Ransom

Name: Ransom
Author: Courtney Howells

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

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Displayby Courtney Howells56% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Ransom

Best Font Pairings for Ransom

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Ransom, including combinations with Secession, Defectica and Ubuntu Sans Mono.

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

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Ransom 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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Ransom Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Ransom Specimen

Ransom

Ransom is a display typeface by Courtney Howells built for display contexts.

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Ransom

RANSOM

RANSOMTYPE

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Ransom— display typeface

RansomBy Courtney Howells

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UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Ransom Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Ransom for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Ransom 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Using Ransom in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Ransom CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Inside Ransom

Courtney Howells

Display

Open Source

Ransom font is a display typeface featuring cool creative decorative unique letterforms. Threatening and distinctive, this design delivers ransom note aesthetics for mystery entertainment, thriller products, and dramatic marketing. The creative construction creates threatening mixed-media presence. Designers working on mystery games, thriller entertainment, and dramatic branding will appreciate the ransom character. Pair with clean body text.

Ransom was crafted by Courtney Howells. 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, Ransom 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.

Ransom 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.

Ransom

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Ransom

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

Ransom

Best Ways to Use Ransom

Best Font Pairings for Ransom

Test Ransom Font Pairings Live

In Context

Ransom Typography

Ransom

Character Set

Type Scale

Ransom for Paragraphs

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

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Western European

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