Handwriting · Robert Leuschke

Great Vibes

Q: Is Great Vibes free for commercial use?

Yes. Great Vibes is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included.

Your words – they follow you round the site

Case

Size72 px

Weight400 RegularThe only weight it comes in

Letter spacing0 em

Line height1.10

Find the font. Find its kind.

CSSfont-family: 'Great Vibes', cursive; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;

Great Vibes is a free handwriting font by Robert Leuschke, on Google Fonts since 2012. Among the 331 handwriting faces on FontKind, Great Vibes has an x-height shorter than 72%, is narrower than 79% and, at its regular weight, is darker than 65%. Its thickest strokes are 3.4 times its thinnest: high stroke contrast.

Compare with Carattere →Compare with another font

01 / Light table

Laid on top of Carattere

Great Vibes on one light table with its two closest fonts, Carattere (92 out of 100) and MonteCarlo (85). Carattere is 10% lighter, with less stroke contrast; MonteCarlo is 8% lighter, with more stroke contrast and an x-height 6% shorter.

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Ink shared with Great VibesCarattere…

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.

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02 / Letters

The Great Vibes 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.

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Learning cursive? The cursive alphabet, letter by letter →

With this font

Write your ownCursive font generator →Your words in Great Vibes and 29 more cursive fonts. Download any of them as a PNG for Canva or an SVG for Cricut.

03 / Sizes

Great Vibes 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 Great Vibes, and can you use it?

Designer: Robert Leuschke
Kind: Handwriting
Styles: 1 weight (400)
On Google Fonts since: 2012
Character sets: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1

Can I use it?

Commercial use: Yes.
Logos: Yes.
Websites and apps: Yes. Self-hosted or loaded from Google Fonts.
PDFs and documents: Yes.
Changes: Yes.
Sharing the files: Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.

Great Vibes is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.

What each licence allows →

Read the licence

Already in your apps?

Google Docs: Most likely. Under More fonts, in Sheets and Slides too. Google’s guide
Word, PowerPoint: No. Install it from Google Fonts first. Microsoft’s list
Figma: Yes. Built in, nothing to install. Figma’s help
Canva: Not verified. Search its font menu for Great Vibes, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
Cricut: Once installed. Design Space lists Great Vibes under System. Fonts for Cricut →

From each app’s own font list or help pages, read on 28 September 2026.

How each app gets its fonts →

Get Great Vibes on Google Fonts

05 / Measurements

Great Vibes, measured

Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style

Hxgp in Great Vibes. Lines at the measured heights, as a share of the em · The parts of a letter, named

x-height: 35.7% of the emlowercase x
Cap height: 80.7% of the emcapitals
x / cap: 0.44lowercase against capitals
Width: 31.7% of the emaverage lowercase
Ink: 48%letter box filled
Contrast: 3.35 : 1high stroke contrast

How we measure →

Where it stands among handwriting faces

Ranked against all 331 handwriting faces on FontKind

x-heightSmaller than 72% of handwriting faces
WidthNarrower than 79% of handwriting faces
InkDarker than 65% of handwriting faces
ContrastMore contrast than 92% of handwriting faces

06 / Similar fonts

Fonts similar to Great Vibes

Matched letter by letter · its own family apart

All 100 fonts similar to Great Vibes →Compare side by side →Get Great Vibes on Google Fonts

07 / Swap

Swap Great Vibes without a jump

Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%

Fallback while it loads

Until Great Vibes loads, this sets Arial in its place at 62.2% of its size, so running text keeps Great Vibes’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Great Vibes Fallback';
  src: local('Arial');
  size-adjust: 62.19%;
  ascent-override: 136.84%;
  descent-override: 64.48%;
  line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}

font-family: 'Great Vibes', 'Great Vibes Fallback', sans-serif;

08 / Pairs

Used together with Great Vibes

Of the 8,397 home pages that load Great Vibes, the share that load each font too, and how that compares with chance.

Same page, not which sets the headings · HTTP Archive , 1 September 2026

More than chanceKaushan Script 11×Cinzel 5.1×Cormorant 4.4×

Fonts that go with Great Vibes: pairs and trios →The pairs sites choose most →

Pair checkerGreat Vibes + any fontHow many of the 6,276,350 home pages counted load the two together, and how that compares with chance.Check this font with any other

09 / Questions

Questions about Great Vibes

Answered from its licence, Google Fonts and each app’s own font list

Is Great Vibes free for commercial use?

Yes. Great Vibes is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included.

How do I download and install Great Vibes?

FontKind doesn’t host Great Vibes’s files: it comes free from Google Fonts . On its page there, choose Get font, then Download all, and unzip the file. It holds a single font file. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each font file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open, Word included.

Is Great Vibes in Microsoft Word?

Not until you install it: Great Vibes isn’t one of Microsoft 365’s cloud fonts. Installed, it is in Word’s font menu and PowerPoint’s. For someone who hasn’t installed it, turn on Embed fonts in the file in Word’s save options: its licence allows that.

Is Great Vibes in Google Docs?

Most likely. Search for Great Vibes under More fonts in the font menu of Docs; added there, it is in Sheets and Slides too.

Is Great Vibes in Figma?

Yes: Great Vibes is in Figma’s font menu, in the browser and the desktop app, with nothing to install.

How many weights does Great Vibes have?

Great Vibes 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 Great Vibes?

Great Vibes was designed by Robert Leuschke. It has been on Google Fonts since March 2012. Robert Leuschke also made Smooch Sans, Updock, Birthstone and 84 more on FontKind.

What fonts are similar to Great Vibes?

The closest in our letter-by-letter match are Carattere (92), MonteCarlo (85) and Mea Culpa (84), out of 100. Next to Great Vibes, Carattere is 10% lighter, with less stroke contrast. See all 100 fonts like Great Vibes.