Drybrush

Name: Drybrush
Author: Ggbot

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

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Handwritingby Ggbot56% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Drybrush

Best Font Pairings for Drybrush

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Drybrush, including combinations with Quattrocento Roman, DejaVu Serif and Marta.

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

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Test Drybrush Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Drybrush 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

Drybrush Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Drybrush Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Drybrush 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.

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

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Drybrush in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Drybrush CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Drybrush Background & Features

Ggbot

Handwriting

Open Source

Drybrush font is a handwriting typeface expressing bold brush character through grunge hand-drawn rough dry construction for textured painting aesthetics. The textured letterforms project brush warmth suitable for art branding, brush themes, and design projects celebrating drybrush typography. Bold brush grunge forms create dry presence while rough influence adds painted character. Effective for art supplies, painting products, and artistic communications.

Drybrush was created by Ggbot. 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, Drybrush features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for pull quotes and editorial accent text.

Drybrush is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Drybrush

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Drybrush

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

Drybrush

Best Ways to Use Drybrush

Best Font Pairings for Drybrush

Test Drybrush Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Drybrush Used As Body Text

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

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Inclusive Design

Using Drybrush Accessibly

How Legible is Drybrush?

Drybrush Reading Performance

Drybrush's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Drybrush Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Drybrush

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Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions