Growl

Name: Growl
Author: Arron Croasdell

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

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Handwritingby Arron Croasdell71% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Growl

Best Font Pairings for Growl

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Growl, including combinations with Two Weekends Sans, Unique and Porpora.

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

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Test Growl Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Growl 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

Growl Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Body Text with Growl

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

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

When setting Growl 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Adding Growl to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Growl in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Growl: A Closer Look

Arron Croasdell

Handwriting

Open Source

Growl Typeface font is a handwriting typeface with bold brush creepy letterforms that snarl with animal, powerful personality. Each character displays fierce shapes with growl character suggesting animal threat and powerful warning. This bold brush creepy style suits animal horror content, growl branding, and designs requiring typography with fierce, threatening presence. The growl reference emphasizes animal threat. For designers creating creature content, Growl delivers appropriate fierce character. Complements dark creature palettes.

Growl was designed by Arron Croasdell. 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, Growl 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.

Growl is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Growl

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Growl

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

Growl

Best Ways to Use Growl

Best Font Pairings for Growl

Test Growl Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Growl

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

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Inclusive Design

Using Growl Accessibly

Reading Growl: Legibility Factors

Readability Profile: Growl

Eye Strain Considerations for Growl

Growl Accessibility Recommendations

Design Tips for Growl

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Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions