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Lost Paper

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

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Handwritingby Syaf Rizal76% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Lost Paper

01

Best Font Pairings for Lost Paper

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Lost Paper, including combinations with Elite Math, Cortisa Pro and Geom.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Lost Paper
02

Test Lost Paper Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Lost Paper 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

Lost Paper Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Lost Paper Used As Heading Examples

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

Body Text with Lost Paper

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

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

When setting Lost Paper 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.

Lost Paper 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 TextRegular16px24px0.5pxLost Paper delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxLost Paper italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxLost Paper bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxLost Paper typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxLost Paper typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'Lost Paper'; }

Quick Start

Adding Lost Paper to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Lost Paper in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Exploring Lost Paper's Design

Syaf Rizal
Handwriting
Open Source

Lost Paper font is a handwriting typeface with cartoon funny letterforms and playful found document character. The hand-drawn strokes create discovered presence suited for found paper content. This typeface performs well in discovery branding, cartoon funny graphics, playful paper materials, and lost found content where discovered paper personality matters. The playful quality makes Lost Paper effective for approachable discovery design. Designers creating paper products, discovery materials, or funny found content will find this typeface delivers appropriate discovery charm. Pairs naturally with textured paper faces for cohesive discovery design systems.

Lost Paper comes from the work of Syaf Rizal. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Lost Paper features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for packaging for artisanal and handmade products.

Lost Paper 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.

Lost Paper

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Lost Paper

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

1

Classification

Handwriting analysis. TypeSmith classifies Lost Paper 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.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 76). Lost Paper maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Syaf Rizal. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Handwriting with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Lost Paper

Lost Paper represents a Scripts typeface, anchored in 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 packaging for artisanal and handmade products. TypeSmith features Lost Paper in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Lost Paper
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

76
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Lost Paper

Lost Paper 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 Lost Paper?

Lost Paper 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.

Lost Paper's Readability

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.

Lost Paper: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Lost Paper Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from Lost Paper

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 Lost Paper. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Lost Paper in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

400
Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Lost Paper Multilingual Support

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 178 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

License Type

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.

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