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Melma

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

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Displayby Rafa Miguel74% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Melma

01

Best Font Pairings for Melma

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Melma, including combinations with Gropled, Grandstander and Zt Chintzy.

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

Explore 4 Pairings for Melma
02

Test Melma Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Melma 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

Melma Specimen Gallery

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Melma Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Melma Specimen

Melma

Melma is a display typeface by Rafa Miguel built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Melma
Melma
MELMA
MELMATYPE
M

Tagline Pairings

Melma— display typeface
MelmaBy Rafa Miguel
MelmaTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Melma Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Display Sizes for Melma

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

Reading Text in Melma

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

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

When setting Melma 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.

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

Quick Start

Using Melma in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Melma: History & Characteristics

Rafa Miguel
Display
Open Source

Melma Typeface font is a display family featuring retro rough construction with vintage character for distressed nostalgic aesthetics. The textured letterforms project vintage authenticity suitable for heritage branding, distressed applications, and design projects celebrating melma typography. Family structure enables comprehensive hierarchy while rough vintage forms add nostalgic character. Effective for vintage products, retro branding, and nostalgic communications.

Melma comes from the work of Rafa Miguel. 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, Melma 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.

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

Melma

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Melma

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Melma 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: 74). Melma maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Rafa Miguel. 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 Melma

Melma 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 catalogs Melma in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Melma
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Accessibility & Usability

74
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Melma Accessibility Profile

Melma 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.

How Legible is Melma?

Melma 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.

Melma in Context: 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.

Melma for Long-Form Content

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

Melma Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Melma: 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 Melma. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Melma in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

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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

Melma 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 94 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Melma 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.

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