Terminal Grotesque

Name: Terminal Grotesque
Author: Raphael Bastide

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

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Displayby Raphael Bastide76% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Best Font Pairings for Terminal Grotesque

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Terminal Grotesque, including combinations with Virtue Serif, Altavoz and Helmet.

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

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Terminal Grotesque Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Terminal Grotesque Specimen

Terminal Grotesque

Terminal Grotesque is a display typeface by Raphael Bastide built for display contexts.

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Terminal Grotesque

TERMINAL GROTESQUE

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Terminal Grotesque— display typeface

Terminal GrotesqueBy Raphael Bastide

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UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Terminal Grotesque Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Copy

Reading Text in Terminal Grotesque

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

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

When setting Terminal Grotesque 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Terminal Grotesque'; }

Quick Start

Integrating Terminal Grotesque

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Terminal Grotesque

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Story of Terminal Grotesque

Raphael Bastide

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Open Source

Terminal Grotesque font is a display typeface family featuring bitmap-influenced grotesque construction for systematic terminal aesthetics. The precise letterforms project command-line authority suitable for developer tools, hacker culture applications, and design projects celebrating terminal typography. Family structure enables comprehensive hierarchy while bitmap influence adds authentic digital heritage. Effective for coding interfaces, cybersecurity, and tech documentation.

Terminal Grotesque was created by Raphael Bastide. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Terminal Grotesque features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for event posters and promotional materials.

Terminal Grotesque 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.

Terminal Grotesque

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Terminal Grotesque

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

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Terminal Grotesque 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: 76). Terminal Grotesque maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments.

Design Heritage

Designed by Raphael Bastide. 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 Terminal Grotesque

Terminal Grotesque is classified as a Graphic typeface, rooted 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 brand logotypes and wordmarks. TypeSmith indexes Terminal Grotesque in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Terminal Grotesque

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Alternatives to Terminal Grotesque

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Terminal Grotesque 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 Terminal Grotesque

Terminal Grotesque 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.

Reading Terminal Grotesque: Legibility Factors

Terminal Grotesque 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.

Readability Profile: Terminal Grotesque

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.

Terminal Grotesque's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Terminal Grotesque Accessibility Recommendations

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

Design Tips for Terminal Grotesque

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

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Available Weights

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Internationalization

International Character Support

Extended Latin Coverage

Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

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English
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This font encodes 211 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Usage Rights for Terminal Grotesque

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.

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

Terminal Grotesque

Best Ways to Use Terminal Grotesque

Best Font Pairings for Terminal Grotesque

Test Terminal Grotesque Font Pairings Live

In Context

Terminal Grotesque Typography

Terminal Grotesque

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Terminal Grotesque

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

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Inclusive Design

Accessibility Overview for Terminal Grotesque

Reading Terminal Grotesque: Legibility Factors

Readability Profile: Terminal Grotesque

Terminal Grotesque's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Terminal Grotesque Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Terminal Grotesque

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Terminal Grotesque

Best Ways to Use Terminal Grotesque

Best Font Pairings for Terminal Grotesque

Test Terminal Grotesque Font Pairings Live

In Context

Terminal Grotesque Typography

Terminal Grotesque

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Terminal Grotesque

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 Terminal Grotesque

Reading Terminal Grotesque: Legibility Factors

Readability Profile: Terminal Grotesque

Terminal Grotesque's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Terminal Grotesque Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Terminal Grotesque

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference