Megapolis Black

Name: Megapolis Black
Author: Andriy Dykun

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

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Displayby Andriy Dykun71% Accessible

Characters712

Glyphs854

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TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Megapolis Black, including combinations with 42Sans, Commissioner and Werkzeug.

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Megapolis Black Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Megapolis Black Specimen

Megapolis Black

Megapolis Black is a display typeface by Andriy Dykun built for display contexts.

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Megapolis Black

MEGAPOLIS BLACK

MEGAPOLIS BLACKTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Megapolis Black— display typeface

Megapolis BlackBy Andriy Dykun

Megapolis BlackTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Megapolis Black 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 Megapolis Black

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

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

When setting Megapolis Black 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Megapolis Black'; }

Quick Start

Megapolis Black Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Megapolis Black in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Megapolis Black: History & Characteristics

Andriy Dykun

Display

Open Source

Megapolis Black font is a display typeface expressing retro vintage character through heavy construction with extended Cyrillic support for urban nostalgic aesthetics. The commanding letterforms project metropolitan heritage suitable for city branding, urban development communications, and Eastern European design projects. Vintage details provide period authenticity while Cyrillic support enables cross-cultural applications. Effective for urban revival, transit systems, and metropolitan identity.

Megapolis Black was crafted by Andriy Dykun. 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, Megapolis Black 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.

Megapolis Black 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.

Megapolis Black

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Megapolis Black

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

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Megapolis Black 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: 71). Megapolis Black performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

Design Heritage

Designed by Andriy Dykun. 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 Megapolis Black

Megapolis Black embodies the 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 Megapolis Black in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Megapolis Black

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Megapolis Black 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

Megapolis Black Accessibility Profile

Megapolis Black 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.

Megapolis Black Legibility Characteristics

Megapolis Black 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.

Readability Profile: Megapolis Black

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 Megapolis Black

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

Megapolis Black Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from Megapolis Black

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

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Download Weights & Variants

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Supported Scripts & Languages

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 283 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

Megapolis Black 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.

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

Megapolis Black

Best Ways to Use Megapolis Black

Best Font Pairings for Megapolis Black

Test Megapolis Black Font Pairings Live

In Context

Megapolis Black Typography

Megapolis Black

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Megapolis Black

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

Megapolis Black Accessibility Profile

Megapolis Black Legibility Characteristics

Readability Profile: Megapolis Black

Eye Strain Considerations for Megapolis Black

Megapolis Black Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Megapolis Black

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Megapolis Black

Best Ways to Use Megapolis Black

Best Font Pairings for Megapolis Black

Test Megapolis Black Font Pairings Live

In Context

Megapolis Black Typography

Megapolis Black

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Megapolis Black

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

Megapolis Black Accessibility Profile

Megapolis Black Legibility Characteristics

Readability Profile: Megapolis Black

Eye Strain Considerations for Megapolis Black

Megapolis Black Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Megapolis Black

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference