Quantico

Name: Quantico
Author: Matt Chisholm

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

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Sans Serifby Matt Chisholm78% Accessible

Characters646

Glyphs775

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Best Ways to Use Quantico

Best Font Pairings for Quantico

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Quantico, including combinations with BodoniXT, Avara and Afta Serif.

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

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Test Quantico Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Quantico with any font combination in real-time, optimized for sans serif characteristics.

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

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In Context

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Quantico Editorial Specimen

Quantico in Editorial Context

Quantico is a sans serif typeface by Matt Chisholm suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Matt Chisholm

Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

Quantico 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 Quantico supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Matt Chisholm, Quantico balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Quantico Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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Quantico Specimen

Quantico

Quantico is a sans serif typeface by Matt Chisholm built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSans Serif Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

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Quantico

QUANTICO

QUANTICOTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Quantico— sans serif typeface

QuanticoBy Matt Chisholm

QuanticoTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Quantico Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in Quantico

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

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

When setting Quantico 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Adding Quantico to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Quantico

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Design of Quantico

Matt Chisholm

Sans Serif

Open Source

Quantico establishes calculated curves and structured forms, making it well-suited for mobile applications. Its no decorative strokes and geometric forms contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for digital interfaces and corporate branding, Quantico adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The Quantico font supports a wide range of languages, including but not limited to Latin-based langu....

Quantico was crafted by Matt Chisholm. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Sans Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Lineal classification, Quantico features no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for user interface text and navigation elements.

Quantico is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Extended language support spanning Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin Extended ensures reliable rendering across global audiences.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Quantico

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

Classification

Sans Serif analysis. Typographic analysis places Quantico 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: 78). Quantico delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

Design Heritage

Designed by Matt Chisholm. The designer's attention to character shaping and weight distribution produces a Sans Serif with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Quantico

Quantico embodies the Lineal typeface, grounded in 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 user interface text and navigation elements. TypeSmith indexes Quantico in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Quantico

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Quantico based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Good Accessibility

Using Quantico Accessibly

Quantico 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.

Quantico's Legibility

Quantico 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.

Quantico Reading Performance

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.

Visual Comfort with Quantico

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

Quantico Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from Quantico

Pair with Garalde or Transitional serifs for classic contrast. A humanist sans body with a geometric sans display creates intra-category tension without conflict. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Quantico. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Quantico in WOFF2 format with its extended character set to ensure consistent rendering across global audiences.

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Available on Google Fonts

4 weights available for download

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Available Weights

400

Regular

400

Regular Italic

700

Bold

700

Bold Italic

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Quantico 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

The Quantico font supports a wide range of languages, including but not limited to Latin-based languages, Cyrillic languages, and Greek, making it versatile for global use in various applications.

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.

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

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Best Ways to Use Quantico

Best Font Pairings for Quantico

Test Quantico Font Pairings Live

In Context

Quantico Typography

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Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Quantico

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 Quantico Accessibly

Quantico's Legibility

Quantico Reading Performance

Visual Comfort with Quantico

Quantico Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Quantico

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Quantico

Best Ways to Use Quantico

Best Font Pairings for Quantico

Test Quantico Font Pairings Live

In Context

Quantico Typography

Quantico

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Quantico

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 Quantico Accessibly

Quantico's Legibility

Quantico Reading Performance

Visual Comfort with Quantico

Quantico Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Quantico

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference