Chaumont Script

Name: Chaumont Script
Author: Alexandre Bassi

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

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Handwritingby Alexandre Bassi86% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Chaumont Script

Best Font Pairings for Chaumont Script

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Chaumont Script, including combinations with Tostada, Rude and Kalnia.

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 Chaumont Script 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

Chaumont Script Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in Chaumont Script

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

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

When setting Chaumont Script 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Chaumont Script'; }

Quick Start

Chaumont Script Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Chaumont Script

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Chaumont Script

Alexandre Bassi

Handwriting

Open Source

Chaumont Script font is a brush cursive handwriting typeface by Alexandre Bassi designed for flowing expressive display applications. This dynamic typeface delivers bold brush presence suited for creative branding, elegant packaging, and editorial content requiring brush cursive energy. Chaumont Script excels in artisanal product labels, creative agency graphics, and lifestyle content where brush cursive creates flowing artistic movement. The brush quality adds expressive character while cursive flow provides organic grace. Designers seeking brush cursive scripts will find Chaumont Script delivers appropriate expressive movement. Works well alongside clean sans-serifs for balanced artistic design systems.

Chaumont Script was crafted by Alexandre Bassi. 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, Chaumont Script 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.

Chaumont Script 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.

Chaumont Script

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Chaumont Script

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

Classification

Handwriting analysis. TypeSmith classifies Chaumont Script 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: 86). Chaumont Script 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 Alexandre Bassi. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Handwriting with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Chaumont Script

Chaumont Script 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 personal branding and lifestyle blogs. TypeSmith catalogs Chaumont Script in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

4 curated pairings for Chaumont Script

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Chaumont Script 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

Excellent Accessibility

Chaumont Script Accessibility Profile

Chaumont Script 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.

Legibility Analysis: Chaumont Script

Chaumont Script 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.

Chaumont Script 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.

Eye Strain Considerations for Chaumont Script

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

Chaumont Script Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Chaumont Script Effectively

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 Chaumont Script. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Chaumont Script in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Download Weights & Variants

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Supported Scripts & Languages

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 436 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

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.

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

Chaumont Script

Best Ways to Use Chaumont Script

Best Font Pairings for Chaumont Script

Test Chaumont Script Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Chaumont Script

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

Chaumont Script Accessibility Profile

Legibility Analysis: Chaumont Script

Chaumont Script in Context: Readability

Eye Strain Considerations for Chaumont Script

Chaumont Script Accessibility Recommendations

How to Use Chaumont Script Effectively

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Chaumont Script

Best Ways to Use Chaumont Script

Best Font Pairings for Chaumont Script

Test Chaumont Script Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Chaumont Script

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

Chaumont Script Accessibility Profile

Legibility Analysis: Chaumont Script

Chaumont Script in Context: Readability

Eye Strain Considerations for Chaumont Script

Chaumont Script Accessibility Recommendations

How to Use Chaumont Script Effectively

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal