Gooseberry

Name: Gooseberry
Author: Ivan Lisichkin

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

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Handwritingby Ivan Lisichkin80% Accessible

Characters512

Glyphs614

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Best Ways to Use Gooseberry

Best Font Pairings for Gooseberry

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Gooseberry, including combinations with Gothic, Hallowed Grounds and Spur.

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Gooseberry with any font combination in real-time, optimized for handwriting characteristics.

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Character Set

Gooseberry Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Copy

Body Text with Gooseberry

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

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

When setting Gooseberry 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Gooseberry Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Gooseberry

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Gooseberry: A Closer Look

Ivan Lisichkin

Handwriting

Open Source

Gooseberry font is a handwriting typeface with funny letterforms and comprehensive Cyrillic support. Each character displays playful shapes with berry-like character while enabling multilingual typography. This funny Cyrillic style serves Eastern European food content, berry product branding, and designs requiring playful typography across multiple scripts. The berry reference adds flavor dimension. Designers creating multilingual berry content will find Gooseberry appropriately fruity. Complements berry palettes with multilingual supporting elements.

Gooseberry was designed by Ivan Lisichkin. 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, Gooseberry features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for greeting cards and informal stationery.

Gooseberry 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.

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Character Set

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Body Text with Gooseberry

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

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Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

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