Pencil Child

Name: Pencil Child
Author: Syaf Rizal

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

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Handwritingby Syaf Rizal70% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

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TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Pencil Child, including combinations with Gomm, Micro Grotesk and Bagel Fat.

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Pencil Child with any font combination in real-time, optimized for handwriting characteristics.

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Character Set

Pencil Child Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Text Table

Body Copy

Pencil Child Body Typography

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

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

When setting Pencil Child 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Pencil Child'; }

Quick Start

Integrating Pencil Child

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Styling with Pencil Child

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Pencil Child Background & Features

Syaf Rizal

Handwriting

Open Source

Pencil Child font is a handwriting typeface with casual comic letterforms replicating children's pencil drawings. Each character displays the authentic imperfection of young hands wielding pencils with earnest effort. This hand-drawn style suits elementary education materials, children's art program branding, and content celebrating authentic childhood creativity. The pencil child reference emphasizes innocent creation. For designers creating education content capturing childhood artistic voice, Pencil Child delivers appropriate authenticity. Pairs with crayon textures and primary color palettes.

Pencil Child was designed by Syaf Rizal. 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, Pencil Child features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for pull quotes and editorial accent text.

Pencil Child 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.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Pencil Child

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Best Ways to Use Pencil Child

Best Font Pairings for Pencil Child

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Character Set

Type Scale

Pencil Child Body Typography

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

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Internationalization

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