Wave

Name: Wave
Author: Grigory Kopylov

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

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Displayby Grigory Kopylov72% Accessible

Characters512

Glyphs614

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Wave

Best Font Pairings for Wave

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Wave, including combinations with Andalos, Mohave and Godia.

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 Wave 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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Wave Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Wave Specimen

Wave

Wave is a display typeface by Grigory Kopylov built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Wave

WAVE

WAVETYPE

Tagline Pairings

Wave— display typeface

WaveBy Grigory Kopylov

WaveTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Wave Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Wave Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Wave 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.

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

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Wave in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Wave in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Wave's Details

Grigory Kopylov

Display

Open Source

Wave font is a creative display typeface with Cyrillic support, decorative details, and wide proportions designed for flowing, distinctive multilingual applications. The expanded construction and ornamental styling create memorable, spacious typography. This wide decorative creative Cyrillic display typeface proves valuable in creative Eastern European branding, distinctive wide headlines, decorative multilingual publications, and applications requiring flowing wide character with Slavic support. The wave name suggests fluid movement. Wave serves designers creating flowing multilingual experiences. Pair with condensed fonts for contrast.

Wave was designed by Grigory Kopylov. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Wave features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for event posters and promotional materials.

Wave 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.

Wave

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Wave

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

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Wave 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.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 72). Wave performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

Design Heritage

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

Overview

About Wave

Wave falls within the Graphic typeface, drawn from 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 brand logotypes and wordmarks. TypeSmith indexes Wave in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

4 curated pairings for Wave

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Typefaces Like Wave

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

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Good Accessibility

Using Wave Accessibly

Wave 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: Wave

Wave 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.

Wave in Context: 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.

Wave for Long-Form Content

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

Wave Accessibility Recommendations

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

Best Practices for Using Wave

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Wave. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Wave in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Download Weights & Variants

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Wave Multilingual 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 141 glyphs covering Latin and Cyrillic. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Wave 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.

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

Wave

Best Ways to Use Wave

Best Font Pairings for Wave

Test Wave Font Pairings Live

In Context

Wave Typography

Wave

Character Set

Type Scale

Wave Used As Body Text

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

Using Wave Accessibly

Legibility Analysis: Wave

Wave in Context: Readability

Wave for Long-Form Content

Wave Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Wave

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Wave

Best Ways to Use Wave

Best Font Pairings for Wave

Test Wave Font Pairings Live

In Context

Wave Typography

Wave

Character Set

Type Scale

Wave Used As Body Text

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

Using Wave Accessibly

Legibility Analysis: Wave

Wave in Context: Readability

Wave for Long-Form Content

Wave Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Wave

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference