Contemporary Handwriting Fonts
The FontShop shelves are stocked with thousands of delightful script typefaces, but it can be difficult to find those that convincÂingly simulate handwriting without sacriÂficing 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 connecÂtions, 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 accomÂpaÂnying small caps.
FF Market
3 weights, 1 condensed width.
Linotype Feltpen
2 weights.
Felt Tip Roman
3 weights. Woman and Senior variaÂtions. See more in the FontShop Newsletter.
Dizzy
1 weight with alterÂnates for all lowercase letters.
Linotype Notec
Berranger Hand
IvÃ
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 alterÂnates, ligatures, and swashes.
Handsome Pro
6 styles, contextual alterÂnates. See more in the FontShop Newsletter.
Amadeo
2 weights, alterÂnates, 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 profesÂsionals 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.
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The font samples couched in homey advice, and clever humor appealed to me much more than those that were used for recipes… Nevertheless,thanks…
Theophilus
June 11,2008
Hi, Great site! Is it possible to make my own handwriting font and use it on my typepad blog? I know I can generate my handwriting font and use it on documents, but I really want to type my blog entries in my own handwriting. Thanks for any advice!
Are these fonts available for use with MS Word? I need a hand-​writing font for use on inkjet addressing equipment which requires MS Word for text handling.
Hi Patricia, could you please address your technical questions to info@fontshop.com? The support team there will be more than happy to help you. This is just a blog.
these fonts are wonderful.I have already purchased some of these and use them quite a bit..perhaps too much! :)
I think I will get the FF Market one it is just such a clean handwritten font- yaaaaaaaaaay
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It is a wonderful page. I loved all your fonts.