Atomic Age

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Atomic Age Regular

About Atomic Age

Atomic Age is a display face that translates car-badge script into upright, disconnected letters. The stroke is even and fairly heavy, corners are rounded squares, and many shapes keep a memory of handwriting: the lowercase o is closed by a flat bar across its top, r and s follow cursive forms, the capital A starts from a spur on the left, and m and n bend like folded metal strip. The official description names nameplates of 1950s American cars as the source and says the connecting strokes were dropped to make the result more legible and mechanical in look. The family is one Regular style and is not variable. Its 544 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended. An update noted by the foundry tightened the letter spacing and improved hinting; the font is described as usable from small sizes up to large display.

Where Atomic Age works

Automotive and garage branding

The letter shapes come from car nameplates, which suits workshops, car clubs and classic-car events.

Retro-futurist posters

Squared curves and script-derived forms evoke 1950s space-age styling in titles and flyers.

Diner and bar signage

An even, sturdy stroke with rounded corners reproduces well as cut vinyl, neon outlines or routed letters.

Game and app titles

A mechanical look with enough Latin Extended coverage for localised titles in Central European languages.

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
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. 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 Atomic Age

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

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

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

Things to know

Script forms without joins

Letters such as r, s and o are cursive shapes set apart. Readers unfamiliar with them may need a moment at first.

One style

Atomic Age has Regular 400 only, with no italic or bold.

Metrics changed in an update

The foundry notes that version 1.007 tightened spacing and altered vertical and horizontal metrics, which can reflow older layouts.

FAQs

Collections with Atomic Age

• Mid-century display fonts from the 1950s to the 1970s

  Bouncing, hand-lettered display faces after post-war advertising, cartoons, motel signs and record covers.

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