Shadow 60

Name: Shadow 60
Author: Vince Weiss

Shadow 60 commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Vince Weiss74% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Shadow 60

Best Font Pairings for Shadow 60

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Shadow 60, including combinations with Rogerex, Jun and Cartographer.

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 Shadow 60 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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Shadow 60 Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Shadow 60 Specimen

Shadow 60

Shadow 60 is a display typeface by Vince Weiss built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

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Shadow 60

SHADOW 60

SHADOW 60TYPE

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Shadow 60— display typeface

Shadow 60By Vince Weiss

Shadow 60TYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Shadow 60 Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Shadow 60 Body Typography

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Shadow 60, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Shadow 60 demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Shadow 60 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.

Shadow 60 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	Shadow 60 delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Shadow 60 italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Shadow 60 bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Shadow 60 typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Shadow 60 typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Shadow 60'; }

Quick Start

How to Embed Shadow 60 in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Shadow+60:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Shadow+60:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Shadow 60';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Shadow+60:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Using Shadow 60 in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Shadow 60', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Shadow 60', 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        'shadow-60': ['Shadow 60', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-shadow-60">Your text here</p>

About

About Shadow 60

Vince Weiss

Display

Open Source

Shadow 60 Typeface font is a display family featuring Asian-inspired bold block construction with creative character and comprehensive weight options. The commanding letterforms project mid-century martial arts aesthetics suitable for vintage Asian entertainment, retro branding, and design projects celebrating 1960s Eastern influence. Family structure enables sophisticated hierarchy while Asian-inspired details add period authenticity. Effective for kung fu entertainment, retro gaming, and cultural revival.

Shadow 60 comes from the work of Vince Weiss. 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, Shadow 60 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.

Shadow 60 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.

Shadow 60

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Shadow 60

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Shadow 60's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Shadow 60 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.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 74). Shadow 60 performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

Design Heritage

Designed by Vince Weiss. 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 Shadow 60

Shadow 60 represents a 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 features Shadow 60 in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Shadow 60

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Related Fonts: Shadow 60

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Shadow 60 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

Good Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Shadow 60

Shadow 60 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.

How Legible is Shadow 60?

Shadow 60 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.

Shadow 60 in Context: Readability

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 Shadow 60

Shadow 60 provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Shadow 60 Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Shadow 60. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Shadow 60 at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Working with Shadow 60: Best Practices

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 Shadow 60. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Shadow 60 in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

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Internationalization

Shadow 60 Language Coverage

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 73 glyphs covering Latin. 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.

Shadow 60 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 Shadow 60 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 'shadow-60': ['Shadow 60', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-shadow-60">Your text here</p>

Shadow 60

Best Ways to Use Shadow 60

Best Font Pairings for Shadow 60

Test Shadow 60 Font Pairings Live

In Context

Shadow 60 Typography

Shadow 60

Character Set

Type Scale

Shadow 60 Body Typography

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

Accessibility Overview for Shadow 60

How Legible is Shadow 60?

Shadow 60 in Context: Readability

Visual Comfort with Shadow 60

Shadow 60 Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Shadow 60: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Shadow 60

Best Ways to Use Shadow 60

Best Font Pairings for Shadow 60

Test Shadow 60 Font Pairings Live

In Context

Shadow 60 Typography

Shadow 60

Character Set

Type Scale

Shadow 60 Body Typography

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

Accessibility Overview for Shadow 60

How Legible is Shadow 60?

Shadow 60 in Context: Readability

Visual Comfort with Shadow 60

Shadow 60 Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Shadow 60: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference