Kids Fonts

By structure they are mixed: 18 handwriting, 9 display, 2 decorative and 1 pixel, out of 30 in all. The largest group, 18 handwriting fonts, is more than half of the page; all of them are also on Handwriting Fonts. 1 of the 30 is in the free collection (Kids Crayon Print), so a free account can download it as TTF; the other 29 download with Pro, Studio or a Font Pass. Each of them ships as one Regular style; none has a separate bold or light weight. Other labels that recur across the set: informal on 21, rounded on 14, cute on 9 and birthday on 8. Some are drawn on one letter structure: Crush Print, Doodle Pixel and Quirk Outline differ only in effect, slant or width, and 15 fonts here belong to such groups.

2 of the 27 fonts whose slant could be measured lean right, by a median of about 4°, while 25 stand upright. The steepest is Kids Backslant Print at about 4°; the other 3 have strokes too varied to give one angle. From narrowest to widest, Kids Tall Skinny sets an average lowercase letter at 37.6% of the cap height and Bubble Toy Block at 89.4%, 2.4 times as wide. Their median width, 75.2%, is 7% narrower than the 80.5% median of the whole library, so more words fit on a line than in an average library font. Lowercase x-heights of these kids fonts sit between 53.9% and 84.8% of the cap height, with a median of 72.9%; the library median is 71.8%. Ink coverage, how dark a line of text looks, goes from 13.4% of each letter's box in Quirk Outline to 62% in Bubble Toy Block; the median here, 33%, is 5% lighter than the library's 34.8%. Of the 27 whose stroke contrast could be read from the o, 24 keep close to one stroke weight in every direction and 1 is heavier across than down, a reversed contrast. 4 of the 30 carry an effect drawn into every letter: paint drip on 2, outline on 1 and pixel grid on 1.

Beyond Latin, 1 font covers Greek; the largest character set is Notebook Hand's 355, the smallest 148. Accents are covered across the set: every font has accented and special Latin letters, 53 at the median, so names like Zoë or Björn set without gaps. 15 of the 30 adjust spacing with kerning pairs (a median of 105); Crush Print has the most, 153. In the OpenType tables, none has OpenType ligatures or alternates; as for numbers, none has tabular figures, so columns of numbers will not align exactly.