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Clean Cafe

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

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Handwritingby Syaf Rizal75% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Clean Cafe

01

Best Font Pairings for Clean Cafe

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Clean Cafe, including combinations with High Alpine, Farro and Searocks.

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

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02

Test Clean Cafe Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Clean Cafe 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

Clean Cafe Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Clean Cafe Heading Hierarchy

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

Clean Cafe Body Typography

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

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

When setting Clean Cafe 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.

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Clean Cafe in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Clean Cafe in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Inside Clean Cafe

Syaf Rizal
Handwriting
Open Source

Clean Cafe font is a handwriting typeface with cartoon cute letterforms and tidy rounded character. The hand-drawn strokes create fresh presence suited for clean café content. This typeface performs well in modern café branding, clean coffee graphics, cute tidy materials, and fresh café content where clean approachability matters. The rounded quality makes Clean Cafe effective for contemporary café design. Designers creating modern coffee shops, clean café identity, or fresh beverage materials will find this typeface delivers appropriate tidiness. Works well alongside minimalist sans-serifs for cohesive modern café design systems.

Clean Cafe comes from the work of Syaf Rizal. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

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

Clean Cafe is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Clean Cafe

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Clean Cafe

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

1

Classification

Handwriting analysis. Typographic analysis places Clean Cafe 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.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 75). Clean Cafe delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Syaf Rizal. 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 Clean Cafe

Clean Cafe 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 catalogs Clean Cafe in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Clean Cafe
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Accessibility & Usability

75
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Clean Cafe Accessibility Profile

Clean Cafe achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Irregular baselines and inconsistent letter spacing can hinder readers with visual processing differences. Maintain generous line height and avoid setting below 16 px.

Clean Cafe's Legibility

Clean Cafe 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.

How Readable is Clean Cafe?

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.

Clean Cafe's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Clean Cafe Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Clean Cafe 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 Clean Cafe. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Clean Cafe in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

400
Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

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

This font encodes 121 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Clean Cafe License Information

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.

Clean Cafe 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 Clean Cafe ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.