About the family
Tortoise is a playful handwritten pencil-style font with brush and textured variants, perfect for kids designs, branding, posters, and crafts. With its plain stroke structure and slightly uneven, childlike forms, Tortoise feels warm, friendly, and delightfully imperfect — like notes scribbled in the margins of a notebook.
The family includes a wide range of expressive styles — from clean Regular and Italic to textured variations like Brush, Ink, Rough, Scratch, Grit, Rust, Worn, Cut, and Eroded — each with matching italics. These options allow designers to move from soft pencil lines to distressed, tactile finishes while maintaining a consistent handwritten identity.
Supporting an extensive range of Latin-based languages, Tortoise is versatile for international projects across branding, packaging, children’s books, educational materials, posters, social media graphics, merchandise, and creative stationery.
Language support
Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Cebuano, Chiga, Cornish, Corsican, Danish, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, German, Gusii, Icelandic, Ido, Indonesian, Interlingua, Interlingue, Irish, Italian, Javanese, Jju, Kabuverdianu, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kinyarwanda, Ligurian, Lojban, Lombard, Low German, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Manx, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Occitan, Oromo, Portuguese, Rejang, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Shambala, Shona, Soga, Somali, South Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Taroko, Teso, Tsonga, Tswana, Vunjo, Walloon, Wolastoqey, Xhosa, Zhuang, Zulu
Tortoise
About OtterType
Mariia Çakıcı is an independent type designer creating a growing library of over 70 fonts, including large families with up to 40 styles. The collection focuses on Latin script and is built for branding, social media, packaging, and modern digital design.
The portfolio includes everything from elegant handwritten scripts to bold display fonts and clean contemporary typefaces. Each font is designed to be versatile, easy to use, and ready for real-world projects—helping designers create distinctive and professional visuals with ease.
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