Akronim

Try Akronim

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Akronim Regular

About Akronim

Akronim is a display typeface drawn like quick brush lettering and then cut through with fine inner lines, so that each stroke looks plaited from two or three strands. The letters slant to the right and taper to points; in the specimen the capitals carry leaf-like side strokes and the dot of the i becomes a small comma shape. Its maker describes it as handmade in Poland, and the name is the Polish word for acronym. The official text conjures braided hair and fields of wheat, which fits the plaited strokes. Akronim has one Regular style and is not a variable font. The 253 glyphs cover Western European languages and Central European ones including Polish, Czech, Croatian and Hungarian. Grzegorz Klimczewski is the designer, Fonty.PL the manufacturer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Akronim works

Festival and concert posters

The stranded strokes give a headline movement, enough to act as the illustration.

Logos for crafts and food

A single word in Akronim suggests braids, grain or foliage through its plaited lines.

Polish and Central European titles

Letters such as ą, ę, ł, č and ő are present, so names from the region can be set in full.

Book and album covers

Set large, the inner lines stay open and read as decoration within the letters.

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
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Estonian

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 Akronim

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

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Akronim 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=Akronim&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Inner lines need size

In the small sample at the foot of the specimen the strands almost close up. Use Akronim at display sizes.

One style

Akronim has a single Regular font, without bold or upright variants.

Reserved Font Name

The copyright notice reserves the name Akronim, so a modified version must be renamed.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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