Ketiak

Name: Ketiak
Author: Syaf Rizal

Ketiak 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 Ketiak

Best Font Pairings for Ketiak

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Ketiak, including combinations with Sun Seed, Permian Serif and DejaVu Serif.

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

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Test Ketiak Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Ketiak 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

Ketiak Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in Ketiak

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

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

When setting Ketiak 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.

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

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Ketiak in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Ketiak in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Ketiak Background & Features

Syaf Rizal

Handwriting

Open Source

Ketiak font is a handwriting typeface with casual letterforms expressing Indonesian body humor with irreverent personality. Each character displays casual shapes with anatomically-humorous character suggesting Indonesian comedic sensibility. This casual style suits Indonesian humor content, regional comedy branding, and designs requiring typography with body-positive Indonesian humor. The Indonesian armpit reference adds cultural comedy. For designers creating Indonesian humor content, Ketiak delivers appropriate irreverent character. Complements humor palettes.

Ketiak was designed by Syaf Rizal. 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, Ketiak 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.

Ketiak 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.

Ketiak

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Ketiak

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

Classification

Handwriting analysis. Typographic analysis places Ketiak within the Scripts (Casual / Handwritten) tradition, characterized by Disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and Irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. Handwriting fonts gained popularity in the 1990s digital type boom, offering an approachable alternative to formal scripts. Key technical strength: randomization features for natural variation per glyph.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 70). Ketiak performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

Design Heritage

Designed by Syaf Rizal. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Handwriting with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Ketiak

Ketiak falls within the Scripts typeface, drawn from the tradition where handwriting fonts gained popularity in the 1990s digital type boom, offering an approachable alternative to formal scripts. Its distinctive disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure make it well-suited for greeting cards and informal stationery. TypeSmith indexes Ketiak in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Ketiak

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Typefaces Like Ketiak

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Ketiak based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Good Accessibility

Ketiak: Accessibility Considerations

Ketiak achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Irregular baselines and inconsistent letter spacing can hinder readers with visual processing differences. Maintain generous line height and avoid setting below 16 px.

How Legible is Ketiak?

Ketiak draws legibility from its disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Readability Profile: Ketiak

More legible than formal scripts due to disconnected letters, but the irregular baseline limits sustained reading. Best at medium sizes for short passages. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Visual Comfort with Ketiak

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

Ketiak Accessibility Recommendations

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

Best Practices for Using Ketiak

Combine with a geometric sans-serif for modern contrast or a clean slab serif for grounded warmth. Avoid pairing with script or calligraphic faces. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Ketiak. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Ketiak in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights & Styles

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

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

This font encodes 108 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Ketiak Licensing

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.

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

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'ketiak': ['Ketiak', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-ketiak">Your text here</p>

Ketiak

Best Ways to Use Ketiak

Best Font Pairings for Ketiak

Test Ketiak Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Ketiak

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

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Ketiak: Accessibility Considerations

How Legible is Ketiak?

Readability Profile: Ketiak

Visual Comfort with Ketiak

Ketiak Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Ketiak

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Ketiak

Best Ways to Use Ketiak

Best Font Pairings for Ketiak

Test Ketiak Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Ketiak

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

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Ketiak: Accessibility Considerations

How Legible is Ketiak?

Readability Profile: Ketiak

Visual Comfort with Ketiak

Ketiak Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Ketiak

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal