Handwriting from My Fonts

yFonts has just the typeface to fit your personality. How do you see yourself? Are you the offbeat type? laid back? thrill seeker? sophisticated? slacker? We have a whole lot of handwriting fonts that are just a click away. Let MyFonts help you get the handwriting font that has your name written all over it!

TOPICS: Casual Hand, One-of-a-Kind Hand, Sophisticated Hand, Personal Favorites

Casual Hand
Are you the informal or laid back type who takes life as it comes? If you like funny, organic, casual, or simple designs, then these fonts are for you!

Darlin
Darlin was created by an actual 6-year old girl and fonted for your pleasure. No need to mimic children’s handwriting when you can get the REAL thing. Use it for all your educational endeavors or fun party invitations!

Felt Tip Roman
You’ve probably seen Felt Tip Roman in ads for Marriott hotels, the movie Memento, and Alamo Car Rental. It’s popular with children’s book publishers. One claim to fame is the font’s use as Hagrid’s handwriting in the U.S. editions of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books.

Felt Tip Roman began as an experiment in 1989 — a straight adaptation of the designer’s handwriting that he very carefully digitized by hand. The Bold and Heavy weights were added later to broaden the usefulness of this very popular typeface.

Alter Ego
Alter Ego is an old school, comic book, lettering font – simple and legible at small point sizes. It includes Regular, Italic and Bold as well as a hefty complement of European characters. A caps only font, Alter Ego lets you take on a persona that may be just right for you!

Alter Ego is from Blambot Comics Fonts, a staple in the comic creation industry, appearing in books published by Marvel, Dark Horse, Oni, Image and independent comics worldwide.

Lipstick
The idea for Lipstick came from a snippy little note the designer’s better half left for him one night. The note was tacked to the bedroom door. “COUCH TONIGHT!” it exclaimed in red lipstick on a paper towel. All because the hockey game was on at the same time as American Idol. Since all is fair in love and hockey, the designer simply shrugged his shoulders and let his mind wander about the concept of using lipstick as a writing tool.

Along with the main Lipstick font, included is an Extras font with lipstick kisses, hearts and other paraphernalia. So smooch away!

One-of-a-Kind Hand

Do you march to your own beat? If so, you’ll probably want to take a look at these handwriting fonts with a grunge, antique, or retro feel to them. But don’t let us tell you what to do — we’ll let you be the judge!

George Gibson
George Gibson is based on handwriting samples dating back to mid-1800s England. Although it’s an antique, cursive handwriting script, it has a quirky and rough feel to it that makes it stand out from many historical fonts. The design features additional characters for foreign language support and extra glyphs.

Gekko
Gekko is a dirty font, designed to resemble an overloaded calligraphy brush. An OpenType font, it features 549 characters, including Central European characters, small caps, standard and discretionary ligatures, oldstyle figures, and a titling feature.

Heathen
Heathen is a style of font quite often seen on chic clothing, music packaging, some sports paraphernalia, skateboarder and surfer gear, and even book covers. Such fonts have become the standard in expressing elegant confusion, old chaos in modern settings, recycled histories, and rebellious ideas.

Heathen includes a feature that other distressed scripts do not normally have: more intertwined over-swashing. This over-swashing is quite useful in settings where the stroke and fill colors differ or complement each other. It is also quite the point of emphasis where the idea is to show elegance gone ancient, old thoughts in a modern wrapper, rust never sleeping, or the very basic limits of the world’s nature.

Missiva
The first inspiration for Missiva was a sixteenth-century letter from St. Francis Xavier, but then the designer adapted his own handwriting in order to fill out the character set. Even though the font is based on the handwriting of an old world historical figure, we like the font for its contemporary flair.

Swanson
Swanson is the son of the swan. The late, great Italian typeface designer Aldo Novarese designed a typeface in the 1950s that he called “Cigno,” which means Swan.

When Gert Wiescher designed Swanson, he had Cigno in mind. But it turned into a much different typeface. He designed Swanson twins, Swanson One being the light elegantly floating Swan, and Swanson Two the more accentuated heavier brother typeface.

Sophisticated Hand

So you see yourself the sophisticated type, do you? Well, we won’t disillusion you. If you like polished, worldly, handwriting fonts with a touch of elegance, then these fonts are right up your alley!

Canette
Canette is a hybrid script italic font named after the noble quill (Canette means “quill” in French). What makes Canette distinctive are the bold swashes created by the ascenders and descenders flaring out from the main vertical stem. In addition, Canette’s alternate characters, available in a separate font, provide design opportunities for embellishment!

Canette is ideal for invitations, announcements, certificates, brochures, headlines — pretty much anywhere elegant and readable typography is required.

Skin Deep
Skin Deep is a typeface family inspired by modern tattooing. It comes with a companion font that has a set of lowercase letters with decorative swashes, perfect for the end of any word. With lots of European characters included, this font is perfect for tattooers or anyone who wants that unconventional tattoo calligraphy!

Avalon
Avalon was inspired by the designer Friedrich Neugebauer, known for the cutting power of his calligraphic invention. As a prisoner of war in Egypt, he wrote with toothpaste when all else failed. The irrepressible style of this Austrian artist inspired Boston designer Richard Lipton to capture his calligraphy as a typeface. Avalon plays sweeping freedom in the capitals against the vital discipline of a lowercase relieved by alternative ascending characters.

Water Brush
Water Brush is a dry brush script with lots of bounce and fun. It works great for casual projects as well as sophisticated events.

Personal Favorites

Here we highlight favorite handwriting fonts that our customers and our staff admire year after year. We never get tired of these fonts!

P22 Cezanne
P22 Cezanne is the number two handwriting font and also the number five Best Seller.

The Cezanne font set, created for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, celebrates the work of influential French artist Paul C?zanne. P22’s Cezanne font allows you to beautify your documents with a faithful rendition of the artist’s handwriting, while Cezanne Sketches recreates a variety of imagery from the artist’s work.

Satisfaction
Satisfaction is the number one handwriting font and also the number four Best Seller.

The typographer is a a Hollywood prop designer who in his quest for authenticity makes fonts as part of his work. His fonts are inspired by old printed and hand-lettered material, and are usually designed a little rough and a little irregular, in deliberate defiance of the crisp perfection and merciless uniformity of modern digital fonts. Satisfaction is a casual vintage script font developed from hand-lettered words in various 1930s cigarette ads.

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Fonts used in this newsletter include: Amore, Darlin, Felt Tip Roman, Alter Ego, Lipstick, George Gibson, Gekko, Heathen, Missiva, Swanson, Canette, Skin Deep, Avalon, Water Brush, P22 Cezanne, and Satisfaction.

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