The Skinny Font

Jusebox’s The Skinny is a named handwritten family in the creator listing, with ordinary and bold resources. The listing marks the distribution for personal use; its title should be distinguished from the broad category of skinny or condensed fonts.

Read the publisher’s family page for the source account and the edition currently offered. Keep a family name distinct from its particular release, width or optical branch.

Inspect the actual alphabet in the original specimen. A very narrow hand-drawn appearance does not establish broad character coverage, nor does it mean an ordinary font mechanically squeezed narrower will match the same forms.

Use the original publisher specimen to inspect those features. An alternative can share a broad role without having the same letter shapes, metrics or character coverage.

Try a short stacked heading and a narrow label. Amatic SC and Just Another Hand supply independent handwriting comparisons. Check the smallest counters and avoid making a long information paragraph unnecessarily narrow.

For independent comparisons, try Amatic SC and Just Another Hand. Use the same wording and approximate output size. The related style guide provides broader design context.

Use Jusebox on DaFont to try the original and investigate the files, styles and terms for your intended workflow. This site does not distribute or serve The Skinny font software.

The editable alternatives here have their own source profiles and included licenses. For the difference between a font file and copied characters, read Unicode text versus fonts.