UpperEastSide

Name: UpperEastSide
Author: David Rakowski

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

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Retroby David Rakowski52% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use UpperEastSide

Best Font Pairings for UpperEastSide

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for UpperEastSide, including combinations with GFS Didot, Subjectivity and Noto Serif Yezidi.

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 UpperEastSide with any font combination in real-time, optimized for retro characteristics.

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

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In Context

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UpperEastSide Editorial Specimen

UpperEastSide in Editorial Context

UpperEastSide is a retro typeface by David Rakowski suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

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Typeface Designer • Retro

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

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

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

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UpperEastSide Typography

A retro typeface for UI components.

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UpperEastSide Specimen

UpperEastSide

UpperEastSide is a retro typeface by David Rakowski built for display contexts.

2 WeightsRetro Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

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UpperEastSide

UPPEREASTSIDE

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Tagline Pairings

UpperEastSide— retro typeface

UpperEastSideBy David Rakowski

UpperEastSideTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

UpperEastSide Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in UpperEastSide

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

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

When setting UpperEastSide 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Adding UpperEastSide to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with UpperEastSide

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

UpperEastSide: History & Characteristics

David Rakowski

Retro

Open Source

UpperEastSide is a free font from David Rakowski.

UpperEastSide was crafted by David Rakowski. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Retro typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, UpperEastSide features period-specific proportions and stroke treatments and inline, shadow, or dimensional decorative treatments. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for period-themed restaurant and hospitality branding.

UpperEastSide is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of UpperEastSide

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

Classification

Retro analysis. TypeSmith classifies UpperEastSide within the Graphic (Period Revival / Retro) tradition, characterized by Period-specific proportions and stroke treatments and Inline, shadow, or dimensional decorative treatments. Retro typefaces revive lettering styles from specific historical periods, typically mid-20th-century Americana, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, or 1970s phototypesetting aesthetics. Key technical strength: instant visual era-signaling for thematic branding.

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Best Ways to Use UpperEastSide

Best Font Pairings for UpperEastSide

Test UpperEastSide Font Pairings Live

In Context

UpperEastSide Typography

UpperEastSide

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in UpperEastSide

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

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Accessibility Overview for UpperEastSide

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UpperEastSide's Readability

UpperEastSide for Long-Form Content

UpperEastSide Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from UpperEastSide

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Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

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