Patrick Hand

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Patrick Hand Regular

About Patrick Hand

Patrick Hand is a handwriting font drawn from the designer's own hand. The specimen shows upright, unjoined letters written as if with a round-tipped marker: the stroke is even, the ends are rounded, the letters are narrow and the lines wobble slightly. Capitals are simple printed forms, and the numerals include a 7 with a crossbar. The family has a single Regular style and is not a variable font. According to the official notes, the font's OpenType features provide ligatures, small caps and old-style figures, and the font also holds a few decorative glyphs such as heavy quotation marks and a floral heart. A January 2013 update added more European languages and Vietnamese, bringing the font to 728 glyphs. A Small Caps sister family is published separately. Patrick Wagesreiter is the designer and copyright holder.

Where Patrick Hand works

Annotations and callouts

Upright marker letters look like notes written on a diagram, screenshot or whiteboard.

Classroom and children's material

Simple printed letter shapes are easy to recognise on worksheets and activity pages.

Comics and storyboards

Narrow letters fit dialogue into speech balloons, and ligatures vary repeated pairs.

Personal blogs and cards

A heading or short message in Patrick Hand reads as informal handwriting.

Handwritten text in Vietnamese

The Vietnamese subset, added in 2013, includes the stacked accents the language needs.

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Patrick Hand has Regular only; there is no bold or italic.

Features need to be switched on

Small caps and old-style numerals are OpenType features and must be enabled in the application or CSS.

Small Caps is a separate family

The sister family mentioned in the notes is not included in this package.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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