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Hanalei

Hanalei commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby James Grieshaber45% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Hanalei

01

Best Font Pairings for Hanalei

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Hanalei, including combinations with Montserrat, Great Vibes and Epunda Sans.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Hanalei
02

Test Hanalei Font Pairings Live

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

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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In Context

Hanalei Specimen Gallery

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Hanalei
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Hanalei Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Hanalei Specimen

Hanalei

Hanalei is a display typeface by James Grieshaber built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Hanalei
Hanalei
HANALEI
HANALEITYPE
H

Tagline Pairings

Hanalei— display typeface
HanaleiBy James Grieshaber
HanaleiTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Hanalei Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Display Sizes for Hanalei

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

Hanalei Body Typography

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

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

When setting Hanalei 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.

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

Quick Start

Hanalei Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Hanalei CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Design of Hanalei

James Grieshaber
Display
Open Source

Hanalei establishes artistic vision and distinctive personality, making it well-suited for brand identities. Its unique personality and bold presence contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for posters and headlines, Hanalei adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The Hanalei font supports the Latin script, covering a wide range of Western European languages..

Hanalei was crafted by James Grieshaber. The typeface's Tight spacing for large sizes and Exaggerated contrast or decorative features reflect a design philosophy optimized for Contemporary display typography.

As a Graphic display in the Vox-ATypI Graphic family, Hanalei display typography tradition. Its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features make it a strong fit for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers.

Hanalei 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.

Hanalei

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Hanalei

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

1

Classification

Graphic display classification. Hanalei exhibits Tight spacing for large sizes, Exaggerated contrast or decorative features, Refined details at headline scale. Designed by James Grieshaber. A display typeface available through TypeSmith.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 45). Hanalei works best at display sizes where its character can shine without compromising legibility.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by James Grieshaber. Hanalei display typography tradition, delivered as a single focused weight. The designer's portfolio includes reenie beanie and black ops one.

Overview

About Hanalei

Hanalei embodies the Graphic display in the Vox-ATypI Graphic family, designed during the Contemporary display typography era. Built with Tight spacing for large sizes and Exaggerated contrast or decorative features, Hanalei serves as a standard typeface for editorial magazine covers and chapter openers. TypeSmith catalogs Hanalei in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Hanalei
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Accessibility & Usability

45
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Hanalei

Hanalei has limited accessibility at small sizes due to reduced character differentiation, so reserve it for headlines and display contexts. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Hanalei Legibility Characteristics

Hanalei draws legibility from its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

How Readable is Hanalei?

Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt. Display faces sacrifice small-size legibility for visual impact and personality at headline scale. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Hanalei's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Hanalei Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Hanalei Effectively

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Hanalei. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Hanalei in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

Hanalei Font Files

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

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

The Hanalei font supports the Latin script, covering a wide range of Western European languages.

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.

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