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PAIRING ID: HAN-HOM // ETHOS: HANDWRITING + HANDWRITING

Systematizing Handlee & Homemade Apple

Anchor the expressive personality of Handlee with the utilitarian clarity of Homemade Apple.

Display Face

Handlee

Weight: 700

Body Face

Homemade Apple

Weight: 400

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Handlee brings marker, neat, handwritten energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Homemade Apple absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its cursive, messy, pencil texture and dependable rhythm. Together they create a typography stack that scales from high-impact landing pages to dense documentation without retooling your CSS tokens.

Typographic Hierarchy & Scale

H1The Quick Fox
H2The Quick Fox
H3The Quick Fox
PThe quick brown fox jumps over...
Dark Context
Aa

High contrast negative space.

Accent
Gg

Legibility on high-chroma.

Pairing Strategy

Systematizing Handlee & Homemade Apple

Anchor the expressive personality of Handlee with the utilitarian clarity of Homemade Apple.

This pairing is engineered for teams that need a clear hierarchy without sacrificing brand voice. Handlee brings marker, neat, handwritten energy to hero units, pricing sections, and campaign headlines. Homemade Apple absorbs the heavy lifting for paragraphs, product storytelling, and UI labels with its cursive, messy, pencil texture and dependable rhythm. Together they create a typography stack that scales from high-impact landing pages to dense documentation without retooling your CSS tokens.

Handlee thrives as a headline face thanks to its marker, neat, handwritten qualities. Use weights 400–600 for crisp editorial lockups.
Homemade Apple excels in paragraphs and UI thanks to its cursive, messy, pencil traits. Keep it between weights 400–600 for optimal readability.
Hierarchy guidance: run a 1:1.2 modular scale and reserve Handlee for H1–H3 while Homemade Apple powers captions, body copy, and data tables.

Best-Fit Use Cases

  • High-growth SaaS landing pages that require marker hero statements with trustworthy product copy.
  • Editorial magazines and thought-leadership hubs where Handlee can dramatize pull quotes while Homemade Apple keeps 1,500-word essays skimmable.
  • Conversion funnels or onboarding flows that need Homemade Apple's cursive voice to balance Handlee's attention-grabbing display.

Accessibility Notes

Maintain a minimum 4.5:1 contrast ratio for Homemade Apple body copy and loosen letter-spacing to 0.01em for uppercase Handlee moments. Pairing different categories demands disciplined color pairing—test both light and dark themes to ensure Homemade Apple does not bloom at small sizes.

CSS Implementation Cheatsheet

:root {
  --tm-header-family: 'Handlee', handwriting;
  --tm-body-family: 'Homemade Apple', handwriting;
  --tm-header-weight: 400;
  --tm-body-weight: 400;
  --tm-header-tracking: -0.04em;
  --tm-body-tracking: -0.005em;
}
Heading scale: clamp(2.75rem, 3.6vw, 5.25rem) for H1, clamp(1.5rem, 2.8vw, 3rem) for H2, and keep paragraph size at 1rem–1.125rem with 1.6 line-height.
Component guidance: Buttons inherit Handlee at 400 for momentum, while forms, tables, and footnotes stay on Homemade Apple with 400 weight for predictable kerning.

FAQs

Why does Handlee make sense as the lead font?

Handlee owns the emotional register of this system. Its marker, neat, handwritten profile helps anchor campaign creative, meaning marketing and product teams can reuse the same voice without reinventing the scale.

Where should Homemade Apple show up?

Homemade Apple is the workhorse. Keep it in paragraphs, long-form editorial, knowledge bases, or anywhere legibility is non-negotiable. Its cursive, messy, pencil qualities reduce fatigue on dense layouts.

Does this pairing support complex localization?

Yes—both families are available on Google Fonts with generous glyph coverage. Test cyrillic/latin accents early, but most Latin-based locales and UI patterns are fully supported.