Start Story

Name: Start Story
Author: Syaf Rizal

Start Story 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 Start Story

Best Font Pairings for Start Story

TypeSmith curates 4 expert font pairings for Start Story, including combinations with Gehaks, Kreadon and St Brigantina.

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

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Test Start Story Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Start Story 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

Start Story Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Body Text with Start Story

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

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

When setting Start Story 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Start Story'; }

Quick Start

Integrating Start Story

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Code Snippets for Start Story

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Understanding Start Story

Syaf Rizal

Handwriting

Open Source

Start Story font is a handwriting typeface expressing casual character through comic hand-drawn handwriting playful beginning construction for narrative opening aesthetics. The organic letterforms project storytelling warmth suitable for children's branding, story themes, and design projects celebrating start story typography. Casual comic hand-drawn forms create beginning presence while playful influence adds narrative character. Effective for children's books, story beginnings, and narrative communications.

Start Story 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, Start Story features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for greeting cards and informal stationery.

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

Start Story

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Start Story

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

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Best Ways to Use Start Story

Best Font Pairings for Start Story

Test Start Story Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Body Text with Start Story

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

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Inclusive Design

Accessibility Features of Start Story

Start Story Legibility Characteristics

Start Story's Readability

Start Story's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Start Story Accessibility Recommendations

Start Story Usage Guidelines

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Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

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What you can do

Restrictions