After Sunset

Name: After Sunset
Author: Creatype Studio

After Sunset captures organic, human warmth with flowing strokes that add personality to your designs.

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Handwritingby Creatype Studio74% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use After Sunset

Best Font Pairings for After Sunset

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for After Sunset, including combinations with Nova Klasse, Basteleur and Bagel Fat.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview After Sunset with any font combination in real-time, optimized for handwriting characteristics.

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Character Set

After Sunset Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in After Sunset

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for After Sunset, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

After Sunset demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting After Sunset for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

After Sunset small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	After Sunset delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	After Sunset italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	After Sunset bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	After Sunset typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	After Sunset typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'After Sunset'; }

Quick Start

Integrating After Sunset

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=After+Sunset:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=After+Sunset:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'After Sunset';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=After+Sunset:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'After Sunset', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'After Sunset', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'after-sunset': ['After Sunset', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-after-sunset">Your text here</p>

About

After Sunset: History & Characteristics

Creatype Studio

Handwriting

Open Source

After Sunset font is a handwriting typeface with casual letterforms that twilight with evening, contemplative personality. Each character displays dusk shapes with after-sunset character suggesting evening transition and twilight contemplation. This casual style suits evening content, dusk branding, and designs celebrating the time after sunset with contemplative warmth. The after sunset reference emphasizes twilight timing. For designers creating evening content, After Sunset delivers appropriate dusk character. Complements twilight palettes.

After Sunset comes from the work of Creatype Studio. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, After Sunset features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for personal branding and lifestyle blogs.

After Sunset is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

After Sunset

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of After Sunset

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand After Sunset's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

Classification

Handwriting analysis. TypeSmith classifies After Sunset within the Scripts (Casual / Handwritten) tradition, characterized by Disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and Irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. Handwriting fonts gained popularity in the 1990s digital type boom, offering an approachable alternative to formal scripts. Key technical strength: randomization features for natural variation per glyph.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 74). After Sunset performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

Design Heritage

Designed by Creatype Studio. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Handwriting with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About After Sunset

After Sunset represents a Scripts typeface, grounded in the tradition where handwriting fonts gained popularity in the 1990s digital type boom, offering an approachable alternative to formal scripts. Its distinctive disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure make it well-suited for personal branding and lifestyle blogs. TypeSmith catalogs After Sunset in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for After Sunset

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to After Sunset based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Good Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for After Sunset

After Sunset achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Irregular baselines and inconsistent letter spacing can hinder readers with visual processing differences. Maintain generous line height and avoid setting below 16 px.

Legibility Analysis: After Sunset

After Sunset draws legibility from its disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Readability Profile: After Sunset

More legible than formal scripts due to disconnected letters, but the irregular baseline limits sustained reading. Best at medium sizes for short passages. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Eye Strain Considerations for After Sunset

After Sunset provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

After Sunset Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting After Sunset. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test After Sunset at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

Working with After Sunset: Best Practices

Combine with a geometric sans-serif for modern contrast or a clean slab serif for grounded warmth. Avoid pairing with script or calligraphic faces. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for After Sunset. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve After Sunset in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

International Character Support

Extended Latin Coverage

Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Portuguese
Dutch

Nordic

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Icelandic

Central European

Polish
Czech
Hungarian
Romanian
Slovak

Baltic

Lithuanian
Latvian
Estonian

This font encodes 171 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

After Sunset License Information

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1

Free for personal and commercial use

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What you can do

Personal projects
Commercial projects
Web embedding
App embedding
Modification
Redistribution

Restrictions

Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

After Sunset is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes After Sunset ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'after-sunset': ['After Sunset', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-after-sunset">Your text here</p>

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Reading Text in After Sunset

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Accessibility Overview for After Sunset

Legibility Analysis: After Sunset

Readability Profile: After Sunset

Eye Strain Considerations for After Sunset

After Sunset Accessibility Recommendations

Working with After Sunset: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

After Sunset

Best Ways to Use After Sunset

Best Font Pairings for After Sunset

Test After Sunset Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in After Sunset

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

Accessibility

Design Heritage

Overview

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Accessibility Overview for After Sunset

Legibility Analysis: After Sunset

Readability Profile: After Sunset

Eye Strain Considerations for After Sunset

After Sunset Accessibility Recommendations

Working with After Sunset: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal