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Prilly Monly

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

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Handwritingby Mj Type80% Accessible
Characters456
Glyphs547
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Prilly Monly

01

Best Font Pairings for Prilly Monly

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Prilly Monly, including combinations with Spline Sans Mono, Shadower and Cortisa Pro.

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

Explore 4 Pairings for Prilly Monly
02

Test Prilly Monly Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Prilly Monly 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

Prilly Monly Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Prilly Monly Heading Hierarchy

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

Prilly Monly for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Prilly Monly 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.

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Prilly Monly in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Prilly Monly CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Prilly Monly: A Closer Look

Mj Type
Handwriting
Open Source

Prilly Monly font is a handwriting typeface with casual comic letterforms that bounce with lighthearted energy. The characters display playful irregularity with rounded terminals that feel genuinely hand-drawn with cheerful enthusiasm. This hand-drawn display face excels in children's content, informal social media graphics, and personal projects requiring approachable personality. The comic styling maintains readability while delivering distinctive character. For designers creating casual content without formal constraints, Prilly Monly offers appropriate playfulness. Complements other handwriting fonts or simple sans-serifs for layered informal compositions.

Prilly Monly was created by Mj Type. 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, Prilly Monly 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.

Prilly Monly 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.

Prilly Monly

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Prilly Monly

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

1

Classification

Handwriting analysis. From a classification standpoint, Prilly Monly 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: 80). Prilly Monly performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

3

Design Heritage

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

Overview

About Prilly Monly

Prilly Monly 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 pull quotes and editorial accent text. TypeSmith indexes Prilly Monly in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Prilly Monly
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

80
Accessibility Score
Excellent Accessibility

Prilly Monly: Accessibility Considerations

Prilly Monly 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.

Legibility Analysis: Prilly Monly

Prilly Monly 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.

Prilly Monly'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.

Prilly Monly for Long-Form Content

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

Prilly Monly Accessibility Recommendations

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

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

International Character 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 224 glyphs covering Latin. Latin coverage extends past the basic ASCII set into Latin Extended, so Central and Eastern European languages set correctly. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Usage Rights for Prilly Monly

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.

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