Poor Story

Name: Poor Story
Author: Sungsil Heo

Poor Story commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Sungsil Heo86% Accessible

Characters646

Glyphs775

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Poor Story Typography

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Poor Story Specimen

Poor Story

Poor Story is a display typeface by Sungsil Heo built for display contexts.

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Poor Story

POOR STORY

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Poor Story— display typeface

Poor StoryBy Sungsil Heo

Poor StoryTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Poor Story 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

Poor Story Body Typography

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

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

When setting Poor Story 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Poor Story'; }

Quick Start

How to Embed Poor Story in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Poor Story';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Poor+Story');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Using Poor Story in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Poor Story's Details

Sungsil Heo

Display

Open Source

Poor Story combines unique character and distinctive personality, making it well-suited for posters. Its distinctive character and artistic expression contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for posters and logos, Poor Story adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes This font supports a wide range of languages, including those that use Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek sc....

Poor Story was created by Sungsil Heo. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Poor Story features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for brand logotypes and wordmarks.

Poor Story is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Extended language support spanning Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin Extended ensures reliable rendering across global audiences.

Poor Story

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Poor Story

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

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Poor Story within the Graphic (Display / Titling) tradition, characterized by Tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and Exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. Display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Key technical strength: high visual impact with minimal typographic hierarchy.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 86). Poor Story delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles. Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt.

Design Heritage

Designed by Sungsil Heo. The designer's attention to character shaping and weight distribution produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Poor Story

Poor Story is classified as a Graphic typeface, rooted in the tradition where display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Its distinctive tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features make it well-suited for event posters and promotional materials. TypeSmith catalogs Poor Story in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

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3 curated pairings for Poor Story

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Poor Story based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Excellent Accessibility

Accessibility Overview for Poor Story

Poor Story scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

How Legible is Poor Story?

Poor Story draws legibility from its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Readability Profile: Poor Story

Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt. Display faces sacrifice small-size legibility for visual impact and personality at headline scale. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Poor Story: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Poor Story Accessibility Recommendations

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

Poor Story Usage Guidelines

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Poor Story. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Poor Story in WOFF2 format with its extended character set to ensure consistent rendering across global audiences.

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Available on Google Fonts

4 weights available for download

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Available Weights

400

Regular

400

Regular Italic

700

Bold

700

Bold Italic

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Poor Story 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 supports a wide range of languages, including those that use Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts, ensuring broad accessibility and usability across different linguistic communities.

Legal

License Type

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.

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

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'poor-story': ['Poor Story', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-poor-story">Your text here</p>

Poor Story

Best Ways to Use Poor Story

Best Font Pairings for Poor Story

Test Poor Story Font Pairings Live

In Context

Poor Story Typography

Poor Story

Character Set

Type Scale

Poor Story Body Typography

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

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Accessibility Overview for Poor Story

How Legible is Poor Story?

Readability Profile: Poor Story

Poor Story: Comfort in Extended Reading

Poor Story Accessibility Recommendations

Poor Story Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Poor Story

Best Ways to Use Poor Story

Best Font Pairings for Poor Story

Test Poor Story Font Pairings Live

In Context

Poor Story Typography

Poor Story

Character Set

Type Scale

Poor Story Body Typography

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

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Accessibility Overview for Poor Story

How Legible is Poor Story?

Readability Profile: Poor Story

Poor Story: Comfort in Extended Reading

Poor Story Accessibility Recommendations

Poor Story Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference