Finger Paint

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Finger Paint Regular

About Finger Paint

Finger Paint is a display typeface that began, according to its maker, as an experiment with artistic brush effects before it turned into a complete font. The effect is drawn into the outlines: fine light streaks run along the inside of the heavy strokes, and stroke ends break into uneven bristle marks. Letter shapes are simple, upright and rounded, like a child's careful printing, with a single-storey g and a lowercase z written with a curled tail. Sizes and angles vary a little from letter to letter, and the dots on i and j are short dabs. The family is one Regular style with 263 glyphs and is not a variable font. It covers the basic Latin subset. Ralph du Carrois is named as designer, and the family is credited to Carrois Apostrophe.

Where Finger Paint works

Children's books and games

Rounded, printed-by-hand letters with paint texture match illustrated covers and activity pages.

School and nursery notices

A heading that looks finger-painted signals an informal event such as a fair or art day.

Art class and craft branding

The brush streaks inside each stroke show the medium the name refers to.

Party invitations

Short lines at large size keep the streak detail visible in print.

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 Finger Paint

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

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

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

Things to know

Texture is part of the outline

The streaks are cut into the letter shapes. They show at large sizes and disappear when the type is small.

One style

Finger Paint is Regular 400 only.

French lacks one rare letter

The accents for French are present except for the rare capital Ÿ. The Latin Extended set is not included.

FAQs

Collections with Finger Paint

• Brush and marker fonts

  Dry-brush scripts, paint-streaked capitals and felt-marker lettering with visible texture, for energetic headings and handmade branding.

Similar fonts

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