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Rakkas

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

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Displayby Zeynep Akay73% Accessible
Characters516
Glyphs619
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Rakkas

01

Best Font Pairings for Rakkas

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Rakkas, including combinations with Arteks, Epunda Sans and Uncut Sans.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Rakkas
02

Test Rakkas Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Rakkas 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

Rakkas Specimen Gallery

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Rakkas Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Rakkas Specimen

Rakkas

Rakkas is a display typeface by Zeynep Akay built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

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Tagline Pairings

Rakkas— display typeface
RakkasBy Zeynep Akay
RakkasTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Rakkas Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Display Sizes for Rakkas

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

Reading Text in Rakkas

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

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

When setting Rakkas 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.

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

Quick Start

Integrating Rakkas

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Rakkas Background & Features

Zeynep Akay
Display
Open Source

Representing display typeface design, Rakkas showcases unique character and creative expression, making it well-suited for posters. Its artistic expression and distinctive character contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for brand identities and posters, Rakkas adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The Rakkas font supports Latin and Arabic scripts..

Rakkas was designed by Zeynep Akay. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Rakkas features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for brand logotypes and wordmarks.

Rakkas is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Rakkas

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Rakkas

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Rakkas 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: 73). Rakkas performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Zeynep Akay. 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 Rakkas

Rakkas falls within the Graphic typeface, drawn from 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 brand logotypes and wordmarks. TypeSmith catalogs Rakkas in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Rakkas
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Accessibility & Usability

73
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Rakkas: Accessibility Considerations

Rakkas 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.

Rakkas's Legibility

Rakkas 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 Rakkas?

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.

Visual Comfort with Rakkas

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

Rakkas Accessibility Recommendations

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

Rakkas Usage Guidelines

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Rakkas. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Rakkas in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

Download Rakkas

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

Rakkas 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 Rakkas font supports Latin and Arabic scripts.

Legal

Rakkas 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.

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