Short Stack

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Short Stack Regular

About Short Stack

Short Stack is a handwriting font built from wide, round, separate letters with soft stroke ends and almost no contrast, as if printed slowly with a felt pen. The shapes are close to geometric circles and straight lines, but small wobbles keep them hand-made: in the specimen the A leans, the k kicks out and the lowercase a is the simple single-storey form taught to beginners. The official notes describe it as inspired by childlike written letters and usable from medium text sizes up to display sizes. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. It holds 268 glyphs in the basic Latin subset, covering English, French, German, Spanish and the Nordic languages. James Grieshaber designed it, Sorkin Type Co holds the copyright, and it is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Short Stack works

Early-reader books and worksheets

The single-storey a and plain round letters resemble the forms children are taught to write.

Nursery and classroom signs

Wide, sturdy letters stay clear on door labels, name tags and wall charts.

Friendly interface messages

A short hint or empty-state line in Short Stack sounds informal while remaining easy to read.

Toy and snack packaging

Soft stroke ends and wobbling stems give a product name a playful, hand-written voice.

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

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Short Stack

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

body {
  font-family: "Short Stack", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

One style

Short Stack has Regular 400 only, with no bold or italic.

Wide letters

The round forms take a lot of horizontal space, so lines hold fewer words than a typical sans at the same size.

Basic Latin subset

The font lists only the Latin subset, with 268 glyphs; there is no Latin Extended set.

FAQs

Collections with Short Stack

• Fonts for children and early readers

  Schoolbook sans-serifs, print handwriting and rounded display faces for worksheets, picture books and classroom materials.

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