Fally

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UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Original Surfer Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Copy

Original Surfer Body Typography

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

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

When setting Original Surfer 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Original Surfer'; }

Quick Start

How to Embed Original Surfer in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Original Surfer';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Original+Surfer');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Code Snippets for Original Surfer

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Design of Original Surfer

Nicole Fally

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Open Source

As a display typeface, Original Surfer features artistic vision and unique character, making it well-suited for headlines. Its distinctive character and artistic expression contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for logos and brand identities, Original Surfer adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The Original Surfer font supports Latin-based languages, including Western European, Central Europea....

Original Surfer comes from the work of Nicole Fally. The typeface's Tight spacing for large sizes and Exaggerated contrast or decorative features reflect a design philosophy optimized for Contemporary display typography.

As a Graphic display in the Vox-ATypI Graphic family, Original Surfer display typography tradition. Its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features make it a strong fit for hero headlines and landing page headers.

Original Surfer is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Original Surfer Body Typography

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

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