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Vavoura

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

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Displayby Under Pressure70% Accessible
Characters390
Glyphs468
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Vavoura

01

Best Font Pairings for Vavoura

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Vavoura, including combinations with Fervojo, Kumbh Sans and Decalotype.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Vavoura
02

Test Vavoura Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Vavoura 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

Vavoura Specimen Gallery

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Vavoura Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Vavoura Specimen

Vavoura

Vavoura is a display typeface by Under Pressure built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Vavoura
Vavoura
VAVOURA
VAVOURATYPE
V

Tagline Pairings

Vavoura— display typeface
VavouraBy Under Pressure
VavouraTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Vavoura Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Vavoura Typography Scale

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

Reading Text in Vavoura

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

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

When setting Vavoura 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding Vavoura to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Vavoura

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Design of Vavoura

Under Pressure
Display
Open Source

Vavoura font is a display typeface expressing decorative Greek character through square geometric construction for Mediterranean visual presence. The distinctive letterforms project Hellenic authenticity suitable for Greek restaurant branding, Mediterranean tourism, and cultural applications celebrating Greek typographic traditions. Square decorative forms create memorable identity while Greek support ensures authentic representation. Effective for tavernas, Greek cultural events, and Mediterranean hospitality.

Vavoura was crafted by Under Pressure. 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, Vavoura 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.

Vavoura 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.

Vavoura

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Vavoura

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Vavoura 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: 70). Vavoura delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Under Pressure. 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 Vavoura

Vavoura embodies the Graphic typeface, grounded 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 features Vavoura in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Vavoura
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Accessibility & Usability

70
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Vavoura

Vavoura achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Legibility Analysis: Vavoura

Vavoura 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.

Vavoura Reading Performance

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.

Vavoura's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Vavoura Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Vavoura Effectively

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

Get the Font

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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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100
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400
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500
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600
Aa
700
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800
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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 114 glyphs covering Latin and Greek. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Usage Rights for Vavoura

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.

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