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Underwood Champion

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

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Typewriterby Vic Fieger66% Accessible
Characters456
Glyphs547
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Underwood Champion

01

Best Font Pairings for Underwood Champion

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Underwood Champion, including combinations with Heuristica, Theano Old Style and Afta Serif.

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

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Test Underwood Champion Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Underwood Champion with any font combination in real-time, optimized for typewriter characteristics.

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

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In Context

Underwood Champion Specimen Gallery

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Underwood Champion Editorial Specimen

Underwood Champion in Editorial Context

Underwood Champion is a typewriter typeface by Vic Fieger suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Vic Fieger

Typeface Designer • Typewriter

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

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

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

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Underwood Champion Typography

A typewriter typeface for UI components.

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Underwood Champion Specimen

Underwood Champion

Underwood Champion is a typewriter typeface by Vic Fieger built for display contexts.

2 WeightsTypewriter Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Underwood Champion
Underwood Champion
UNDERWOOD CHAMPION
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Tagline Pairings

Underwood Champion— typewriter typeface
Underwood ChampionBy Vic Fieger
Underwood ChampionTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Underwood Champion Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Heading Styles with Underwood Champion

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

Underwood Champion Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Underwood Champion 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding Underwood Champion to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Underwood Champion CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Exploring Underwood Champion's Design

Vic Fieger
Typewriter
Open Source

Underwood Champion is a free font from Vic Fieger.

Underwood Champion was crafted by Vic Fieger. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Typewriter typeface in the Vox-ATypI Mechanistic Lineal classification, Underwood Champion features fixed-pitch spacing inherited from mechanical constraints and ink-spread simulation with slightly thickened joints. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for legal documents and government forms.

Underwood Champion 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.

Underwood Champion

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Underwood Champion

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

1

Classification

Typewriter analysis. From a classification standpoint, Underwood Champion within the Mechanistic Lineal (Typewriter / Courier) tradition, characterized by Fixed-pitch spacing inherited from mechanical constraints and Ink-spread simulation with slightly thickened joints. Typewriter fonts replicate the mechanical output of strike-on typewriters popular from the 1870s through the 1980s. Key technical strength: columnar alignment without tabular-figure features.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 66). Underwood Champion offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

3

Design Heritage

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

Overview

About Underwood Champion

Underwood Champion embodies the Mechanistic Lineal typeface, grounded in the tradition where typewriter fonts replicate the mechanical output of strike-on typewriters popular from the 1870s through the 1980s. Its distinctive fixed-pitch spacing inherited from mechanical constraints and ink-spread simulation with slightly thickened joints make it well-suited for legal documents and government forms. TypeSmith indexes Underwood Champion in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

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3 curated pairings for Underwood Champion
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Accessibility & Usability

66
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Underwood Champion

Underwood Champion falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Fixed pitch provides consistent character spacing beneficial for some readers with dyslexia. Ink-spread simulation should not reduce stroke contrast below WCAG thresholds.

Underwood Champion Legibility Characteristics

Underwood Champion draws legibility from its fixed-pitch spacing inherited from mechanical constraints and ink-spread simulation with slightly thickened joints. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Readability Profile: Underwood Champion

The mechanical regularity and generous character width provide steady reading rhythm. Ink-spread effects add warmth but can reduce clarity at very small sizes on screen. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Underwood Champion for Long-Form Content

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

Underwood Champion Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Underwood Champion Effectively

Pair with a clean sans-serif for UI elements surrounding typewriter-styled content. Avoid combining with polished modern serifs that clash with the mechanical aesthetic. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Underwood Champion. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Underwood Champion in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

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Available Weights

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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 248 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

Underwood Champion 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.

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