Inky ClipsAtkinson Hyperlegible Bold font
Atkinson Hyperlegible was created by the Braille Institute of America for readers with low vision. Letters that are easily confused in other fonts, such as capital I, lowercase l and the number 1, or O and 0, are given clearly different shapes.
- Type
- Outline font
- Style
- Subtitles
- Characters
- 342 in the file
- Licence
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Download
- AtkinsonHyperlegible-Bold.ttf
About Atkinson Hyperlegible Bold
What it looks like
That makes the bold weight a strong choice for accessible captions. It is an outline font: Inky Clips draws the outline, then fills it in.
On video
Use it for captions on educational, how-to and interview videos where people need to follow every word, and for viewers who watch with the sound off.
For plotters, engraving and cutting machines
Not a single-line font, so a pen plotter will draw its outlines. For signage, labels and laser-cut lettering that must be read from a distance it is one of the clearest free options.
Every character in Atkinson Hyperlegible Bold
Shown in the font itself. Inky Clips traces each letter's outline and then fills it in.
Capitals (26)
- AA
- BB
- CC
- DD
- EE
- FF
- GG
- HH
- II
- JJ
- KK
- LL
- MM
- NN
- OO
- PP
- RR
- SS
- TT
- UU
- VV
- WW
- XX
- YY
- ZZ
Lowercase (26)
- aa
- bb
- cc
- dd
- ee
- ff
- gg
- hh
- ii
- jj
- kk
- ll
- mm
- nn
- oo
- pp
- rr
- ss
- tt
- uu
- vv
- ww
- xx
- yy
- zz
Numbers (10)
- 00
- 11
- 22
- 33
- 44
- 55
- 66
- 77
- 88
- 99
Punctuation and symbols (32)
- !!
- ""
- ##
- $$
- %%
- &&
- ''
- ((
- ))
- **
- ++
- ,,
- --
- ..
- //
- ::
- ;;
- <<
- ==
- >>
- ??
- @@
- [[
- \\
- ]]
- ^^
- __
- ``
- {{
- ||
- }}
- ~~
Accented and special letters (70)
- ÄÄ
- ÆÆ
- ÇÇ
- ÓÓ
- ÖÖ
- ØØ
- ÜÜ
- ßß
- ää
- ææ
- çç
- óó
- öö
- øø
- üü
- ĀĀ
- āā
- ĄĄ
- ąą
- ĆĆ
- ćć
- ČČ
- čč
- ĐĐ
- đđ
- ĒĒ
- ēē
- ĖĖ
- ėė
- ĘĘ
- ęę
- ĞĞ
- ğğ
- ĢĢ
- ģģ
- ĦĦ
- ħħ
- ĪĪ
- īī
- ĮĮ
- įį
- ıı
- ĶĶ
- ķķ
- ĻĻ
- ļļ
- ŁŁ
- łł
- ŃŃ
- ńń
- ŅŅ
- ņņ
- ŒŒ
- œœ
- ŚŚ
- śś
- ŞŞ
- şş
- ŠŠ
- šš
- ŪŪ
- ūū
- ŲŲ
- ųų
- ŹŹ
- źź
- ŻŻ
- żż
- ŽŽ
- žž
Write with Atkinson Hyperlegible Bold
Type your own words and watch them write themselves over a clip. Switch fonts and ink colours to compare.
The clip shows “Turn the sound on” written in Atkinson.
Ink: White
Letters for other languages
- Latvian: all its letters are in the font file.
- Lithuanian: all its letters are in the font file.
- Polish: all its letters are in the font file.
- Turkish: missing İ.
- German: all its letters are in the font file.
Where it comes from
Atkinson Hyperlegible was released by the Braille Institute of America in 2020, named after its founder, J. Robert Atkinson.
Licence and download
Atkinson Hyperlegible Bold is free under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Free to use, embed and share, including in commercial videos, products and plotted or engraved work. You can't sell the font file on its own, and changed versions have to stay under the same licence.
Copyright 2020 Braille Institute of America, Inc. (https://github.com/googlefonts/atkinson-hyperlegible)
A TrueType font. Install it like any other font to use it in design apps and cutting machine software.
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