Outline Akme 1 is a light, wide, very high contrast, italic, normal x-height font.
Keywords: headlines, posters, comic titles, packaging, stickers, comic, retro, playful, dynamic, bold, 3d impact, playful display, hand-drawn feel, retro headline, inline, shadowed, skewed, chunky, angular.
A slanted, outline-driven display face built from chunky, irregular polygonal letterforms. The contours are open and airy, with a consistent inline/outline treatment that leaves the interiors largely unfilled, while a hard-edged drop shadow adds depth and a pseudo-3D effect. Strokes show faceted corners and occasional tapered joins rather than smooth curves, creating a hand-drawn, cut-paper rhythm. Spacing is generally generous and the character widths vary noticeably, reinforcing an informal, animated texture in words and lines of text.
Best suited to short display settings where the outline-plus-shadow effect can read clearly: headlines, posters, comic or game titles, packaging callouts, and promotional graphics. It works especially well when you want a lightweight fill with a bold, dimensional silhouette, and when set with ample size and breathing room.
The overall tone is lively and comic-book adjacent, with a retro poster sensibility. Its skew, shadow, and jagged geometry feel energetic and a bit mischievous, suggesting motion and punchy emphasis rather than quiet readability.
The design appears intended to deliver an impactful, dimensional display look using outline contours and a pronounced drop shadow, while keeping the letterforms playful and imperfect. The slanted stance and varied widths emphasize motion and personality over typographic neutrality.
The outline and shadow combination creates strong figure/ground contrast even without filled strokes, but the multiple layers of contour and projection can visually crowd at smaller sizes. Numerals match the same faceted construction and shadow logic, keeping a consistent, signage-like presence.