Wexville

Name: Wexville
Author: J Hudson

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

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Handwritingby J Hudson70% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Wexville

Best Font Pairings for Wexville

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Wexville, including combinations with Alexandria, Bluu Next and Dual.

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 Wexville with any font combination in real-time, optimized for handwriting characteristics.

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Character Set

Wexville Glyphs & Characters

Size48

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

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Heading Examples

Body Text Table

Body Copy

Wexville Used As Body Text

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

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

When setting Wexville 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.

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

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

Quick Start

How to Embed Wexville in Your Project

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Wexville';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Wexville: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: 'Wexville', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Wexville: History & Characteristics

J Hudson

Handwriting

Open Source

Wexville font is a handwriting typeface blending blackletter gothic structure with town-naming personality. Each character displays gothic forms with village character suggesting historical European towns and blackletter heritage. This blackletter gothic style suits historical town content, heritage branding, and designs celebrating European village history with gothic character. The ville (town) reference emphasizes place-naming tradition. For designers creating historical content, Wexville delivers appropriate heritage character. Complements heritage palettes.

Wexville was crafted by J Hudson. 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, Wexville 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.

Wexville 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.

Wexville

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Wexville

Wexville

Best Ways to Use Wexville

Best Font Pairings for Wexville

Test Wexville Font Pairings Live

Character Set

Type Scale

Wexville Used As Body Text

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

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Using Wexville Accessibly

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Wexville Reading Performance

Wexville: Comfort in Extended Reading

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Available Weights

Weight Reference

Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

Central European

Baltic

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