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Acme

Acme delivers clean, contemporary letterforms optimized for digital interfaces and modern design systems.

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Sans Serifby Huerta Tipográfica60% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Acme

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Best Font Pairings for Acme

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Acme, including combinations with Amagro, IM Fell French Canon and Karla.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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Test Acme Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Acme with any font combination in real-time, optimized for sans serif characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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In Context

Acme Specimen Gallery

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Acme Editorial Specimen

Acme in Editorial Context

Acme is a sans serif typeface by Huerta Tipográfica suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Huerta Tipográfica

Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

Acme demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a sans serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Acme supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Huerta Tipográfica, Acme balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Acme Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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Acme Specimen

Acme

Acme is a sans serif typeface by Huerta Tipográfica built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSans Serif Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

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Tagline Pairings

Acme— sans serif typeface
AcmeBy Huerta Tipográfica
AcmeTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Acme Glyphs & Characters

Size48
Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Type Scale

Display Sizes for Acme

Heading Level 1<h1>
64px
Bold
72px
Acme primary headline
Heading Level 2<h2>
48px
SemiBold
56px
Acme section heading
Heading Level 3<h3>
32px
Medium
40px
Acme subsection title
Heading Level 4<h4>
24px
Regular
32px
Acme content heading
Heading Level 5<h5>
18px
Regular
26px
Acme minor heading
Heading Level 6<h6>
14px
Medium
20px
Acme smallest heading
Font SizeWeightLine Height
Body Copy

Acme Body Typography

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Acme, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Acme demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Acme for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Acme small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

ElementWeightSizeLine HeightTrackingPreview
Body TextRegular16px24px0.5pxAcme delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxAcme italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxAcme bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxAcme typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxAcme typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'Acme'; }

Quick Start

Integrating Acme

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Acme:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Acme:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Acme';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Acme');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

1.my-text {
2 font-family: 'Acme', sans-serif;
3 font-weight: 400;
4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

1$font-primary: 'Acme', sans-serif;
2
3.my-text {
4 font-family: $font-primary;
5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

1// tailwind.config.js
2module.exports = {
3 theme: {
4 extend: {
5 fontFamily: {
6 'acme': ['Acme', 'sans-serif'],
7 },
8 },
9 },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-acme">Your text here</p>

About

Exploring Acme's Design

Huerta Tipográfica
Sans Serif
Open Source

Acme balances Swiss precision and modernist clarity, making it well-suited for corporate branding. Its geometric forms and no decorative strokes contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for corporate branding and web content, Acme adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes This font supports English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian,....

Acme comes from the work of Huerta Tipográfica. Known for Latin American type design with slab serif expertise, the designer's expertise shapes Acme's glyph proportions, stroke consistency, and typographic color.

As a Sans Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Lineal classification, Acme features no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for user interface text and navigation elements.

Acme is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 3 font pairings curated.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Acme

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Acme's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

1

Classification

Sans Serif analysis. From a classification standpoint, Acme within the Lineal (Grotesque, Neo-grotesque, Geometric, Humanist) tradition, characterized by No serif extensions on stroke terminals and Stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. The first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Key technical strength: widest variable-font support with weight and width axes.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 60). Acme handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Huerta Tipográfica. Known for Latin American type design with slab serif expertise, the designer's expertise shapes Acme's glyph proportions and optical balance across a single focused weight.

Overview

About Acme

Acme represents a Lineal typeface, grounded in the tradition where the first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Its distinctive no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated make it well-suited for user interface text and navigation elements. TypeSmith features Acme in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

60
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Acme Accessibility Profile

Acme falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Grotesques with ambiguous letterforms (I/l/1) reduce accessibility. Choose designs with distinct character differentiation and open apertures for inclusive typography.

Reading Acme: Legibility Factors

Acme draws legibility from its no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Acme's Readability

Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category. Geometric and neo-grotesque designs excel in short-form UI text but require careful sizing for sustained reading. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Acme for Long-Form Content

Acme provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Acme Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Acme. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Acme at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

How to Use Acme Effectively

Pair with Garalde or Transitional serifs for classic contrast. A humanist sans body with a geometric sans display creates intra-category tension without conflict. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Acme. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Acme in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

Download Acme

Available on Google Fonts
4 weights available for download
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Available Weights

400
Regular
400
Regular Italic
700
Bold
700
Bold Italic

Weight Reference

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100
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200
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300
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400
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500
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600
Aa
700
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800
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900

Internationalization

Acme Language Coverage

Extended Latin Coverage
Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Dutch

Nordic

  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic

Central European

  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Slovak

Baltic

  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian

This font supports English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, and Icelandic.

Legal

Acme Licensing

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1
Free for personal and commercial use
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What you can do

  • Personal projects
  • Commercial projects
  • Web embedding
  • App embedding
  • Modification
  • Redistribution

Restrictions

  • Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Acme is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Acme ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.