Blade43

Name: Blade43
Author: Frongile

Blade43 commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Frongile70% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Best Font Pairings for Blade43

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Blade43, including combinations with Eymen Pro, Coelacanth and Anticyclone.

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

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Blade43 Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Blade43 Specimen

Blade43

Blade43 is a display typeface by Frongile built for display contexts.

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BLADE43

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Blade43— display typeface

Blade43By Frongile

Blade43TYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Blade43 Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in Blade43

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Blade43, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Blade43 demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Blade43 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.

Blade43 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	Blade43 delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Blade43 italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Blade43 bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Blade43 typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Blade43 typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Blade43'; }

Quick Start

Adding Blade43 to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Blade43:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Blade43:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Blade43';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Blade43: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: 'Blade43', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Blade43', 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        'blade43': ['Blade43', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-blade43">Your text here</p>

About

Blade43's Details

Frongile

Display

Open Source

Blade43 font is a bold display typeface with sharp details and strong character designed for cutting-edge, powerful applications. The angular precision and substantial weight create commanding, aggressive typography. This sharp bold display typeface proves valuable for gaming brand identities, action entertainment titles, extreme sports branding, and applications requiring edgy power. The sharp details suggest precision and danger. Blade43 serves designers working with gaming companies, action brands, and intense entertainment. Pair with clean technical fonts for contrast.

Blade43 was created by Frongile. 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, Blade43 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.

Blade43 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.

Blade43

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Blade43

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Blade43's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Blade43 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: 70). Blade43 performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

Design Heritage

Designed by Frongile. 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 Blade43

Blade43 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 Blade43 in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Blade43

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Related Fonts: Blade43

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Blade43 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 Blade43

Blade43 achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Blade43 Legibility Characteristics

Blade43 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.

How Readable is Blade43?

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.

Blade43: Comfort in Extended Reading

Blade43 provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Blade43 Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Blade43. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Blade43 at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Blade43 Usage Guidelines

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 Blade43. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Blade43 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

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400

500

600

700

800

900

Internationalization

International Character 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 67 glyphs covering Latin. 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.

Blade43 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 Blade43 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 'blade43': ['Blade43', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-blade43">Your text here</p>

Blade43

Best Ways to Use Blade43

Best Font Pairings for Blade43

Test Blade43 Font Pairings Live

In Context

Blade43 Typography

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Character Set

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Reading Text in Blade43

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 Blade43

Blade43 Legibility Characteristics

How Readable is Blade43?

Blade43: Comfort in Extended Reading

Blade43 Accessibility Recommendations

Blade43 Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Blade43

Best Ways to Use Blade43

Best Font Pairings for Blade43

Test Blade43 Font Pairings Live

In Context

Blade43 Typography

Blade43

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Blade43

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 Blade43

Blade43 Legibility Characteristics

How Readable is Blade43?

Blade43: Comfort in Extended Reading

Blade43 Accessibility Recommendations

Blade43 Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference