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Indie Flower

Upright, bubbly handwriting by Kimberly Geswein with rounded stroke ends, in a single Regular style.

Handwriting 1 style by Kimberly Geswein OFL

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Indie Flower is a handwriting typeface by Kimberly Geswein with rounded, bubbly letters written upright in an even, marker-like stroke. Indie Flower comes in one Regular style with 356 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is used for notes, cards, classroom materials and informal headings.

Indie Flower font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Kimberly Geswein
Classification
Handwriting
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
356
Languages checked
22 see the list
Last updated
version 1.001 2010
Used for
CasualSocial mediaKids

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

Try Indie Flower

Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Indie Flower; the download contains the complete files.

Indie Flower font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Indie Flower specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Indie Flower Regular

About Indie Flower

Indie Flower is a handwriting typeface with unconnected, upright letters drawn in a stroke of nearly constant thickness with rounded ends. The shapes are loose rather than regular: capitals vary in width, the bowls of a, d and g are open and round, and the descenders of g, j and y finish in a hook, which keeps the look of quick writing with a felt pen. Kimberly Geswein, the designer, describes it as carefree and open, and somewhat bolder than her other handwriting fonts. The family consists of one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 356 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended character sets; the letters for Romanian, Latvian and Vietnamese are not complete, and there is no Cyrillic or Greek. The font was added to Google Fonts in 2011 and is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Indie Flower works

Classroom worksheets and posters
Upright, unconnected letters stay easy to make out for young readers while still looking handwritten.
Greeting cards and notes
The rounded felt-pen stroke gives a short message the look of a note written by hand.
Quotes for social media
The stroke is heavier than in many handwriting fonts, so a short quote stays visible over a photo or coloured background.
Craft labels and scrapbooks
Uneven capitals and hooked descenders suit jar labels, tags and album captions.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 356 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
  • 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright (c) 2010, Kimberly Geswein (kimberlygeswein.com)

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 Indie Flower

Assistant Sans Serif

Indie Flower is a handwriting face for headings; Assistant is a sans serif family with 7 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Cormorant Serif

Indie Flower is a handwriting face for headings; Cormorant is a serif family with 5 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Montserrat Alternates Sans Serif

Indie Flower is a handwriting face for headings; Montserrat Alternates is a sans serif family with 9 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 Indie Flower 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: "Indie Flower";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/IndieFlower-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Indie Flower", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Indie Flower with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

One style only
Indie Flower has a single Regular style. There is no bold, light or italic.
Print handwriting, not cursive
The letters do not join. Each one stands apart, as in block handwriting.
Gaps in extended Latin
The letters needed for Romanian, Latvian and Vietnamese are incomplete, and Cyrillic and Greek are absent.

FAQs

Is Indie Flower free for commercial use?

Yes. Indie Flower is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed Indie Flower?

Indie Flower was designed by Kimberly Geswein, who also holds the copyright named in the license.

How many weights does Indie Flower have?

Indie Flower has one weight, Regular 400, with no bold or italic.

Is Indie Flower a cursive font?

No. Indie Flower is print-style handwriting: the letters stand upright and are not connected to each other.

Which languages does Indie Flower support?

Indie Flower includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Polish and Turkish. Romanian, Latvian and Vietnamese are not fully covered.

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