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Pacifico

HandwritingLatinCyrillicKazakh1 style
Download family.zip · 144 KB
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
Pacifico Regular 400
Pacifico
Font Pacifico in use: the phrase “Hello, nice to meet you” over a landscape

About the font

Pacifico is a free font by Vernon Adams, Jacques Le Bailly, Botjo Nikoltchev, Ani Petrova, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 470 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 46% of the em and the capital height is 84%.

Pacifico is a handwriting font in the brush script category, with one regular style at weight 400. It is not a variable font. The family contains 1533 glyphs and supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh, with the extra Cyrillic letters Kazakh requires. The font is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL-1.1). Its designers are Vernon Adams, Jacques Le Bailly, Botjo Nikoltchev and Ani Petro, and it was expanded to Cyrillic in later work.

Author
Vernon Adams, Jacques Le Bailly, Botjo Nikoltchev, Ani Petrova
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
1533

Character and uses

Mood
  • friendly
  • playful
  • vintage
Design
Good for

Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.

Supported languages

Pacifico has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 470 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 360 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
805
x-height
46% of the em
Capital height
84% of the em
Version
3.001
Embedding in documents
Allowed

OpenType features

Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.

  • Standard ligaturesliga
  • Discretionary ligaturesdlig
  • Contextual alternatescalt
  • Kerningkern
  • Fractionsfrac
  • Case-sensitive formscase
  • Superscriptsups
  • Ordinalsordn
  • Stylistic alternatessalt
  • 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 text

How to install

Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.

Windows

  1. Unzip the archive.
  2. Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
  3. Restart your program.
How to install a font on Windows 10 and 11

macOS

  1. Unzip the archive.
  2. Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
  3. Click Install Font in the window that opens.
How to install a font on a Mac (macOS)

Linux

  1. Unzip the archive.
  2. Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
  3. Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
How to install a font on Linux (Ubuntu and others)

Step-by-step guides (9)

Facts and sources

Where the font comes from
fonts.google.com/specimen/Pacifico
Designer’s page
sansoxygen.com
Language data
Google Fonts Languages
Page last updated
How the texts on this page are written

FAQ

Is the Pacifico font free to use?

Yes. Pacifico is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.

Does Pacifico support Cyrillic?

Yes, Pacifico includes Cyrillic glyphs.

How many languages does Pacifico support?

Pacifico covers 470 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 Pacifico?

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 Pacifico?

Pacifico was created by Vernon Adams, Jacques Le Bailly, Botjo Nikoltchev, Ani Petrova.

What is Pacifico good for?

Judging by its design, Pacifico suits: tattoos, cutting machines and crafts, invitations, social media.

Pairs well with Pacifico

More pairs and your own text
  • Heading
    Pacifico
    Body text
    Alegreya Sans
    • 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
  • Heading
    Pacifico
    Body text
    Gentium Plus
    • 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

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