Angst

Name: Angst
Author: Misha Ivanov

Angst commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Misha Ivanov60% Accessible

Characters712

Glyphs854

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Best Font Pairings for Angst

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Angst, including combinations with Lato Code, Ut Honsagh and Lampa.

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

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

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

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Angst Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Angst Specimen

Angst

Angst is a display typeface by Misha Ivanov built for display contexts.

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Angst

ANGST

ANGSTTYPE

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Angst— display typeface

AngstBy Misha Ivanov

AngstTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Angst Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Angst Body Typography

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

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

When setting Angst 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.

Angst 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	Angst delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Angst italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Angst bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Angst typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Angst typography specimen

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

Quick Start

Adding Angst to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Angst in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Angst Background & Features

Misha Ivanov

Display

Open Source

Angst Typeface font is a bold contemporary display typeface featuring modern Cyrillic-supporting family letterforms. Anxious and current, this design delivers emotional intensity aesthetics for mental health communications, intense entertainment, and expressive marketing across multiple markets. The contemporary construction with anxious character creates emotional presence. Designers working on mental health awareness, intense products, and emotional branding will appreciate the anxious character. Pair with clean body text.

Angst was created by Misha Ivanov. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Angst features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for brand logotypes and wordmarks.

Angst is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Extended language support spanning Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin Extended ensures reliable rendering across global audiences.

Angst

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Angst

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

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Angst within the Graphic (Display / Titling) tradition, characterized by Tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and Exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. Display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Key technical strength: high visual impact with minimal typographic hierarchy.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 60). Angst offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

Design Heritage

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

Overview

About Angst

Angst is classified as a Graphic typeface, rooted in the tradition where display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Its distinctive tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features make it well-suited for brand logotypes and wordmarks. TypeSmith features Angst in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Angst

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Angst 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

Using Angst Accessibly

Angst falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

How Legible is Angst?

Angst draws legibility from its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Angst Reading Performance

Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt. Display faces sacrifice small-size legibility for visual impact and personality at headline scale. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Eye Strain Considerations for Angst

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

Angst Accessibility Recommendations

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

Best Practices for Using Angst

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Angst. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Angst in WOFF2 format with its extended character set to ensure consistent rendering across global audiences.

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Angst Font Files

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

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400

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Internationalization

Language Support

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 399 glyphs covering Latin and Cyrillic. 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

Font License Details

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.

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

Angst

Best Ways to Use Angst

Best Font Pairings for Angst

Test Angst Font Pairings Live

In Context

Angst Typography

Angst

Character Set

Type Scale

Angst Body Typography

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

Using Angst Accessibly

How Legible is Angst?

Angst Reading Performance

Eye Strain Considerations for Angst

Angst Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Angst

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Angst

Best Ways to Use Angst

Best Font Pairings for Angst

Test Angst Font Pairings Live

In Context

Angst Typography

Angst

Character Set

Type Scale

Angst Body Typography

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

Using Angst Accessibly

How Legible is Angst?

Angst Reading Performance

Eye Strain Considerations for Angst

Angst Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Angst

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference