25 Excellent Handwritten Fonts. Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 - Learn More or Buy Now The use of certain fonts is an easy way to give a design a hand-drawn effect. Fortunately, there are a number of fonts in this style that are freely available. In this post we’ll showcase 25 of the best. As always when you are dealing with freebies, be sure to check the usage restrictions from the designer. Whiteboard Modern Demo Harrison FFF Tusj Sketch Rockwell The Quiet Scream Grutch Shaded Mia’s Scribblings Karabine Christopher Hand Brook 23 Later On Kraboudja Estrya’s Handwriting Note This Caityln HandVetica Aguzlo Tire Shop Demo WC Roughtrad Tiza Hand of Sean Alliewriting GoodDog Rabiohead Angelina To see examples of inspirational design using hand-drawn type, see TypeInspire’s hand-drawn tag.
For more design resources please see: About Steven Snell Stephen Snell is the owner and editor of Vandelay Design. Dafont.com. Open Source Fonts | iface thoughts. The core challenge of web design is the variety of environments that the users can have. The combination of browser and the operating system, plugins, resolution – they all make it impossible to design for a single base. The design has to be more inclusive than exclusive. Another such element is the font, which we want the user’s environment to have. Of course, we have the alternatives in the font-family, but they are just that – the alternatives.
We always include sans-serif as the last font in the family, but have you seen how it is rendered on certain platforms if it comes to that! It gets more difficult since every browser and OS combination seems to have its favorite fonts. Life would be easier if there were at least a certain set of fonts that were available on all platforms. Even Fonts can be Open Sourced Yes! The Free UCS Outline Fonts project explains why we need free outline fonts.
Ed Trager has built an excellent and in-depth font guide to Unicode based fonts.