Empire

Name: Empire
Author: Peter Silk

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

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Displayby Peter Silk74% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Empire

Best Font Pairings for Empire

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Empire, including combinations with Grotesk Nouveau, Marti and Raveo.

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 Empire 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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Empire Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Empire Specimen

Empire

Empire is a display typeface by Peter Silk built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

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Empire

EMPIRE

EMPIRETYPE

Tagline Pairings

Empire— display typeface

EmpireBy Peter Silk

EmpireTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Empire 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 Empire

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

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

When setting Empire 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.

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

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Empire in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Empire CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Inside Empire

Peter Silk

Display

Open Source

Empire Typeface font is a display face projecting bold chunky presence through grotesque strong construction for imperial authority aesthetics. The massive letterforms project empire authority suitable for powerful branding, empire themes, and design projects celebrating empire typography. Bold chunky grotesque forms create substantial presence while imperial influence adds authoritative character. Effective for powerful brands, empire themes, and authority communications.

Empire was crafted by Peter Silk. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Empire features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers.

Empire is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Empire

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Empire

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

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Empire 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: 74). Empire performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

Design Heritage

Designed by Peter Silk. 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 Empire

Empire embodies the Graphic typeface, grounded 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 editorial magazine covers and chapter openers. TypeSmith indexes Empire in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Empire

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Empire 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

Empire Accessibility Profile

Empire 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.

Empire's Legibility

Empire 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 Empire?

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.

Empire: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Empire Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Empire Effectively

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 Empire. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Empire 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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700

800

900

Internationalization

Empire 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 67 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.

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

Empire

Best Ways to Use Empire

Best Font Pairings for Empire

Test Empire Font Pairings Live

In Context

Empire Typography

Empire

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Empire

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

Empire Accessibility Profile

Empire's Legibility

How Readable is Empire?

Empire: Comfort in Extended Reading

Empire Accessibility Recommendations

How to Use Empire Effectively

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Empire

Best Ways to Use Empire

Best Font Pairings for Empire

Test Empire Font Pairings Live

In Context

Empire Typography

Empire

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Empire

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

Empire Accessibility Profile

Empire's Legibility

How Readable is Empire?

Empire: Comfort in Extended Reading

Empire Accessibility Recommendations

How to Use Empire Effectively

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference