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Splash

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

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Handwriting48% Accessible
Characters646
Glyphs775
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Splash

01

Best Font Pairings for Splash

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Splash, including combinations with ChanticleerRoman, BodoniXT and Scheherazade.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Splash
02

Test Splash Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Splash 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

Splash Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Splash Typography Scale

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

Body Text with Splash

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

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

When setting Splash 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.

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

Quick Start

Integrating Splash

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Splash';
  src: url('https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Splash');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Splash Background & Features

Unknown
Handwriting
Open Source

Representing script typeface design, Splash showcases flowing connections and cursive elegance, making it well-suited for signature elements. Its natural rhythm and organic flow contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for signature elements and creative projects, Splash adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The font supports Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts, accommodating a wide range of languages within....

Splash was created by Unknown. Known for display typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Splash's glyph proportions, stroke consistency, and typographic color.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Splash 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.

Splash is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 3 font pairings curated. Extended language support spanning Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin Extended ensures reliable rendering across global audiences.

Splash

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Splash

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

1

Classification

Handwriting analysis. TypeSmith classifies Splash 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: 48). Splash may present readability challenges at smaller sizes — consider pairing with a more accessible font for body text.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Unknown. Known for display typeface design, the designer's expertise shapes Splash's stroke consistency and typographic color across a single focused weight.

Overview

About Splash

Splash 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 catalogs Splash in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Splash
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

48
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Splash Accessibility Profile

Splash 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.

Splash Legibility Characteristics

Splash 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.

Readability Profile: Splash

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 Splash

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

Splash Accessibility Recommendations

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

Best Practices for Using Splash

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 Splash. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Splash in WOFF2 format with its extended character set to ensure consistent rendering across global audiences.

Get the Font

Get Splash

Available on Google Fonts
4 weights available for download
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Available Weights

400
Regular
400
Regular Italic
700
Bold
700
Bold Italic

Weight Reference

Aa
100
Aa
200
Aa
300
Aa
400
Aa
500
Aa
600
Aa
700
Aa
800
Aa
900

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

The font supports Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts, accommodating a wide range of languages within these alphabetic systems.

Legal

Splash 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.

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