Nuclear

Name: Nuclear
Author: Archie Griffiths

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

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Displayby Archie Griffiths70% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Nuclear, including combinations with Ebbe, Libertinage and Paperlogy.

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Nuclear with any font combination in real-time, optimized for display characteristics.

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Nuclear Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Nuclear Specimen

Nuclear

Nuclear is a display typeface by Archie Griffiths built for display contexts.

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NUCLEAR

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Nuclear— display typeface

NuclearBy Archie Griffiths

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UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Nuclear Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Copy

Body Text with Nuclear

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

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

When setting Nuclear 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Using Nuclear in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Nuclear in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Inside Nuclear

Archie Griffiths

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Open Source

Nuclear font is a futuristic display typeface featuring grunge-influenced wide Y2K-era letterforms. Edgy and nostalgic, this modern design delivers turn-of-millennium aesthetics for gaming brands, electronic music, and projects celebrating early internet visual culture. The wide proportions and distressed textures capture genuine Y2K energy that clean contemporary typography cannot replicate. Designers working on retro gaming, rave culture revivals, and nostalgic tech products will find the period-appropriate character resonates with millennial audiences. Pair with technical body text.

Nuclear comes from the work of Archie Griffiths. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Nuclear features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for hero headlines and landing page headers.

Nuclear 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.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Nuclear

This analysis helps designers understand Nuclear's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

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Best Ways to Use Nuclear

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In Context

Nuclear Typography

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Character Set

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Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

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Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

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