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My Scars

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

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Handwritingby Jess Latham60% Accessible
Characters456
Glyphs547
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use My Scars

01

Best Font Pairings for My Scars

TypeSmith curates 5 expert font pairings for My Scars, including combinations with Bailleul, Mulat Addis and Dubbo.

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

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02

Test My Scars Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview My Scars 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

My Scars Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Heading Styles with My Scars

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

Body Text with My Scars

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

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

When setting My Scars 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.

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

Quick Start

Using My Scars in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using My Scars in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Inside My Scars

Jess Latham
Handwriting
Open Source

My Scars font is a handwriting typeface with rough, distressed letterforms and dark horror character. The creepy strokes and spooky aesthetic create unsettling presence suited for intense horror content. This typeface excels in horror movie graphics, extreme Halloween materials, dark themed merchandise, and intense scary branding where genuine creepiness matters. The rough quality feels authentically disturbing rather than playfully scary. Designers creating mature horror content, dark entertainment, or intense scary materials will find My Scars delivers appropriate dread. Works well alongside distressed display faces for cohesive intense horror design systems.

My Scars was crafted by Jess Latham. 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, My Scars 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.

My Scars 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.

My Scars

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of My Scars

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

1

Classification

Handwriting analysis. TypeSmith classifies My Scars 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: 60). My Scars offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Jess Latham. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Handwriting with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About My Scars

My Scars embodies the 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 features My Scars in a single weight variant and 5 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
5 curated pairings for My Scars
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

60
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Accessibility Features of My Scars

My Scars falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Irregular baselines and inconsistent letter spacing can hinder readers with visual processing differences. Maintain generous line height and avoid setting below 16 px.

My Scars Legibility Characteristics

My Scars 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.

My Scars Reading Performance

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.

My Scars's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

My Scars Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from My Scars

Combine with a geometric sans-serif for modern contrast or a clean slab serif for grounded warmth. Avoid pairing with script or calligraphic faces. Curated pairings are available to guide complementary typeface selection for My Scars. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve My Scars in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

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 244 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

My Scars License Information

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.

My Scars 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 My Scars ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.