Mangabey

Name: Mangabey
Author: Niskala Huruf

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

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Handwritingby Niskala Huruf80% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Mangabey

Best Font Pairings for Mangabey

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Mangabey, including combinations with Lineyka, Cobra and Equilibrist.

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

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Test Mangabey Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Mangabey 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

Mangabey 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 Mangabey

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

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

When setting Mangabey 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.

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

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Mangabey in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Mangabey in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Mangabey: History & Characteristics

Niskala Huruf

Handwriting

Open Source

Mangabey font is a handwriting typeface with casual cute letterforms that swing with primate-inspired, playful personality. Each character displays agile shapes with monkey character suggesting tree-dwelling energy and curious playfulness. This casual cute style suits nature content, primate products, and designs celebrating wildlife with approachable charm. The mangabey monkey reference adds specific animal character. For designers creating wildlife content, Mangabey delivers appropriate primate personality. Complements jungle palettes.

Mangabey comes from the work of Niskala Huruf. 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, Mangabey 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.

Mangabey 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.

Mangabey

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Mangabey

Mangabey

Best Ways to Use Mangabey

Best Font Pairings for Mangabey

Test Mangabey Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Mangabey

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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Inclusive Design

Mangabey: Accessibility Considerations

Legibility Analysis: Mangabey

Mangabey's Readability

Eye Strain Considerations for Mangabey

Mangabey Accessibility Recommendations

How to Use Mangabey Effectively

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Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions