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Orchard

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

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Handwritingby Rory King42% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Orchard

01

Best Font Pairings for Orchard

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Orchard, including combinations with Voga, Architectural and MedievalSharp.

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

Explore 4 Pairings for Orchard
02

Test Orchard Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Orchard 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

Orchard Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Heading Styles with Orchard

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

Reading Text in Orchard

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

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

When setting Orchard 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.

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

Quick Start

Using Orchard in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Orchard in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Orchard Background & Features

Rory King
Handwriting
Open Source

Orchard font is an artistic handwriting typeface that captures the spontaneous beauty of natural brushwork with creative flair. The letterforms convey a sense of organic movement and personal expression, making each word feel individually crafted. This handwriting font family works exceptionally well for artisan branding, organic product packaging, farm-to-table restaurant menus, and creative studio identities where authenticity matters. The artistic quality brings warmth to greeting card designs, wedding stationery, and lifestyle blog headers. Designers seeking alternatives to overly polished script fonts will appreciate Orchard's genuine character. The creative energy translates effectively to social media graphics, boutique signage, and handcrafted product labels. Pairs beautifully with clean geometric sans-serifs for body text, creating contrast between the organic headlines and structured supporting content.

Orchard was created by Rory King. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Orchard 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.

Orchard is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 4 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Orchard

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Orchard

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

1

Classification

Handwriting analysis. Typographic analysis places Orchard 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: 42). Orchard may present readability challenges at smaller sizes — consider pairing with a more accessible font for body text.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Rory King. 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 Orchard

Orchard is classified as a Scripts typeface, rooted 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 greeting cards and informal stationery. TypeSmith catalogs Orchard in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Orchard
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

42
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Orchard

Orchard 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.

How Legible is Orchard?

Orchard 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.

Orchard's 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.

Eye Strain Considerations for Orchard

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

Orchard Accessibility Recommendations

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

Design Tips for Orchard

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 Orchard. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Orchard 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 58 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Orchard 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.

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