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Ponari

Ponari 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 Ponari

01

Best Font Pairings for Ponari

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Ponari, including combinations with Echotopia, Plaisir and Nova Klasse.

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

Explore 4 Pairings for Ponari
02

Test Ponari Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Ponari 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

Ponari Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Ponari Used As Heading Examples

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

Ponari Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Ponari 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding Ponari to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Ponari CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Understanding Ponari

Syaf Rizal
Handwriting
Open Source

Ponari font is a handwriting typeface with childish funny letterforms and playful innocent character. The hand-drawn strokes create endearing presence suited for sweet children's content. This typeface performs well in children's product branding, playful kids graphics, funny innocent materials, and sweet promotional content where childish playfulness matters. The handwriting quality makes Ponari effective for genuine children's design. Designers creating kids products, playful children's materials, or funny innocent content will find this typeface delivers appropriate charm. Pairs effectively with rounded faces for cohesive sweet kids design systems.

Ponari 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, Ponari 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.

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

Ponari

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Ponari

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

1

Classification

Handwriting analysis. TypeSmith classifies Ponari 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: 75). Ponari 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 Ponari

Ponari falls within the Scripts typeface, drawn from 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 indexes Ponari in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Ponari
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Accessibility & Usability

75
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Ponari Accessibility Profile

Ponari 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.

Ponari Legibility Characteristics

Ponari 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.

How Readable is Ponari?

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.

Ponari's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Ponari Accessibility Recommendations

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

Ponari Usage Guidelines

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 Ponari. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Ponari 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

Ponari Multilingual 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 122 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Font License Details

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.

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