Gapstown Small AH Font

Gapstown AH family consisting of 4 fonts
  • Accents (partial)
  • Euro
gaps-s-r.ttf
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Gapstown Small AH font by Fontgrube AH is a free handwritten font that keeps the loose, inky charm of real marker writing while staying clean and readable at small sizes. Its rounded, slightly wobbly strokes feel casual and human, but the spacing is tight and steady, so lines don’t fall apart when you shrink them down for captions or side notes. The result is handwriting that feels genuinely personal without turning messy or childish.

Using Gapstown Small AH, you can add a friendly voice to app interfaces, chat-style graphics, journaling pages, kids’ worksheets, labels, and informal posters. This free font works beautifully where you want “written by hand” energy that still scans quickly on screens and in print. Try pairing Gapstown Small AH with a simple sans serif for body text, letting this handwritten typeface handle headings, annotations, and callouts.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
(c) 2002 Fontgrube AH
Font family
Gapstown Small AH
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Fontgrube: Gapstown
Full font name
Gapstown Small AH
Name table version
Version 1.11
Postscript font name
GapstownSmallAH
Trademark notice
www.fontgrube.gmxhome.de
Manufacturer name
Designer
Description
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
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
MacintoshRoman
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics

Font details

Created2013-04-24
Revision1
Glyph count226
Units per Em1160
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation
Family classScripts
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Width typeNormal
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
PostureUpright
Stroke weightBook, text, regular, etc.
PitchNot monospaced
Symbol setWindows 3.1 ANSI
Complete pack contains 4 font weights listed below:
gaps-s-r.ttf
Gapst-b.ttf
gapstown-r.ttf
gaps-s-b.ttf
  • Accents (partial)
  • Euro
Gapst-b.ttf
Gapstown AH Fontgrube AHWebsite TrueTypeFreewareUpdated
  • Accents (partial)
  • Euro
gapstown-r.ttf
  • Accents (partial)
  • Euro
gaps-s-b.ttf