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45+ Best Hand-Lettering Fonts

Adding a bunch of hand lettering fonts into your toolbox will do you a great favor not once, trust us. So do it right now and give your design projects a unique charm with one of the calligraphic typefaces from this carefully gathered selection.

Alina Yakovleva by Alina Yakovleva
March 4, 2022
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Have you noticed that hand lettering typefaces never go out of fashion? There is no mystery behind it. At first, people communicated through the letters only and now. In the digital age, we get tired of display fonts more often than ever before and such cursive typography is like a breath of wind, refreshing you in busy days. That’s why they look so good in any design. 

Essential Hand-Lettering Fonts

Panthera - Hand Lettering Script
Panthera Handlettering
Ramestone - Handlettering Font
Ramestone Font
Shafiya - Hand Lettering Font
Shafiya Handlettering Font
Geofany - Modern Hand Lettered Beauty Script Font
Geofany Script Font
Italian Horskey Signature Handlettering Script
Italian Horskey Signature
Wallington | Hand Lettering Brush Script
Hand Lettering Brush Script
More Hand-Lettering Fonts
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Moreover, for every project, you can choose a special hand letterinh font matching its atmosphere, purpose and your likings in general. To facilitate your process of searching, we found over 35 best cursive hand lettered fonts where you can indeed pick the perfect one for you. 

We have to admit that choosing hand lettering fonts for a project is a difficult task. There are so many of such fonts online: the typefaces with soft curves where the letters connect flowing to each other, the ones with bold, sharp characters, or the vintage typography that gives off the aristocratic, wealthy vibe. However, we have a piece of advice for you. Why would you limit yourself to picking just one typeface when you can download several hand lettering fonts that you like the most? You can play with them, trying different typefaces in the same project to find the ideal one or even mix them! Don’t stop the flight of your fantasies and find new creative solutions. 

Our Team’s Top Pick

Steven Anderson Hand Lettering Font

Steven Anderson Hand Lettering Font

Smooth curves, slightly melted on the edges by the warmth this handwritten font radiates. It also makes you think of summer, fancy chocolate package and maybe even retro t-shirts! Steven Anderson font is a casual font inspired by cursive handwriting, pop and urban cultures, united together. This typeface is great for your next creative project such as logotype, printed quotes, invitations, product packaging, letterhead, apparel design, and more. You’ll find uppercase and lowercase letter set, numerals, punctuations and multilingual support given in the package to let you customize your designs. 

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Himalaya Script Fonts

Himalaya Script Fonts

Himalaya hand lettering fonts is a vintage-inspired typeface duo that includes one script and one sans serif typeface. They both are hand-drawn with a rough edge. The font duo offers numerous combination possibilities between the basic glyph set and stylistic sets. You’ll find lowercase and uppercase letters and numerals in a file you download. The stylistic sets are alternate alphabets that you can access by using OpenType savvy programs, for example Adobe Photoshop. Himalaya fonts are a versatile typography that is suitable for digital lettering, prints, logo, poster, t-shirt, packaging and applicable for some type of graphic design. 

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Luminaire Elegant Font

Luminaire Elegant Font

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Karllina Hanwriting Signature

Karllina Hanwriting Signature

The art of calligraphy has come a long way from ancient times to these days when it can obtain new forms. Like this astonishing bold font with the curves making your head go round. Karllina is a beautiful classic typeface with its cleanly looping ascenders and descenders, as well as elegant uppercase letter forms, which represents a free-spirited typeface for a wide variety of use. It works perfectly for creative projects like logotypes, t-shirts/apparel design, invitations, packaging, headlines, posters and greeting cards. You can access multilingual support as well. Behold the very soft but terse curves, watch its low slant angles making the font legible and aesthetic. 

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Calton Elegance

Calton Elegance

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Giugliamore Hand Lettering Font

Giugliamore Hand Lettering Font

A cozy, exquisite typeface always attracts a lot of attention. And this one isn’t an exception. Giugliamore hand lettering font is a modern signature that is perfect for blogging, social media, branding, product packaging, wedding invitations, branding, headlines, signature, book covers, posters and more. Downloading the file, you get everything you need for your design project: uppercase and lowercase letters and numerals. In case you want to use beautiful alternatives, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC or Adobe Indesign. 

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Parisienne Hand Lettering Font

Parisienne Hand Lettering Font

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Amithen Brush Font

Amithen Brush Font

This font looks like it already belongs to your current project. Being easy-to-read, it is made with florid lines and charming curves that will draw your readers’ attention to your texts. Amithen is a textured brush font with a contemporary approach to design, made by the hand of an incredibly talented artist. The typeface is suitable for many design projects, such as apparel, invitations, books title, stationery design, quotes, branding, logotypes and more. Amithen includes a complete set of uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as multi-language support, numbers, punctuation, ligatures. 

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Daizen Free Hand Lettering Font

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Signatory Handwriting Signature Font

Signatory Handwriting Signature Font

We bet that if you take a look at this font, you won’t go without adding it into your toolbox, that’s how mesmerizing it is. The Signatory is a stylized handwritten signature typeface you’ll be mesmerized by. You can find many usages to the typeface: create beautiful wedding invitations, stunning stationery art, eye-catching social media posts and more! To make your artwork even more interesting, you can combine Signatory with sans serif typefaces, play with font size, add textures, different hand lettering fonts and colors. This font is PUA encoded, which means you can access all the amazing glyphs and ligatures easily. 

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Charmline Elegant Font

Charmline Elegant Font

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Againts Free Typeface

Againts Free Typeface

This font can help you to no longer stare at the blank screen of your device. Againts is a decorative font inspired by ink & tints hand-drawn brush. It is a suitable typeface to make a beautiful creative mess using alternate glyphs and extra ligatures for your unrepeatable headline. Every curl and shade is a somewhat expressive design rampage: disguised on purpose lines correlate with any chosen font color. Applying this typeface to your logos, web projects, and collages will definitely be the right move! You can mix it with different hand lettering fonts and textures to create a unique design you imagined in your head. 

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Andorea Hand Lettering Font

Andorea Hand Lettering Font

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Brownis Stylish Hand Lettering Font

Brownis Stylish Hand Lettering Font

Do you think that it’s impossible to find cursive fonts that will be both elegant and legible? Though it was hard, we did it! Brownis font is a modern handwritten typeface that allows you to create beautiful designs with a hand-made typography, adding a personal touch to the artwork. The typeface is perfect for any kind of project such as branding, brochures, business card, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, photography, watermark, brand company and many more. It includes uppercase and lowercase letter set and numbers. By combining this great font with warm shades, you’ll get a cozy design. 

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Hiliana Hand Lettering Font

Hiliana Hand Lettering Font

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Stampson Signature Font

Stampson Signature Font

If your designs lack the touch of realism, the properly selected fonts are ready to save the situation. Light and lively font shares the hand-written aesthetics in every curl. Let us offer you a gentle hand lettering font, bringing a nice feeling of comfort. Bright and clear lines of Stampson Signature were thoroughly written and formed a charming font, absorbed the thin lines of a marker. It will become a focal point of your ready-made project or put it together with a matching typeface for achieving a better impression. What about the sphere of use? Try this outstanding example of hand lettering fonts with stationery, logos, apparel, website designs or branding ideas, which are doomed to become masterpieces. 

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Glaston Font

Glaston Font

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Darling Moods Natural Hand Lettering Font

Darling Moods Natural Hand Lettering Font

Though the majority of hand lettering fonts can be used only in a limited number of projects, as it has to match the purpose and the atmosphere, there are some typefaces that suit any design project you’re working on. And the Darling moods font is one of them. Inspired by the nostalgic feeling of recollecting the memories of the best places you visit and the warmest moments with your friends, it is ideal for advertisement, logotypes, wedding or greeting cards, albums, book and magazine covers, anything! Combine it with other fonts and different textures to create an outstanging design. The file you download includes upper and lowercase letters and numbers. 

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Summer Loving Hand Lettering Font

Summer Loving Hand Lettering Font

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Redsky Free Signature Font

Redsky Free Signature Font

Meet a smooth handwritten font, defined by an elegant touch, perfect for your favorite projects. Fall in love with its incredibly distinct and timeless style and use it to create spectacular designs! With the modern style it possesses and a special set of ligatures, RedSky is excellent for projects like creating a wedding invitation, editorial, slider blog, social media, custom address, greeting cards, and so on. You can easily pair them with sans or serif fonts from all over the world to make your work more interesting! 

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Better Grade Font

Better Grade Font

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Francie Fonts

Francie Fonts

Let us introduce you not just some regular fonts but a whole set that includes everything you may need to bring your creative ideas to life! The Francie fonts is an exquisite set that will leave neither you nor your readers indifferent to your work. Script version includes alternate characters for both uppercase and lowercase letters, beginning ending swashes for all lowercase letters, ligatures and stylistic alternates for different styles. The modern font is ideal for fashion, blog website, Instagram, branding, invitations, business cards and many more. 

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Dettamin Stylish Hanwriting Font

Dettamin Stylish Hanwriting Font

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The Proactive Hand Lettering Font

The Proactive Hand Lettering Font

It’s not just another font for your kit. In fact, it’s a one of a kind typeface! What makes it stand out from script fonts is that the typeface was made from the original handwriting and transformed into a font. You don’t have to be an expert to be a hand-lettering artist: just use this font and create your own brush calligraphy! Play around with the swashes and stylistic alternates to make this typeface stand out even more! Very suitable to be used as a headline, Instagram posts and stories signature, book covers, greeting/wedding cards, stationery, novels, labels, or any type of advertising purpose. 

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Brittanian Hand Lettering Font

Brittanian Hand Lettering Font

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Abu Dhabi Clean Signature Font

Abu Dhabi Clean Signature Font

Introducing the Abu Dhabi font, a handwritten signature typeface that will be a charming addition to your design. For those of you who need a touch of clean handwritten signature, chic and modernity for your projects, this font was created for you! Abu Dhabi was built with beautiful ligatures and alternate endings and it has extensive lingual support, covering all European Latin scripts. The typeface will look amazing on greeting and wedding cards, postcards, logotypes, watermarks, advertisement or even on the items of clothing! Don’t limit yourself while working with this font. 

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Carmelot Elegant Font

Carmelot Elegant Font

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Alinnea Free Handwritten Font

Alinnea Free Handwritten Font

The personal touch in every curve and neverending feeling of uniqueness: these are the things you get when speaking of this script font. What’s up to you is its right implementation! Alinnea is a natural signature font, meant to become a part of your logo, invitation, stationery, wedding designs, social media posts, product packaging, photography, or anything you are working on right now. The script comes with a full set of uppercase and lowercase letters, multilingual letter set, numerals, punctuation. In other words, it’s completely ready for being used in your projects!

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Bayshore Signature Font

Bayshore Signature Font

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Madina Script Font

Madina Script Font

Universal hand lettered fonts that suits literally any project you are working on will always be a good thing to add to your repertoire. If you’re looking for such a typeface, pay close attention to the Madina script. It’s a beautiful, elegant, legible font that can be a part of any design: postcards, wedding and greeting cards, invitations, logotypes, headlines, blogs or even a detail of the interior design. The downloadable file provides you with uppercase and lowercase characters and numerals so you’ll have a whole set and be able to work right after installing. 

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Brittany Signature Font

Brittany Signature Font

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Houstoner Serif Font

Houstoner Serif Font

Do you want your project to give off a vintage vibe? We have a perfect font for you, then! The sophisticated lettering in thin lines of this signature script font looks so light and tender. Each elegant stroke is carried out with expertise in a never-ending splendid line. Houstoner is a carefully handcrafted script typeface that is suitable for branding, t-shirt design, invitations, and logotypes. The font also includes the ampersand set to make your design prettier, more classy, elegant, and luxurious. It blesses you with the elevated spirits from the 19th century! 

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Oishigo Free Luxury Script Font

Oishigo Free Luxury Script Font

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Katherine Signature Font

Katherine Signature Font

Is there anything more sophisticated than a signature font? Well, only if it comes with premade logos, fitting the implied style to complete the composition. That’s, actually, why this script is here. Katherine is an authentic signature font that contains lowercase and uppercase letter set, supporting multi-language inscriptions. Swash alternates, ligatures, numbers ask for something and it’s already here! To make this font more wondrous, there are 9 premade logos included. Katherine is suitable for branding, fashion designs, wedding invitations and cards, or inspiring handwritten quotes. 

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Washington Signature Font

Washington Signature Font

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Silver South Signature Font

Silver South Signature Font

The Silver South font in handwritten style is perfect for those who haven’t decided yet what exactly their project needs. As it has 3 different styles, it leaves room for your imagination and creative fantasy to take the best from each. Combine them among themselves, add sans serif typefaces, different hand lettering fonts — there are so many variations! Every font style includes uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals and symbols, so nothing stops you from creating a perfect design. Silver South suits any projects: logotypes, advertisements, greeting, wedding and invitation cards, headlines, blogs, and many others. 

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Modernline Handwriting Font

Modernline Handwriting Font

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Marygold Fonts Collection

Marygold Fonts Collection

We want to introduce you the Marygold fonts collection — a unique blend that brings together a handwritten signature script, elegant serif, design elements, and paper textures. With its many bonus elements, these fonts are a match made in heaven for branding, packaging, logos, and designs for print. The script font contains more than 50 ligatures, all lowercase letters have both initial and end-of-word swashes. You can also use underlines as swashes if you prefer their shape and length. All hand lettering fonts (6 in total) come in two styles – SVG (handwritten look and feel) and regular (solid fonts). 

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Biancha Font

Biancha Font

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Mythshire Vintage Handscript Font

Mythshire Vintage Handscript Font

Mythshire is a hand-script font inspired by the cursive and personality-rich hand lettered styles of the past. It is an artform itself, loaded with a full set of alternate characters (both upper and lowercase) as well as over 40 ligatures, it provides plenty of options for creating authentically flowing type. Elegant, characterful, rich, medieval, informal, all these words could be used to describe Mythshire, so its usages are wide and dynamic: from wedding invites and stationery, vintage-inspired branding and logos, book jackets and covers to scrapbooking, journals, product packaging, genealogy and archival themed work. 

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Bon Vivant Font

Bon Vivant Font

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The Legend Fonts

The Legend Fonts

These hand lettering fonts was crafted by hand under the inspiration of traditional American graphics. The collection of fonts includes script, sans and serif, which perfectly cooperate for creating a vintage mood. It can be used for different purposes: lettering and logotype, labels, t-shirts, product packaging, invitations, advertising and any key text in the design. The Legend fonts have beautiful alternates for uppercase and numbers, 12 lengths end-swashes and a special short version for lowercase characters with protruding elements like b, d, f, g, h, etc. (it helps to arrange words in two lines more compactly). Mix the fonts with each other or add some bold ones to see how your whole work changes! 

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Great Vibes Signature Font

Great Vibes Signature Font

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Marlon Brendy Handwriting Script Font

Marlon Brendy Handwriting Script Font

Marlon Brendy handwriting script font is a new typeface that is authentic and suitable for many of your visual needs, like an invitation, greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters, and more! This font includes stylistic sets, stylistic alternates, contextual alternate, swash and ligature. The Open Type features can be accessed by using savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop Corel Draw X version, and Microsoft Word. Also, the font has given PUA Unicode (specially coded hand lettering fonts) so that all the alternate characters can easily be fully accessed. 

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Solustion Font

Solustion Font

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Balleys Beautiful Handwriting Script Font

Balleys Beautiful Handwriting Script Font

Give your designs an authentic handcrafted feel with Balleys! This handwritten font perfectly suits such design projects as logotypes, quotes, magazine or book cover, website header, packaging design and more. The downloadable file includes everything you may need: uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. The typeface is available in OTF, TTF and web font formats. You can use it with different hand lettering fonts, textures and various design details to create the exact artwork you have in your head, don’t stop your creative ideas! 

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Boderline Calligraphy Font

Boderline Calligraphy Font

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Prestyn Monoline Script Font

Prestyn Monoline Script Font

Elegant and aristocratic hand lettering fonts always give the project a unique charm, attracting readers and customers. If you wanted to find such a font, this one is ideal for you. Prestyn is a delicate monoline script typography that will add a personal touch to your artwork. Its large looping capitals make Prestyn perfect for signature style logos, quotes, stationery and much more! It has a whole set of uppercase and lowercase letters, symbols and numbers. It will help you to create outstanding work that won’t let anyone untethered. Moreover, the font is absolutely free for personal use. 

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why use hand-lettering fonts?
Hand lettering fonts are hard to beat and the reason behind it is pretty simple. As such fonts mimic a real handwriting, they build a strong connection between the customer and the designer. No matter where you apply this kind of typography, when the reader sees it on any item, they can feel the smell of a real paper letter, making your product memorable. In the digital age seeing handwriting fonts is like a breath of fresh air and a text written in such typeface will attract your audience and they’ll pay close attention to it.
The prettiest cursive font?
It’s hard to find one font among all the various hand lettering fonts that can be called “the prettiest” one. It is important to pick a typeface for every project separately. This way, you’ll be sure that the typeface you chose is in line with the whole vibe of your work, suits its purpose and every little detail in general. But in case you need some neutral cursive hand lettering fonts you can use for any design, we’d recommend you pay close attention to Steven Anderson handwriting font, Himalaya script fonts and Stampson signature font. You can find all the mentioned lettering fonts in the selection above.
The best calligraphy font?
When choosing calligraphy fonts for a specific project, you need to not only pay attention to their style, beauty and attractiveness but also to the legibility. Such lettering fonts can be hard to read sometimes so if you need to bring important information to the readers, check if the text will be easy to read and understand. If that’s the kind of calligraphy font you need, you can take a closer look at the Proactive script font, Signatory handwriting signature font and Amithen brush font. All these hand lettering fonts can be found in the selection above.
What are the 4 types of lettering?
There are many types of lettering, however, it is possible to single out 4 main ones: sans serif, serif, cursive (script) and vintage fonts. Sans serif font is the one based on geometrical shapes and it is important to maintain a level of consistency throughout the thickness, heights and spacing while creating such a typeface. Serif fonts have curves and small strokes at the end of every letterform. The cursive typeface is based on handwriting and includes the characters that are written together in a flowing manner. Vintage fonts are easy to recognize: they are characterized as a style distinctive for 19-20th centuries.
How to make text look like handwriting in Photoshop?
To make the text look like handwriting, you need to download cursive hand lettering fonts you like and use them while working in Photoshop or any other app. If you want your text to mimic precisely your own handwriting, you need to digitize it. In this case, you have to write the letters you need on paper (or on the screen of your device with a stylus or just a finger), take a high-quality photo, or better scan it and then transform it into an actual typeface you can use for your work. You can do it either in Photoshop or in special programs that specialize in fonts making.
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