Anagram

Name: Anagram
Author: Nick's Fonts

Anagram offers versatile typography with carefully balanced proportions for diverse design applications.

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Retroby Nick's Fonts66% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Anagram

Best Font Pairings for Anagram

TypeSmith curates 5 expert font pairings for Anagram, including combinations with Junge, Livvic and Inria Serif.

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

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Test Anagram Font Pairings Live

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

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

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In Context

Anagram Specimen Gallery

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Anagram Editorial Specimen

Anagram in Editorial Context

Anagram is a retro typeface by Nick's Fonts suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Nick's Fonts

Typeface Designer • Retro

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

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

Designed by Nick's Fonts, Anagram balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Anagram Typography

A retro typeface for UI components.

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Anagram Specimen

Anagram

Anagram is a retro typeface by Nick's Fonts built for display contexts.

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Anagram

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Tagline Pairings

Anagram— retro typeface

AnagramBy Nick's Fonts

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Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Anagram Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Anagram for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Anagram 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.

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

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Anagram delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Anagram italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Anagram bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Anagram typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Anagram typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Anagram'; }

Quick Start

How to Embed Anagram in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Anagram';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Anagram:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Anagram', 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        'anagram': ['Anagram', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-anagram">Your text here</p>

About

Anagram Background & Features

Nick's Fonts

Retro

Open Source

Anagram is a free font from Nick's Fonts.

Anagram was created by Nick's Fonts. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Retro typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Anagram features period-specific proportions and stroke treatments and inline, shadow, or dimensional decorative treatments. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for editorial illustration and poster design.

Anagram is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 5 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Anagram

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Anagram

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

Classification

Retro analysis. From a classification standpoint, Anagram within the Graphic (Period Revival / Retro) tradition, characterized by Period-specific proportions and stroke treatments and Inline, shadow, or dimensional decorative treatments. Retro typefaces revive lettering styles from specific historical periods, typically mid-20th-century Americana, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, or 1970s phototypesetting aesthetics. Key technical strength: instant visual era-signaling for thematic branding.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 66). Anagram offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

Design Heritage

Designed by Nick's Fonts. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Retro with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Anagram

Anagram is classified as a Graphic typeface, rooted in the tradition where retro typefaces revive lettering styles from specific historical periods, typically mid-20th-century Americana, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, or 1970s phototypesetting aesthetics. Its distinctive period-specific proportions and stroke treatments and inline, shadow, or dimensional decorative treatments make it well-suited for vintage-inspired packaging and label design. TypeSmith indexes Anagram in a single weight variant and 5 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

5 curated pairings for Anagram

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Typefaces Like Anagram

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Anagram based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Good Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Anagram

Anagram falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative treatments like inlines and shadows can reduce contrast. Test against WCAG contrast ratios and avoid for essential interactive elements.

Anagram's Legibility

Anagram draws legibility from its period-specific proportions and stroke treatments and inline, shadow, or dimensional decorative treatments. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

How Readable is Anagram?

Readability varies widely by source period. Art Deco geometrics can be quite legible; heavily ornamented Victorian revivals require large sizes and short text runs. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Visual Comfort with Anagram

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

Anagram Accessibility Recommendations

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

Best Practices for Using Anagram

Pair with a complementary era-appropriate text face or a neutral modern sans-serif. Avoid mixing retro styles from different decades in the same layout. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Anagram. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Anagram in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Anagram 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 encodes 394 glyphs covering Latin. Latin coverage extends past the basic ASCII set into Latin Extended, so Central and Eastern European languages set correctly. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Anagram 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.

Anagram 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 Anagram ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.

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

Anagram

Best Ways to Use Anagram

Best Font Pairings for Anagram

Test Anagram Font Pairings Live

In Context

Anagram Typography

Anagram

Character Set

Type Scale

Anagram for Paragraphs

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Accessibility Features of Anagram

Anagram's Legibility

How Readable is Anagram?

Visual Comfort with Anagram

Anagram Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Anagram

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Anagram

Best Ways to Use Anagram

Best Font Pairings for Anagram

Test Anagram Font Pairings Live

In Context

Anagram Typography

Anagram

Character Set

Type Scale

Anagram for Paragraphs

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Accessibility Features of Anagram

Anagram's Legibility

How Readable is Anagram?

Visual Comfort with Anagram

Anagram Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Anagram

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference