Borel

Name: Borel
Author: Wei Huang

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

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Handwritingby Wei Huang85% Accessible

Characters646

Glyphs775

Typography Tools

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Best Font Pairings for Borel

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Borel, including combinations with Montserrat, Gulzar and Lato.

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

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Character Set

Borel 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 Borel

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

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

When setting Borel 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Borel'; }

Quick Start

Using Borel in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Borel';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Borel');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Code Snippets for Borel

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Inside Borel

Wei Huang

Handwriting

Open Source

Borel establishes calligraphic beauty and flowing connections, making it well-suited for signature elements. Its personal character and fluid strokes contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for greeting cards and creative projects, Borel adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The Borel font supports a wide range of languages, including those that use the Latin, Cyrillic, and....

Borel was crafted by Wei Huang. Known for grotesque sans-serif design optimized for screen interfaces, the designer's expertise shapes Borel's glyph proportions, stroke consistency, and typographic color.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Borel features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for packaging for artisanal and handmade products.

Borel is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 3 font pairings curated. Extended language support spanning Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin Extended ensures reliable rendering across global audiences.

Borel

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Borel

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

Classification

Handwriting analysis. From a classification standpoint, Borel 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: 85). Borel performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts. More legible than formal scripts due to disconnected letters, but the irregular baseline limits sustained reading.

Design Heritage

Designed by Wei Huang. Known for grotesque sans-serif design optimized for screen interfaces, the designer's expertise shapes Borel's glyph proportions and optical balance across a single focused weight.

Overview

About Borel

Borel embodies the Scripts typeface, anchored 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 packaging for artisanal and handmade products. TypeSmith features Borel in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Borel

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

Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Excellent Accessibility

Using Borel Accessibly

Borel scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. Irregular baselines and inconsistent letter spacing can hinder readers with visual processing differences. Maintain generous line height and avoid setting below 16 px.

Borel's Legibility

Borel 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.

Borel's 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.

Borel: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Borel Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from Borel

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 Borel. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Borel in WOFF2 format with its extended character set to ensure consistent rendering across global audiences.

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Download Weights & Variants

Available on Google Fonts

4 weights available for download

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Available Weights

400

Regular

400

Regular Italic

700

Bold

700

Bold Italic

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Borel Multilingual 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

The Borel font supports a wide range of languages, including those that use the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabets, making it versatile for use in various European and international contexts.

Legal

Font License Details

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.

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

Borel

Best Ways to Use Borel

Best Font Pairings for Borel

Test Borel Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Borel

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 Borel Accessibly

Borel's Legibility

Borel's Readability

Borel: Comfort in Extended Reading

Borel Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Borel

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Borel

Best Ways to Use Borel

Best Font Pairings for Borel

Test Borel Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Borel

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 Borel Accessibly

Borel's Legibility

Borel's Readability

Borel: Comfort in Extended Reading

Borel Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Borel

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal