Handlee

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Handlee Regular

About Handlee

Handlee is a handwriting typeface drawn with a line of even thickness and rounded ends, like a felt-tip pen. The letters are separate, lean slightly forward and do not line up exactly: each glyph is placed a little differently against the baseline, and ascenders and descenders differ in length. According to the official description, the design follows the handwriting of Joe Prince loosely, overlaps between letters were removed so that the face survives small sizes, and the diacritics were drawn slightly large and positioned by hand, one by one, instead of being generated. The family consists of one Regular style, with no bold or italic. Its 204 glyphs cover the basic Latin character set, enough for English and for Western European languages such as French, German, Spanish and Portuguese. Handlee is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Handlee works

Notes and callouts

Monoline strokes without overlaps stay clear when a comment or margin note is set small beside other text.

Personal blogs and recipe pages

Uneven baselines and varied ascenders give headings and short intros the look of a note written by hand.

Greeting cards and invitations to informal events

A few lines in Handlee read like a message written with a pen.

Captions on photos and social posts

Separate, rounded letters remain readable over an image at caption size.

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
• Catalan

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 Handlee

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Handlee has a single Regular style. There is no bold or italic, and it is not a variable font.

Basic Latin only

The 204 glyphs cover the basic Latin character set. Latin Extended is not part of the font.

Letters do not join

Handlee is print-style handwriting: the letters stand apart instead of connecting as in a script.

FAQs

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