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Swanky and Moo Moo

Unjoined, thin-pen handwriting by Kimberly Geswein, modelled on a young mother's writing and named after family nicknames.

Handwriting 1 style by Kimberly Geswein OFL

Swanky and Moo Moo is a handwriting font by Kimberly Geswein, based on the writing of a young mother and named after nicknames in the writer's family. Swanky and Moo Moo has one Regular style with 344 glyphs, drawn as thin, unjoined pen letters. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits notes, labels and captions.

Swanky and Moo Moo font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Kimberly Geswein
Classification
Handwriting
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
344
Languages checked
18 see the list
Last updated
version 1.002 2001

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

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Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Swanky and Moo Moo; the download contains the complete files.

Swanky and Moo Moo font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Swanky and Moo Moo specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Swanky and Moo Moo Regular

About Swanky and Moo Moo

Swanky and Moo Moo is a handwriting typeface with separate, upright letters drawn in a thin line of constant thickness. The source, according to the official notes, is the handwriting of a young mother, and the name comes from her family's nicknames. In the specimen the lowercase is small and wide beside tall capitals, the capital M is made of two pointed arches, the g and y end in open hooks, and the 7 has a bar across its stem. Letters do not connect, so words keep clear gaps between characters. The family consists of one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 344 glyphs cover Latin with part of Latin Extended, including the letters for Polish and Hungarian. Kimberly Geswein is credited as designer, and the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Swanky and Moo Moo works

Notes written over photos
Thin, unjoined letters look like a pen annotation on a snapshot, a mood board or a slide.
Scrapbook and album captions
The wide, small lowercase reads as a personal caption beneath pictures and keepsakes.
Recipe cards and jar labels
Separate letters stay legible in short lists of ingredients or contents written at modest sizes.
Personal blogs and quote images
A line of text in one person's recognisable hand gives a post or quote an informal, diary tone.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 344 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
  • Hungarian
  • Slovenian
  • Lithuanian
  • Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright (c) 2010, Kimberly Geswein (kimberlygeswein.com)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Swanky and Moo Moo

Fredoka Sans Serif

Swanky and Moo Moo is a handwriting face for headings; Fredoka is a sans serif family with 5 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Inria Serif Serif

Swanky and Moo Moo is a handwriting face for headings; Inria Serif is a serif family with 3 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Alegreya Sans Sans Serif

Swanky and Moo Moo is a handwriting face for headings; Alegreya Sans is a sans serif family with 7 weights that can set the body text beside it.

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 Swanky and Moo Moo 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.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Swanky and Moo Moo";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SwankyandMooMoo-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Swanky and Moo Moo", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Swanky and Moo Moo with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

One style, thin line
There is a single Regular cut with a light stroke, so it needs enough size or contrast with the background to stay visible.
Letters are not joined
This is print-style handwriting. Nothing connects, and there are no alternate forms for repeated letters.
Turkish and Romanian are incomplete
The dotless ı and the Romanian ț are not in the character set, although most other Latin Extended accents are.

FAQs

Is Swanky and Moo Moo free for commercial use?

Yes. The SIL Open Font License 1.1 lets Swanky and Moo Moo be used for personal and commercial jobs, embedded, modified and redistributed. The font cannot be sold on its own, though, and any modified version has to stay under the same license.

Who designed Swanky and Moo Moo?

Swanky and Moo Moo was made by Kimberly Geswein from the handwriting of a young mother, as the official notes put it.

Where does the name Swanky and Moo Moo come from?

According to the official notes, the name Swanky and Moo Moo comes from nicknames used in the family of the person whose handwriting it reproduces.

How many weights does Swanky and Moo Moo have?

Swanky and Moo Moo has one weight, Regular 400, and no italic or bold.

Which languages does Swanky and Moo Moo support?

Swanky and Moo Moo includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian and Lithuanian.

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