Typography

The Typography module presents typefaces with live rendered specimens, documents available file formats, and records the CSS fallback stack for each typeface. Clients can preview type at a glance and download exactly the font files your brand uses.

Typeface cards

Each typeface is a card showing:

Family name and foundry — for example, "Söhne" by Klim Type Foundry.
Live specimen — text rendered in the font using a WOFF2 file uploaded to boveDAM, or linked via a @font-face URL. If no web font is available, the specimen falls back to a system font with a notice.
Weights and styles — available variations: Regular, Medium, Bold, Italic, etc.
File formats — WOFF2, WOFF, OTF, TTF, as uploaded.
CSS fallback stack — the recommended cascade for developers.

Uploading font files

Upload one file per weight/style combination. WOFF2 is recommended as the primary format — it produces the smallest files and is supported by all modern browsers. If you have legacy requirements, upload WOFF as a secondary format.

boveDAM does not re-encode or modify font files. Clients download exactly what you upload. Font files are served via signed URLs with a 5-minute TTL, the same as other assets.

To upload: inside the Typography module, click Add typeface, enter the family name, then use Add weight to attach files for each variation.

Fallback stacks

Record the CSS fallback stack in the typeface settings. This renders as a copyable code snippet in the portal:

font-family: "Brand Sans", ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif;

Fallback stacks are editorial — boveDAM stores them as plain text and does not validate or apply them. They are for developers who need the correct stack to use in their own stylesheets.

Specimen text

The default specimen text is a pangram: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." You can override the specimen text per typeface in the module settings — useful if your brand name, tagline, or primary script is not well represented by a Latin pangram.