Black Crown

Name: Black Crown
Author: Wahyu Eka Prasetya

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

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Handwritingby Wahyu Eka Prasetya48% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Black Crown

Best Font Pairings for Black Crown

TypeSmith curates 5 expert font pairings for Black Crown, including combinations with Hooligan, Grotesk Nouveau and Sewaka.

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 Black Crown with any font combination in real-time, optimized for handwriting characteristics.

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Character Set

Black Crown 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 Black Crown

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

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

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Black Crown'; }

Quick Start

Adding Black Crown to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Black Crown in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Black Crown

Wahyu Eka Prasetya

Handwriting

Open Source

Black Crown font is a calligraphic casual handwriting typeface that combines refined technique with regal relaxed character. The letterforms balance calligraphic foundation with approachable royal warmth. This casual calligraphy font works effectively for premium casual branding, relaxed luxury identities, upscale lifestyle marketing, and sophisticated creative projects. The handwriting aesthetic translates to boutique hotel materials, refined café signage, and elevated everyday brands. Designers seeking calligraphic quality with accessible regal personality will find Black Crown's balanced character appealing. The casual regality adds sophisticated warmth. Pairs well with elegant serif fonts for body text.

Black Crown comes from the work of Wahyu Eka Prasetya. 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, Black Crown 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.

Black Crown is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 5 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Black Crown

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Black Crown

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

Classification

Handwriting analysis. TypeSmith classifies Black Crown 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: 48). Black Crown may present readability challenges at smaller sizes — consider pairing with a more accessible font for body text.

Design Heritage

Designed by Wahyu Eka Prasetya. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Handwriting with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Black Crown

Black Crown embodies the 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 features Black Crown in a single weight variant and 5 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

5 curated pairings for Black Crown

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Related Fonts: Black Crown

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Black Crown 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

Adequate Accessibility

Using Black Crown Accessibly

Black Crown has limited accessibility at small sizes due to reduced character differentiation, so reserve it for headlines and display contexts. Irregular baselines and inconsistent letter spacing can hinder readers with visual processing differences. Maintain generous line height and avoid setting below 16 px.

Black Crown's Legibility

Black Crown 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: Black Crown

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.

Visual Comfort with Black Crown

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

Black Crown Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Black Crown: 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. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Black Crown. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Black Crown 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

100

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300

400

500

600

700

800

900

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 122 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Black Crown Licensing

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

Black Crown

Best Ways to Use Black Crown

Best Font Pairings for Black Crown

Test Black Crown Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Black Crown

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

Using Black Crown Accessibly

Black Crown's Legibility

Readability Profile: Black Crown

Visual Comfort with Black Crown

Black Crown Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Black Crown: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Black Crown

Best Ways to Use Black Crown

Best Font Pairings for Black Crown

Test Black Crown Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Black Crown

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

Using Black Crown Accessibly

Black Crown's Legibility

Readability Profile: Black Crown

Visual Comfort with Black Crown

Black Crown Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Black Crown: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal