Scratchy Lemon

Name: Scratchy Lemon
Author: Syaf Rizal

Scratchy Lemon commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Syaf Rizal76% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Scratchy Lemon Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Scratchy Lemon Specimen

Scratchy Lemon

Scratchy Lemon is a display typeface by Syaf Rizal built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

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Wordmark Explorations

Scratchy Lemon

SCRATCHY LEMON

SCRATCHY LEMONTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Scratchy Lemon— display typeface

Scratchy LemonBy Syaf Rizal

Scratchy LemonTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Scratchy Lemon Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Scratchy Lemon Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Scratchy Lemon 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Scratchy Lemon'; }

Quick Start

Integrating Scratchy Lemon

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Scratchy Lemon in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Exploring Scratchy Lemon's Design

Syaf Rizal

Display

Open Source

Scratchy Lemon font is a cartoon display typeface featuring childish hand-drawn letterforms with outline playful styling. Fun and authentic, this design delivers children's entertainment aesthetics for educational products, kids' publishing, and brands seeking genuine handmade character. The scratchy quality creates authentic childhood energy while the outline options enable creative color effects. Designers working on children's books, educational apps, and kids' packaging will appreciate the approachable warmth. Pair with simple body text.

Scratchy Lemon comes from the work of Syaf Rizal. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Scratchy Lemon features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for hero headlines and landing page headers.

Scratchy Lemon 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.

Scratchy Lemon

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Scratchy Lemon

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

Classification

Display analysis. Typographic analysis places Scratchy Lemon 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: 76). Scratchy Lemon maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments.

Design Heritage

Designed by Syaf Rizal. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Scratchy Lemon

Scratchy Lemon embodies the Graphic typeface, grounded 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 hero headlines and landing page headers. TypeSmith indexes Scratchy Lemon in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Scratchy Lemon

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Scratchy Lemon 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

Accessibility Overview for Scratchy Lemon

Scratchy Lemon achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Scratchy Lemon's Legibility

Scratchy Lemon 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.

Scratchy Lemon in Context: Readability

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.

Scratchy Lemon for Long-Form Content

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

Scratchy Lemon Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from Scratchy Lemon

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

Scratchy Lemon Language Coverage

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

Legal

Scratchy Lemon Licensing

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.

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

Scratchy Lemon

Best Ways to Use Scratchy Lemon

Best Font Pairings for Scratchy Lemon

Test Scratchy Lemon Font Pairings Live

In Context

Scratchy Lemon Typography

Scratchy Lemon

Character Set

Type Scale

Scratchy Lemon 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

Accessibility Overview for Scratchy Lemon

Scratchy Lemon's Legibility

Scratchy Lemon in Context: Readability

Scratchy Lemon for Long-Form Content

Scratchy Lemon Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Scratchy Lemon

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Scratchy Lemon

Best Ways to Use Scratchy Lemon

Best Font Pairings for Scratchy Lemon

Test Scratchy Lemon Font Pairings Live

In Context

Scratchy Lemon Typography

Scratchy Lemon

Character Set

Type Scale

Scratchy Lemon 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

Accessibility Overview for Scratchy Lemon

Scratchy Lemon's Legibility

Scratchy Lemon in Context: Readability

Scratchy Lemon for Long-Form Content

Scratchy Lemon Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Scratchy Lemon

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference