Shears

Name: Shears
Author: Font Ysia

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

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Handwritingby Font Ysia70% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Shears

Best Font Pairings for Shears

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Shears, including combinations with Octane, Anticyclone and Kolumbia.

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

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Test Shears Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Shears 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

Shears Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Reading Text in Shears

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

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

When setting Shears 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.

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

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Shears in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Shears in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Inside Shears

Font Ysia

Handwriting

Open Source

Shears font is a casual cursive elegant handwriting typeface that balances relaxed rhythm with refined sophistication. The letterforms connect naturally with graceful flow while maintaining approachable warmth. This elegant casual font excels in lifestyle branding, creative business identities, wedding-adjacent materials, and personal stationery design. The cursive handwriting works well for testimonials, social media content, and accent typography. Designers seeking elegant fonts with casual approachability will find Shears' balanced personality appealing. The refined informality translates effectively to creative professional applications. Pairs effectively with contemporary serif fonts for body text.

Shears was crafted by Font Ysia. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Shears features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for personal branding and lifestyle blogs.

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

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Expert Analysis of Shears

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Best Ways to Use Shears

Best Font Pairings for Shears

Test Shears Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Reading Text in Shears

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

About

Typography Judgment

Classification

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Shears Accessibility Profile

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