The best free fonts: Handwriting fonts
39. Cervanttis
With an effortless style and flow, Cervanttis Signature Script is one of our favourite free handwriting fonts on this list, 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, and would work well in logos, branding, advertising and social media posts.
- Free for personal use
- DOWNLOAD HERE
40. Timothy
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 you need to supply an email address to download it.
- Free for personal and commercial use
- DOWNLOAD HERE
41. Kavivanar
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).
- Free for personal and commercial use
- DOWNLOAD HERE
42. Tomato Soup
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.
- Free for personal and commercial use
- DOWNLOAD HERE
43. Ambarella
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.
- Free for personal and commercial use
- DOWNLOAD HERE
44. Nickainley
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.
- Free for personal and commercial use
- DOWNLOAD HERE
45. Shadows into Light
Shadows Into Light is the work of type designer Kimberly Geswein. Ideal for adding a personal touch to your projects, this free font features rounded edges and neat, clean characters. It's currently available in one style only, but has already proven extremely popular.
- Free for personal and commercial use
- DOWNLOAD HERE
46. Pacifico
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.
- Free for personal and commercial use
- DOWNLOAD HERE
47. Cute Punk
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.
- Free for personal and commercial use
- DOWNLOAD HERE
48. Yellowtail
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.
- Free for personal and commercial use
- DOWNLOAD HERE
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