Escrita Hand

Name: Escrita Hand
Author: Jan Hoberg

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

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Handwritingby Jan Hoberg69% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Best Font Pairings for Escrita Hand

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Escrita Hand, including combinations with Fowviel, Sloth and Serithai.

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Character Set

Escrita Hand Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in Escrita Hand

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

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

When setting Escrita Hand 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Escrita Hand'; }

Quick Start

Integrating Escrita Hand

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Escrita Hand

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Escrita Hand

Jan Hoberg

Handwriting

Open Source

Escrita Hand font is a handwriting typeface with casual letterforms that write with Latin, personal personality. Each character displays escrita (writing) shapes with Latin handwriting character suggesting Spanish-Portuguese writing tradition. This casual style suits Latin content, Spanish-Portuguese branding, and designs celebrating Latin writing culture with personal warmth. The escrita reference emphasizes Latin writing tradition. For designers creating Latin content, Escrita Hand delivers appropriate regional character. Complements Latin palettes.

Escrita Hand was crafted by Jan Hoberg. 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, Escrita Hand 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.

Escrita Hand 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.

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Character Set

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Reading Text in Escrita Hand

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

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Typography Judgment

Classification

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Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

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