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Wicked Grit

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

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Displayby Aj Paglia57% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Wicked Grit

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Best Font Pairings for Wicked Grit

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Wicked Grit, including combinations with Renesans, Inria Sans and Ngosngos Sans.

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

Explore 4 Pairings for Wicked Grit
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Test Wicked Grit Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Wicked Grit 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

Wicked Grit Specimen Gallery

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Wicked Grit Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Wicked Grit Specimen

Wicked Grit

Wicked Grit is a display typeface by Aj Paglia built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Wicked Grit
Wicked Grit
WICKED GRIT
WICKED GRITTYPE
W

Tagline Pairings

Wicked Grit— display typeface
Wicked GritBy Aj Paglia
Wicked GritTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Wicked Grit Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Wicked Grit Used As Heading Examples

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

Reading Text in Wicked Grit

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

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

When setting Wicked Grit 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.

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

Quick Start

Integrating Wicked Grit

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Wicked Grit's Details

Aj Paglia
Display
Open Source

Wicked Grit font is a display typeface projecting bold rough presence through vintage textured construction for evil grunge aesthetics. The commanding letterforms project dark determination suitable for rock music branding, alternative entertainment, and design projects celebrating rough vintage typography. Bold rough forms create weathered authority while wicked influence adds menacing character. Effective for metal music, dark entertainment, and alternative culture.

Wicked Grit was designed by Aj Paglia. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Wicked Grit features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for event posters and promotional materials.

Wicked Grit 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.

Wicked Grit

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Wicked Grit

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Wicked Grit 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: 57). Wicked Grit handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Aj Paglia. The designer's attention to character shaping and weight distribution produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Wicked Grit

Wicked Grit falls within the Graphic typeface, drawn from 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 event posters and promotional materials. TypeSmith features Wicked Grit in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Wicked Grit
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Accessibility & Usability

57
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Wicked Grit

Wicked Grit falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Wicked Grit Legibility Characteristics

Wicked Grit 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: Wicked Grit

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.

Wicked Grit for Long-Form Content

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

Wicked Grit Accessibility Recommendations

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

Wicked Grit Usage Guidelines

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 Wicked Grit. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Wicked Grit 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

Wicked Grit 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 144 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

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.

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