Piscolabis

Name: Piscolabis
Author: Ariel Martin Perez

Piscolabis delivers clean, contemporary letterforms optimized for digital interfaces and modern design systems.

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Sans Serifby Ariel Martin Perez80% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

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Best Font Pairings for Piscolabis

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Piscolabis, including combinations with Blade Rounded, Flottflott and Airyin.

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

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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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Piscolabis Editorial Specimen

Piscolabis in Editorial Context

Piscolabis is a sans serif typeface by Ariel Martin Perez suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Ariel Martin Perez

Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

Piscolabis demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a sans serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Piscolabis supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Ariel Martin Perez, Piscolabis balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Piscolabis Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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Piscolabis Specimen

Piscolabis

Piscolabis is a sans serif typeface by Ariel Martin Perez built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSans Serif Typeface

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Piscolabis

PISCOLABIS

PISCOLABISTYPE

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Piscolabis— sans serif typeface

PiscolabisBy Ariel Martin Perez

PiscolabisTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Piscolabis Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Text Table

Body Copy

Piscolabis Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Piscolabis 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Integrating Piscolabis

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Piscolabis CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Piscolabis's Details

Ariel Martin Perez

Sans Serif

Open Source

Piscolabis font is a bold condensed grotesk sans-serif designed for impactful headlines and space-efficient display typography. This commanding typeface combines strong weight with compressed proportions, suitable for food and beverage brands, event promotions, and editorial headlines. Piscolabis works effectively for restaurant menus and hospitality marketing. Pairs with readable text faces.

Piscolabis was designed by Ariel Martin Perez. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Sans Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Lineal classification, Piscolabis features no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for wayfinding, signage, and information design.

Piscolabis 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.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Piscolabis

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

Classification

Sans Serif analysis. Typographic analysis places Piscolabis within the Lineal (Grotesque, Neo-grotesque, Geometric, Humanist) tradition, characterized by No serif extensions on stroke terminals and Stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. The first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Key technical strength: widest variable-font support with weight and width axes.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 80). Piscolabis maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments.

Design Heritage

Designed by Ariel Martin Perez. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Sans Serif with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Piscolabis

Piscolabis falls within the Lineal typeface, drawn from the tradition where the first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Its distinctive no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated make it well-suited for screen-first digital products and web applications. TypeSmith indexes Piscolabis in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

4 curated pairings for Piscolabis

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Piscolabis 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

Excellent Accessibility

Using Piscolabis Accessibly

Piscolabis achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Grotesques with ambiguous letterforms (I/l/1) reduce accessibility. Choose designs with distinct character differentiation and open apertures for inclusive typography.

Piscolabis's Legibility

Piscolabis draws legibility from its no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Piscolabis in Context: Readability

Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category. Geometric and neo-grotesque designs excel in short-form UI text but require careful sizing for sustained reading. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Piscolabis: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Piscolabis Accessibility Recommendations

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

Design Tips for Piscolabis

Pair with Garalde or Transitional serifs for classic contrast. A humanist sans body with a geometric sans display creates intra-category tension without conflict. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Piscolabis. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Piscolabis in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Piscolabis Font Files

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

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Internationalization

Piscolabis 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 340 glyphs covering Latin. 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

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.

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

Piscolabis

Best Ways to Use Piscolabis

Best Font Pairings for Piscolabis

Test Piscolabis Font Pairings Live

In Context

Piscolabis Typography

Piscolabis

Character Set

Type Scale

Piscolabis Used As Body Text

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

Using Piscolabis Accessibly

Piscolabis's Legibility

Piscolabis in Context: Readability

Piscolabis: Comfort in Extended Reading

Piscolabis Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Piscolabis

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Piscolabis

Best Ways to Use Piscolabis

Best Font Pairings for Piscolabis

Test Piscolabis Font Pairings Live

In Context

Piscolabis Typography

Piscolabis

Character Set

Type Scale

Piscolabis Used As Body Text

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

Using Piscolabis Accessibly

Piscolabis's Legibility

Piscolabis in Context: Readability

Piscolabis: Comfort in Extended Reading

Piscolabis Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Piscolabis

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference