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Black Acute

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

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Displayby Tanya Savchenko56% Accessible
Characters512
Glyphs614
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Black Acute

01

Best Font Pairings for Black Acute

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Black Acute, including combinations with Patriot, Abingdon and Codee Sans Mono.

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

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02

Test Black Acute Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Black Acute 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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In Context

Black Acute Specimen Gallery

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Black Acute Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Black Acute Specimen

Black Acute

Black Acute is a display typeface by Tanya Savchenko built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Black Acute
Black Acute
BLACK ACUTE
BLACK ACUTETYPE
B

Tagline Pairings

Black Acute— display typeface
Black AcuteBy Tanya Savchenko
Black AcuteTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Black Acute Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Black Acute Used As Heading Examples

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

Reading Text in Black Acute

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

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

When setting Black Acute 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding Black Acute to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Black Acute

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Black Acute's Details

Tanya Savchenko
Display
Open Source

Black Acute font is a bold display typeface with Cyrillic support, geometric construction, logo-friendly proportions, and sharp details designed for powerful, angular brand applications. The substantial weight and cutting styling create commanding, precise wordmarks. This sharp geometric bold Cyrillic logo display typeface works effectively in sharp international wordmarks, bold geometric branding, powerful multilingual signage, and applications requiring bold sharp geometric character with Slavic support. The acute angle name describes the angular aesthetic. Black Acute serves designers creating sharp multilingual brand experiences. Pair with clean geometric supporting fonts.

Black Acute was created by Tanya Savchenko. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Black Acute 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.

Black Acute is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Black Acute

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Black Acute

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Black Acute 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.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 56). Black Acute handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Tanya Savchenko. The designer's attention to glyph proportions and optical balance produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Black Acute

Black Acute 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 event posters and promotional materials. TypeSmith features Black Acute in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Black Acute
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Accessibility & Usability

56
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Using Black Acute Accessibly

Black Acute 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.

Black Acute's Legibility

Black Acute 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.

Readability Profile: Black Acute

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.

Black Acute for Long-Form Content

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

Black Acute Accessibility Recommendations

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

Best Practices for Using Black Acute

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 Black Acute. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Black Acute in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights & Styles

Available Weights

400
Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

Weight Reference

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100
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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

Black Acute 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 172 glyphs covering Latin and Cyrillic. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

License Type

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.

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