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Zhmur

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

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Displayby Andrey Btr48% Accessible
Characters512
Glyphs614
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Zhmur

01

Best Font Pairings for Zhmur

TypeSmith curates 5 expert font pairings for Zhmur, including combinations with Mozilla Text, Staff Meeting and Funnel Display.

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

Explore 5 Pairings for Zhmur
02

Test Zhmur Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Zhmur 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

Zhmur Specimen Gallery

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Zhmur Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Zhmur Specimen

Zhmur

Zhmur is a display typeface by Andrey Btr built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Zhmur
Zhmur
ZHMUR
ZHMURTYPE
Z

Tagline Pairings

Zhmur— display typeface
ZhmurBy Andrey Btr
ZhmurTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Zhmur Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Zhmur Used As Heading Examples

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

Reading Text in Zhmur

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

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

When setting Zhmur 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.

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

Quick Start

Integrating Zhmur

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Zhmur in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Zhmur: History & Characteristics

Andrey Btr
Display
Open Source

Zhmur font is a bold display typeface with creative details, Cyrillic support, geometric construction, and unique aesthetics designed for distinctive, powerful multilingual applications. The substantial weight and unconventional styling create commanding, memorable typography. This unique geometric creative bold Cyrillic display typeface works effectively in distinctive Eastern European branding, bold creative advertising, unique multilingual publications, and applications requiring bold creative distinction with Slavic support. Zhmur serves designers creating distinctive multilingual experiences. Pair with clean supporting fonts.

Zhmur was crafted by Andrey Btr. 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, Zhmur 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.

Zhmur is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 5 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Zhmur

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Zhmur

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Zhmur 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: 48). Zhmur works best at display sizes where its character can shine without compromising legibility.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Andrey Btr. 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 Zhmur

Zhmur embodies the Graphic typeface, anchored 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 indexes Zhmur in a single weight variant and 5 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
5 curated pairings for Zhmur
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Accessibility & Usability

48
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Zhmur: Accessibility Considerations

Zhmur has limited accessibility at small sizes due to reduced character differentiation, so reserve it for headlines and display contexts. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

How Legible is Zhmur?

Zhmur 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.

Readability Profile: Zhmur

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.

Eye Strain Considerations for Zhmur

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

Zhmur Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from Zhmur

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 Zhmur. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Zhmur 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

Aa
100
Aa
200
Aa
300
Aa
400
Aa
500
Aa
600
Aa
700
Aa
800
Aa
900

Internationalization

Zhmur 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 194 glyphs covering Latin and Cyrillic. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Zhmur License Information

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.

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