Kopenhagen

Name: Kopenhagen
Author: Joe Letter

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

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Handwritingby Joe Letter67% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Kopenhagen

Best Font Pairings for Kopenhagen

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Kopenhagen, including combinations with Saman Dere, Gothic №60 and Farringdon.

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

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Test Kopenhagen Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Kopenhagen 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

Kopenhagen Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Kopenhagen Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Kopenhagen 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.

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

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Kopenhagen in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Kopenhagen

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Design of Kopenhagen

Joe Letter

Handwriting

Open Source

Kopenhagen font is a handwriting typeface with casual letterforms that express with Danish, Scandinavian personality. Each character displays Nordic-influenced shapes with Copenhagen character suggesting Danish design sensibility and hygge warmth. This casual style suits Scandinavian content, Nordic branding, and designs celebrating Danish culture with warm simplicity. The Copenhagen reference adds Danish cultural specificity. For designers creating Nordic content, Kopenhagen delivers appropriate Scandinavian character. Complements Nordic palettes.

Kopenhagen was crafted by Joe Letter. 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, Kopenhagen 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.

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

Kopenhagen

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Kopenhagen

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

Kopenhagen

Best Ways to Use Kopenhagen

Best Font Pairings for Kopenhagen

Test Kopenhagen Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Kopenhagen 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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Accessibility Features of Kopenhagen

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Kopenhagen's Readability

Visual Comfort with Kopenhagen

Kopenhagen Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Kopenhagen

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Weight Reference

Internationalization

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