Gapstown Small AH Bold font by Fontgrube Ah is a free handwritten typeface that feels like a quick marker note, but with the calm orderliness designers crave. Its rounded strokes, loose curves, and steady rhythm keep text casual and friendly while staying easy to read, even at smaller sizes. Letters sit with just enough space between them, so nothing feels cramped or scratchy.
Using Gapstown Small AH Bold, you can bring a warm, human touch to kids’ materials, classroom printables, informal logos, social posts, product packaging, and sticker designs. This free font shines in short phrases, headings, and labels where personality matters. For longer copy, pair it with a clean sans serif like Open Sans set in a smaller size to keep layouts balanced and readable.
A handwriting font with informal but not too irregular characters, for those who are kind of tired of the standard
hand printing fonts supplied by Creative Suites and commercial operating systems, the ones you see everywhere. These
are fairly unknown faces and a good alternative.
Gapstown comes in two weights, standard and bold, and in two variants: Gapstown and Gapstown Small. The latter has
wider letterspacing for smaller print sizes. Test for yourself which ones to use at what size.
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
Font details
Created2013-04-24
Revision1
Glyph count226
Units per Em1160
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation
Family classScripts
WeightSemi-bold
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleItalic
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
StyleUpright
Stroke weightBold
PitchNot monospaced
Symbol setWindows 3.1 ANSI
Complete pack contains 4 font weights listed below: