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  5. Soda Shake

Soda Shake

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

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Handwritingby Syaf Rizal75% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Soda Shake

01

Best Font Pairings for Soda Shake

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Soda Shake, including combinations with Lab Mono, Zt Ravigsfen and Astral Mono.

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

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02

Test Soda Shake Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Soda Shake 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

Soda Shake Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Soda Shake Used As Heading Examples

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

Soda Shake Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Soda Shake 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.

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

Quick Start

Using Soda Shake in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Soda Shake CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Understanding Soda Shake

Syaf Rizal
Handwriting
Open Source

Soda Shake font is a handwriting typeface with cartoon letterforms and fizzy playful character. The hand-drawn strokes create bubbly presence suited for beverage content. This typeface performs well in soda branding, fizzy beverage graphics, playful drink materials, and effervescent promotional content where bubbly personality matters. The cartoon quality makes Soda Shake effective for approachable beverage design. Designers creating soda packaging, fizzy drink branding, or playful beverage materials will find this typeface delivers appropriate effervescence. Pairs naturally with bubbly display faces for cohesive beverage design systems.

Soda Shake was created by Syaf Rizal. The typeface demonstrates a commitment to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Soda Shake features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for pull quotes and editorial accent text.

Soda Shake 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.

Soda Shake

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Soda Shake

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

1

Classification

Handwriting analysis. TypeSmith classifies Soda Shake 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: 75). Soda Shake maintains legibility across a range of sizes and rendering environments.

3

Design Heritage

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

Overview

About Soda Shake

Soda Shake 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 greeting cards and informal stationery. TypeSmith indexes Soda Shake in a single weight variant and 4 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
4 curated pairings for Soda Shake
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

75
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Using Soda Shake Accessibly

Soda Shake 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.

How Legible is Soda Shake?

Soda Shake 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.

Soda Shake in Context: 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.

Visual Comfort with Soda Shake

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

Soda Shake Accessibility Recommendations

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

Best Practices for Using Soda Shake

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 Soda Shake. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Soda Shake 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

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Internationalization

Supported Scripts & Languages

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

Soda Shake 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.

Soda Shake 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 Soda Shake ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.