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Ucka

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

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Displayby Tom Robin Karlsson64% Accessible
Characters456
Glyphs547
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Ucka

01

Best Font Pairings for Ucka

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Ucka, including combinations with Altavoz, Amiko and Sofia Sans.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Ucka
02

Test Ucka Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Ucka 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

Ucka Specimen Gallery

UI ComponentsPosterWordmark
Ucka
ProductsSolutionsResourcesPricing

Ucka Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Ucka Specimen

Ucka

Ucka is a display typeface by Tom Robin Karlsson built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Ucka
Ucka
UCKA
UCKATYPE
U

Tagline Pairings

Ucka— display typeface
UckaBy Tom Robin Karlsson
UckaTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Ucka Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Ucka Heading Hierarchy

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

Ucka for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Ucka 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding Ucka to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Ucka in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Exploring Ucka's Design

Tom Robin Karlsson
Display
Open Source

Ucka font is a display typeface featuring mono tech letterforms. Technical and systematic, this design delivers computing aesthetics for technology brands, programming interfaces, and digital products. The monospace construction ensures consistent character widths while tech styling suggests digital functionality. Designers working on developer tools, tech branding, and code-related products will appreciate the technical character. Pair with monospace body text.

Ucka was crafted by Tom Robin Karlsson. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Ucka features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers.

Ucka 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.

Ucka

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Ucka

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Ucka 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: 64). Ucka handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Tom Robin Karlsson. 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 Ucka

Ucka 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 editorial magazine covers and chapter openers. TypeSmith indexes Ucka in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Ucka
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

64
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Ucka Accessibility Profile

Ucka 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.

Ucka Legibility Characteristics

Ucka 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.

Ucka'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.

Ucka for Long-Form Content

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

Ucka Accessibility Recommendations

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

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

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Available Weights

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

Weight Reference

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500
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600
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700
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800
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900

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 305 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.

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