Trickster

Name: Trickster
Author: Velvetyne

Trickster offers versatile typography with carefully balanced proportions for diverse design applications.

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Blackletterby Velvetyne80% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Trickster

Best Font Pairings for Trickster

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Trickster, including combinations with Orbix, Arteks and Castoro.

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 Trickster with any font combination in real-time, optimized for blackletter characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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In Context

Trickster Specimen Gallery

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Trickster Editorial Specimen

Trickster in Editorial Context

Trickster is a blackletter typeface by Velvetyne suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Velvetyne

Typeface Designer • Blackletter

Trickster demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a blackletter typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Trickster supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Velvetyne, Trickster balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Trickster Typography

A blackletter typeface for UI components.

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Trickster Specimen

Trickster

Trickster is a blackletter typeface by Velvetyne built for display contexts.

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Trickster

TRICKSTER

TRICKSTERTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Trickster— blackletter typeface

TricksterBy Velvetyne

TricksterTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Trickster Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Trickster for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Trickster 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Trickster'; }

Quick Start

Trickster Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Trickster in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Trickster Background & Features

Velvetyne

Blackletter

Open Source

Trickster is a free font from Velvetyne.

Trickster was designed by Velvetyne. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Blackletter typeface in the Vox-ATypI Fractured classification, Trickster features angular fractured strokes with sharp diamond terminals and heavy stroke weight with minimal internal white space. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for heavy metal and gothic music artwork.

Trickster 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.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Trickster

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

Classification

Blackletter analysis. Typographic analysis places Trickster within the Fractured (Textura, Rotunda, Schwabacher, Fraktur) tradition, characterized by Angular fractured strokes with sharp diamond terminals and Heavy stroke weight with minimal internal white space. Blackletter originated with Gothic manuscript hands in 12th-century northern Europe. Key technical strength: historical authenticity for period-specific design work.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 80). Trickster maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments.

Design Heritage

Designed by Velvetyne. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Blackletter with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Trickster

Trickster falls within the Fractured typeface, drawn from the tradition where blackletter originated with Gothic manuscript hands in 12th-century northern Europe. Its distinctive angular fractured strokes with sharp diamond terminals and heavy stroke weight with minimal internal white space make it well-suited for heavy metal and gothic music artwork. TypeSmith catalogs Trickster in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Trickster

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Related Fonts: Trickster

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Trickster 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

Excellent Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Trickster

Trickster achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Fractured strokes severely reduce letter differentiation. Never use for body text or critical navigational elements. Provide plain-text alternatives for essential content.

Legibility Analysis: Trickster

Trickster draws legibility from its angular fractured strokes with sharp diamond terminals and heavy stroke weight with minimal internal white space. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Trickster in Context: Readability

Dense texture and angular forms make blackletter challenging for readers unfamiliar with the conventions. Effective for single words or short phrases at display sizes. Reserve for headlines at 24 px and above, pairing with a high-readability text face for body content.

Visual Comfort with Trickster

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

Trickster Accessibility Recommendations

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

Best Practices for Using Trickster

Pair with a clean sans-serif for maximum contrast and legibility. A humanist or grotesque sans balances the density of blackletter without competing for attention. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Trickster. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Trickster in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Trickster Font Files

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

Internationalization

Language 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 373 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

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.

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

Trickster

Best Ways to Use Trickster

Best Font Pairings for Trickster

Test Trickster Font Pairings Live

In Context

Trickster Typography

Trickster

Character Set

Type Scale

Trickster for Paragraphs

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 Features of Trickster

Legibility Analysis: Trickster

Trickster in Context: Readability

Visual Comfort with Trickster

Trickster Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Trickster

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Trickster

Best Ways to Use Trickster

Best Font Pairings for Trickster

Test Trickster Font Pairings Live

In Context

Trickster Typography

Trickster

Character Set

Type Scale

Trickster for Paragraphs

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 Features of Trickster

Legibility Analysis: Trickster

Trickster in Context: Readability

Visual Comfort with Trickster

Trickster Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Trickster

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference