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Display face

Also called Titling

A face drawn to be set large, where the job is to be looked at, so it can afford detail, extreme contrast and tight spacing that would destroy a paragraph.

Display face: a letter in the house face with the display face marked in vermilion.
Display face, drawn, Drew Ink. Drawn 2026-09-10.
Display face: fourteen- and twelve-line pica Egyptian from Thorowgood's specimen of 1825, cut for the poster and the bill, not the page.
Thorowgood's Egyptian at fourteen-line pica, 1825, William Thorowgood, Fann Street Foundry; photographed by James Puckett. CC BY 2.0. Cropped to the two showings. Retrieved 2026-09-10.

Near it

Text faceOptical sizeReverse contrastMonospace

What it is made of

spacingtight, because gaps grow with size
detailfine, because it survives
measureshort by naturea display face set as body copy is the single commonest failure in this pair