Inktober

Name: Inktober
Author: Yaroslav Dolzhenko

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

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Handwritingby Yaroslav Dolzhenko67% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Inktober

Best Font Pairings for Inktober

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Inktober, including combinations with Cc Accidenz Grotesk, IM Fell French Canon and Initia Sans.

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 Inktober 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

Inktober Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Inktober Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Inktober 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Adding Inktober to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Inktober

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Exploring Inktober's Design

Yaroslav Dolzhenko

Handwriting

Open Source

Inktober font is a handwriting typeface with casual grunge letterforms and artistic October character. The hand-drawn strokes create ink challenge presence suited for artistic challenge content. This typeface excels in Inktober branding, casual grunge graphics, artistic challenge materials, and October art content where ink challenge personality matters. The grunge quality makes Inktober effective for authentic artistic challenge design. Designers creating Inktober products, artistic challenge materials, or grunge ink content will find this typeface delivers appropriate artistic challenge character. Works well alongside textured ink faces for cohesive Inktober design systems.

Inktober comes from the work of Yaroslav Dolzhenko. 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, Inktober 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.

Inktober 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.

Inktober

Inktober

Best Ways to Use Inktober

Best Font Pairings for Inktober

Test Inktober Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Inktober Used As Body Text

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

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Inktober Accessibility Profile

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Inktober for Long-Form Content

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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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