Chicle

Try Chicle

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Chicle Regular

About Chicle

Chicle is a display typeface of thick, narrow letters with rounded ends and small curled terminals. The strokes swell and pinch as if cut from something soft, capitals such as C, E and G carry short spurs, and the lowercase leans and bounces a little, which keeps a word lively even when it is packed tight. The official notes say Koziupa and Paul made it as a playful break from their script and packaging work, with letters meant to survive the stretching and distortion that candy, cereal and toy packaging artwork goes through. The name is Spanish for bubble gum. Chicle has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 236 glyphs cover the basic Latin set. The name table credits Angel Koziupa and Alejandro Paul, the official page lists Sudtipos, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Chicle works

Sweets, cereal and toy packaging

The face was drawn for this job: dense dark letters that stay legible when artwork is stretched or curved.

Children's party and event graphics

Bouncing lowercase and curled terminals set a light-hearted tone for invitations and banners.

Titles in tight spaces

The condensed width fits a long product or show name across a narrow panel.

Stickers and badges

Thick strokes with rounded ends hold up when outlined, shadowed or printed small on a sticker.

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 Chicle

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Chicle has a single Regular file, already heavy, with no italic or lighter weight.

Basic Latin only

The font has 236 glyphs; Latin Extended is not covered, so languages such as Polish, Czech and Turkish are incomplete.

A display face

Tight spacing and heavy strokes make Chicle a face for a few words, not for paragraphs.

FAQs

Collections with Chicle

• Fonts for packaging and product labels

  Brush scripts, soft serifs and sturdy display faces for jars, boxes, bottles and tags, where a name has to work on a small curved surface.

Similar fonts

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