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People always ask what font I use to create my annotated code examples in my web design tutorials here on Line25, so I figured a roundup of the best hand-drawn fonts would prove quite handy. This post rounds up a range of free handwriting fonts based on various handwriting styles. If you’re in need of a font to add a human touch to your design in the form of a note or a personal message, you can be sure you’ll find the perfect font in this collection.

Updated May 22, 2022

Since we were granted the ability to make font choices beyond Helvetica and Georgia thanks to the @font-face rule and the various web fonts services we’ve seen an explosion of custom web fonts in website designs. Nowadays we’re spoiled for choice when it comes to web typography and handwritten fonts have started to gain more and more popularity.

The world of web typography is advancing by leaps and bounds. Already we have the options of SiFR, Cufon, Typekit, @font-face and a few years ago even Google had introduced its own custom font service under the Google Font API.

20+ free handwriting fonts for graphic design

We hope that these free handwritten fonts will inspire you to add a more personal touch to your website designs. If you’re looking for inspiration on how to use handwritten fonts and elements in web design, check out these websites with hand-drawn typography.

Jenna Sue

Free Handwriting Fonts: Jenna Sue

Jenna Sue is an amazing font that will definitely make your project look elegant thanks to the way the letters are designed. This is a really nice handwriting font.

Moscato Script

Free Handwriting Fonts: Moscato Script

Moscato is a handwritten script font. It features uppercase and lowercase English letters A-Z, and multilingual accents. Moscato is a stylish font that is perfect for a number of projects like quotes, headers, posters, weddings, branding, logos, fashion, merchandise, and stationary.

Hand of Sean

Free Handwriting Fonts: Hand of Sean

Hand of Sean is a bold hand-writing font that can definitely be used in many creative ways. It can be a great asset to your font collection. Download it and see how fast your design project improves.

Scripter

Free Handwriting Fonts: Scripter

Scipter is a carefully crafted, beautiful, modern script font. It features uppercase and lowercase English letters A-Z, it also has different ligatures, alternate glyphs, and swashes. The whimsical style of Scripter is a modern take on calligraphy and will add a beautiful and airy visual to quotes, websites, headers, posters, wedding designs, branding, logos, fashion, apparel, invitations, and stationery.

Daniel

Free Handwriting Fonts: Daniel

Daniel is a thin hand-writing font that can definitely make your projects look nice. Analyze this font closely and see if you can use it in any of your current projects or simply download it, install it and save it for later!

Stereomantic Signature Brush Font

Free Handwriting Fonts: Stereomantic Signature Brush Font

Stereomantic is a handcrafted authentic signature script font. It features uppercase and lowercase English letters A-Z, numerals 0-9, common punctuations, ligatures, and supports multilingual accents. The freehand stroke of Stereomantic is perfectly suited for use in signatures, stationery, logos, quotes, apparel, websites, and packaging.

GoodDog

Free Handwriting Fonts: GoodDog

This is yet another good-looking hand-written bold font that can be a great asset to your fonts arsenal. There’s no telling in how many ways using this font can improve your projects.

Amerta Misty Script

Free Handwriting Fonts: Amerta Misty Script

Amerta Misty is a modern calligraphy script. It features uppercase and lowercase English letters A-Z, numerals 0-9, common punctuations, symbols, stylistic set alternates, swashes, ligatures, and supports multilingual accents. Amerta Misty compliments headlines, quotes, signatures, logos, apparel, branding, wedding design, and packaging.

Sweetly Broken

Free Handwriting Fonts: Sweetly Broken

This is a sweet font that can definitely give an elegant touch to your design projects. Sweetly Broken might be just the font you have been looking for all this time!

Birdspring Signature

Free Handwriting Fonts: Birdspring Signature

Birdspring is a thin signature script font. It features uppercase and lowercase English letters A-Z, 14 stylistic alternates, ligatures, and multiple swash options. The 14 ligatures expand your creative options. Birdspring has strong characteristics and works well in branding, wedding design, packaging, quotes, websites, and logos.

Lovely Eunike Hans

Free Handwriting Fonts: Lovely Eunike Hans

This is yet another cool bold and handwritten font that can’t be overlooked from being added to your fonts arsenal.

Max’s Handwritin

Free Handwriting Fonts: Max's Handwritin

“Max’s Handwritin” is a cool handwritten font that might be exactly what you were looking for. The lettering looks nice and there really is no telling in how many creative ways this font can be used!

Angelina

Free Handwriting Fonts: Angelina

This is yet another amazing font that will make your project look elegant thanks to the way the letters are designed. Angelina is a really nice handwriting font that should be considered for your design collection.

Journal

Free Handwriting Fonts: Journal

This handwriting font can definitely make your projects look interesting and personalized. It is a clean script font with a personal touch, perfect for projects that need a more handmade feel.

Jinky

Free Handwriting Fonts: Jinky

Linky is a really nice font that can be used in many creative ways and it could be a great asset to your fonts collection. Download it and see how fast your design project improves.

 

Throw My Hands Up in the Air

Free Handwriting Fonts: Throw My Hands Up in the Air

This is a cool font with a cool name to be included in your handwriting font design file. This font is great if you were trying to add a handwritten font to your design project.

Christopher Hand

Free Handwriting Fonts: Christopher Hand

This font might be exactly what your design project was missing! Check out the Christopher Hand font and see if this is the right font for your project!

Joy Like Sunshine Through My Windowpane

Free Handwriting Font: Joy Like Sunshine Through My Windowpane

This font has a long name that best describes the way the lettering is designed, joyful as the sunshine through one’s windowpane.

The Great Escape

Free Handwriting Fonts: The Great Escape font

The Great Escape is a really nice hand-writing font that can be a positive addition to any design collection.

Akbar

Free Handwriting Fonts: Akbar

This font can be a great asset to your fonts collection. Download it and see how fast your design project improves.

Talking to the Moon

Free Handwriting Fonts: Taling To The Moon

This font has quite an elegant lettering which can come in really handy and make your projects look really good.

Dear Joe

Free Handwriting Fonts: Dear Joe

Dear Joe is an elegant hand-writing font that can definitely make your projects look better. This lovely script font has a simple design and some unique details which make it special.

Gunny Rewritten

Free Handwriting Fonts: Gunny Rewritten

This is a new version of the Gunny font and it is definitely worth having in your collection. Download the font and try it out to see in how many creative ways this font can be used in your project.

Skinny

Free Handwriting Fonts: Skinny

Skinny is a really nice and thin font that can be used in so many creative ways. This example simply can’t miss from your freebies arsenal.

A Year Without Rain

Free Handwriting Fonts: A Year Without Rain

This is yet another elegant handwritten to be considered. This font can be used in many creative ways and it can definitely improve all your projects.

Yank

Free Handwriting Fonts: Yank

If you were looking for yet another cool handwritten font, this might be just the one you had in mind.

Faraco Hand (As seen on Line25!)

Free Handwriting Fonts: Faraco Hand

Last but not least, Faraco Hand is yet another really nice handwriting font that should be considered placed in your collection.

Declara

Free Handwriting Fonts: Declara

This is a really nice font that should be in every designer’s collection. The lettering is very elegant and can definitely improve your design projects.

Conclusion

Our collection of handwriting fonts above can bring a realistic and personal touch to your design projects. As you can see from these quality design assets, there is a form and flow that express an artistic beauty without becoming hard to read.

Some of the designs fall in line with typography which is more of a classic style, such as cursive handwriting. Even though cursive handwriting can sometimes be difficult to read, these examples are very well done and should be considered becoming a part of your designs. Your client and your readers will love them.

Author
Iggy
Iggy is a designer who loves experimenting with new web design techniques, collating creative website designs, and writing about the latest design trends, inspiration, design freebies, and more. You can follow him on Twitter

32 thoughts on “Top 20+ Free Handwriting Fonts For Designers”

  1. Has anyone ever used the iFontMaker for iPad? I think it's about seven bucks, and totally worth it. I exported my handwriting as an .otf and thought it was just the greatest thing until one of my coworkers put it side-by-side with Comic Sans…it was frighteningly similar. I'll be training myself to write more like Helvetica in the future.

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  2. Faraco Hand is my favourite! Such an awesome font! Wish I could use it allot more but don't wanna be accused of copying line 25 and the spoonmeister himself :p

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  3. Not all of these are free. The ones by Kimberly Geswein (A Year without Rain, Talking to the Moon, The Great Escape) aren't free. But a commercial licence isn't expensive. They are only $5.

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