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Waterfall

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

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Handwritingby Tanya Davis72% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Waterfall

01

Best Font Pairings for Waterfall

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Waterfall, including combinations with IM FELL French Canon PRO, DejaVu Serif and Amagro.

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

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02

Test Waterfall Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Waterfall 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

Waterfall Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Waterfall Heading Hierarchy

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

Reading Text in Waterfall

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

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

When setting Waterfall 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.

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

Quick Start

Integrating Waterfall

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

Implementation

Waterfall CSS Implementation

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Exploring Waterfall's Design

Tanya Davis
Handwriting
Open Source

Waterfall, a distinctive script typeface, exhibits cursive elegance and calligraphic beauty, making it well-suited for creative projects. Its fluid strokes and organic flow contribute to its versatile character. Particularly effective for signature elements and creative projects, Waterfall adapts confidently across design contexts. Extended language coverage includes The font supports English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Da....

Waterfall comes from the work of Tanya Davis. The typeface's Disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and Irregular stroke weight reflect a design philosophy optimized for Contemporary handwriting design.

As a Casual handwritten in the Vox-ATypI Scripts family, Waterfall casual handwriting tradition. Its disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure make it a strong fit for personal branding and lifestyle blogs.

Waterfall is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 3 font pairings curated.

Waterfall

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Waterfall

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

1

Classification

Casual handwritten classification. Waterfall exhibits Disconnected or loosely connected letterforms, Irregular stroke weight, Uneven baseline. Designed by Tanya Davis. A handwriting typeface available through TypeSmith.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 72). Waterfall delivers consistent readability in both display and body-text roles.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Tanya Davis. Waterfall casual handwriting tradition, delivered as a single focused weight.

Overview

About Waterfall

Waterfall embodies the Casual handwritten in the Vox-ATypI Scripts family, designed during the Contemporary handwriting design era. Built with Disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and Irregular stroke weight, Waterfall serves as a standard typeface for personal branding and lifestyle blogs. TypeSmith features Waterfall in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Waterfall
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

72
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Waterfall Accessibility Profile

Waterfall achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Irregular baselines and inconsistent letter spacing can hinder readers with visual processing differences. Maintain generous line height and avoid setting below 16 px.

Legibility Analysis: Waterfall

Waterfall 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.

Waterfall'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.

Waterfall for Long-Form Content

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

Waterfall Accessibility Recommendations

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

How to Use Waterfall Effectively

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

Get the Font

Waterfall Font Files

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

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100
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Internationalization

Language 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 English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Russian, and Japanese.

Legal

Waterfall 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.

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