TypeSmith
Best Font PairingsAlternativesFonts

Browse

  • All Fonts
  • Search Fonts
  • Best Font Pairings
  • Font Alternatives
  • Test Font Pairings
  • Font Scanner
  • Font Pairing Guide

Categories

  • Serif
  • Sans Serif
  • Slab Serif
  • Monospace
  • Display
  • Script
  • Handwriting
  • Calligraphic
  • Blackletter
  • Retro
  • Comic
  • Stencil
  • Novelty
  • Typewriter
  • Grunge

Best Fonts For

  • Best Fonts for Figma
  • Best Fonts for Canva
  • Best Fonts for VS Code
  • Best Fonts for PowerPoint
  • Best Fonts for Web Design
  • Best Fonts for Branding
  • Best Fonts for Ecommerce
  • All Tools & Use Cases

Recommendations

  • Top Sans Serif Fonts
  • Top Serif Fonts
  • Top Monospace Fonts
  • Top Display Fonts
  • Trending Fonts 2026
  • Best Accessible Fonts
  • Best Variable Fonts
  • All Recommendations

Free Alternatives

  • Helvetica Alternatives
  • Futura Alternatives
  • Gotham Alternatives
  • Proxima Nova Alternatives
  • Garamond Alternatives
  • All Free Alternatives

About

  • About TypeSmith
TypeSmith

Discover beautiful fonts and perfect pairings for your next project. Browse 8,500+ fonts with accessibility ratings.

© 2026 TypeSmith · Robert David Orr

  1. Fonts
  2. /
  3. Display
  4. /
  5. Lily Script One

Lily Script One

Lily Script One commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

Scroll to explore
Displayby Julia Petretta58% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Lily Script One

01

Best Font Pairings for Lily Script One

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Lily Script One, including combinations with Lilita One, Chivo and Belanosima.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Lily Script One
02

Test Lily Script One Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Lily Script One with any font combination in real-time, optimized for display characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

Test Lily Script One Pairings Live

In Context

Lily Script One Specimen Gallery

UI ComponentsPosterWordmark
Lily Script One
ProductsSolutionsResourcesPricing

Lily Script One Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

Active2 weights available
DefaultInfoSuccessWarningError
Lily Script One Specimen

Lily Script One

Lily Script One is a display typeface by Julia Petretta built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Lily Script One
Lily Script One
LILY SCRIPT ONE
LILY SCRIPT ONETYPE
L

Tagline Pairings

Lily Script One— display typeface
Lily Script OneBy Julia Petretta
Lily Script OneTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Lily Script One Glyphs & Characters

Size48
Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Type Scale

Lily Script One Typography Scale

Heading Level 1<h1>
64px
Bold
72px
Lily Script One primary headline
Heading Level 2<h2>
48px
SemiBold
56px
Lily Script One section heading
Heading Level 3<h3>
32px
Medium
40px
Lily Script One subsection title
Heading Level 4<h4>
24px
Regular
32px
Lily Script One content heading
Heading Level 5<h5>
18px
Regular
26px
Lily Script One minor heading
Heading Level 6<h6>
14px
Medium
20px
Lily Script One smallest heading
Font SizeWeightLine Height
Body Copy

Body Text with Lily Script One

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

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

When setting Lily Script One 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.

Lily Script One small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

ElementWeightSizeLine HeightTrackingPreview
Body TextRegular16px24px0.5pxLily Script One delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxLily Script One italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxLily Script One bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxLily Script One typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxLily Script One typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'Lily Script One'; }

Quick Start

Using Lily Script One in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Lily Script One

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Lily Script One Background & Features

Julia Petretta
Display
Open Source

Representing display typeface design, Lily Script One showcases flowing connections and cursive elegance, making it well-suited for brand identities. Its unique personality and distinctive character contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for logos and headlines, Lily Script One adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes Lily Script One supports a variety of languages that use the Latin alphabet, providing broad coverag....

Lily Script One was created by Julia Petretta. Known for sans-serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Lily Script One's glyph proportions, stroke consistency, and typographic color.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Lily Script One features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for event posters and promotional materials.

Lily Script One 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.

Lily Script One

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Lily Script One

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

1

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Lily Script One within the Graphic (Display / Titling) tradition, characterized by Tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and Exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. Display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Key technical strength: high visual impact with minimal typographic hierarchy.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 58). Lily Script One offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Julia Petretta. Known for sans-serif typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Lily Script One's stroke consistency and typographic color across a single focused weight.

Overview

About Lily Script One

Lily Script One is classified as a Graphic typeface, rooted in the tradition where display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Its distinctive tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features make it well-suited for event posters and promotional materials. TypeSmith indexes Lily Script One in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Lily Script One
View Pairings

Categories

Browse by Classification

DisplayHandwritingMonospaceSans SerifSerif

Explore More

Related Fonts: Lily Script One

View all fonts

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

Aa
Elsie
Display
Aa
Fugaz One
Display
Aa
Aboreto
Display
Aa
Emblema One
Display
Aa
Agbalumo
Display

Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

58
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Lily Script One: Accessibility Considerations

Lily Script One falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Lily Script One Legibility Characteristics

Lily Script One draws legibility from its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Lily Script One's Readability

Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt. Display faces sacrifice small-size legibility for visual impact and personality at headline scale. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Visual Comfort with Lily Script One

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

Lily Script One Accessibility Recommendations

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

Lily Script One Usage Guidelines

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Lily Script One. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Lily Script One in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

Available Weights & Styles

Available on Google Fonts
4 weights available for download
Download

Available Weights

400
Regular
400
Regular Italic
700
Bold
700
Bold Italic

Weight Reference

Aa
100
Aa
200
Aa
300
Aa
400
Aa
500
Aa
600
Aa
700
Aa
800
Aa
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

Lily Script One supports a variety of languages that use the Latin alphabet, providing broad coverage for Western European, Central European, and South Eastern European languages. This includes support for English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and many others, making it a versatile font choice for a wide range of linguistic applications.

Legal

Lily Script One Licensing

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1
Free for personal and commercial use
View License

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.

Lily Script One 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 Lily Script One ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.