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Grape Nuts
An unjoined felt-pen handwriting face with a bouncing baseline, named after a breakfast cereal.
Grape Nuts is a casual handwriting typeface by Robert Leuschke, written in a monoline pen stroke with separate, slanted letters. Grape Nuts has one Regular style and 605 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits notes, captions, humorous copy and other informal text.
- Designer
- Robert Leuschke
- Classification
- Handwriting
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Styles
- 1 1 weight
- Variable font
- No
- Glyphs
- 605
- Languages checked
- 25 see the list
- Last updated
- version 1.010; ttfautohint (v1.8.3)
- Used for
- PackagingCasualSocial mediaKids
Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.
Try Grape Nuts
Sample text
Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Grape Nuts; the download contains the complete files.
Weights and styles
- Regular 400Grape Nuts Regular
About Grape Nuts
Grape Nuts is a handwriting typeface that looks like quick notes made with a felt-tip pen. The stroke has even thickness and rounded ends, letters lean to the right and stand apart instead of joining, and their sizes and positions vary slightly, which gives a line an uneven, bouncing rhythm. Capitals are plain printed forms; in the specimen the N has an exaggerated tall first stroke and the lowercase a, o and g are left slightly open. The official notes call it a simple casual font for informal or humorous use and explain that the name refers to a breakfast cereal that goes back to the late 1800s. There is one style, Regular, with 605 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Robert Leuschke is the designer.
Where Grape Nuts works
- Handwritten notes and annotations
- Separate letters in an even pen line look like margin notes or labels added by hand to a layout.
- Comic captions and jokes
- The uneven rhythm fits the humorous tone the official notes mention.
- Snack and craft packaging
- A short handwritten line on a label suggests something made in a kitchen instead of a factory.
- Classroom and children's materials
- Simple printed letterforms in an informal pen line suit worksheets, class notices and picture-book captions.
- Social media stories
- Captions set in a pen hand read as personal comments over a photo.
Glyphs
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢
Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 605 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
- Romanian
- Croatian
- Slovenian
- Lithuanian
- Latvian
- Estonian
- Vietnamese
Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2003 The Grape Nuts Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/grapenuts)
What the license allows
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.
Conditions
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.
This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.
Fonts that pair with Grape Nuts
Cormorant Unicase Serif
Grape Nuts is a handwriting face for headings; Cormorant Unicase is a serif family with 5 weights that can set the body text beside it.
Fredoka Sans Serif
Grape Nuts is a handwriting face for headings; Fredoka is a sans serif family with 5 weights that can set the body text beside it.
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 Grape Nuts 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.
CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
font-family: "Grape Nuts";
src: url("/assets/fonts/GrapeNuts-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: "Grape Nuts", cursive;
}Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Grape Nuts with this markup:
HTML, Google Fonts
<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=Grape+Nuts&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Things to know
- Letters do not join
- Grape Nuts is print-style handwriting. Each letter stands alone.
- One style
- Only Regular exists, with no bold, italic or variable version.
- Vietnamese included
- The 605 glyphs extend beyond Western and Central European Latin to Vietnamese.
FAQs
Is Grape Nuts free for commercial use?
Yes, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Grape Nuts may be used in personal and commercial projects, modified and passed on, but the font files cannot be sold on their own and a modified version must keep the same license.
Who designed Grape Nuts?
Grape Nuts was designed by Robert Leuschke, listed as Robert E. Leuschke in the font's name table.
Why is the font called Grape Nuts?
According to the official notes, Grape Nuts takes its name from a well-known breakfast cereal dating from the late 1800s.
How many weights does Grape Nuts have?
Grape Nuts has one weight, Regular 400.
Which languages does Grape Nuts support?
Grape Nuts includes the letters needed for English, French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Czech, Romanian, Vietnamese and other Latin-script languages.
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