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Valden

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

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Handwritingby Piotr Kucharski51% Accessible
Characters456
Glyphs547
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Valden

01

Best Font Pairings for Valden

TypeSmith curates 5 expert font pairings for Valden, including combinations with Cossette Titre, Funnel Display and Modern Society.

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

Explore 5 Pairings for Valden
02

Test Valden Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Valden 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

Valden Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Valden Typography Scale

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

Valden for Paragraphs

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

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

When setting Valden 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.

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

Quick Start

Adding Valden to Your Website

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Using Valden in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Inside Valden

Piotr Kucharski
Handwriting
Open Source

Valden font is a handwriting typeface with brush casual letterforms that express with natural, flowing personality. Each character displays confident brush strokes with organic warmth that feels authentically hand-painted. This brush casual style suits artisan branding, organic products, and designs requiring typography with painterly authenticity. The brush aesthetic communicates artistic craftsmanship. Designers seeking brush script with natural flow will find Valden appropriately organic. Pairs with clean supporting fonts for sophisticated casual systems.

Valden comes from the work of Piotr Kucharski. The typeface reflects a focus on typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Valden features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for packaging for artisanal and handmade products.

Valden is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 5 curated font pairings available. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Valden

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Valden

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

1

Classification

Handwriting analysis. TypeSmith classifies Valden 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: 51). Valden handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Piotr Kucharski. 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 Valden

Valden represents a Scripts typeface, anchored 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 packaging for artisanal and handmade products. TypeSmith features Valden in a single weight variant and 5 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
5 curated pairings for Valden
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

51
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Valden: Accessibility Considerations

Valden falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. 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 Valden?

Valden 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.

Valden's 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.

Valden's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Valden Accessibility Recommendations

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

Working with Valden: Best Practices

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 Valden. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Valden in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

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Available Weights

400
Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

Weight Reference

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

Internationalization

Valden 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

This font encodes 113 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 Valden

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.

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