Metal

Name: Metal
Author: Rian Hughes

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

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Displayby Rian Hughes45% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Metal

Best Font Pairings for Metal

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Metal, including combinations with Arimo, Merriweather and Libre Baskerville.

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 Metal 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

Metal Specimen Gallery

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Metal Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Metal Specimen

Metal

Metal is a display typeface by Rian Hughes built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Metal

METAL

METALTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Metal— display typeface

MetalBy Rian Hughes

MetalTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Metal Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Metal Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Metal 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.

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

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Metal in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Metal';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Metal');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Styling with Metal

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Metal's Details

Rian Hughes

Display

Open Source

Metal offers unique character and creative expression, making it well-suited for brand identities. Its unique personality and artistic expression contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for posters and brand identities, Metal adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes This font supports English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian,....

Metal was created by Rian Hughes. 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, Metal features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for brand logotypes and wordmarks.

Metal is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated.

Metal

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Metal

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

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Metal 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: 45). Metal may present readability challenges at smaller sizes — consider pairing with a more accessible font for body text.

Design Heritage

Designed by Rian Hughes. 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 Metal

Metal is classified as a Graphic typeface, rooted 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 brand logotypes and wordmarks. TypeSmith features Metal in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Metal

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Related Fonts: Metal

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Metal 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 Metal Accessibly

Metal 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.

Legibility Analysis: Metal

Metal 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: Metal

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.

Metal for Long-Form Content

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

Metal Accessibility Recommendations

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

Best Practices for Using Metal

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

Get the Font

Download Metal

Available on Google Fonts

4 weights available for download

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Available Weights

400

Regular

400

Regular Italic

700

Bold

700

Bold Italic

Weight Reference

100

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400

500

600

700

800

900

Internationalization

Metal 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 supports English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, and Russian languages.

Legal

License Type

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.

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

Metal

Best Ways to Use Metal

Best Font Pairings for Metal

Test Metal Font Pairings Live

In Context

Metal Typography

Metal

Character Set

Type Scale

Metal Used As Body Text

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 Metal Accessibly

Legibility Analysis: Metal

Readability Profile: Metal

Metal for Long-Form Content

Metal Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Metal

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Metal

Best Ways to Use Metal

Best Font Pairings for Metal

Test Metal Font Pairings Live

In Context

Metal Typography

Metal

Character Set

Type Scale

Metal Used As Body Text

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 Metal Accessibly

Legibility Analysis: Metal

Readability Profile: Metal

Metal for Long-Form Content

Metal Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Metal

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference