Barely Enough

Name: Barely Enough
Author: Niskala Huruf

Barely Enough captures organic, human warmth with flowing strokes that add personality to your designs.

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Handwritingby Niskala Huruf60% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

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Best Ways to Use Barely Enough

Best Font Pairings for Barely Enough

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Barely Enough, including combinations with Ade Display, DejaVu Serif and Claris Sans.

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 Barely Enough with any font combination in real-time, optimized for handwriting characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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Character Set

Barely Enough Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Barely Enough Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Barely Enough 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.

Barely Enough 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	Barely Enough delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Barely Enough italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Barely Enough bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Barely Enough typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Barely Enough typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Barely Enough'; }

Quick Start

How to Embed Barely Enough in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Barely Enough in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Barely Enough', 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        'barely-enough': ['Barely Enough', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-barely-enough">Your text here</p>

About

Barely Enough's Details

Niskala Huruf

Handwriting

Open Source

Barely Enough font is a handwriting typeface with cartoon cute letterforms that express with understated, minimal personality. Each character displays restrained shapes with subtle character that says just enough without excess. This minimalist cute style suits thoughtful content, sustainable branding, and designs requiring typography that values restraint and intention. The barely enough reference emphasizes mindful minimalism. Designers creating content around intentional living will find Barely Enough appropriately restrained. Complements muted palettes and minimal supporting elements.

Barely Enough was designed by Niskala Huruf. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Barely Enough features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for greeting cards and informal stationery.

Barely Enough is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Barely Enough

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Barely Enough

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

Classification

Handwriting analysis. Typographic analysis places Barely Enough 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: 60). Barely Enough handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

Design Heritage

Designed by Niskala Huruf. The designer's attention to glyph proportions and optical balance produces a Handwriting with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Barely Enough

Barely Enough falls within the Scripts typeface, drawn from 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 pull quotes and editorial accent text. TypeSmith features Barely Enough in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Barely Enough

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Barely Enough 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 Barely Enough

Barely Enough falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Irregular baselines and inconsistent letter spacing can hinder readers with visual processing differences. Maintain generous line height and avoid setting below 16 px.

How Legible is Barely Enough?

Barely Enough 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.

Barely Enough Reading Performance

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.

Barely Enough for Long-Form Content

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

Barely Enough Accessibility Recommendations

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

Barely Enough Usage Guidelines

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 Barely Enough. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Barely Enough 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

100

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400

500

600

700

800

900

Internationalization

Barely Enough Language Coverage

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 233 glyphs covering Latin. Latin coverage extends past the basic ASCII set into Latin Extended, so Central and Eastern European languages set correctly. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

License Type

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.

Barely Enough 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 Barely Enough 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 'barely-enough': ['Barely Enough', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-barely-enough">Your text here</p>

Barely Enough

Best Ways to Use Barely Enough

Best Font Pairings for Barely Enough

Test Barely Enough Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Barely Enough Used As Body Text

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 Barely Enough

How Legible is Barely Enough?

Barely Enough Reading Performance

Barely Enough for Long-Form Content

Barely Enough Accessibility Recommendations

Barely Enough Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Barely Enough

Best Ways to Use Barely Enough

Best Font Pairings for Barely Enough

Test Barely Enough Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Barely Enough Used As Body Text

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 Barely Enough

How Legible is Barely Enough?

Barely Enough Reading Performance

Barely Enough for Long-Form Content

Barely Enough Accessibility Recommendations

Barely Enough Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal