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  5. Xiaolai

Xiaolai

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

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Handwritingby Lxgw87% Accessible
Characters846
Glyphs1,015
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Xiaolai

01

Best Font Pairings for Xiaolai

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Xiaolai, including combinations with Neocyr, Bentoga and Duma.

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

Explore 3 Pairings for Xiaolai
02

Test Xiaolai Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Xiaolai 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

Xiaolai Glyphs & Characters

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

Type Scale

Xiaolai Typography Scale

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

Xiaolai Body Typography

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

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

When setting Xiaolai 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.

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

Quick Start

Xiaolai Implementation Guide

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

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

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

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

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

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

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

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

About

Xiaolai Background & Features

Lxgw
Handwriting
Open Source

Xiaolai font is a handwriting typeface expressing casual character through hand-drawn multilingual construction with extended Chinese, Greek, and Cyrillic support for international handwriting aesthetics. The organic letterforms project multilingual warmth suitable for international branding, global themes, and design projects celebrating xiaolai typography. Casual hand-drawn forms create authentic presence while extensive language support enables global applications. Effective for international products, global marketing, and multilingual communications.

Xiaolai was designed by Lxgw. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Handwriting typeface in the Vox-ATypI Scripts classification, Xiaolai features disconnected or loosely connected letterforms and irregular stroke weight from natural hand pressure. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for greeting cards and informal stationery.

Xiaolai is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Extended language support spanning Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin Extended ensures reliable rendering across global audiences.

Xiaolai

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Xiaolai

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

1

Classification

Handwriting analysis. TypeSmith classifies Xiaolai 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: 87). Xiaolai performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts. More legible than formal scripts due to disconnected letters, but the irregular baseline limits sustained reading.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Lxgw. The designer's attention to letterform construction and spacing rhythm produces a Handwriting with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Xiaolai

Xiaolai falls within the Scripts typeface, drawn from 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 pull quotes and editorial accent text. TypeSmith features Xiaolai in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Xiaolai
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Accessibility & Usability

87
Accessibility Score
Excellent Accessibility

Accessibility Features of Xiaolai

Xiaolai scores in the excellent accessibility tier, making it well-suited for body text, UI labels, and long-form reading across devices. Irregular baselines and inconsistent letter spacing can hinder readers with visual processing differences. Maintain generous line height and avoid setting below 16 px.

Xiaolai's Legibility

Xiaolai 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.

Readability Profile: Xiaolai

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.

Xiaolai's Visual Fatigue and Adaptability

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

Xiaolai Accessibility Recommendations

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

Design Tips for Xiaolai

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 Xiaolai. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Xiaolai in WOFF2 format with its extended character set to ensure consistent rendering across global audiences.

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Available Weights & Styles

Available Weights

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

Weight Reference

Aa
100
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400
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600
Aa
700
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800
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900

Internationalization

Supported Scripts & Languages

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 44846 glyphs covering Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hangul and CJK. 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

Font License Details

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.

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