Henny Penny

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Henny Penny Regular

About Henny Penny

Henny Penny is a display typeface built on classical serif letters that have been deliberately knocked out of line. As its official notes explain, the letters have no shared baseline, no shared size and no shared slope, and the specimen bears this out: neighbouring characters lean in different directions, some sit high and others drop, and the figures tumble along the row. Strokes swing from hairline to heavy, and the y, j, J and Q finish in curled tails. The name honours the chicken from the fairy tale. The notes call it a headline face for large sizes and mention children's books, magazines and websites. There is one Regular style with 232 glyphs in the basic Latin subset. The font was designed by Olga Umpeleva for Brownfox and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 with the Reserved Font Name Henny Penny.

Where Henny Penny works

Children's book titles

Letters that jump and tilt match the tone of a picture-book cover or a chapter heading in a story.

Party and event invitations

A name or date set large picks up the curled tails of y and j for birthday and fairground themes.

Magazine feature headings

One short, irregular headline stands out against columns of regular text in a light-hearted feature.

Game and toy packaging

High-contrast, dancing capitals give a product name a hand-made, storybook character on a box front.

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 Henny Penny

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

body {
  font-family: "Henny Penny", sans-serif;
}

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

Things to know

Irregular on purpose

Sizes, slants and baseline positions vary from letter to letter by design, so lines never look aligned.

One style, large sizes

Henny Penny has a single Regular cut and its hairlines are thin; the official notes describe it as a face for large sizes.

Western European Latin only

The basic Latin subset is covered. French is complete except for the rare capital Ÿ, and Latin Extended letters are not included.

FAQs

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