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Love Ya Like A Sister

Hand-drawn slab-serif letters by Kimberly Geswein, outlined in scratchy overlapping pen strokes, in one weight.

Handwriting 1 style by Kimberly Geswein OFL

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Love Ya Like A Sister is a hand-drawn typeface by Kimberly Geswein whose slab-serif letters are built from scratchy, overlapping pen lines. Love Ya Like A Sister has a single Regular style with 354 glyphs and is not a variable font. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and fits cards, scrapbook titles and short playful headings.

Love Ya Like A Sister 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
354
Languages checked
21 see the list
Last updated
version 1.002 2007
Used for
HeadlinesCasualSocial mediaKids

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

Try Love Ya Like A Sister

Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Love Ya Like A Sister; the download contains the complete files.

Love Ya Like A Sister font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Love Ya Like A Sister specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Love Ya Like A Sister Regular

About Love Ya Like A Sister

Love Ya Like A Sister is a hand-drawn face that imitates letters inked several times over with a fine pen. Each stroke is a bundle of slightly misaligned lines, leaving slivers of white inside the stems, and every letter ends in small slab serifs like those of a typewriter. Letters tilt and shift a little on the baseline, and the lowercase s and t rise above their neighbours, which keeps the hand-made rhythm. The family is a single Regular style with 354 glyphs in Latin and Latin Extended character sets. Kimberly Geswein drew it and, in her own note on the font, explains the name: she and her older sister Emily signed notes to each other with the phrase for years. The font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is meant for short lines at sizes large enough to show the pen texture.

Where Love Ya Like A Sister works

Greeting cards and notes
The font was made as a tribute between sisters, and its doodled slab letters suit personal messages, tags and card fronts.
Scrapbook and journal titles
Overlapping pen lines look like a title inked by hand over a photo page or planner spread.
Classroom and children’s material
The wobbly baseline and typewriter-like serifs give worksheets, name labels and reading-corner signs an informal tone.
Social media graphics
A short quote at large size shows the white slivers inside each stroke, which disappear when the type is set small.

Glyphs

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

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 354 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
  • 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

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 Love Ya Like A Sister

Montserrat Alternates Sans Serif

Love Ya Like A Sister is a handwriting face for headings; Montserrat Alternates is a sans serif family with 9 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Cormorant Serif

Love Ya Like A Sister is a handwriting face for headings; Cormorant is a serif family with 5 weights that can set the body text beside it.

News Cycle Sans Serif

Love Ya Like A Sister is a handwriting face for headings; News Cycle is a sans serif family with 2 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 Love Ya Like A Sister 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: "Love Ya Like A Sister";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/LoveYaLikeASister-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Love Ya Like A Sister", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Love Ya Like A Sister with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

The texture needs size
The scratchy inner lines seen in the specimen fill in at small sizes, where the letters read as a plain, slightly uneven slab serif.
One style
There is a single Regular file. Bold and italic are not part of the family.
354 glyphs
The character set is Latin with a Latin Extended subset; no other script is included.

FAQs

Is Love Ya Like A Sister free for commercial use?

Yes, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Love Ya Like A Sister may be used, changed and passed on in personal and commercial work; it cannot be sold on its own, and altered versions must remain under the same license. The license file in the download is the authority.

Who designed Love Ya Like A Sister?

Love Ya Like A Sister was designed by Kimberly Geswein, who is named in both the catalogue entry and the copyright notice.

Why is the font called Love Ya Like A Sister?

According to the designer’s note, Love Ya Like A Sister takes its name from the way she and her older sister Emily signed notes to each other, a joke between actual sisters.

How many weights does Love Ya Like A Sister have?

Love Ya Like A Sister has one weight, Regular 400, with no bold or italic.

Which languages does Love Ya Like A Sister support?

Love Ya Like A Sister includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish and Hungarian.

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