ABeeZee

Try ABeeZee

Weights and styles

• Regular 400ABeeZee Regular Italic

About ABeeZee

ABeeZee is a sans serif typeface designed as a learning font for children. Its letters are built from open, simple shapes: the a and the g are single-storey, the bowls are round, and strokes keep an almost even thickness, so each letter stays close to the form a child is taught to write. The family has two styles, Regular and Italic, both at weight 400. According to the official description, the italic is meant to recall the movement of fluent handwriting. The fonts contain 266 glyphs in the Latin subset, with complete letter sets for English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and the Nordic languages. Anja Meiners is credited as the designer, and the copyright notice reserves the font name ABeeZee. ABeeZee was added to Google Fonts in 2012 and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where ABeeZee works

Early-reading books and worksheets

Single-storey a and g match the letter shapes taught in handwriting lessons, so printed words look like the ones a child writes.

Handwriting practice sheets

The italic was drawn to suggest fluent writing movement, which makes it a model line above ruled practice rows.

Classroom labels and charts

Open bowls and even strokes keep single words on name tags, alphabet charts and drawer labels easy to pick out.

Apps and sites for young readers

Two small font files, Regular and Italic, are enough for short instructions and story text in a children's product.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

Character sets found in the files: latin. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with ABeeZee

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use ABeeZee on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "ABeeZee";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ABeeZee-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "ABeeZee";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ABeeZee-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "ABeeZee", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves ABeeZee with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=ABeeZee:ital,wght@0,400;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One weight only

ABeeZee has Regular 400 and its italic. There is no bold, so emphasis has to come from the italic, size or colour.

Language coverage is narrow

Turkish, Polish and Czech are not among the languages whose letters are complete in the 266-glyph set. French is covered except for the rarely used capital Ÿ.

Reserved font name

The copyright notice declares ABeeZee a Reserved Font Name: a modified version needs a different name unless permission is given.

FAQs

Collections with ABeeZee

• Fonts for children and early readers

  Schoolbook sans-serifs, print handwriting and rounded display faces for worksheets, picture books and classroom materials.

• Fonts designed for legibility and accessible reading

  Families whose makers set out to make letters easier to tell apart: for low vision, beginning and struggling readers, and safety-critical displays.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts