Handwriting · Vincent Connare
Drama Sans
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CSSfont-family: 'Drama Sans', cursive; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;
Drama Sans is a free handwriting font by Vincent Connare, from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Among the 331 handwriting faces on FontKind, Drama Sans has an x-height taller than 89%, is wider than 72% and, at its regular weight, is of average darkness. Its thickest strokes are 0.9 times its thinnest: nearly even strokes.
01 / Light table
Laid on top of Playpen Sans
Drama Sans on one light table with its two closest fonts, Playpen Sans (88 out of 100) and Cause (85). Playpen Sans has nearly identical proportions; Cause is 21% lighter and 3% narrower, with an x-height 6% shorter.
Drama Sans and Playpen Sans laid on top of each other.
Ink shared with Drama SansPlaypen Sans…
Most different letters first; the figure is the share of ink the fonts have in common. Where the fonts agree the letters cancel to black: every white sliver is a real difference.
02 / Letters
The Drama Sans alphabet
Capitals, lowercase, figures and signs · weight 400
Tap the letters you like, here and in other fonts, to find the fonts whose letters look most like them.
- &
- ?
- !
- @
- %
- (
- )
03 / Sizes
Drama Sans at every size
1 weight (400) · six sizes, in your words
- 12 px
- 16 px
- 24 px
- 36 px
- 48 px
- 72 px
04 / Facts
Who made Drama Sans, and can you use it?
- Designer
- Vincent Connare
- Kind
- Handwriting
- Styles
- 1 weight (400)
- From
- GitHub
- Character sets
- latin, latin-ext
- Licence
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Can I use it?
- Commercial use
- Yes.
- Logos
- Yes.
- Websites and apps
- Yes. Self-hosted.
- PDFs and documents
- Yes.
- Changes
- Yes, under another name. Not as “Drama Sans”: the licence reserves the name.
- Sharing the files
- Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.
Drama Sans is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.
Already in your apps?
- Google Docs
- Not verified. Docs adds Google Fonts, and Drama Sans comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Google’s guide
- Word, PowerPoint
- Not verified. Install it from its maker’s repository on GitHub first. Microsoft’s list
- Figma
- Not verified. Search its font menu, or install it. Figma’s help
- Canva
- Not verified. Search its font menu for Drama Sans, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
- Cricut
- Once installed. Design Space lists Drama Sans under System. Fonts for Cricut →
From each app’s own font list or help pages.
05 / Measurements
Drama Sans, measured
Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style
- x-height
- 54.0% of the emlowercase x
- Cap height
- 75.9% of the emcapitals
- x / cap
- 0.71lowercase against capitals
- Width
- 52.0% of the emaverage lowercase
- Ink
- 45%letter box filled
- Contrast
- 0.94 : 1nearly even strokes
Where it stands among handwriting faces
Ranked against all 331 handwriting faces on FontKind
x-heightLarger than 89% of handwriting faces
WidthWider than 72% of handwriting faces
InkNear the middle of handwriting faces
ContrastMore even than 85% of handwriting faces
06 / Similar fonts
Fonts similar to Drama Sans
Matched letter by letter · its own family apart
- Playpen Sans88Nearly identical proportions
- Cause8521% lighter · x-height 6% shorter · 3% narrower
- Comic Mono82more stroke contrast · x-height 6% shorter · 5% wider
- Itim76x-height 18% shorter · more stroke contrast · 7% narrower
- Delius Unicase76x-height 41% taller · 38% wider · 33% lighter
- BoonJot75more stroke contrast · x-height 7% shorter · 10% lighter
All 100 fonts similar to Drama Sans →Compare side by side →Get Drama Sans on GitHub
07 / Swap
Swap Drama Sans without a jump
Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%
- Coming Soon68text 1.1% narrower · x-height 1.0% taller
- Playwrite New Zealand Basic32text 2.7% wider · x-height 4.4% shorter
Fallback while it loads
Until Drama Sans loads, this sets Arial in its place at 106% of its size, so running text keeps Drama Sans’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.
@font-face {
font-family: 'Drama Sans Fallback';
src: local('Arial');
size-adjust: 106.04%;
ascent-override: 103.93%;
descent-override: 27.49%;
line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}
font-family: 'Drama Sans', 'Drama Sans Fallback', sans-serif;08 / Questions
Questions about Drama Sans
Answered from its licence, GitHub and each app’s own font list
Is Drama Sans free for commercial use?
Yes. Drama Sans is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included; a changed version may not be called “Drama Sans”.
How do I download and install Drama Sans?
Drama Sans comes free from its maker’s repository on GitHub . On its repository there, choose Code, then Download ZIP, and unzip the file: the fonts are in its dist folder. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each TTF or OTF file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open. The web fonts this page uses load from its repository, through jsDelivr, as does its licence file .
Is Drama Sans in Google Docs?
Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and Drama Sans comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Docs can’t add a font of your own, so set it in an app on your computer, such as Word, instead.
How many weights does Drama Sans have?
Drama Sans comes in one weight, Regular (400). Ask for bold and most apps thicken the letters themselves: a faux bold, not a drawn one.
Who designed Drama Sans?
Drama Sans was designed by Vincent Connare.
What fonts are similar to Drama Sans?
The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Playpen Sans (88), Cause (85) and Comic Mono (82), out of 100. Next to Drama Sans, Playpen Sans has nearly identical proportions. See all 100 fonts like Drama Sans.