Urba

Name: Urba
Author: Preston Racette

Urba delivers clean, contemporary letterforms optimized for digital interfaces and modern design systems.

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Sans Serifby Preston Racette70% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Best Font Pairings for Urba

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Urba, including combinations with Lemour Serif, Leluja Original and Inverkrug.

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 Urba with any font combination in real-time, optimized for sans serif characteristics.

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

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Urba Editorial Specimen

Urba in Editorial Context

Urba is a sans serif typeface by Preston Racette suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Preston Racette

Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

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

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

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

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Urba Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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Urba Specimen

Urba

Urba is a sans serif typeface by Preston Racette built for display contexts.

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Urba— sans serif typeface

UrbaBy Preston Racette

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Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Urba Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Text Table

Body Copy

Urba Body Typography

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

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

When setting Urba 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Adding Urba to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Urba

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Urba

Preston Racette

Sans Serif

Open Source

Urba typeface delivers geometric, smooth forms through refined construction suited to contemporary design applications. Preston Racette's design creates clean character for corporate branding, interface design, and editorial layouts seeking modern sophistication. The geometric foundation provides consistent rhythm while smooth details add warmth. Urba's contemporary aesthetic appeals to tech companies, design studios, and lifestyle brands. Both display and body text benefit from balanced proportions. Pair with a contrasting serif for editorial layouts requiring textural variety.

Urba comes from the work of Preston Racette. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Sans Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Lineal classification, Urba features no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for corporate identity systems requiring neutrality.

Urba is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, 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 Urba

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

Classification

Sans Serif analysis. From a classification standpoint, Urba within the Lineal (Grotesque, Neo-grotesque, Geometric, Humanist) tradition, characterized by No serif extensions on stroke terminals and Stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. The first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Key technical strength: widest variable-font support with weight and width axes.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 70). Urba delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

Design Heritage

Designed by Preston Racette. The designer's attention to glyph proportions and optical balance produces a Sans Serif with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Urba

Urba embodies the Lineal typeface, anchored in the tradition where the first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Its distinctive no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated make it well-suited for corporate identity systems requiring neutrality. TypeSmith features Urba in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

4 curated pairings for Urba

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Urba based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Good Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Urba

Urba achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Grotesques with ambiguous letterforms (I/l/1) reduce accessibility. Choose designs with distinct character differentiation and open apertures for inclusive typography.

Reading Urba: Legibility Factors

Urba draws legibility from its no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Urba Reading Performance

Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category. Geometric and neo-grotesque designs excel in short-form UI text but require careful sizing for sustained reading. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Eye Strain Considerations for Urba

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

Urba Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Urba: Best Practices

Pair with Garalde or Transitional serifs for classic contrast. A humanist sans body with a geometric sans display creates intra-category tension without conflict. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Urba. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Urba 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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900

Internationalization

Urba Language Coverage

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 76 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Font License Details

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.

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

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Best Ways to Use Urba

Best Font Pairings for Urba

Test Urba Font Pairings Live

In Context

Urba Typography

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Character Set

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Urba Body Typography

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 Urba

Reading Urba: Legibility Factors

Urba Reading Performance

Eye Strain Considerations for Urba

Urba Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Urba: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Urba

Best Ways to Use Urba

Best Font Pairings for Urba

Test Urba Font Pairings Live

In Context

Urba Typography

Urba

Character Set

Type Scale

Urba Body Typography

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 Urba

Reading Urba: Legibility Factors

Urba Reading Performance

Eye Strain Considerations for Urba

Urba Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Urba: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference