Licorice

Name: Licorice
Author: James Puckett

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

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Handwritingby James Puckett48% Accessible

Characters646

Glyphs775

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Licorice

Best Font Pairings for Licorice

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Licorice, including combinations with Montserrat, DejaVu Serif and Amagro.

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 Licorice 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

Licorice 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 Licorice

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

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

When setting Licorice 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.

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

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Licorice in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Licorice

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Exploring Licorice's Design

James Puckett

Handwriting

Open Source

Licorice brings calligraphic beauty and cursive elegance, making it well-suited for greeting cards. Its fluid strokes and organic flow contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for signature elements and invitations, Licorice adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The font supports Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts..

Licorice comes from the work of James Puckett. 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, Licorice 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.

Licorice is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 3 font pairings curated. Extended language support spanning Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin Extended ensures reliable rendering across global audiences.

Licorice

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Licorice

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

Licorice

Best Ways to Use Licorice

Best Font Pairings for Licorice

Test Licorice Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Licorice

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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Accessibility Overview for Licorice

Reading Licorice: Legibility Factors

Licorice's Readability

Licorice for Long-Form Content

Licorice Accessibility Recommendations

Working with Licorice: Best Practices

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Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

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What you can do

Restrictions