Pangolin

Try Pangolin

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Pangolin Regular

About Pangolin

Pangolin is a handwriting typeface with upright, unconnected letters built like a sans serif. The strokes are thick and of one width, with rounded ends and a slightly wobbly edge, as if written with a marker, while the shapes themselves stay simple and wide. Kevin Burke designed it for Pangolin Love, the Google Doodle shown on Valentine's Day 2017; the name refers to the pangolin, an endangered animal found in Asia and Africa. The family is a single Regular style, with no bold or italic, and is not a variable font. Its 874 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended and Vietnamese character sets, so the same hand can write English, Polish, Turkish and Vietnamese as well as Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian. The fonts are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Pangolin works

Children's books and classroom sheets

Upright, separate letters with simple shapes are easy to recognise for readers who are still learning.

Comics and speech bubbles

Marker-like strokes of one thickness look hand-lettered inside a balloon or caption box.

Casual game and app text

The face was made for an interactive Doodle, and its thick strokes hold up in short on-screen messages.

Informal text in Cyrillic

Cyrillic and Cyrillic Extended are included, so a Russian, Ukrainian or Bulgarian version of a design can keep the same handwriting.

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
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, 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 Pangolin

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Pangolin has a single Regular style. There is no bold or italic.

Letters do not connect

Pangolin imitates printed handwriting, not cursive: each letter stands on its own.

Greek is not covered

The character sets are Latin, Cyrillic and Vietnamese. Greek is not among the covered scripts.

FAQs

Collections with Pangolin

• Handwriting fonts for notes, quotes and personal touches

  Fonts made from real pen, pencil and marker writing: unjoined print hands and everyday cursive for notes, annotations and captions.

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