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Zt Shago

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

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Displayby Khaiuns91% Accessible
Characters456
Glyphs547
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Zt Shago

01

Best Font Pairings for Zt Shago

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Zt Shago, including combinations with January, Simvoni and Ks Bistra.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Zt Shago
02

Test Zt Shago Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Zt Shago 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

Zt Shago Specimen Gallery

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Zt Shago Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Zt Shago Specimen

Zt Shago

Zt Shago is a display typeface by Khaiuns built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Zt Shago
Zt Shago
ZT SHAGO
ZT SHAGOTYPE
Z

Tagline Pairings

Zt Shago— display typeface
Zt ShagoBy Khaiuns
Zt ShagoTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Zt Shago Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Zt Shago Typography Scale

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

Zt Shago Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Zt Shago 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding Zt Shago to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Zt Shago in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Design of Zt Shago

Khaiuns
Display
Open Source

Zt Shago Typeface font is a display typeface with cool character, creative details, fancy styling, funny touches, and playful sensibility designed for engaging, distinctive applications. The approachable energy and decorative elements create memorable, warm typography. This playful fancy cool creative display typeface works effectively in creative brand identities, engaging packaging, fun editorial design, and applications balancing sophistication with warmth. The funny touches add personality. Zt Shago serves designers creating engaging stylish experiences. Pair with clean supporting fonts.

Zt Shago was crafted by Khaiuns. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Zt Shago features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for hero headlines and landing page headers.

Zt Shago 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.

Zt Shago

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Zt Shago

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Zt Shago 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: 91). Zt Shago delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles. Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Khaiuns. 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 Zt Shago

Zt Shago represents a 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 hero headlines and landing page headers. TypeSmith features Zt Shago in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Zt Shago
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Accessibility & Usability

91
Accessibility Score
Excellent Accessibility

Zt Shago: Accessibility Considerations

Zt Shago scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Legibility Analysis: Zt Shago

Zt Shago 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.

Zt Shago 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.

Visual Comfort with Zt Shago

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

Zt Shago Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from Zt Shago

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 Zt Shago. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Zt Shago 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
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200
Aa
300
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400
Aa
500
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600
Aa
700
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800
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900

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 382 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

Zt Shago 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.

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