Just Another Hand

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Just Another Hand Regular

About Just Another Hand

Just Another Hand is a handwriting typeface with tall, tightly packed letters drawn as if with a brush. Strokes are even and clean with rounded ends, the letters stand almost upright and do not join, and the lowercase is small next to the long ascenders and capitals. That narrow build lets many characters fit on a line: in the specimen the whole capital alphabet takes about half the width. According to the official description, the design follows the handwriting its author had as a high school student, redrawn with a brush stroke to get a cleaner line. There is one Regular style, with no bold or italic, and the font is not a variable font. The 369 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended characters. Astigmatic publishes Just Another Hand under the Apache License 2.0 rather than the Open Font License.

Where Just Another Hand works

Handwritten notes on images

Unjoined brush letters read like a quick marker note on photos, stories and thumbnails.

Slim labels and tags

Tight letter widths squeeze a product name or a price onto a narrow tag or sticker.

Informal section headings

Tall capitals over a small lowercase give menu sections and blog titles a hand-lettered look without script loops.

Storyboard and margin lettering

The even stroke keeps annotations and speech balloons consistent from line to line.

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
• Latvian
• 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

Fonts that pair with Just Another Hand

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

body {
  font-family: "Just Another Hand", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

Apache license, not OFL

Just Another Hand uses the Apache License 2.0. Copies carry the license text and the copyright notice, and changed files must say that they were changed.

Small lowercase

The x-height is low compared with the capitals and ascenders, so the face needs a larger size than a text font to stay readable.

Single style

Only Regular 400 exists. There is no bold or italic.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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