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Sun Dried

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

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Displayby Walter E Stewart80% Accessible
Characters456
Glyphs547
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Sun Dried

01

Best Font Pairings for Sun Dried

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Sun Dried, including combinations with Arumira, Anticyclone and Grammastile.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Sun Dried
02

Test Sun Dried Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Sun Dried 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

Sun Dried Specimen Gallery

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Sun Dried Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Sun Dried Specimen

Sun Dried

Sun Dried is a display typeface by Walter E Stewart built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Sun Dried
Sun Dried
SUN DRIED
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Tagline Pairings

Sun Dried— display typeface
Sun DriedBy Walter E Stewart
Sun DriedTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Sun Dried Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Heading Styles with Sun Dried

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

Sun Dried for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Sun Dried 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding Sun Dried to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Sun Dried

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Sun Dried

Walter E Stewart
Display
Open Source

Sun Dried font is a decorative display typeface with fancy character designed for ornamental, natural preservation-themed applications. The ornamental styling and desiccation associations create elaborate, organic typography. This fancy decorative display typeface excels in natural product branding, decorative food packaging, fancy organic publications, and applications requiring fancy decorative natural character. The preservation method name establishes natural food context. Sun Dried serves designers creating decorative natural experiences. Pair with clean supporting fonts.

Sun Dried comes from the work of Walter E Stewart. 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, Sun Dried 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.

Sun Dried 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.

Sun Dried

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Sun Dried

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Sun Dried 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: 80). Sun Dried delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Walter E Stewart. 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 Sun Dried

Sun Dried embodies the Graphic typeface, grounded 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 indexes Sun Dried in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Sun Dried
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Accessibility & Usability

80
Accessibility Score
Excellent Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Sun Dried

Sun Dried 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.

Sun Dried Legibility Characteristics

Sun Dried 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.

Sun Dried'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 Sun Dried

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

Sun Dried Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from Sun Dried

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

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Available Weights

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

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Internationalization

International Character 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

This font encodes 347 glyphs covering Latin. Latin coverage extends past the basic ASCII set into Latin Extended, so Central and Eastern European languages set correctly. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Sun Dried 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.

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