Patrick Hand SC

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Patrick Hand SC Regular

About Patrick Hand SC

Patrick Hand SC is a handwriting typeface set entirely in capital forms: capital keys give full-height letters and lowercase keys give shorter versions of the same capitals. The official notes say the parent family, Patrick Hand, comes from the designer's own handwriting and that this is its small-caps sister. Strokes have an even thickness with rounded ends, like a felt-tip marker, and the letters lean and wobble slightly; the Z and the 7 are crossed with a short bar. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 542 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese, and the notes mention extras such as heavy quotation marks and a floral heart. Patrick Wagesreiter designed it, and it is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Patrick Hand SC works

Hand-lettered labels and tags

Small caps written with a round marker stroke look like careful hand labelling on price tags, jars and diagrams.

Captions on drawings and photos

Capital forms at two heights keep short captions even while still marking the first letter of a word.

Classroom and children's material

Plain, unjoined capital shapes are easy to recognise on worksheets and posters.

Headings above handwritten text

Set over the regular Patrick Hand family, the small caps make section headings in the same hand.

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
• 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 SC

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

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

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

Things to know

No true lowercase

Lowercase input is drawn as small capitals, so mixed-case text in the usual sense is not possible.

OpenType extras live in the parent family

According to the official notes, ligatures, old-style numbers and small caps are features of the regular Patrick Hand download.

One style

There is a single Regular style without bold or italic.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All handwriting fonts