Mr Henry

Name: Mr Henry
Author: Nick Daze

Mr Henry delivers clean, contemporary letterforms optimized for digital interfaces and modern design systems.

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Sans Serifby Nick Daze72% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

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TypeSmith curates 5 expert font pairings for Mr Henry, including combinations with Stelpolvo Sans, Mainlux and Talisyaline.

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Mr Henry Editorial Specimen

Mr Henry in Editorial Context

Mr Henry is a sans serif typeface by Nick Daze suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Nick Daze

Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

Mr Henry demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a sans serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Mr Henry supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Nick Daze, Mr Henry balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Mr Henry Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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Mr Henry Specimen

Mr Henry

Mr Henry is a sans serif typeface by Nick Daze built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSans Serif Typeface

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Mr Henry

MR HENRY

MR HENRYTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Mr Henry— sans serif typeface

Mr HenryBy Nick Daze

Mr HenryTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Mr Henry Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Mr Henry for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Mr Henry 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Mr Henry'; }

Quick Start

Integrating Mr Henry

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Mr Henry

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Story of Mr Henry

Nick Daze

Sans Serif

Open Source

Mr Henry font is a geometric retro grotesk by Nick Daze designed for vintage-modern brand applications. This typeface brings mid-century character to heritage-forward contemporary design. Mr Henry's geometric proportions and retro styling create distinctive nostalgic headlines. Particularly effective for barbershops, vintage retail, and period-inspired brands. Works at display sizes. Pairs with period fonts or modern text.

Mr Henry was designed by Nick Daze. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Sans Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Lineal classification, Mr Henry features no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for wayfinding, signage, and information design.

Mr Henry is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 5 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Mr Henry

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Mr Henry

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

Classification

Sans Serif analysis. From a classification standpoint, Mr Henry within the Lineal (Grotesque, Neo-grotesque, Geometric, Humanist) tradition, characterized by No serif extensions on stroke terminals and Stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. The first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Key technical strength: widest variable-font support with weight and width axes.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 72). Mr Henry performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

Design Heritage

Designed by Nick Daze. The designer's attention to glyph proportions and optical balance produces a Sans Serif with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Mr Henry

Mr Henry falls within the Lineal typeface, drawn from the tradition where the first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Its distinctive no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated make it well-suited for screen-first digital products and web applications. TypeSmith features Mr Henry in a single weight variant and 5 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

5 curated pairings for Mr Henry

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Mr Henry 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

Good Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Mr Henry

Mr Henry achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Grotesques with ambiguous letterforms (I/l/1) reduce accessibility. Choose designs with distinct character differentiation and open apertures for inclusive typography.

Mr Henry's Legibility

Mr Henry draws legibility from its no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

How Readable is Mr Henry?

Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category. Geometric and neo-grotesque designs excel in short-form UI text but require careful sizing for sustained reading. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Mr Henry: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Mr Henry Accessibility Recommendations

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

Best Practices for Using Mr Henry

Pair with Garalde or Transitional serifs for classic contrast. A humanist sans body with a geometric sans display creates intra-category tension without conflict. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for Mr Henry. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Mr Henry in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Download Weights & Variants

Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

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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

This font encodes 309 glyphs covering Latin. Latin coverage extends past the basic ASCII set into Latin Extended, so Central and Eastern European languages set correctly. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Font License Details

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.

Mr Henry 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 Mr Henry 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 'mr-henry': ['Mr Henry', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-mr-henry">Your text here</p>

Mr Henry

Best Ways to Use Mr Henry

Best Font Pairings for Mr Henry

Test Mr Henry Font Pairings Live

In Context

Mr Henry Typography

Mr Henry

Character Set

Type Scale

Mr Henry for Paragraphs

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 Overview for Mr Henry

Mr Henry's Legibility

How Readable is Mr Henry?

Mr Henry: Comfort in Extended Reading

Mr Henry Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Mr Henry

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Mr Henry

Best Ways to Use Mr Henry

Best Font Pairings for Mr Henry

Test Mr Henry Font Pairings Live

In Context

Mr Henry Typography

Mr Henry

Character Set

Type Scale

Mr Henry for Paragraphs

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 Overview for Mr Henry

Mr Henry's Legibility

How Readable is Mr Henry?

Mr Henry: Comfort in Extended Reading

Mr Henry Accessibility Recommendations

Best Practices for Using Mr Henry

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference