Neutral Sans Workhorse
Charming Smiling + Kohilo
Lets Charming Smiling own the focal silhouette while handling secondary copy, sizing and subheads cleanly.
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Upright playful letters with varied proportions and a level baseline
Charming Smiling
Charming Smiling is playful lettering in which the letters stand upright, the proportions vary from letter to letter and the baseline stays level, so a phrase reads as a cheerful hand-drawn label.
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Cutting, print & workflow scorecard.
Sturdy stroke walls and open counters weed cleanly on adhesive vinyl, HTV apparel film, and cut cardstock.
Plotter & output verdictEasy-Weed Vinyl & Print Ready
Recommended minimum scale0.75 in+ cap height
Character set & structureUppercase, Lowercase & Numerals
OpenType & PUA accessStandard Latin, Figures & Punctuation
Best surfaces & mediaBrand Packaging · Social Graphics · Vinyl Decals
Compatible design toolsIllustrator · Affinity · Canva Pro · Cricut & Silhouette
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Charming Smiling.
The capital C is a wide open crescent while the following h is narrow and tall, and that variation continues through the word: the a sits short and round, the m is wide with three even arches, the r holds a small arm and the i keeps a tall dot. Nothing slants, nothing connects and the weight stays a rounded medium throughout, which is what gives the phrase its friendly, almost sticker-like quality. The varied widths are the useful property: a long word fits a narrow panel without being condensed, and the level baseline keeps a printed line tidy. Counters stay open, so the face reproduces at 14 pt on a label and at 90 mm on a banner. The pink and lilac cloud ground, the pink ink and the two small caption bands are presentation; the lettering is the two words.
Playful · Upright · Varied
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Charming Smiling with grounded secondary typography.
Structured Secondary Voice
Charming Smiling + Flowsky Editorial
Grounds bold display lettering with classic typographic authority on posters, badges and apparel.
Inspect Flowsky Editorial specimenPractical applications
Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Charming Smiling’s stroke geometry.
Card front for a children's party
The varied widths keep a long greeting on one line of a small card, and the rounded upright letters read clearly at 30 pt against a coloured ground.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Set the greeting at 30 pt on a 148 by 105 mm card, set the date in a 9 pt sans at the foot, and leave 14 mm of margin so the tallest letter stays inside the trim.
Pre-production check
A varied-width face can look uneven when printed small; check the proof at final size and keep the greeting at 26 pt or above.
Display lettering for a classroom board
The playful proportions read at a child's eye level and the level baseline keeps a printed heading tidy while still looking hand-made.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Set the heading at 60 mm tall on a 900 mm board, keep the list beneath in a plain 15 mm sans, and hold 20 mm between the heading and the first item line.
Pre-production check
Cut letters with very different widths need individual spacing; check the layout at full size and space them by eye rather than by the font metrics.
Sticker for party favours
The friendly weight cuts cleanly on a round die and the open counters stay readable at 11 pt, which is where favour stickers live.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Set the phrase at 11 pt on a 45 mm round sticker, keep the child's name in a 5 pt sans beneath it, and leave 4 mm inside the die so nothing is clipped.
Pre-production check
A round die cuts close to a wide letter; check the artwork against the die and rotate the phrase rather than shrinking it.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Display · Upright playful letters with varied proportions and a level baseline
- Foundry / creator
- Situjuh
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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