Blackout

Name: Blackout
Author: The League of Moveable Type

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

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Displayby The League of Moveable Type50% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Blackout

Best Font Pairings for Blackout

TypeSmith curates 5 expert font pairings for Blackout, including combinations with Mada, Titillium and Solway.

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

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Test Blackout Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Blackout 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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Blackout Specimen Gallery

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Blackout Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Blackout Specimen

Blackout

Blackout is a display typeface by The League of Moveable Type built for display contexts.

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Wordmark Explorations

Blackout

BLACKOUT

BLACKOUTTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Blackout— display typeface

BlackoutBy The League of Moveable Type

BlackoutTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Blackout Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Blackout Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Blackout 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Blackout Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Blackout';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Blackout: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: 'Blackout', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Blackout Background & Features

The League of Moveable Type

Display

Open Source

Blackout is a free font from The League of Moveable Type.

Blackout was created by The League of Moveable Type. Known for sans-serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Blackout's glyph proportions, stroke consistency, and typographic color.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Blackout features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for event posters and promotional materials.

Blackout 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.

Blackout

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Blackout

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

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Blackout 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: 50). Blackout offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

Design Heritage

Designed by The League of Moveable Type. Known for sans-serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Blackout's stroke consistency and typographic color across a single focused weight.

Overview

About Blackout

Blackout 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 indexes Blackout in a single weight variant and 5 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

5 curated pairings for Blackout

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Blackout 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

Adequate Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Blackout

Blackout 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.

Blackout's Legibility

Blackout 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.

Blackout's Readability

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.

Blackout's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Blackout Accessibility Recommendations

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

Design Tips for Blackout

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Blackout. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Blackout 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

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

Internationalization

Blackout Multilingual 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 82 glyphs covering Latin. 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.

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

Blackout

Best Ways to Use Blackout

Best Font Pairings for Blackout

Test Blackout Font Pairings Live

In Context

Blackout Typography

Blackout

Character Set

Type Scale

Blackout Used As Body Text

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 Blackout

Blackout's Legibility

Blackout's Readability

Blackout's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Blackout Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Blackout

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Blackout

Best Ways to Use Blackout

Best Font Pairings for Blackout

Test Blackout Font Pairings Live

In Context

Blackout Typography

Blackout

Character Set

Type Scale

Blackout Used As Body Text

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 Blackout

Blackout's Legibility

Blackout's Readability

Blackout's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Blackout Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Blackout

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference