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Black Brush

Black Brush captures organic, human warmth with flowing strokes that add personality to your designs.

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Handwritingby Ana Marin80% Accessible
Characters456
Glyphs547
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Black Brush

01

Best Font Pairings for Black Brush

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Black Brush, including combinations with Gravity, Clemente and Estherilla.

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

Explore 4 Pairings for Black Brush
02

Test Black Brush Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Black Brush 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

Black Brush Glyphs & Characters

Size48
Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Type Scale

Heading Styles with Black Brush

Heading Level 1<h1>
64px
Bold
72px
Black Brush primary headline
Heading Level 2<h2>
48px
SemiBold
56px
Black Brush section heading
Heading Level 3<h3>
32px
Medium
40px
Black Brush subsection title
Heading Level 4<h4>
24px
Regular
32px
Black Brush content heading
Heading Level 5<h5>
18px
Regular
26px
Black Brush minor heading
Heading Level 6<h6>
14px
Medium
20px
Black Brush smallest heading
Font SizeWeightLine Height
Body Copy

Black Brush Body Typography

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

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

When setting Black Brush 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.

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

ElementWeightSizeLine HeightTrackingPreview
Body TextRegular16px24px0.5pxBlack Brush delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxBlack Brush italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxBlack Brush bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxBlack Brush typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxBlack Brush typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'Black Brush'; }

Quick Start

Adding Black Brush to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Black Brush

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Black Brush's Details

Ana Marin
Handwriting
Open Source

Black Brush font is a handwriting typeface blending blackletter structure with brush execution. Each character displays gothic forms painted with brush strokes creating unique fusion of historical letterforms and painterly texture. This blackletter brush style suits alternative gothic content, brush-painted medieval branding, and designs requiring typography with gothic brush character. The black brush reference emphasizes dark painting. For designers creating gothic brush content, Black Brush delivers appropriate fusion character. Complements dark palettes.

Black Brush was designed by Ana Marin. 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, Black Brush features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for pull quotes and editorial accent text.

Black Brush is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Black Brush

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Black Brush

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

1

Classification

Handwriting analysis. Typographic analysis places Black Brush 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.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 80). Black Brush delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Ana Marin. 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 Black Brush

Black Brush 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 catalogs Black Brush in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Black Brush
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

80
Accessibility Score
Excellent Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Black Brush

Black Brush 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.

How Legible is Black Brush?

Black Brush 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.

Black Brush in Context: Readability

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.

Black Brush for Long-Form Content

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

Black Brush Accessibility Recommendations

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

Black Brush 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. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Black Brush. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Black Brush in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights & Styles

Available Weights

400
Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

Weight Reference

Aa
100
Aa
200
Aa
300
Aa
400
Aa
500
Aa
600
Aa
700
Aa
800
Aa
900

Internationalization

Black Brush 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 364 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.

Black Brush 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 Black Brush ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.