Contemporary Handwriting Fonts
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.
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
IvĂ
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.
In our next two posts we’ll list typefaces inspired by historical handwriting and comic book lettering.
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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
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