Super Pencil

Name: Super Pencil
Author: Francisco Suarez

Super Pencil commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Francisco Suarez64% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Super Pencil

Best Font Pairings for Super Pencil

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Super Pencil, including combinations with Vision, Styllo and Old Cupboard.

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 Super Pencil with any font combination in real-time, optimized for display 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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Super Pencil Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Super Pencil Specimen

Super Pencil

Super Pencil is a display typeface by Francisco Suarez built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface

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Wordmark Explorations

Super Pencil

SUPER PENCIL

SUPER PENCILTYPE

Tagline Pairings

Super Pencil— display typeface

Super PencilBy Francisco Suarez

Super PencilTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Super Pencil Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Super Pencil for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Super Pencil 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.

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

.your-class { font-family: 'Super Pencil'; }

Quick Start

Adding Super Pencil to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

CSS Code Examples

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

The Design of Super Pencil

Francisco Suarez

Display

Open Source

Super Pencil font is a bold cartoon display typeface featuring hand-drawn handwriting playful letterforms. Fun and authentic, this design delivers educational aesthetics for children's learning materials, art supplies, and creative products. The pencil texture creates genuine handmade warmth while cartoon character adds playful friendliness. Designers working on school supplies, art brand packaging, and children's educational content will appreciate the creative personality. Pair with simple rounded body text.

Super Pencil was crafted by Francisco Suarez. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Super Pencil features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for hero headlines and landing page headers.

Super Pencil 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.

Super Pencil

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Super Pencil

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

Classification

Display analysis. From a classification standpoint, Super Pencil within the Graphic (Display / Titling) tradition, characterized by Tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and Exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. Display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Key technical strength: high visual impact with minimal typographic hierarchy.

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 64). Super Pencil offers acceptable readability for standard design contexts, though specialized accessibility projects may benefit from higher-rated alternatives.

Design Heritage

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

Overview

About Super Pencil

Super Pencil represents a Graphic typeface, grounded in the tradition where display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Its distinctive tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features make it well-suited for hero headlines and landing page headers. TypeSmith catalogs Super Pencil in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available

3 curated pairings for Super Pencil

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Alternatives to Super Pencil

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

Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

Accessibility Score

Good Accessibility

Using Super Pencil Accessibly

Super Pencil falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

Super Pencil Legibility Characteristics

Super Pencil draws legibility from its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Readability Profile: Super Pencil

Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt. Display faces sacrifice small-size legibility for visual impact and personality at headline scale. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Super Pencil's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Super Pencil Accessibility Recommendations

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

Getting the Most from Super Pencil

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Super Pencil. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Super Pencil in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

400

Regular

Local

400

Regular Italic

Local

700

Bold

Local

700

Bold Italic

Local

Weight Reference

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

900

Internationalization

Super Pencil Multilingual 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 237 glyphs covering Latin. Latin coverage extends past the basic ASCII set into Latin Extended, so Central and Eastern European languages set correctly. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Usage Rights for Super Pencil

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.

Super Pencil 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 Super Pencil 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 'super-pencil': ['Super Pencil', 'sans-serif'], 7 }, 8 }, 9 }, 10} 11 12// Usage in HTML 13<p class="font-super-pencil">Your text here</p>

Super Pencil

Best Ways to Use Super Pencil

Best Font Pairings for Super Pencil

Test Super Pencil Font Pairings Live

In Context

Super Pencil Typography

Super Pencil

Character Set

Type Scale

Super Pencil for Paragraphs

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

Using Super Pencil Accessibly

Super Pencil Legibility Characteristics

Readability Profile: Super Pencil

Super Pencil's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Super Pencil Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Super Pencil

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

Legal

What you can do

Restrictions

Super Pencil

Best Ways to Use Super Pencil

Best Font Pairings for Super Pencil

Test Super Pencil Font Pairings Live

In Context

Super Pencil Typography

Super Pencil

Character Set

Type Scale

Super Pencil for Paragraphs

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

Using Super Pencil Accessibly

Super Pencil Legibility Characteristics

Readability Profile: Super Pencil

Super Pencil's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

Super Pencil Accessibility Recommendations

Getting the Most from Super Pencil

Get the Font

Available Weights

Weight Reference