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Bombardier

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

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Displayby 6Atba80% Accessible
Characters712
Glyphs854
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Bombardier

01

Best Font Pairings for Bombardier

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Bombardier, including combinations with Binggrae, Azeret and Cantora One.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Bombardier
02

Test Bombardier Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Bombardier 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

Bombardier Specimen Gallery

UI ComponentsPosterWordmark
Bombardier
ProductsSolutionsResourcesPricing

Bombardier Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

Active2 weights available
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Bombardier Specimen

Bombardier

Bombardier is a display typeface by 6Atba built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Bombardier
Bombardier
BOMBARDIER
BOMBARDIERTYPE
B

Tagline Pairings

Bombardier— display typeface
BombardierBy 6Atba
BombardierTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Bombardier Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Bombardier Used As Heading Examples

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

Bombardier for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Bombardier 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.

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

Quick Start

Using Bombardier in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Bombardier CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Bombardier: A Closer Look

6Atba
Display
Open Source

Bombardier font is a bold display typeface with block construction, Cyrillic support, industrial character, and sharp details designed for powerful, aircraft-themed multilingual applications. The substantial weight and military-industrial styling create commanding, intense typography. This sharp industrial bold Cyrillic block display typeface proves valuable in aerospace Eastern European branding, bold military advertising, sharp industrial multilingual signage, and applications requiring bold sharp industrial character with Slavic support. The aircraft manufacturer name establishes aviation context. Bombardier serves designers creating powerful aerospace multilingual experiences. Pair with clean industrial supporting fonts.

Bombardier was designed by 6Atba. 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, Bombardier 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.

Bombardier 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.

Bombardier

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Bombardier

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Bombardier 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: 80). Bombardier performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by 6Atba. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Bombardier

Bombardier falls within the Graphic typeface, drawn from 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 Bombardier in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Bombardier
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Accessibility & Usability

80
Accessibility Score
Excellent Accessibility

Bombardier: Accessibility Considerations

Bombardier 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.

Bombardier Legibility Characteristics

Bombardier 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.

Bombardier'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.

Eye Strain Considerations for Bombardier

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

Bombardier Accessibility Recommendations

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

Bombardier 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 Bombardier. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Bombardier in WOFF2 format with its extended character set to ensure consistent rendering across global audiences.

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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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400
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600
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800
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900

Internationalization

Bombardier 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 376 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

Bombardier License Information

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.

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