Freckle Face

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Freckle Face Regular

About Freckle Face

Freckle Face is a display typeface with heavy, uneven letters. In the specimen no edge is straight: outlines ripple and bulge, corners are blunt, stems change width along their length, and letters sit at slightly different heights and angles. Counters are small, and the lowercase is large against the capitals. The designer, Brian J. Bonislawsky, says the idea came from the lettering on drink-mix packages he liked as a child. The family is one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 368 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended sets, with letters for languages such as Turkish, Polish, Czech and Hungarian. The catalogue credits Astigmatic, the foundry name that also appears in the font's name table and copyright notice. Freckle Face is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Freckle Face works

Children's book and game titles

Bouncing, lumpy letters read as hand-made and informal on a cover or title screen.

Snack and drink packaging

The design goes back to packet lettering, and its heavy shapes hold a flavour name on a small panel.

Party invitations and classroom posters

A short heading in rough-cut letters sets a light tone above plainer details.

Halloween and monster themes

Rippled outlines suit dripping or shaky lettering for seasonal graphics.

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
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. 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 Freckle Face

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Freckle Face has a single Regular style with no italic or lighter cut.

Small counters

The openings inside a, e and g are small in the specimen and close up further when the type is set small.

Romanian is incomplete

Latin Extended is covered, but the comma-accented ț used in Romanian is missing.

FAQs

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