Acme

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Acme is a compact, bold sans-serif with a strong upright stance and slightly condensed letterforms. It has a no-nonsense quality with clean strokes and consistent weight, giving it a graphic, almost comic-book influenced character. The letterforms feel confident and punchy without being aggressive, making it easy to read at larger sizes while still commanding attention. It sits somewhere between a display typeface and a workhorse heading font, carrying a retro-modern energy that feels both familiar and distinctive.

Acme works well for news and editorial websites where section headers need to stand out quickly without requiring heavy typographic styling. It suits branding for food, sports, or entertainment businesses that want a bold, approachable identity without going full novelty typeface. It also holds up well in app or web UI contexts for prominent labels, navigation items, or marketing banners where space is limited and the text needs to read clearly at a glance.

Best suited for: Acme suits headlines, navigation elements, and promotional text in digital and print contexts where bold, compact letterforms need to command attention efficiently.

Design considerations: As a single-weight sans-serif, Acme offers limited typographic flexibility for establishing hierarchy through weight variation alone. Its condensed proportions and graphic character work best at display sizes, where its confident stance and clean strokes remain legible and impactful.

Pairing guidance: Pair Acme with Oswald for layered sans-serif hierarchies where Oswald's variable weights provide flexible secondary text control, with Lora to introduce serif contrast and reading comfort for body copy or longer editorial passages, or with Pacifico to add informal warmth and personality to callouts or decorative accents.

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Which languages does Acme support?

Acme includes one character set:

• Latin: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and other Western European languages

It does not include Cyrillic or Greek characters, so it can't set Russian, Ukrainian or Greek text.

Can I use Acme commercially?

Yes, it's free for personal and commercial use. Acme is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it in logos, websites, apps, videos, printed products and merchandise without paying or asking permission. The one thing you can't do is sell the font file on its own.

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