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Fleur De Leah

Fleur De Leah captures organic, human warmth with flowing strokes that add personality to your designs.

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Handwritingby Charles Borges de Oliveira55% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Fleur De Leah

01

Best Font Pairings for Fleur De Leah

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Fleur De Leah, including combinations with Alegreya Sans, ABeeZee and Merriweather.

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

Explore 4 Pairings for Fleur De Leah
02

Test Fleur De Leah Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Fleur De Leah 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

Fleur De Leah Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Display Sizes for Fleur De Leah

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

Fleur De Leah Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Fleur De Leah 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding Fleur De Leah to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Fleur De Leah';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fleur+De+Leah');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Using Fleur De Leah in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Fleur De Leah's Details

Charles Borges de Oliveira
Handwriting
Open Source

Fleur De Leah establishes cursive elegance and calligraphic beauty, making it well-suited for creative projects. Its natural rhythm and personal character contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for signature elements and creative projects, Fleur De Leah adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The Fleur De Leah font supports Latin-based languages, providing a wide range of characters and glyp....

Fleur De Leah was created by Charles Borges de Oliveira. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Fleur De Leah 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.

Fleur De Leah 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.

Fleur De Leah

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Fleur De Leah

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

1

Classification

Handwriting analysis. TypeSmith classifies Fleur De Leah 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: 55). Fleur De Leah offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Charles Borges de Oliveira. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Handwriting with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Fleur De Leah

Fleur De Leah is classified as a Scripts typeface, rooted 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 pull quotes and editorial accent text. TypeSmith catalogs Fleur De Leah in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Fleur De Leah
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Accessibility & Usability

55
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Fleur De Leah Accessibility Profile

Fleur De Leah falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Irregular baselines and inconsistent letter spacing can hinder readers with visual processing differences. Maintain generous line height and avoid setting below 16 px.

Legibility Analysis: Fleur De Leah

Fleur De Leah 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.

Fleur De Leah's Readability

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.

Eye Strain Considerations for Fleur De Leah

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

Fleur De Leah Accessibility Recommendations

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

Fleur De Leah Usage Guidelines

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 Fleur De Leah. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Fleur De Leah in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

Download Fleur De Leah

Available on Google Fonts
4 weights available for download
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Available Weights

400
Regular
400
Regular Italic
700
Bold
700
Bold Italic

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Fleur De Leah Language Coverage

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

The Fleur De Leah font supports Latin-based languages, providing a wide range of characters and glyphs suitable for English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, and other languages that utilize the Latin alphabet.

Legal

Fleur De Leah Licensing

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.

Fleur De Leah 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 Fleur De Leah ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.