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Tape

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

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Displayby Backpacker92% Accessible
Characters590
Glyphs708
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Tape

01

Best Font Pairings for Tape

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Tape, including combinations with Wonderland, Railroad Gothic Cc and Katahdin.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Tape
02

Test Tape Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Tape 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

Tape Specimen Gallery

UI ComponentsPosterWordmark
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ProductsSolutionsResourcesPricing

Tape Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

Active2 weights available
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Tape Specimen

Tape

Tape is a display typeface by Backpacker built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Tape
Tape
TAPE
TAPETYPE
T

Tagline Pairings

Tape— display typeface
TapeBy Backpacker
TapeTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Tape Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Display Sizes for Tape

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

Tape for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Tape 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.

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

Quick Start

Integrating Tape

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Tape

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Inside Tape

Backpacker
Display
Open Source

Tape Typeface font is a bold creative decorative display typeface that combines powerful strokes with tape-inspired textured character. The decorative construction creates distinctive presence with adhesive texture energy. This creative bold font works effectively for crafty branding, DIY marketing, decorative packaging design, and creative handmade content. The decorative aesthetic translates to craft supplies packaging, maker signage, and creative social media graphics. Designers creating craft-focused content will find Tape Typeface delivers creative textured presence. The tape character adds handmade dimension. Pairs well with casual fonts for body text.

Tape comes from the work of Backpacker. 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, Tape 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.

Tape is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Extended language support spanning Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin Extended ensures reliable rendering across global audiences.

Tape

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Tape

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Tape 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: 92). Tape performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts. Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Backpacker. The designer's attention to character shaping and weight distribution produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Tape

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

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Tape
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

92
Accessibility Score
Excellent Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Tape

Tape scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Tape's Legibility

Tape 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.

Tape 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.

Tape: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Tape Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Tape: 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 Tape. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Tape in WOFF2 format with its extended character set to ensure consistent rendering across global audiences.

Get the Font

Tape Font Files

Available Weights

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

Weight Reference

Aa
100
Aa
200
Aa
300
Aa
400
Aa
500
Aa
600
Aa
700
Aa
800
Aa
900

Internationalization

Tape 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

This font encodes 445 glyphs covering Latin and Greek. 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

Usage Rights for Tape

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.

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