Acme Gothic was designed by Mark Simonson of Mark Simonson Studio and is based on the thick-and-thin gothic lettering style popular in the U.S. in the first half of the twentieth century. Acme Gothic approaches the genre with a simple, workhorse, vernacular style and comes in five widths, each with five weights, for a total of 25 different styles. It has extensive language support and includes both small caps and raised small caps.