Acme

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Acme Regular

About Acme

Acme is a display typeface with narrow, heavy letters whose strokes swell and taper slightly, as if drawn with a brush pen. Stroke ends are cut at angles, curves and stems are a little irregular, and the lowercase sits tall against the capitals, which gives words an uneven, hand-drawn rhythm. The official description names classic cartoons and comics as the source of this visual language and says the face was made for headlines. Acme has one style, Regular 400, and is not variable. The font contains 230 glyphs in the Latin subset, with complete letters for English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and the Nordic languages. Juan Pablo del Peral drew Acme, HT Fonts published it, and the copyright notice carries his name. Acme was added to Google Fonts in 2011 and is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Acme works

Comic and cartoon titles

The letter shapes come from cartoon and comic lettering, so episode titles, panels and covers get a matching voice.

Headlines for informal brands

Heavy, narrow letters with tapered strokes make a short headline loud without the stiffness of a geometric bold.

Game and toy packaging

The uneven rhythm reads as hand-drawn, which suits product names and callouts aimed at play.

Event posters and flyers

Compact letters let a long event name run large across a narrow sheet.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

Character sets found in the files: latin. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Acme

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Acme on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Acme";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Acme-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Acme", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Acme with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Acme&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One heavy style

Acme has no lighter weight and no italic; the single file is labelled Regular 400.

Small Latin set

With 230 glyphs, Acme lacks complete letters for Turkish, Polish and Czech. French is covered except for the rarely used capital Ÿ.

Made for headlines

The official description presents Acme as a headline face; its weight and narrow fit are tuned for large sizes.

FAQs

Collections with Acme

• Comic book and cartoon lettering fonts

  Hand-lettered comic dialogue faces, sound-effect capitals and bouncy cartoon titles for comics, kids' media and humorous graphics.

Similar fonts

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