- Heading
- Bad Script
- Body text
- Lato
- A showy heading over a quiet text face
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: friendly
- The body font is made for reading
Bad Script
About the font
Bad Script is a free font by Gaslight, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 457 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 51% of the em and the capital height is 96%.
Bad Script is a handwriting font by Gaslight, made with a tablet to imitate casual yet neat handwriting, and it was developed from a simple six-letter logotype. It supports Latin and Cyrillic character sets, including Kazakh, and contains 801 glyphs in a single regular style at weight 400. It is a static font, not a variable font. Bad Script is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1).
Author
Gaslight
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
801
Character and uses
- Mood
- friendly
- elegant
- Design
- monoline
- connected script
- Good for
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Bad Script has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 457 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
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- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Guarani
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Uzbek
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Efik
- Mongolian
- Sango
- Kyrgyz
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
- Occitan
…and 347 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Included
- Russian Ruble — Included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Included
- Numero sign — Included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Not included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 758
- x-height
- 51% of the em
- Capital height
- 96% of the em
- Version
- 2.000; ttfautohint (v1.8.4.7-5d5b)
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Kerning
kern - Old-style figures
onum - Lining figures
lnum - Fractions
frac - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic sets (2)
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Bad+Script
- Designer’s page
- behance.net/gaslighttypefoundry
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Bad Script font free to use?
Yes. Bad Script is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Bad Script support Cyrillic?
Yes, Bad Script includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Bad Script support?
Bad Script covers 457 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
How do I install Bad Script?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Bad Script?
Bad Script was created by Gaslight.
What is Bad Script good for?
Judging by its design, Bad Script suits: invitations, social media, headings.
Pairs well with Bad Script
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- A shared mood: friendly
- The body font is made for reading
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