Metal Mania

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Metal Mania Regular

About Metal Mania

Metal Mania is a display typeface that gathers the lettering habits of heavy metal album covers and concert posters into one font. Outlines are rough and nicked, as if cut from paper, and many letters end in long pointed spikes: in the specimen the legs of A, K, M and R stretch below the baseline into blades, and serifs are sharp wedges. There is no ordinary lowercase; lowercase keys produce smaller capitals in the same style. The official notes say the inline forms came first and were then traced to produce the cutout effect. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 260 glyphs cover the basic Latin set. Dathan Boardman of Open Window designed Metal Mania, and it is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 with Metal Mania as a Reserved Font Name.

Where Metal Mania works

Concert posters and flyers

The design was drawn from metal posters, and the spiked legs give a band name the expected edge.

Album and playlist covers

A short title in the large capitals fills a square cover with jagged shapes.

Halloween and horror graphics

Torn outlines and blade-like serifs carry a menacing tone in event titles.

Merchandise

The official notes mention guitar picks; short words also suit shirts, patches and stickers.

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
• 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 Metal Mania

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

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

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

Things to know

Small capitals instead of lowercase

Typing lowercase gives shorter capitals, so mixed-case text is not available.

Basic Latin only

The subset is Latin; Latin Extended is not covered.

Spikes extend below the baseline

Descending legs on several capitals reach under the line, so stacked lines need extra spacing.

FAQs

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