Hiatus

Name: Hiatus
Author: Syaf Rizal

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

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Handwritingby Syaf Rizal70% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Hiatus

Best Font Pairings for Hiatus

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Hiatus, including combinations with Pan, Rounded and Coelacanth.

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 Hiatus with any font combination in real-time, optimized for handwriting characteristics.

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Character Set

Hiatus Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Hiatus for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Hiatus 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Integrating Hiatus

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Design of Hiatus

Syaf Rizal

Handwriting

Open Source

Hiatus font is a handwriting typeface with brush casual letterforms that pause with restful, break-taking personality. Each character displays relaxed strokes with pause character suggesting creative breaks and intentional rest. This brush casual style suits wellness content, pause-focused branding, and designs celebrating intentional breaks with gentle warmth. The hiatus reference emphasizes restful pausing. For designers creating wellness content, Hiatus delivers appropriate restful character. Complements calm palettes.

Hiatus was crafted by Syaf Rizal. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Hiatus features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for personal branding and lifestyle blogs.

Hiatus 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.

Hiatus

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Hiatus

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

Hiatus

Best Ways to Use Hiatus

Best Font Pairings for Hiatus

Test Hiatus Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Hiatus 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

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Inclusive Design

Accessibility Features of Hiatus

Legibility Analysis: Hiatus

Hiatus Reading Performance

Hiatus's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Hiatus Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Hiatus

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Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

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What you can do

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