Colendra

Name: Colendra
Author: Szymon Furjan

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

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Handwritingby Szymon Furjan58% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

Typography Tools

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Best Font Pairings for Colendra

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Colendra, including combinations with Wicky Javick, Faustina and Ike.

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 Colendra 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

Colendra Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Colendra for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Colendra 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Using Colendra in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Colendra CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Colendra: History & Characteristics

Szymon Furjan

Handwriting

Open Source

Colendra Typeface font is a handwriting typeface family with casual condensed letterforms across multiple weights. Each character displays narrow shapes with space-efficient character enabling versatile application in tight spaces. This casual condensed family style suits space-conscious designs, compact branding, and applications requiring handwritten warmth in limited area with family versatility. The condensed family provides comprehensive coverage. For designers needing compact casual typography, Colendra delivers appropriate narrow character. Complements condensed layouts.

Colendra was crafted by Szymon Furjan. 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, Colendra 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.

Colendra is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Colendra

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Colendra

Colendra

Best Ways to Use Colendra

Best Font Pairings for Colendra

Test Colendra Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Colendra for Paragraphs

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 Colendra

Reading Colendra: Legibility Factors

Readability Profile: Colendra

Colendra for Long-Form Content

Colendra Accessibility Recommendations

How to Use Colendra Effectively

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Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

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