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First Coffee

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

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Handwritingby Syaf Rizal70% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use First Coffee

01

Best Font Pairings for First Coffee

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for First Coffee, including combinations with Petrona, National Park and 0xPropo.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for First Coffee
02

Test First Coffee Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview First Coffee 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

First Coffee Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

First Coffee Heading Hierarchy

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

Body Text with First Coffee

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

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

When setting First Coffee 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.

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

Quick Start

Using First Coffee in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Design of First Coffee

Syaf Rizal
Handwriting
Open Source

First Coffee font is a handwriting typeface with casual comic letterforms that prioritize morning ritual warmth. Each character displays cozy hand-drawn strokes with essential morning character that suggests the non-negotiable importance of that first cup. This casual comic style suits coffee branding, morning products, and content celebrating coffee's role in starting days right. The first coffee reference emphasizes morning priority. For designers creating coffee content, First Coffee delivers appropriate morning warmth. Complements warm brown palettes and coffee supporting elements.

First Coffee 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, First Coffee 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.

First Coffee 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.

First Coffee

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of First Coffee

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

1

Classification

Handwriting analysis. Typographic analysis places First Coffee 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: 70). First Coffee performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

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 First Coffee

First Coffee embodies the Scripts typeface, grounded 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 features First Coffee in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for First Coffee
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

70
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Using First Coffee Accessibly

First Coffee 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.

Reading First Coffee: Legibility Factors

First Coffee 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.

Readability Profile: First Coffee

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.

Visual Comfort with First Coffee

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

First Coffee Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use First Coffee 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. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for First Coffee. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve First Coffee 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

Aa
100
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400
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500
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600
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700
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800
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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 110 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Font License Details

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.

First Coffee 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 First Coffee ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.