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Samsung Galaxy / Font / XZ MISS YOU SILENTLY™ LATIN FLIPFONT

REVIEW

XZ Miss You Silently is a moody Latin Flipfont sold for a single feeling.

A Monotype-built single-script Flipfont that trades range for mood. The drawing is genuinely expressive — which is also why you cannot live in it all day.

BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 4 MIN READ

Samsung Galaxy

XZ Miss You Silently™ Latin Flipfont

MONOTYPE IMAGING INC.

OUR SCORE

6.4

SAMSUNG GALAXY

★ 5.0

PRICE

Paid

The Galaxy Store Flipfont aisle is a market for very small design decisions. You are not buying an app — you are buying a single way for your phone’s text to look, drawn by a foundry that mostly does its serious work licensing typefaces to operating systems and global brands. XZ Miss You Silently is Monotype’s contribution to the moody end of that shelf, and the name is not marketing. The drawing really does have a slightly downcast cadence, like notes left on a fridge after someone has left the room.

That tone is the entire pitch. It is not a workhorse Flipfont and it is not trying to be one. It is a typeface that wants to be a lock screen more than it wants to be an operating system, and once you accept that frame, the price is reasonable and the experience is exactly what the listing implies.

The catch is the format. Flipfonts are still single-weight, still Samsung-only, still Latin-only when the name says so, and the moment a Hangul contact or a Hebrew song title arrives in your notifications, the seam shows. XZ Miss You Silently is a good drawing inside a small frame, and the frame is the part you cannot edit.

It is a typeface that wants to be a lock screen more than it wants to be an operating system.

FEATURES

XZ Miss You Silently is a Latin-only Flipfont from Monotype's long shelf of paid system-font replacements on the Galaxy Store. Install it from the store, open One UI's font picker in Settings, accept the licence, and the new face takes over body text, headings, the keyboard, the dialer, and any third-party app that defers to the system typeface.

The drawing is a soft, slightly mournful handwritten script — angled, looped, with the kind of pen-pressure variation that suggests an actual nib. There is one weight. The character set is Latin only, so Hangul, Hebrew, Arabic, and CJK glyphs fall back to whatever One UI ships as default, and the join between the two scripts is visible the moment a notification mixes them.

Like the rest of the Monotype Flipfont catalogue, this is Galaxy-only, licensed per Samsung account rather than per device, and gated behind the Flipfont activation ritual. There is no preview in the listing beyond the icon, and no trial.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

The personality is the point, and the personality lands. Each glyph has been drawn rather than interpolated — the lowercase y has a long tail, the capital M has a slight forward lean, and the descenders trail off the way actual handwriting does at the end of a thought. On a lock screen, a weather widget, or an Always On Display, it reads as personal in a way the default One UI face never will.

Pricing is honest too, in the modest way a Flipfont can be. One small charge, one account, no ads, no subscription, no in-app upsell. For users who change their phone's typeface once a season and want a face that matches a specific mood, the transaction is straightforward and the result is exactly what the icon promises.

ROOM TO IMPROVE

The trouble starts at small sizes. A handwritten display face working as the system typeface has to render the Settings app, the Calendar grid, and the SMS preview line — and at 12 to 14 points, the loops that make this drawing charming start fighting each other. Numerals in particular suffer. A 3 and an 8 do not need to be confusable in the dialer, and here they occasionally are.

The single-script ceiling is the bigger limit. The moment a contact name, a song title, or a notification carries any non-Latin character, the screen splits into two voices, and the system fallback is not a typeface that was drawn to sit next to this one. Bilingual users will see the seam every day. Anyone who relies on Samsung's bold-text accessibility option will also find it cannot rescue a font that ships in one weight.

CONCLUSION

Buy it if you want your Galaxy phone to feel like a quiet, slightly wistful object for a week or two, and you live mostly in Latin script. Skip it if you need real weight variation, multi-script coverage, or numerals that read cleanly at glance distance. For a more durable everyday Latin Flipfont in the same Monotype catalogue, Athenaeum Pro is the calmer face you can actually keep on.