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Pop Core

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

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Displayby Syaf Rizal75% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Pop Core

01

Best Font Pairings for Pop Core

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Pop Core, including combinations with Toren, Simpleness and Meridiana Pro.

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

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02

Test Pop Core Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Pop Core 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

Pop Core Specimen Gallery

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Pop Core Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Pop Core Specimen

Pop Core

Pop Core is a display typeface by Syaf Rizal built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Pop Core
Pop Core
POP CORE
POP CORETYPE
P

Tagline Pairings

Pop Core— display typeface
Pop CoreBy Syaf Rizal
Pop CoreTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Pop Core Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Display Sizes for Pop Core

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

Body Text with Pop Core

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

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

When setting Pop Core 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding Pop Core to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Pop Core CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Design of Pop Core

Syaf Rizal
Display
Open Source

Pop Core font is a bold cartoon funky display typeface that combines powerful strokes with pop music-inspired energetic character. The funky construction creates commanding presence with pop cartoon energy. This cartoon bold font works effectively for pop music branding, funky entertainment marketing, cartoon pop packaging, and pop culture content. The bold aesthetic translates to music signage, pop materials, and funky social media graphics. Designers creating pop culture content will find Pop Core delivers bold cartoon presence. The funky character adds pop dimension. Pairs well with bold sans-serif fonts for body text.

Pop Core was crafted by Syaf Rizal. 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, Pop Core 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.

Pop Core 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.

Pop Core

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Pop Core

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Pop Core 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: 75). Pop Core performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Syaf Rizal. 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 Pop Core

Pop Core embodies the Graphic typeface, anchored 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 catalogs Pop Core in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Pop Core
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

75
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Pop Core

Pop Core 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.

Pop Core Legibility Characteristics

Pop Core 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.

How Readable is Pop Core?

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.

Pop Core's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Pop Core Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Pop Core Effectively

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

Get the Font

Pop Core Font Files

Available Weights

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

Weight Reference

Aa
100
Aa
200
Aa
300
Aa
400
Aa
500
Aa
600
Aa
700
Aa
800
Aa
900

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

Legal

Usage Rights for Pop Core

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.

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