Calligraffitti

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Calligraffitti Regular

About Calligraffitti

Calligraffitti is a handwriting typeface that records a trained calligrapher writing quickly. The official notes credit the letters to the designer's mother and her years of formal practice, captured here in an impromptu version of her alphabet. In the specimen the pen line is thin and nearly even, the letters slant like an italic hand and mostly stand unjoined, and the capitals add flourishes: a looped A, a G, J and Y that drop far below the line, and long finishing strokes on Z and z. Double f swings into deep paired descenders. The family is a single Regular style with 228 glyphs in the basic Latin subset, and it is not a variable font. The designer field names Open Window; the font's name table names Dathan Boardman. Calligraffitti is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

Where Calligraffitti works

Greeting cards and thank-you notes

A slanted, unjoined pen hand sets a short message that looks written by someone with practised handwriting.

Quote graphics

Flourished capitals and deep descenders give a one-line quotation movement at large size.

Place cards and informal invitations

Names set in mixed case show off the looped A and the long-tailed G, J and Y.

Journal and recipe headings

A thin line and italic slant mark section titles as handwritten next to typeset text.

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
• Estonian

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 Calligraffitti

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 Calligraffitti 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: "Calligraffitti";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Calligraffitti-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Calligraffitti", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Calligraffitti 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=Calligraffitti&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Deep descenders

Letters such as f, g, j and y reach far below the baseline in the specimen, so lines need generous spacing.

One thin weight

Calligraffitti has only Regular 400, and its stroke is light.

Apache license, not OFL

Unlike most families on this site, Calligraffitti is under the Apache License 2.0, which has its own notice requirements.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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