Boston

Name: Boston
Author: Creatype Studio

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

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Handwritingby Creatype Studio76% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Boston

Best Font Pairings for Boston

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Boston, including combinations with Devroye, TeX Gyre Pagella and Thicccboi.

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

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Test Boston Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Boston 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

Boston 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 Boston

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

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

When setting Boston 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Boston Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Boston in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Story of Boston

Creatype Studio

Handwriting

Open Source

Boston font is a handwriting typeface with childish cute letterforms and friendly playful character. The funny strokes create adorable presence suited for sweet children's content. This typeface performs well in children's product branding, cute kids graphics, funny friendly materials, and adorable promotional content where innocent charm matters. The handwriting quality makes Boston effective for sweet children's design. Designers creating kids products, cute children's materials, or friendly playful content will find this typeface delivers appropriate sweetness. Pairs naturally with rounded faces for cohesive cute kids design systems.

Boston was designed by Creatype Studio. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Boston 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.

Boston is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Boston

Boston

Best Ways to Use Boston

Best Font Pairings for Boston

Test Boston Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Boston

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

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Accessibility Features of Boston

Boston's Legibility

Boston's Readability

Boston: Comfort in Extended Reading

Boston Accessibility Recommendations

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Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

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