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Cherry Swash

Cherry Swash commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Natanael Gama72% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Cherry Swash

01

Best Font Pairings for Cherry Swash

TypeSmith curates 8 expert font pairings for Cherry Swash, including combinations with Page Bash, Alata and Garet.

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

Explore 8 Pairings for Cherry Swash
02

Test Cherry Swash Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Cherry Swash with any font combination in real-time, optimized for display characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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In Context

Cherry Swash Specimen Gallery

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Cherry Swash Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Cherry Swash Specimen

Cherry Swash

Cherry Swash is a display typeface by Natanael Gama built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Cherry Swash
Cherry Swash
CHERRY SWASH
CHERRY SWASHTYPE
C

Tagline Pairings

Cherry Swash— display typeface
Cherry SwashBy Natanael Gama
Cherry SwashTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Cherry Swash Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Cherry Swash Heading Hierarchy

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

Cherry Swash for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Cherry Swash 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.

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Cherry Swash in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Cherry Swash

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Cherry Swash's Details

Natanael Gama
Display
Open Source

Cherry Swash presents artistic vision and unique character, making it well-suited for headlines. Its distinctive character and unique personality contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for posters and logos, Cherry Swash adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes Cherry Swash is a font that supports a wide range of languages, primarily those using the Latin scri....

Cherry Swash was created by Natanael Gama. Known for serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Cherry Swash's glyph proportions, stroke consistency, and typographic color.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Cherry Swash features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for brand logotypes and wordmarks.

Cherry Swash is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 8 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Cherry Swash

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Cherry Swash

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Cherry Swash within the Graphic (Display / Titling) tradition, characterized by Tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and Exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. Display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Key technical strength: high visual impact with minimal typographic hierarchy.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 72). Cherry Swash delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Natanael Gama. Known for serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Cherry Swash's character shaping and weight distribution across a single focused weight.

Overview

About Cherry Swash

Cherry Swash is classified as a Graphic typeface, rooted in the tradition where display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Its distinctive tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features make it well-suited for brand logotypes and wordmarks. TypeSmith indexes Cherry Swash in a single weight variant and 8 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
8 curated pairings for Cherry Swash
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Accessibility & Usability

72
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Cherry Swash: Accessibility Considerations

Cherry Swash achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Cherry Swash's Legibility

Cherry Swash draws legibility from its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Cherry Swash's Readability

Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt. Display faces sacrifice small-size legibility for visual impact and personality at headline scale. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Cherry Swash for Long-Form Content

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

Cherry Swash Accessibility Recommendations

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

Design Tips for Cherry Swash

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Cherry Swash. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Cherry Swash in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

Get Cherry Swash

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

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

Cherry Swash is a font that supports a wide range of languages, primarily those using the Latin script. This includes Western European, Central European, and South Eastern European languages, ensuring broad accessibility and usability across different linguistic groups.

Legal

Cherry Swash 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.

Cherry Swash 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 Cherry Swash ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.