Can I use Poah for commercial work?

Yes. Poah is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, so you can use it in client work, products, logos, apps, videos and print. The one thing you can’t do is sell the font files on their own.

What’s in the download?

One zip with Poah in OTF, TTF, WOFF and WOFF2, plus the license.

Which languages does it support?

19 so far: Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Galician, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Zulu. French, German, Turkish and a few others are missing a letter or two.

How do I use it on a website?

Put Poah-Regular.woff2 from the zip on your site, add an @font-face rule for it, and set font-family: "Poah" wherever you want it.

Me, Lakshay. It’s my actual handwriting, written letter by letter on an iPad.

Poah

A not perfect handwritten font

too busy, take me to downloads

Hi,

I annotate my work a lot these days () A sign-in form with handwritten blue notes in HanziPen: “icon size relative to label”, “keeping the error msg close to the affected entity” and “optical alignment for lock icon”, with arrows pointing at each detail. How I annotate my work, in HanziPen.to help everyone understand my decisions and reasonings for a change with nice handwriting font called HanziPen. I really like it but to me it looks too clean which is good for better readability and legibility but doesn’t have that me personality.

So, I took things a little too personally and created Poah after I got an iPad. Well it took me multiple attempts to get the alphabets and symbols right but then it felt too cramped lol. So to find answers to this question, I asked my terracotta star shaped friend named Opus to help me out with it and after several arguments and back n forth, we got to a point where it just felt right for my eyes and my friend.

And my friend loved this font so much that when I asked what can you do for me, they made a few posters.

poahnow leasing

home.

rent: zero. walls: a bit crooked.

a note11:42 pm, still up

coffee first,

kerning later.

for anythingby Lakshay

free.

actually free. not “free trial” free.

Enough explanation above, let’s talk about some features: there are total 238 glyphs including capitals, lowercase, numbers, punctuation, fractions for splitting the bill, and enough accents for 19 languages, we made sure that you can hover over any of them to see a bit better with your own eyes too.

ampersand

U+0026

Ohh let me tell you about that one piece, this guy made it too perfect for my eyes but like Dumbledore I asked calmly and we settled here.

Before802 points, 1,600 handles

After22 points, 40 handles

If you’re still reading this, thanks a lot, people like me don’t have this much attention span so kudos to you that you made it this far. I hand typed this letter myself and as a bonus I’m giving away this font for free for everyone to use. feel free to use it anywhere you like :)

Download Poah !!

Best,

Lakshay

P.S. Your turn. Pick a note, or scribble your own on it.

write

an excuse

56px

P.P.S. A few things people ask.

Can I use Poah for commercial work?: Yes. Poah is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, so you can use it in client work, products, logos, apps, videos and print. The one thing you can’t do is sell the font files on their own.
What’s in the download?: One zip with Poah in OTF, TTF, WOFF and WOFF2, plus the license.
Which languages does it support?: 19 so far: Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Galician, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Zulu. French, German, Turkish and a few others are missing a letter or two.
How do I use it on a website?: Put Poah-Regular.woff2 from the zip on your site, add an @font-face rule for it, and set font-family: "Poah" wherever you want it.
Who made it?: Me, Lakshay. It’s my actual handwriting, written letter by letter on an iPad.