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Panama Light

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

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Displayby Adrien Coquet76% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Panama Light

01

Best Font Pairings for Panama Light

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Panama Light, including combinations with Gila, Brique and Hibiscus Sans.

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

Explore 4 Pairings for Panama Light
02

Test Panama Light Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Panama Light 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

Panama Light Specimen Gallery

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Panama Light Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Panama Light Specimen

Panama Light

Panama Light is a display typeface by Adrien Coquet built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Panama Light
Panama Light
PANAMA LIGHT
PANAMA LIGHTTYPE
P

Tagline Pairings

Panama Light— display typeface
Panama LightBy Adrien Coquet
Panama LightTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Panama Light Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Panama Light Used As Heading Examples

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

Panama Light Body Typography

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

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

When setting Panama Light 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.

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

Quick Start

Using Panama Light in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Panama Light

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Exploring Panama Light's Design

Adrien Coquet
Display
Open Source

Panama Light font is a display typeface expressing geometric modern character through lightweight canal-inspired construction. The refined letterforms project Central American elegance suitable for tropical branding, Panama themes, and design projects celebrating panama light typography. Geometric modern light forms create delicate presence while Panama influence adds tropical character. Effective for Panama tourism, tropical products, and Central American communications.

Panama Light was crafted by Adrien Coquet. 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, Panama Light 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.

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

Panama Light

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Panama Light

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Panama Light 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: 76). Panama Light delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Adrien Coquet. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Panama Light

Panama Light 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 hero headlines and landing page headers. TypeSmith indexes Panama Light in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Panama Light
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Accessibility & Usability

76
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Using Panama Light Accessibly

Panama Light 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.

Legibility Analysis: Panama Light

Panama Light 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.

Panama Light'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.

Eye Strain Considerations for Panama Light

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

Panama Light Accessibility Recommendations

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

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

Get the Font

Download Weights & Variants

Available Weights

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

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

Legal

Panama Light Licensing

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.

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