Lethal Weapon

Name: Lethal Weapon
Author: Siim Tikk

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

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Displayby Siim Tikk42% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Lethal Weapon, including combinations with Nevermind Semi Serif, Vtf Lack and Resultat.

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Lethal Weapon Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Lethal Weapon Specimen

Lethal Weapon

Lethal Weapon is a display typeface by Siim Tikk built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Lethal Weapon

LETHAL WEAPON

LETHAL WEAPONTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Lethal Weapon— display typeface

Lethal WeaponBy Siim Tikk

Lethal WeaponTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Lethal Weapon Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Body Text with Lethal Weapon

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

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

When setting Lethal Weapon 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Lethal Weapon'; }

Quick Start

Adding Lethal Weapon to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Lethal Weapon

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Lethal Weapon: History & Characteristics

Siim Tikk

Display

Open Source

Lethal Weapon font is a bold display typeface featuring geometric heavy retro stencil letterforms. Dangerous and 80s, this design delivers action movie aesthetics for action entertainment, weapon products, and retro action marketing. The heavy stencil construction creates dangerous retro presence. Designers working on action entertainment, weapon products, and 80s action branding will appreciate the lethal character. Pair with utilitarian body text.

Lethal Weapon comes from the work of Siim Tikk. 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, Lethal Weapon 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.

Lethal Weapon is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Lethal Weapon

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Lethal Weapon

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

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Lethal Weapon 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: 42). Lethal Weapon may present readability challenges at smaller sizes — consider pairing with a more accessible font for body text.

Design Heritage

Designed by Siim Tikk. 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 Lethal Weapon

Lethal Weapon represents a Graphic typeface, anchored 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 features Lethal Weapon in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

4 curated pairings for Lethal Weapon

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Alternatives to Lethal Weapon

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Lethal Weapon 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

Using Lethal Weapon Accessibly

Lethal Weapon has limited accessibility at small sizes due to reduced character differentiation, so reserve it for headlines and display contexts. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Lethal Weapon's Legibility

Lethal Weapon 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.

Lethal Weapon Reading Performance

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.

Lethal Weapon for Long-Form Content

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

Lethal Weapon Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Lethal Weapon: Best Practices

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

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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 99 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Usage Rights for Lethal Weapon

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.

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

Lethal Weapon

Best Ways to Use Lethal Weapon

Best Font Pairings for Lethal Weapon

Test Lethal Weapon Font Pairings Live

In Context

Lethal Weapon Typography

Lethal Weapon

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Lethal Weapon

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

Using Lethal Weapon Accessibly

Lethal Weapon's Legibility

Lethal Weapon Reading Performance

Lethal Weapon for Long-Form Content

Lethal Weapon Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Lethal Weapon: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Lethal Weapon

Best Ways to Use Lethal Weapon

Best Font Pairings for Lethal Weapon

Test Lethal Weapon Font Pairings Live

In Context

Lethal Weapon Typography

Lethal Weapon

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Lethal Weapon

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

Using Lethal Weapon Accessibly

Lethal Weapon's Legibility

Lethal Weapon Reading Performance

Lethal Weapon for Long-Form Content

Lethal Weapon Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Lethal Weapon: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference