The Girl Next Door

Try The Girl Next Door

Weights and styles

• Regular 400The Girl Next Door Regular

About The Girl Next Door

The Girl Next Door is a handwriting typeface in an upright print style. A thin line of constant thickness draws wide, round letters that stand apart from one another, with generous spacing between them. Details in the specimen keep the handwritten character: the z has a crossbar, the q ends in a looped tail, and the capitals are about as tall as the ascenders. Kimberly Geswein modelled the face on the writing of a middle school geography teacher and describes the hand as readable, neat and welcoming. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 346 glyphs cover Latin and part of Latin Extended, with the letters for Polish, Hungarian and the Western European languages. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where The Girl Next Door works

Classroom materials

The model was a teacher's handwriting, and the tidy unjoined letters suit worksheets, labels and wall displays.

Personal notes and cards

A thin pen line and round letters read as a message written carefully by hand.

Planner and journal layouts

Wide, evenly spaced letters stay legible as short headings and list items.

Captions on photos

The upright print style gives a caption a personal tone while each letter remains easy to make out.

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

Fonts that pair with The Girl Next Door

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

body {
  font-family: "The Girl Next Door", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves The Girl Next Door 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=The+Girl+Next+Door&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One style

The Girl Next Door has a single Regular style. There is no bold or italic.

Print style, not cursive

The letters do not connect; every character is written separately.

Gaps in Latin Extended

Some extended letters are absent, for example the dotless i (U+0131) used in Turkish and several Czech and Romanian letters.

Thin line

The stroke is fine, so text needs a moderately large size or a dark colour to hold on a busy background.

FAQs

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