Happy Monkey

Try Happy Monkey

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Happy Monkey Regular

About Happy Monkey

Happy Monkey is a display sans serif drawn in a thin line of constant thickness with round caps on every stroke. The lowercase is large and built on wide circles, with a single-storey a and g, and a few letters carry small jokes: in the specimen the crossbar of the capital A pokes out on the left, the Q has a looping tail, the Y has a cupped, u-shaped top and the braces are wavy lines. The official notes call it suitable for informal headlines and fun typography. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. It holds 220 glyphs in the basic Latin subset. The catalogue credits Brenda Gallo, who also holds the copyright, and the official notes add Gustavo Dipre as co-designer. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Happy Monkey works

Informal headlines

Thin round letters give a light, cheerful title for blogs, newsletters and flyers.

Greeting cards and party invitations

The looping Q and overhanging A add small surprises to a short message set large.

Children's products

Single-storey a and g and wide round bowls match the simple letter shapes used in material for young readers.

Light labels on colour

The fine line stays open on bright backgrounds in badges, stickers and social 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
• 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 Happy Monkey

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

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

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

Things to know

One thin style

Happy Monkey has only Regular 400, and its strokes are light; there is no bold.

Basic Latin subset

The font lists just the Latin subset, with 220 glyphs.

Credits differ

The catalogue names Brenda Gallo alone, while the official notes also mention Gustavo Dipre.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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