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Shinners

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

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Displayby Pavel Bruev61% Accessible
Characters512
Glyphs614
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Shinners

01

Best Font Pairings for Shinners

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Shinners, including combinations with Makaw, Biryani and Bentinck.

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

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02

Test Shinners Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Shinners 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

Shinners Specimen Gallery

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Shinners Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Shinners Specimen

Shinners

Shinners is a display typeface by Pavel Bruev built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Shinners
Shinners
SHINNERS
SHINNERSTYPE
S

Tagline Pairings

Shinners— display typeface
ShinnersBy Pavel Bruev
ShinnersTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Shinners Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Shinners Typography Scale

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

Shinners Body Typography

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

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

When setting Shinners 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.

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Shinners in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Shinners

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Shinners

Pavel Bruev
Display
Open Source

Shinners font is a display typeface projecting bold heavy presence through cool construction with extended Cyrillic support and logo versatility. The commanding letterforms achieve maximum visual impact suitable for sports branding, entertainment promotion, and international marketing campaigns. Heavy weight ensures headline dominance while Cyrillic support enables Eastern European market reach. Effective for athletic brands, music festivals, and cross-cultural communications. Pairs with lighter text faces.

Shinners comes from the work of Pavel Bruev. 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, Shinners 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.

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

Shinners

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Shinners

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Shinners 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: 61). Shinners handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Pavel Bruev. The designer's attention to glyph proportions and optical balance produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Shinners

Shinners 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 Shinners in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Shinners
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Accessibility & Usability

61
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Shinners

Shinners falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Shinners Legibility Characteristics

Shinners 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.

Shinners's 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 Shinners

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

Shinners Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Shinners Effectively

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

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Available Weights & Styles

Available Weights

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

Weight Reference

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

Legal

Shinners 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.

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