Pangolin

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What do I do with this?

Just want to use the font? Click "Get this font on Google Fonts" to download it or add it directly to a document, design tool (like Canva or Photoshop), or your computer's font list.

Building a website? Click "Copy Font Code" to copy a short snippet, then paste it into your website's HTML (usually inside the <head> section) to use this font on your site.

Pangolin is a casual handwriting font with a rounded, slightly chunky stroke that gives it a friendly and approachable look. It reads clearly at most sizes, avoiding the messy or overly personal quality that some handwriting fonts fall into. The letterforms are consistent enough to feel intentional without losing the warmth that makes handwriting styles appealing. It sits comfortably in the middle ground between playful and readable, leaning informal without tipping into novelty territory.

For practical use, Pangolin works well as a display or heading font for children's educational products, where clarity and friendliness both matter. It also fits naturally in branding for small food businesses, craft shops, or wellness brands that want a human touch without going too whimsical. A third solid application is in UI contexts like onboarding screens or empty-state messages, where a handwritten style can soften a digital interface and add a bit of personality to otherwise plain copy.

Best suited for: Consider Pangolin for children's educational materials, small business branding in food and wellness sectors, and digital interfaces where a friendly handwritten style can humanize user experience.

Design considerations: Pangolin's single regular weight limits typographic hierarchy options, making it most effective as a display or accent layer rather than extended body text. The rounded, consistent letterforms maintain legibility across sizes while preserving the informal warmth characteristic of handwriting styles, supporting its role in contexts requiring both clarity and personality.

Pairing guidance: Pair Pangolin with Nunito as a geometric sans-serif counterpart for modern layouts, Merriweather as a traditional serif option for editorial contexts, or Caveat as an alternative handwriting style offering greater weight variation for layered typographic compositions.

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Which languages does Pangolin support?

Pangolin includes 5 character sets:

• Cyrillic: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian and other Cyrillic-script languages
• Cyrillic Extended: additional Cyrillic letters used in languages such as Kazakh, Tatar and Bashkir
• Latin: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and other Western European languages
• Latin Extended: Central and Eastern European languages such as Polish, Czech, Turkish, Romanian and Hungarian
• Vietnamese: Vietnamese, including its stacked tone marks

Can I use Pangolin commercially?

Yes, it's free for personal and commercial use. Pangolin is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it in logos, websites, apps, videos, printed products and merchandise without paying or asking permission. The one thing you can't do is sell the font file on its own.

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