Slackey

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Slackey Regular

About Slackey

Slackey is a display typeface made of fat, uneven letters that look cut out by hand. In the specimen each character is much wider than it is tall, the strokes are thick enough to shrink the counters to slits, and nothing sits quite straight: stems lean, crossbars slope and the tops of letters rise and fall along the line. Capitals and lowercase are both present and close in height, which adds to the bouncing rhythm. The official notes introduce it simply as a fun, chunky face for headline work and credit the design to Squid; the copyright belongs to Font Diner, Inc, doing business as Sideshow. Slackey has one Regular style, no italic, and is not a variable font. It contains 229 glyphs in the Latin subset. Its license is the Apache License 2.0, not the Open Font License.

Where Slackey works

Cartoon and comic titles

Leaning stems and sloping bars give a title the look of hand-cut animation lettering.

Children's party posters

Fat, bouncing letters read as playful on invitations, banners and activity sheets.

Snack and toy packaging

Very wide heavy shapes fill the front of a pack with a short product name.

Game menus and stickers

Thick strokes survive outlines, drop shadows and bright fills applied in a game or sticker design.

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
• Estonian

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 Slackey

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

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

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

Things to know

Apache License 2.0, not OFL

Slackey is under the Apache License 2.0: copies carry the license text and the copyright notices, and changed files are marked as changed.

Very wide letters

Each letter takes a lot of horizontal space, so only a few words fit on a line.

One style, basic Latin

There is a single Regular style with 229 glyphs and no Latin Extended subset.

FAQs

Collections with Slackey

• Comic book and cartoon lettering fonts

  Hand-lettered comic dialogue faces, sound-effect capitals and bouncy cartoon titles for comics, kids' media and humorous graphics.

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