Handwriting fonts have been gaining more popularity over the past
few months, so we decided to pick 20 of the best from across the web.
When we talk about free handwriting fonts, we're not just referring
to one style of typography; they can come in a number of various
executions. More recently, this style of typography has been making more
appearances than ever before, with print and digital alike favouring it
over more traditional offerings. Here, we plucked some of the best free
handwriting fonts for you to download and enjoy.
A free handwriting font that comes in an array of different languages
One of our favourite free handwriting fonts, this design by Ferdie Balderas
comes in regular and italic as well as capital and lower-case letters.
He's even made it supportive of a number of different languages
including French, Spanish and Polish. FORMAT: TTF
Another free handwriting font that's playful and fun
We just had to include this download in our list of free handwriting
fonts. Chomp is a playful design created by Camberwell based designer William Bayley Suckling.
As a student at The London College of Communication, Suckling regularly
experiments with fonts and is happy for you to use it with any personal
or commercial work. FORMAT: TTF
LSTK Bembo was inspired by an age-old book font to create this free handwriting font
One of the loveliest free handwriting fonts we've seen in a long
time, LSTK Bembo is an ode to one of the real daddies of book typefaces,
Bembo. This handdrawn version of this classic typeface can be used
whenever you want to combine personality, tradition and a pinch of
attitude. The important glyphs are included in this postscript font
except the lowercase x. FORMAT: TTF
Free handwriting font Haiku's Script is Poem Haiku's first attempt at creating a typeface
Haiku's Script is Poem Haiku's first attempt at creating a font.
Beginning in 2011, it took three months to finish, from July to
September. It's free for personal use and Poem Haiku would love to hear
any thoughts and comments about this free handwriting font. FORMAT: TTF
This free handwriting font was inspired by the designer's father's handwriting
New York based designer Sune Matras tasked himself to create a font
based on one of his father's handwriting styles - a very personal and
specific one - normally used for short messages and headlines. We're
pleased as punch to include this gorgeous design in our list of free
handwriting fonts. FORMAT: TTF
Incorporate this curly, decorative font by Fonthead Design into your personal projects
A contemporary and decorative font, GoodDog was created by Fonthead Design.
The curly typeface is a popular choice, having been download almost a
million times since its release. This free handwriting font comes
complete with a full set of upper and lowercase letters, numbers and
characters. FORMAT: OTF
This stylish, script-style design was created by Emerald City Fontwerks
J.D Handcrafted is one of 16 fonts created by Emerald City Fontwerks,
the stylish design being one of the studio's most popular. The brush,
script-style typeface is free for personal use, with a full set of
characters at your disposal. FORMAT: TTF
Amatic is available for free download in both regular and bold styles
A quirky, narrow and condensed design by typographer Vernon Adams
this free handwriting font is perfectly suited to designs on the funny
side, such as comedy strips. Amatic only includes uppercase letters but
comes in both regular and bold styles. FORMAT: TTF
You can also receive numbers and symbols with this free handwriting font
The charming free handwriting font was designed by Chilean designer and typographer Rodrigo German.
The Mari & David font comes in regular, bold and extrabold, which
means there's plenty to play around with. You can also receive numbers
and symbols in this style when you download the font. FORMAT: TTF
You can grab this free handwritting font in skinny as well as regular
The DHD Cool font is a pretty standard handwriting font but with some
irregularities, which means there's still plenty of scope for some
serious design work. Created by Paris based typographer Konrad Bednarksi, you can also download the DHD Cool font in skinny form! FORMAT: TTF
This is a handwriting font with plenty of versatility
This gorgeous, calligraphy based handwriting font was created by Nepal-based graphic designer and typographer Ananda Maharjan. Placing the font on a base of watercolours as well as a white canvas ensure that its versatility shines. FORMAT: TTF
This free handwriting font comes in bold and outline
Created by Austrian mobile studio Studio Elastik,
this is their second free font to be released into the wild. They
describe it as their "handlettered badass version of the English slab
serif typeface, Clarendon", which explains the name! It comes in bold
and outline. FORMAT: OTF
This font is to be downloaded for personal use only!
This free handwriting font - Mawn's Handwriting - was created Måns Grebäck;
a graphic designer specialising in font, logotype, and typography
design. It is to be downloaded for personal use and as always, donations
to the designer are always welcome! FORMAT: OTF
Jackson created the bispo font after studying calligraphy for a number of months
Bispo is a script typeface made inspiring on italic chancery
calligraphy, with a flat nib pen and a module of 10 pen widths. Designed
by Brazilian typographer Jackson Alves,
he decided to make this typeface to allow everyone to be able to create
pieces with a charm of calligraphy and taking advantage of the Opentype
features. FORMAT: OTF
This free handwriting font has a great chalk effect for your designs
We had to pop a chalk-styled free handwriting font in the list and this one which was designed Alphabeta85
is a perfect addition. It comes in both capitalised and non, as well as
numbers, punctuation, and symbols. As always, make sure you only use it
for personal work! FORMAT: OTF
This cute font is actually the designer's real handwriting
This cutesy font was designed by Maya
aka Linny. This handwriting type is actually Maya's handwriting and
after being asked to develop the font for personal use, she finally did!
It comes in upper and lower case, as well as numbers and punctuation. FORMAT: TTF
Use this heavy-duty handwriting font for bold design work
We love this heavy duty, scribble-friendly font designed by Blambot Comic Fonts and Lettering.
Consisting purely of capital letters, this is a free handwriting font
that would be perfect for some seriously bold design work. You can also
grab some punctuation and numbers in the free package. FORMAT: OTF
Soft sugar evokes a sense of the old-school comic book fonts
This fun handwriting font can only be downloaded for free in the
regular format but we think it's a great one to play around with.
Evoking a sense of the old-school comic book style fonts, we're sure
you'll be able to create something special with this one! FORMAT: TTF
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