Sunflower

Name: Sunflower
Author: Kim Jung Hwan

Sunflower delivers clean, contemporary letterforms optimized for digital interfaces and modern design systems.

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Sans Serifby Kim Jung Hwan63% Accessible

Characters256

Glyphs307

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Best Ways to Use Sunflower

Best Font Pairings for Sunflower

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Sunflower, including combinations with Avara, Permian Serif and Scheherazade.

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

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Sunflower with any font combination in real-time, optimized for sans serif characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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In Context

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Sunflower Editorial Specimen

Sunflower in Editorial Context

Sunflower is a sans serif typeface by Kim Jung Hwan suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Kim Jung Hwan

Typeface Designer • Sans Serif

Sunflower demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a sans serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Sunflower supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Kim Jung Hwan, Sunflower balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Sunflower Typography

A sans serif typeface for UI components.

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Sunflower Specimen

Sunflower

Sunflower is a sans serif typeface by Kim Jung Hwan built for display contexts.

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Sunflower

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Sunflower— sans serif typeface

SunflowerBy Kim Jung Hwan

SunflowerTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Sunflower Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Text Table

Body Copy

Sunflower Body Typography

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

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

When setting Sunflower 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.

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

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

Quick Start

Sunflower Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Sunflower in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Story of Sunflower

Kim Jung Hwan

Sans Serif

Open Source

Sunflower presents structured forms and calculated curves, making it well-suited for mobile applications. Its no decorative strokes and modern aesthetic contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for mobile applications and corporate branding, Sunflower adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The \"Sunflower\" font supports a wide range of languages, including but not limited to, Western Eur....

Sunflower was created by Kim Jung Hwan. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Sans Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Lineal classification, Sunflower features no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for screen-first digital products and web applications.

Sunflower is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Sunflower

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

Classification

Sans Serif analysis. Typographic analysis places Sunflower within the Lineal (Grotesque, Neo-grotesque, Geometric, Humanist) tradition, characterized by No serif extensions on stroke terminals and Stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. The first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Key technical strength: widest variable-font support with weight and width axes.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 63). Sunflower offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

Design Heritage

Designed by Kim Jung Hwan. The designer's attention to stroke consistency and typographic color produces a Sans Serif with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Sunflower

Sunflower is classified as a Lineal typeface, rooted in the tradition where the first commercially successful sans-serifs appeared in the 1810s-1830s as display types. Its distinctive no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated make it well-suited for wayfinding, signage, and information design. TypeSmith indexes Sunflower in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Sunflower

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TypeSmith identifies 5 fonts with similar visual characteristics to Sunflower based on classification, x-height ratio, and stroke weight. These alternatives maintain the same typographic personality while offering different weight options and language support.

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Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Good Accessibility

Sunflower: Accessibility Considerations

Sunflower falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Grotesques with ambiguous letterforms (I/l/1) reduce accessibility. Choose designs with distinct character differentiation and open apertures for inclusive typography.

How Legible is Sunflower?

Sunflower draws legibility from its no serif extensions on stroke terminals and stroke contrast ranging from monolinear to subtly modulated. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Sunflower in Context: Readability

Humanist sans-serifs offer the best body-text readability in the category. Geometric and neo-grotesque designs excel in short-form UI text but require careful sizing for sustained reading. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Eye Strain Considerations for Sunflower

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

Sunflower Accessibility Recommendations

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

Sunflower Usage Guidelines

Pair with Garalde or Transitional serifs for classic contrast. A humanist sans body with a geometric sans display creates intra-category tension without conflict. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Sunflower. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Sunflower in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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4 weights available for download

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Available Weights

400

Regular

400

Regular Italic

700

Bold

700

Bold Italic

Weight Reference

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Internationalization

Sunflower Language Coverage

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 \"Sunflower\" font supports a wide range of languages, including but not limited to, Western European, Central European, and Southeastern European languages, ensuring broad usability across different linguistic groups.

Legal

Sunflower License Information

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.

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

1// tailwind.config.js 2module.exports = { 3 theme: { 4 extend: { 5 fontFamily: { 6 'sunflower': ['Sunflower', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-sunflower">Your text here</p>

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Best Ways to Use Sunflower

Best Font Pairings for Sunflower

Test Sunflower Font Pairings Live

In Context

Sunflower Typography

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Character Set

Type Scale

Sunflower Body Typography

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

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Sunflower: Accessibility Considerations

How Legible is Sunflower?

Sunflower in Context: Readability

Eye Strain Considerations for Sunflower

Sunflower Accessibility Recommendations

Sunflower Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Sunflower

Best Ways to Use Sunflower

Best Font Pairings for Sunflower

Test Sunflower Font Pairings Live

In Context

Sunflower Typography

Sunflower

Character Set

Type Scale

Sunflower Body Typography

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

Explore More

Inclusive Design

Sunflower: Accessibility Considerations

How Legible is Sunflower?

Sunflower in Context: Readability

Eye Strain Considerations for Sunflower

Sunflower Accessibility Recommendations

Sunflower Usage Guidelines

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference