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Ouroboros

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

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Displayby Ariel Martin Perez86% Accessible
Characters712
Glyphs854
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Ouroboros

01

Best Font Pairings for Ouroboros

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Ouroboros, including combinations with Praho, Kings Gambit and Octarine.

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

Explore 4 Pairings for Ouroboros
02

Test Ouroboros Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Ouroboros 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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In Context

Ouroboros Specimen Gallery

UI ComponentsPosterWordmark
Ouroboros
ProductsSolutionsResourcesPricing

Ouroboros Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Ouroboros Specimen

Ouroboros

Ouroboros is a display typeface by Ariel Martin Perez built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Ouroboros
Ouroboros
OUROBOROS
OUROBOROSTYPE
O

Tagline Pairings

Ouroboros— display typeface
OuroborosBy Ariel Martin Perez
OuroborosTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Ouroboros Glyphs & Characters

Size48
Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Type Scale

Display Sizes for Ouroboros

Heading Level 1<h1>
64px
Bold
72px
Ouroboros primary headline
Heading Level 2<h2>
48px
SemiBold
56px
Ouroboros section heading
Heading Level 3<h3>
32px
Medium
40px
Ouroboros subsection title
Heading Level 4<h4>
24px
Regular
32px
Ouroboros content heading
Heading Level 5<h5>
18px
Regular
26px
Ouroboros minor heading
Heading Level 6<h6>
14px
Medium
20px
Ouroboros smallest heading
Font SizeWeightLine Height
Body Copy

Reading Text in Ouroboros

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

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

When setting Ouroboros 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.

Ouroboros small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

ElementWeightSizeLine HeightTrackingPreview
Body TextRegular16px24px0.5pxOuroboros delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxOuroboros italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxOuroboros bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxOuroboros typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxOuroboros typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'Ouroboros'; }

Quick Start

Integrating Ouroboros

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Ouroboros

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Ouroboros

Ariel Martin Perez
Display
Open Source

Ouroboros font is a display typeface expressing creative old-style character with extended Cyrillic support for eternal cycle aesthetics. The serpentine letterforms project infinity energy suitable for philosophical branding, eternal themes, and design projects celebrating ouroboros symbolism. Creative old-style forms provide historical depth while Cyrillic support enables cross-cultural applications. Effective for mythology projects, philosophical publications, and cycle-themed communications.

Ouroboros comes from the work of Ariel Martin Perez. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Ouroboros features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for hero headlines and landing page headers.

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

Ouroboros

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Ouroboros

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Ouroboros 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.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 86). Ouroboros delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles. Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Ariel Martin Perez. The designer's attention to character shaping and weight distribution produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Ouroboros

Ouroboros embodies the 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 hero headlines and landing page headers. TypeSmith indexes Ouroboros in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Ouroboros
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Accessibility & Usability

86
Accessibility Score
Excellent Accessibility

Ouroboros: Accessibility Considerations

Ouroboros scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

How Legible is Ouroboros?

Ouroboros 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.

Ouroboros in Context: 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.

Ouroboros's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Ouroboros Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Ouroboros: Best Practices

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 Ouroboros. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Ouroboros in WOFF2 format with its extended character set to ensure consistent rendering across global audiences.

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Available Weights

400
Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

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Internationalization

Ouroboros 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
  • Slovak

Baltic

  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian

This font encodes 719 glyphs covering Latin 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

Font License Details

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.

Ouroboros 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 Ouroboros ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.