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Next Bro

Next Bro 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 Next Bro

01

Best Font Pairings for Next Bro

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Next Bro, including combinations with Punc, Podarok and Garute.

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

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02

Test Next Bro Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Next Bro 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

Next Bro Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Next Bro Heading Hierarchy

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

Reading Text in Next Bro

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

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

When setting Next Bro 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.

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

Quick Start

Using Next Bro in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Next Bro CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Design of Next Bro

Syaf Rizal
Handwriting
Open Source

Next Bro font is a handwriting typeface with cartoon casual letterforms and friendly brotherhood character. The cute hand-drawn strokes create friendly presence suited for bro content. This typeface performs well in friendly branding, cartoon casual graphics, cute brotherhood materials, and bro content where friendly brotherhood matters. The cute quality makes Next Bro effective for warm brotherhood design. Designers creating friendship products, bro materials, or casual friendly content will find this typeface delivers appropriate brotherhood warmth. Pairs effectively with warm rounded faces for cohesive brotherhood design systems.

Next Bro was crafted by Syaf Rizal. 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, Next Bro 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.

Next Bro 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.

Next Bro

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Next Bro

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

1

Classification

Handwriting analysis. Typographic analysis places Next Bro 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). Next Bro performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Syaf Rizal. 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 Next Bro

Next Bro embodies the 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 personal branding and lifestyle blogs. TypeSmith features Next Bro in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Next Bro
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

76
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Next Bro Accessibility Profile

Next Bro 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.

Reading Next Bro: Legibility Factors

Next Bro 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.

Next Bro in Context: 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.

Visual Comfort with Next Bro

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

Next Bro Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Next Bro: Best Practices

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 Next Bro. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Next Bro 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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100
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400
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500
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600
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700
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800
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900

Internationalization

International Character 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

Next Bro 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.

Next Bro 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 Next Bro ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.