Peanut Font: Compare P22’s Serif, Sans and Salted Alternates

P22’s original Peanut page credits Michael Clark and presents Peanut Regular and Peanut Sans. The publisher explains that the youthful effect is rooted in Roman minuscule rather than stereotyped children’s lettering. Use those precise family and style names when saving references. The name Peanut alone is insufficient to identify an unrelated handwritten download.

Set “Peanut Picnic / little letters” once in Regular and once in Sans, holding the layout steady. Compare the relationship between the capital P and the repeated lowercase letters, then try a complete picnic-card heading rather than judging a single initial. This makes the serif-versus-sans decision visible before an alternate changes the rhythm. The Fredoka and Bitter profiles below provide independent comparison exercises; neither is a substitute name for the original Peanut.

P22 explains that the former Salted alternate styles are integrated into the Pro fonts. Its page shows stylistic sets, ligatures and fractions, including separate alternate choices for letters such as a and e. Make duplicate label lines with the ordinary forms and selected alternates, changing one group at a time. Add “3½ cups” to the proof and compare it with a typed fraction in your own editor before choosing a recipe-card treatment. Keep a record of the feature settings with the editable artwork, so its lettering can be reproduced.