The FontShop shelves are stocked with thou­sands of delight­ful script type­faces, but it can be dif­fi­cult to find those that con­vinc­ingly sim­u­late hand­writ­ing with­out sac­ri­fic­ing leg­i­bil­ity. We culled from our col­lec­tion the best hand­writ­ing type­faces in var­i­ous writ­ing styles — from print to cur­sive, simple to swashy. Read more about our selected favorites in this week’s newsletter.

Update: Test all these fonts, as well as antique, comic, and children’s hand­writ­ing at FontShop.com.

Careful, Legible Print

MVB Calliope

3 weights. See more in the FontShop Newsletter.

FF Providence Sans

2 weights, ding­bats, and serif ver­sion. See more in the FontShop Newsletter.

ITC Zemke Hand

ITC Weber Hand

Venture

Panoptica Script

Uni­case, mono­spaced font with alternates.

Longhand

2 weights.

P22 Kaz

Includes small caps.

Quick, Natural Scrawling

Brisa

Two fonts, one with con­nec­tions, one with­out. Use either by them­selves, or both together.

MVB Sacre Bleu

Plenty of lig­a­tures to avoid let­ter­form rep­e­ti­tion. Note ‘ee’, ‘ll’, ‘tt’, ‘pp’, ’oo’.

FF Justlefthand

Part of the FF Hands pack­age with the heav­ier FF Erikright­hand. Each with accom­pa­ny­ing small caps.

FF Market

3 weights, 1 con­densed width.

Linotype Feltpen

2 weights.

Felt Tip Roman

3 weights. Woman and Senior vari­a­tions. See more in the FontShop Newsletter.

Dizzy

1 weight with alter­nates for all low­er­case letters.

Linotype Notec

Berranger Hand

Ivà

2 weights.

Linotype Sketch

Flood

ITC Bradley Hand

2 weights, 1 italic.

Filzerhand

FF Ropsen Script

2 weights, each with small caps.

Kremlin Cyrillic

Just a basic but nice char­ac­ter set.

Cursive and Swashed Scripts

MVB Emmascript

2 weights. See more in the FontShop Newsletter.

Fineprint

2 weights, each with alter­nates, lig­a­tures, and swashes.

Handsome Pro

6 styles, con­tex­tual alter­nates. See more in the FontShop Newsletter.

Amadeo

2 weights, alter­nates, small caps.

Make Your Own!

HandFont

Can’t find the style you need? Make a custom dig­i­tal font based on your own hand­writ­ing. Send us a scan and our type design pro­fes­sion­als will create a work­ing font in your pre­ferred format. The Hand­Font above is Ven­tana de Dia based on the writ­ing of Lita Mikrut Franco.

Update: Test all these fonts, as well as antique, comic, and children’s hand­writ­ing at FontShop.com.