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Weise

Weise brings classic elegance to your typography with refined serifs that guide the eye through extended reading.

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Serifby Qualitype73% Accessible
Characters456
Glyphs547
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Weise

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Best Font Pairings for Weise

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Weise, including combinations with Somar Sans, Sulphur Point and Certa Sans.

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

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Test Weise Font Pairings Live

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

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

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In Context

Weise Specimen Gallery

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Weise Editorial Specimen

Weise in Editorial Context

Weise is a serif typeface by Qualitype suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Qualitype

Typeface Designer • Serif

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

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

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

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Weise Typography

A serif typeface for UI components.

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Weise Specimen

Weise

Weise is a serif typeface by Qualitype built for display contexts.

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Wordmark Explorations

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Tagline Pairings

Weise— serif typeface
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Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Weise Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Heading Styles with Weise

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

Reading Text in Weise

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

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

When setting Weise 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding Weise to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Weise

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Understanding Weise

Qualitype
Serif
Open Source

Weise serif typeface delivers basic, classic antiqua forms through a complete family suited to traditional publishing applications. Qualitype's design provides reliable character for literary typography, formal documents, and extended reading. The classic proportions add timeless elegance while complete family supports sophisticated hierarchy. Weise's classical aesthetic serves publishers, cultural institutions, and formal communications. Both display and body text benefit from balanced proportions. Pair with a geometric sans-serif for modern contrast.

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

As a Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Classicals classification, Weise features bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for academic papers and legal documents.

Weise is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Weise

This analysis helps designers understand Weise's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage.
1

Classification

Serif analysis. From a classification standpoint, Weise within the Classicals (Humanist, Garalde, Transitional) and Moderns (Didone) tradition, characterized by Bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and Modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. Serif letterforms trace to Roman square capitals carved into stone. Key technical strength: extensive weight and optical-size ranges in superfamilies.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 73). Weise delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

3

Design Heritage

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

Overview

About Weise

Weise falls within the Classicals typeface, drawn from the tradition where serif letterforms trace to Roman square capitals carved into stone. Its distinctive bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress make it well-suited for academic papers and legal documents. TypeSmith indexes Weise in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

73
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Weise

Weise achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. High-contrast Didones can cause halation for readers with astigmatism. Prefer Garalde or Transitional cuts at text sizes for inclusive readability.

How Legible is Weise?

Weise draws legibility from its bracketed or hairline serifs terminating each stroke and modulated stroke contrast from axis of stress. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

How Readable is Weise?

Serifs guide horizontal eye movement along the baseline, making text sizes above 9 pt highly readable in print. On screen, hinting quality determines legibility below 14 px. Set body text at 16 px or larger on screen, with line heights between 1.4 and 1.6 for sustained reading comfort.

Visual Comfort with Weise

Weise provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. High stroke contrast can cause halation for some readers, so pair with ample line spacing on bright backgrounds.

Weise Accessibility Recommendations

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

Design Tips for Weise

Pair with geometric or grotesque sans-serifs for contrast. Avoid pairing two serifs from the same Vox sub-class to prevent visual redundancy. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Weise. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Weise in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

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Available Weights

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Regular
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 229 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

Weise 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.

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