Handwriting fonts are an easy way to add a personal touch to your content. Designers use them to create eye-catching logos and pull quotes on websites because they contrast sharply against the body text. While handwriting fonts aren’t particularly appropriate for corporate contexts or in professional documents, they are a great choice for personal blogs, arts & crafts websites, comics, restaurant menus and ads, as well as for small businesses in the creative industry. Handwriting fonts are especially popular thanks to the lettering trend in web design, because the hand lettering effect can be achieved by using decorative fonts. You can even create your own handwriting fonts for free!
The list brings a selection of 40 handwriting fonts which are all free for commercial use. While these aren’t all new, they are tried and tested handwriting fonts that we like. Font repositories categorize handwriting fonts differently, so some of them might be tagged as “script”, “calligraphic” or “decorative”, depending on the website.
2. Antique Book
Antique Book is a very neat brush handwriting font with thin, straight lines that combines fine calligraphy with readable glyphs. I like this and consider it to be one of the best free handwriting fonts on the market.
4. DP Dork Diary
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Tragic Marker is fat marker-style handwriting font which, as its name suggests, resembles the neat and bold handwriting of a thick marker. The font can be used in a variety of different settings, including headings, e-greeting cards, and designs that aim to be playful yet professional.
9. Mervale Script
Grand Hotel is one of those versatile handwriting fonts that can be used for almost anything: from logos and headlines to image captions and quotes. It’s a condensed upright script that works well both for vintage and contemporary designs.
Yellowtail is a visibly slanted handwriting script with a fantastic flow. Web designers will appreciate the fact that Yellowtail’s license allows @font-face embedding. You can choose subsets and font formats on the download page.
Admiral is a brush script font with bold strokes and support for accents. It simply commands attention, so you can use it for titles or headlines on your website.
16. 99% Occupy
Anke is a neat calligraphic handwriting font with optimized kerning and support for accents. You can use it as a signature for a refined and unique look.
21. Modeschrift
Amatic is a thin handwriting font that comes in two styles – regular and bold. It’s a narrow, all-caps font that will give any design a fresh and modern look.
26. Hentimps Circlet
Something Wild is another great handwriting font that looks like something you’d write with a flat brush. The font, with its imperfect finish, has a rustic feel to it which makes it a great option for posters and flyers, and probably even for that gaming project you needed a title screen for.
31. Debby
Amanda Lesson’s Luna can easily stake the claim of being one of the best fonts for designers. The clean handwriting font features a contrast between letters and lines. Therefore, it’s more legible. With the crisp design, it suits diverse design projects including logo, badge, insignia, packaging, headline, poster, t-shirt/apparel, greeting card, and wedding invitation.
36. Ruffle Beauty
A good-looking font like Mazak deserves a safe spot in this roundup of the top fonts for designers. It’s a brush drawn vector-free font and comes in capital letters. Thanks to the highlighted marker strokes, it has a retro look. You can use it to make your posters and banners appear more attention-grabbing.
