Nicolast

Name: Nicolast
Author: Syaf Rizal

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

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Handwritingby Syaf Rizal75% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Nicolast

Best Font Pairings for Nicolast

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Nicolast, including combinations with Virtue Serif, Flyflowersong and Garomand.

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

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Test Nicolast Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Nicolast 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

Nicolast Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Nicolast Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Nicolast 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Adding Nicolast to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Nicolast

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Story of Nicolast

Syaf Rizal

Handwriting

Open Source

Nicolast font is a handwriting typeface with cartoon cute letterforms and rounded friendly character. The hand-drawn strokes create approachable presence suited for friendly content. This typeface performs well in friendly branding, cartoon rounded graphics, cute approachable materials, and rounded friendly content where soft friendliness matters. The cute quality makes Nicolast effective for warm approachable design. Designers creating friendly products, rounded cute materials, or approachable content will find this typeface delivers appropriate warmth. Works well alongside soft rounded faces for cohesive friendly design systems.

Nicolast was designed by Syaf Rizal. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Nicolast features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for greeting cards and informal stationery.

Nicolast is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Nicolast

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Nicolast

Nicolast

Best Ways to Use Nicolast

Best Font Pairings for Nicolast

Test Nicolast Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Nicolast Used As Body Text

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

Using Nicolast Accessibly

Legibility Analysis: Nicolast

Nicolast's Readability

Visual Comfort with Nicolast

Nicolast Accessibility Recommendations

Nicolast Usage Guidelines

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Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

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What you can do

Restrictions