Licorice

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Licorice Regular

About Licorice

Licorice is a handwriting typeface that imitates quick writing with a fine pen. The lowercase is tall, narrow and tightly packed, with a very small x-height and long ascenders and descenders, so a word looks like a row of slanted strokes. Capitals are several times wider than the small letters: L begins with a loop and runs a long stroke under the following letters, and A, C and M open with wide ovals. Stroke weight varies only a little, with slightly darker downstrokes and rounded ends. The numerals are written in the same hand, some with small loops. The family is one Regular style and not a variable font. Its 622 glyphs cover Western and Central European Latin and Vietnamese. The official description presents it as a playful face for scrapbooking, cards and invitations.

Where Licorice works

Scrapbook and photo captions

The quick pen line reads as a handwritten note next to pictures.

Party invitations

A wide looped capital followed by compact lowercase gives each word an informal flourish.

Signature-style names

Narrow joined letters behind a large initial resemble a signature on a card, label or about page.

Social media graphics

One or two words set large over a photo keep the thin strokes visible.

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
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 Licorice

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

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

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

Things to know

Small lowercase

The x-height is low compared with the capitals, so Licorice needs a larger point size than a text face to be readable.

One style

There is Regular 400 only, with no bold or italic.

Capitals are for word starts

A line typed in capitals overlaps in the specimen; the capitals are drawn to precede lowercase.

FAQs

Collections with Licorice

• Signature-style fonts

  Fine-line scripts and fast cursive hands that look like a signed name, for sign-offs, photography marks and personal branding.

Similar fonts

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