Luckiest Guy

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Luckiest Guy Regular

About Luckiest Guy

Luckiest Guy is a heavyweight sans serif display typeface inspired by the custom hand lettering of 1950s advertisements. The specimen shows why it reads as lettering: stems lean in different directions, stroke ends are cut at uneven angles, and the letters sit slightly off the baseline. There is no true lowercase. The lowercase positions hold a second set of letters at capital height, most of them variants of the capitals, with e, m, n and u drawn in lowercase shapes, so mixed-case typing yields a livelier line. The family has one style and 369 glyphs, covering Latin and Latin Extended. Astigmatic is credited as designer, and the copyright line names Brian J. Bonislawsky. Unlike most families in this collection, Luckiest Guy is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

Where Luckiest Guy works

Cartoon and game titles

Tilted stems and uneven stroke ends give a title the look of hand-painted lettering from a comic cover.

Kids' party invitations and toys

The bouncing baseline and fat strokes signal fun before a single word is read.

Retro advertising pastiche

The design draws on 1950s advertisements, so it fits mock-vintage sale posters and diner-style menus.

Video thumbnails

Heavy all-caps shapes stay legible when a title is shrunk to preview size.

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 Luckiest Guy

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

body {
  font-family: "Luckiest Guy", sans-serif;
}

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

Things to know

No real lowercase

Lowercase keys give alternate capital-height letters. Mixing cases changes letter shapes, not letter height.

One style

Luckiest Guy ships as one Regular file; there is no lighter weight and no italic.

Apache license, not OFL

Copies must carry the license text and existing notices, and modified files must say they were changed.

FAQs

Collections with Luckiest Guy

• Heavy fonts for thumbnails and social graphics

  Very heavy, compact display fonts that stay readable on a video thumbnail, a story or a feed image seen at a few centimeters wide.

• Mid-century display fonts from the 1950s to the 1970s

  Bouncing, hand-lettered display faces after post-war advertising, cartoons, motel signs and record covers.

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