Waiting for the Sunrise

Try Waiting for the Sunrise

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Waiting for the Sunrise Regular

About Waiting for the Sunrise

Waiting for the Sunrise is a handwriting typeface drawn from the way one high school student wrote. The specimen shows a thin pen line of even thickness, tall narrow capitals, and lowercase letters that mostly stand apart, with long descenders on g, j and y and a crossbar on t that runs well past the stem. Letter sizes and the baseline wobble a little, as real quick writing does. Kimberly Geswein borrowed the name from Lift Me Up, a song by The Afters, and writes that although the font was made during a dark period of her life, the result is a cheerful one. The family has a single Regular style of 343 glyphs in the Latin and Latin Extended subsets and is not a variable font. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Waiting for the Sunrise works

Handwritten notes in layouts

A thin, unjoined pen line makes margin notes, annotations and arrows on a page look written by hand.

Greeting cards and tags

Long descenders and loose letter sizes suit a short personal message inside a card or on a gift tag.

Social media quotes

A sentence or two at large size keeps the wobble of real handwriting visible in a post graphic.

Scrapbook and journal pages

Tall narrow capitals fit dates and captions beside photographs without taking much width.

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 Waiting for the Sunrise

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

body {
  font-family: "Waiting for the Sunrise", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

Very light stroke

The line is thin throughout and there is no bold, so the face needs size or a dark colour to stay visible.

Letters do not join

Despite the handwritten look, most lowercase letters stand apart in the specimen; it is print-style writing, not cursive.

Latin and Latin Extended

The 343 glyphs cover both Latin subsets; no other scripts are included.

FAQs

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