Modesty Script

Name: Modesty Script
Author: Mycandythemes

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

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Handwritingby Mycandythemes42% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Modesty Script

Best Font Pairings for Modesty Script

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Modesty Script, including combinations with Reddit Mono, Scheherazade and Ampero.

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 Modesty Script with any font combination in real-time, optimized for handwriting characteristics.

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Character Set

Modesty Script Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Text Table

Body Copy

Body Text with Modesty Script

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

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

When setting Modesty Script 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Modesty Script'; }

Quick Start

Adding Modesty Script to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Modesty Script in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

About Modesty Script

Mycandythemes

Handwriting

Open Source

Modesty Script font is a bouncy calligraphic cursive handwriting typeface that combines playful movement with refined penmanship technique. The letterforms move with gentle rhythm while maintaining elegant calligraphic foundation. This bouncy calligraphy font excels in feminine branding, celebration stationery, lifestyle marketing, and cheerful social media content. The cursive aesthetic translates to invitation designs, party materials, and elegant promotional graphics. Designers seeking sophisticated playful character with modest charm will find Modesty Script delivers gentle elegant energy. The bouncy rhythm adds feminine celebration dimension. Pairs gracefully with clean serif fonts for supporting text.

Modesty Script comes from the work of Mycandythemes. 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, Modesty Script 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.

Modesty Script 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.

Modesty Script

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Modesty Script

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

Classification

Handwriting analysis. From a classification standpoint, Modesty Script 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.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 42). Modesty Script may present readability challenges at smaller sizes — consider pairing with a more accessible font for body text.

Design Heritage

Designed by Mycandythemes. 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 Modesty Script

Modesty Script represents a Scripts typeface, grounded 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 personal branding and lifestyle blogs. TypeSmith indexes Modesty Script in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Modesty Script

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Typefaces Like Modesty Script

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

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Adequate Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Modesty Script

Modesty Script has limited accessibility at small sizes due to reduced character differentiation, so reserve it for headlines and display contexts. Irregular baselines and inconsistent letter spacing can hinder readers with visual processing differences. Maintain generous line height and avoid setting below 16 px.

Modesty Script Legibility Characteristics

Modesty Script 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.

How Readable is Modesty Script?

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.

Visual Comfort with Modesty Script

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

Modesty Script Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from Modesty Script

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 Modesty Script. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Modesty Script 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

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

Internationalization

Modesty Script Language Coverage

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

Legal

Modesty Script Licensing

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.

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

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'modesty-script': ['Modesty Script', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-modesty-script">Your text here</p>

Modesty Script

Best Ways to Use Modesty Script

Best Font Pairings for Modesty Script

Test Modesty Script Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Modesty Script

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

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Accessibility Features of Modesty Script

Modesty Script Legibility Characteristics

How Readable is Modesty Script?

Visual Comfort with Modesty Script

Modesty Script Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Modesty Script

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Modesty Script

Best Ways to Use Modesty Script

Best Font Pairings for Modesty Script

Test Modesty Script Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Modesty Script

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

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Accessibility Features of Modesty Script

Modesty Script Legibility Characteristics

How Readable is Modesty Script?

Visual Comfort with Modesty Script

Modesty Script Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Modesty Script

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal