Handwritten fonts are extremely popular at the moment, they can be seen all over the design marketplaces as items to be purchased and also used in the marketing graphics for different items. Handwritten typically means hand drawn fonts in a script or Calligraphy style and they are seen in use for everything from logos to T-Shirt slogans, there are some truly beautiful pieces of typography which incorporate hand writing fonts.
A number of designers have made their own fonts available for free to download, but there are so many available online on sites like Dafont it can be a pain to sift through them all looking for the one which will suit your needs. That’s why we put together this collection, we have carefully hand-selected just 20 free fonts which we consider to be the best currently available.
The fonts on this list would be perfect for greetings cards, posters, invitations, logos, T-Shirts, advertising, website banners and header images, Instagram images, quote overlays and much more. Take a look below and let us know which is your favorite font.
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King Basil
King Basil is the free version of the full font designed to look like brush strokes it is free for personal or commercial usage.
Mightype
Mightype is a lovely looking hand-lettered script font from AF Studio.
Back to Black
Download this hand written calligraphic front from Misti’s Fonts completely free – perfect font for logos, posters and other graphic designs.
The Braggest
The Braggest is a script font which contains different lowercase letters and ligatures.
Debby
A Hand Drawn brush font designed to feel imperfect and irregular, great for quotes, posters, instagram images and logo identities.
Northern Lights
Northern Lights is a hand-written brush script font which was digitized in illustrator and spaced using the Glyphs app. Free for personal use or commercial version for $14.
Rising Script
A Grunge style script font by Dirtyline Studio with imperfections ideal for posters, book covers, T-Shirt slogans, logos, invitations and so on.
Fofer
Fofer is a free hand drawn font which looks like it has been penned with an ink pen.
Flow
Flow is a free brush font with upper and lower case letters, numbers and glyphs.
Dilem Handwritten
Dilem Handwritten is a handmade font by Dilem AKINER, it’s perfect for greetings cards, posters, website headers and logos.
Emily The Brush
This font was created by Monofont using a Talens Brush Pen 700, its unconventional shapes make Emily The Brush suitable for advertising, poster, greetings cards and more.
The Woodlands
This is a free font by Jeremy Vessey with a modern calligraphy aesthetic that is very popular at the moment. It’s free to use for personal or commercial projects.
Naira Script
Naira is a very attractive script font which is ideal for logos, titles, wedding invitations, letterhead, labels, newsletters, signage, posters, badges, etc. The download also includes a free watercolor pattern pack with it which has 40 patterns for you to use in your designs.
Noelan Script
A beautiful and elegant script based font which includes international characters, ligatures and more open type features for creating lovely looking typographic masterpieces.
Reis
Free hand-drawn font by Marcelo Reis Melo – All capital letters perfect for posters and other displays.
Wildera
Wildera is a free display font for both personal and commercial use designed by Lauren Lee.
Marbelia
Marbelia is a great looking and modern hand lettering typeface font with a wide variety of alternates, uppercase, lowercase, punctuations and numerals.
Olivia
Olivia is a graceful calligraphic font with 351 glyphs which is suitable for a whole range of elegant typographic needs.
Hello Stockholm
Hello Stockholm is a modern brushed script font with a tough of uniqueness driven by Scandinavian minimalism.
Little Mandy
Little Mandy is a font that was used in the coloring book Mini Mandalas – it’s free to download and use in personal projects. You can also purchase for commercial use for $15.