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Slow Smoke

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

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Handwritingby Linafis Studio42% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Slow Smoke

01

Best Font Pairings for Slow Smoke

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Slow Smoke, including combinations with Rethink Sans, Ignotum and Cloick.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Slow Smoke
02

Test Slow Smoke Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Slow Smoke 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

Slow Smoke Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Slow Smoke Typography Scale

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

Slow Smoke for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Slow Smoke 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.

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Slow Smoke in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Slow Smoke CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Inside Slow Smoke

Linafis Studio
Handwriting
Open Source

Slow Smoke font is a casual hand-drawn handwriting typeface by Linafis Studio designed for relaxed informal display applications with laid-back character. This approachable typeface delivers natural hand-drawn presence suited for casual lifestyle branding, relaxed invitations, and editorial content requiring easygoing warmth. Slow Smoke excels in coffee shop graphics, leisure brand identities, and lifestyle content where casual handwriting creates relaxed personal connection. The hand-drawn quality adds authentic character while relaxed proportions ensure approachable friendliness. Designers seeking laid-back casual handwriting faces will find Slow Smoke delivers appropriate relaxed charm. Pairs effectively with clean sans-serifs for balanced casual design systems.

Slow Smoke was crafted by Linafis Studio. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Slow Smoke features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for packaging for artisanal and handmade products.

Slow Smoke is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Slow Smoke

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Slow Smoke

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

1

Classification

Handwriting analysis. Typographic analysis places Slow Smoke 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: 42). Slow Smoke may present readability challenges at smaller sizes — consider pairing with a more accessible font for body text.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Linafis Studio. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Handwriting with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Slow Smoke

Slow Smoke embodies the Scripts typeface, anchored 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 packaging for artisanal and handmade products. TypeSmith indexes Slow Smoke in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Slow Smoke
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

42
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Slow Smoke: Accessibility Considerations

Slow Smoke has limited accessibility at small sizes due to reduced character differentiation, so reserve it for headlines and display contexts. Irregular baselines and inconsistent letter spacing can hinder readers with visual processing differences. Maintain generous line height and avoid setting below 16 px.

How Legible is Slow Smoke?

Slow Smoke 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.

How Readable is Slow Smoke?

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.

Slow Smoke: Comfort in Extended Reading

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

Slow Smoke Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Slow Smoke Effectively

Combine with a geometric sans-serif for modern contrast or a clean slab serif for grounded warmth. Avoid pairing with script or calligraphic faces. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Slow Smoke. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Slow Smoke in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights & Styles

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

Legal

Usage Rights for Slow Smoke

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.

Slow Smoke 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 Slow Smoke ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.