Retrock

Name: Retrock
Author: Haris Prawoto

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

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Scriptby Haris Prawoto68% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Best Font Pairings for Retrock

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Retrock, including combinations with Migra Display, Lab Mono and Horizon.

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

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Retrock Editorial Specimen

Retrock in Editorial Context

Retrock is a script typeface by Haris Prawoto suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Haris Prawoto

Typeface Designer • Script

Retrock demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a script typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Retrock supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Haris Prawoto, Retrock balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Retrock Typography

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Retrock Specimen

Retrock

Retrock is a script typeface by Haris Prawoto built for display contexts.

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Retrock— script typeface

RetrockBy Haris Prawoto

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Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Retrock 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

Retrock Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Retrock 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Retrock'; }

Quick Start

Adding Retrock to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Retrock

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Retrock: History & Characteristics

Haris Prawoto

Script

Open Source

Retrock font is a cool cursive italic script that combines retro influences with contemporary urban sensibility. The letterforms blend vintage rhythm with modern edge for distinctive character. This cool retro font works effectively for vintage-modern hybrid branding, music industry marketing, creative agency identities, and fashion-forward packaging. The cursive italic aesthetic translates to record label design, trendy café signage, and lifestyle brand materials. Designers seeking retro character with contemporary relevance will find Retrock's balanced personality appealing. The cool attitude suits brands bridging nostalgic and modern aesthetics. Pairs well with bold sans-serif fonts for supporting text.

Retrock comes from the work of Haris Prawoto. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Script typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Retrock features connected letterforms with flowing joins between glyphs and strong stroke contrast from pointed-pen angle of attack. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for wedding invitations and formal stationery.

Retrock is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, 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 Retrock

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

Classification

Script analysis. TypeSmith classifies Retrock within the Scripts (Formal Joined Script) tradition, characterized by Connected letterforms with flowing joins between glyphs and Strong stroke contrast from pointed-pen angle of attack. Script typefaces emulate formal penmanship traditions dating to 17th-century writing masters like George Bickham. Key technical strength: contextual alternates ensure smooth glyph connections.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 68). Retrock handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

Design Heritage

Designed by Haris Prawoto. The designer's attention to glyph proportions and optical balance produces a Script with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Retrock

Retrock embodies the Scripts typeface, grounded in the tradition where script typefaces emulate formal penmanship traditions dating to 17th-century writing masters like George Bickham. Its distinctive connected letterforms with flowing joins between glyphs and strong stroke contrast from pointed-pen angle of attack make it well-suited for wedding invitations and formal stationery. TypeSmith catalogs Retrock in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Retrock

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Alternatives to Retrock

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Retrock 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

Good Accessibility

Retrock Accessibility Profile

Retrock falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Ornate connections between letters impair word-shape recognition. Reserve for decorative headlines and provide a legible alternative for critical information.

Retrock's Legibility

Retrock draws legibility from its connected letterforms with flowing joins between glyphs and strong stroke contrast from pointed-pen angle of attack. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Readability Profile: Retrock

Legible in short bursts at medium-to-large sizes. The connected joins and flourishes make extended reading at body sizes impractical. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Retrock: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Retrock Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from Retrock

Pair with a Transitional serif or refined sans-serif. Avoid combining with handwriting or calligraphic faces to prevent stylistic confusion. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Retrock. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Retrock in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Retrock 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 119 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Usage Rights for Retrock

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.

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

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Best Ways to Use Retrock

Best Font Pairings for Retrock

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In Context

Retrock Typography

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Character Set

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Retrock Used As Body Text

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

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Inclusive Design

Retrock Accessibility Profile

Retrock's Legibility

Readability Profile: Retrock

Retrock: Comfort in Extended Reading

Retrock Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Retrock

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Retrock

Best Ways to Use Retrock

Best Font Pairings for Retrock

Test Retrock Font Pairings Live

In Context

Retrock Typography

Retrock

Character Set

Type Scale

Retrock Used As Body Text

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

Retrock Accessibility Profile

Retrock's Legibility

Readability Profile: Retrock

Retrock: Comfort in Extended Reading

Retrock Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Retrock

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference