Glina Script

Name: Glina Script
Author: Liese Mars

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

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Handwritingby Liese Mars76% Accessible

Characters512

Glyphs614

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Glina Script

Best Font Pairings for Glina Script

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Glina Script, including combinations with At Askara, TeX Gyre Pagella and Literata Book.

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 Glina Script 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

Glina Script Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Text Table

Body Copy

Glina Script for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Glina Script 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Glina Script'; }

Quick Start

Glina Script Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Glina Script

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Glina Script: History & Characteristics

Liese Mars

Handwriting

Open Source

Glina Script font is a handwriting typeface expressing casual character through comic hand-drawn handwriting script construction with extended Cyrillic support for clay organic aesthetics. The organic letterforms project clay warmth suitable for craft branding, clay themes, and design projects celebrating glina (clay in Russian) typography. Casual comic hand-drawn forms create clay presence while Cyrillic support enables Russian craft applications. Effective for pottery, clay products, and craft communications.

Glina Script was crafted by Liese Mars. 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, Glina Script 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.

Glina Script is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Glina Script

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Glina Script

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

Classification

Handwriting analysis. TypeSmith classifies Glina Script 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.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 76). Glina Script maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments.

Design Heritage

Designed by Liese Mars. 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 Glina Script

Glina Script represents a Scripts typeface, anchored 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 indexes Glina Script in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Glina Script

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Fonts Similar to Glina Script

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Glina Script based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Good Accessibility

Using Glina Script Accessibly

Glina Script 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.

How Legible is Glina Script?

Glina Script 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.

Glina Script Reading Performance

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 Glina Script

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

Glina Script Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Glina Script: Best Practices

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

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Download Weights & Variants

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Supported Scripts & Languages

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 181 glyphs covering Latin and Cyrillic. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Glina Script License Information

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.

Glina Script 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 Glina Script ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'glina-script': ['Glina Script', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-glina-script">Your text here</p>

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Best Ways to Use Glina Script

Best Font Pairings for Glina Script

Test Glina Script Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Glina Script 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

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Using Glina Script Accessibly

How Legible is Glina Script?

Glina Script Reading Performance

Eye Strain Considerations for Glina Script

Glina Script Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Glina Script: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Glina Script

Best Ways to Use Glina Script

Best Font Pairings for Glina Script

Test Glina Script Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Glina Script 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

Categories

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Using Glina Script Accessibly

How Legible is Glina Script?

Glina Script Reading Performance

Eye Strain Considerations for Glina Script

Glina Script Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Glina Script: Best Practices

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal