The best free fonts: Handwriting fonts
47. Cervanttis
- Free for personal use
- Get Cervanttis from Behance (opens in new tab)
With an effortless style and flow, Cervanttis Signature Script is one of our favourite free handwriting fonts and a great choice if you’re looking for a handwritten signature script. Crafted by Mats-Peter Forss, it’s one of the best free fonts for conveying the look and feel of handwriting. It would work well in logos, branding, advertising and social media posts.
48. Timothy
- Free for personal and commercial use
- Get Timothy from Behance (opens in new tab)
Handwriting fonts don't have to be about swirly letters. In this hand-drawn font, Timothy, it's block capitals that add a hand-written touch. Timothy was inspired by designer Timothy Goodman and we think it'd be a good choice when designing invitations. Note that you'll need to supply an email address.
49. Kavivanar
- Free for personal and commercial use
- Get Kavivanar from Google Fonts (opens in new tab)
Designed by Tharique Azeez, this bold handwriting font was inspired by the slanting letterforms found in typical Tamal handwriting. As well as a Tamil alphabet, it also includes Latin letterforms.
50. Tomato Soup
- Free for personal and commercial use
- Get Tomato Soup from pixelsurplus.com (opens in new tab)
If you ever feel like you want to recreate the scratchy handwriting of your doctor or perhaps teacher, this is the font for you. Tomato Soup was made by Typed.one and looks best when there's less text – we wouldn't recommend writing out passages with it.
51. Ambarella
- Free for personal and commercial use
- Get Ambarella from pixelsurplus.com (opens in new tab)
Ambarella is a beautiful free font from Polem Studio. The handwritten design in a modern calligraphy style includes various swashes, alternates and Western European characters.
52. Nickainley
- Free for personal and commercial use
- Get Nickainley from Behance (opens in new tab)
Nickainley is one of our favourite free handwriting fonts. This Monoline script with a classic, vintage feel, includes uppercase and lowercase characters, as well as numerics and punctuation marks. Created by Seniors Studio, potential use cases of this font include logos, T-shirt designs, letterhead and signage.
53. Shadows into Light
- Free for personal and commercial use
- Get Shadows into Light from Google Fonts (opens in new tab)
Shadows Into Light is the work of type designer Kimberly Geswein of Principal Design. Featuring rounded edges and neat, clean characters, this lovely handwriting font would be ideal for adding a personal touch to your projects.
54. Pacifico
- Free for personal and commercial use
- Get Pacifico from Google Fonts (opens in new tab)
Pacifico is a fun brush script handwriting font inspired by 1950s American surf culture. This open source font was one of the great contributions to the free software community by the late designer Vernon Adams.
55. Cute Punk
- Free for personal and commercial use
- Get Cute Punk from Behance (opens in new tab)
Cute Punk offers a vibrant, youthful and thoroughly modern take on the handwriting font. Infusing the style with a striking, almost geometric feel, this free font is the work of Flou, a designer and illustrator from Bratislava, Slovakia.
56. Yellowtail
- Free for personal and commercial use
- Get Yellowtail from Google Fonts (opens in new tab)
Yellowtail is an old-school, flat, brush font that evokes classic 1930s typefaces like Gillies Gothic and Kaufmann. Designed by typography institute Astigmatic, its mixture of connecting and non-connecting letterforms gives it a unique look and ensures good legibility.
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