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PAIRING ID: BAN-ACM // ETHOS: DISPLAY + SANS-SERIF

Balancing Bangers with Acme

Anchor the expressive personality of Bangers with the utilitarian clarity of Acme.

Display Face

Bangers

Weight: 700

Body Face

Acme

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Bangers brings comic, loud, impactful energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Acme absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its grotesque, rhythm, display texture and dependable rhythm. Together they create a typography stack that scales from high-impact landing pages to dense documentation without retooling your CSS tokens.

Typographic Hierarchy & Scale

H1The Quick Fox
H2The Quick Fox
H3The Quick Fox
PThe quick brown fox jumps over...
Dark Context
Aa

High contrast negative space.

Accent
Gg

Legibility on high-chroma.

Pairing Strategy

Balancing Bangers with Acme

Anchor the expressive personality of Bangers with the utilitarian clarity of Acme.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Bangers brings comic, loud, impactful energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Acme absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its grotesque, rhythm, display texture and dependable rhythm. Together they create a typography stack that scales from high-impact landing pages to dense documentation without retooling your CSS tokens.

Bangers thrives as a headline face thanks to its comic, loud, impactful qualities. Use weights 400–600 for crisp editorial lockups.
Acme excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its grotesque, rhythm, display traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.4 modular scale and reserve Bangers for H1–H3 while Acme powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

  • High-growth SaaS landing pages that require comic hero statements with trustworthy product copy.
  • Editorial magazines and thought-leadership hubs where Bangers can dramatize pull quotes while Acme keeps 1,500-word essays skimmable.
  • Conversion funnels or onboarding flows that need Acme's grotesque voice to balance Bangers's attention-grabbing display.

Accessibility Notes

Maintain a minimum 4.5:1 contrast ratio for Acme body copy and loosen letter-spacing to 0.01em for uppercase Bangers moments. Pairing different categories demands disciplined color pairing—test both light and dark themes to ensure Acme does not bloom at small sizes.

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Bangers', display;
  --tm-body-family: 'Acme', sans-serif;
  --tm-header-weight: 400;
  --tm-body-weight: 400;
  --tm-header-tracking: -0.04em;
  --tm-body-tracking: 0em;
}
Heading scale: clamp(2.75rem, 4.5vw, 5.25rem) for H1, clamp(1.5rem, 2.8vw, 3rem) for H2, and keep paragraph size at 1rem–1.125rem with 1.6 line-height.
Component guidance: Buttons inherit Bangers at 400 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Acme with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Bangers make sense as the lead font?

Bangers owns the emotional register of this system. Its comic, loud, impactful profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Acme show up?

Acme is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its grotesque, rhythm, display qualities reduce fatigue on dense layouts.

Does this pairing support complex localization?

Yes—both families are available on Google Fonts with generous glyph coverage. Test cyrillic/latin accents early, but most Latin-based locales and UI patterns are fully supported.