Calligraphy is an art form that’s existed all over the world for centuries, and it remains popular today. Thanks to technology and the work of talented type designers, you can add a calligraphic vibe to your designs without having to figure out dip pens or nibs. So here are 40 Elegant Calligraphy & Hand Lettering Fonts for you to bookmark, and browse through, whenever you next need the perfect typeface for a new project.
Quentin
It is a font that is coming from a handwriting. This typeface turns out to look authentic with its rough texture from dry strokes. Yet this typeface appears with natural curves and has its own personal taste. Quentin is going to be perfect for branding, since it has the signature touch on it, also great for product packaging, and the popular social media ads.
Calafia
This is a script inspired by left handed brush lettering. Perfect for advertising headlines and logotypes, Calafia includes final forms for natural word endings, and an alternate set of caps for cap-specific settings, all supporting more than 100 languages.
Bimbo
Bimbo is a monoline script font family created in 2018 by Francesco Canovaro for Zetafonts as an extension & redesign of the original Arsenale White typeface created with italian illustrator Jonathan Calugi. Bimbo expands the original design with six new weights and over three hundred new characters to cover over seventy languages using the latin, greek and cyrillic alphabets, while keeping the handmade aesthetic that made succesful the original font.
The Woodland
It is a free brush script from Jeremy Vessey. It has a modern calligraphy aesthetic that is extremely popular. The Woodlands was created to give designers a free alternative which will help you achieve that lettering feel we all love – Free for personal & commercial use
Variane
This is the font that is simple and clean. I think the font is very suitable in every field of design. You can get it at the link below.
Noelan
It is a modern calligraphy typeface from Ndroadv. It features a very clean and modern design. Noelan includes many alternates for easy mixing & matching and also has international characters!
Rowo
It is perfect for mixing & matching with other styles and is extremely versatile. ROWO Typeface includes upper & lower case characters, numbers, punctuation & several alternates so you can achieve the look you want.
Kitten
It is a multi weight script family with a sign painter aestethic and a wide range of variants, alternates and ligatures designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini, with cat dingbats designed by Isabella Ahmadzadeh.
Fibre
It is a free handwritten Vintage feel font, all the basic characters are unique and not one has the same noise. The kerning and font metricks are designed to suit the best reading experience a all caps font can have.
King Basil
Free brush font for personal and commercial use.
Besom
This font is completely free to use anywhere you wish. It has a extended version with more chars and more polished.
Wild Youth
This is another beautiful hand drawn brush script font from Jeremy Vessey. It is a modern font with the distinct influence of adventure and the great outdoors.
Brusher
Today’s special resource is a bold and modern brush font that would fit perfectly in your future design projects. Brusher includes 100 glyphs crafted with precise strokes and smooth lines that will give your text a naturally hand drawn look.
Kensington
It flows like a signature while you type it. It really shows the art of hand-work. It is very legible even though its nature looks like it has extreme lines. It is really unique in this regard.
Streamster
This font is free for personal use only.
Leafy
This is a handwritten brush font thats hand made. It features 95 characters and has all the basic glyphs. The download contains a .otf file.
Duwhoers
It is Modern Brush Font with Vintage Handmade feel.
Kaleidos
It is lining brush script. It hast three versions; Smooth, Rough and Textured. Smooth version has clean forms and lines. Rough version has rough edges to mimic authentic brush strokes. Textured version has also those rough edges and in addition it has brush stroke texture to mimic dry ink.
Novitha Script
A new handwritten script developed using a brush pen, As this particular font is scanned at a very high resolution, it has very strong personality as a result. and I just making this font for all typographer lover. Very perfect for logotype, t-shirt design, typography poster, quote design, etc.
WESTFALIA
This font provides an authentic hand drawn feel with its messy edges and varied line thickness. Great for any design work related to the outdoors and exploration.
Everything letters!
The idea of handmadefontlogo project is that Handmadefont reveals unique techniques and approaches of different artists from Japan to Brazil, from Canada across France to New Zealand. The key point of all artworks is Handmadefont logo.
PLUME
It comes with all the latin characters you need, all the letters numbers and symbols. Brushed on a plastic surface with a thick brush that leaves a unique splash on the lettering.
Hamster Script
It is a cursive typeface inspired by brush lettering and traditional sign painting. Suitable for branding/identity, clothing/t-shirt design, signage, headlines, poster, etc. Hamster Script was crafted carefully to equalize the dynamic flow and its legibility. The good news is; it is free to download and use in print and web, personal or commercial. You can find the download link to this font at the bottom of this page.
BONFIRE
It comes with 2 sets of Capital letters and is equipped with a few different alternate lower case characters as well as unique swashes and western european characters.
Playlist
Playlist is a perfectly imperfect handdrawn font with dry brush styles. Playlist font contains 3 styles: Script, Caps, and Ornament, which you can combine to create a beautiful designs. Playlist Free Font can be used in any purposes; personal and commercial. It
Saldina
It is a script font that combined brush lettering with traditional hand writing. Saldina is multipurpose and flexible, make it easy to match with another typefaces to create some beautiful project such as wedding invitation, vintage design, greeting card, poster, book cover, illustration, etc.
antre
It’s working with inkscape, illustrator , and photoshop CC but not on microsoft office 2016.
REIS
We are releasing another original free font made by Marcelo Reis Melo exclusive created for our site Free Goodies for Designers. Reis is a great font for posters and big powerful headlines, with a lot of personality! Feel free to use in your projects and spread this great exclusive freebie around!
Mi Teiyng
Mi Teiyng Script font is an old script font, inspired by traditional handwriting. This delicate script font is developed in single weight, a regular version.
Salted Mocha
Created on the iPad Procreate app using our free brush pack, Salted Mocha features authentic brush stroke textures. It’s loopy strokes & bouncing baseline give it a fun playful feeling. Perfect for branding, invitations, quotes, and prints that stand out.
Madelyn
It is handwritten script font based on the expression of real handwriting. Amiable and organic, it is perfect if you want to convey individuality and style. It`s written by calligraphy pen with casual dry strokes and a signature style. A script containing upper and lowercase characters with pleasant low x-height and high ascender and descenders. Also numerals and a large range of punctuation and symbols.
Befolk
The flowing characters are ideal to make an attractive messages, mix and match Cornish with a bunch of alternative characters to fit your project.
Northern Lights
Few weeks ago I decided to take a leap and create my first font! I walked to a nearby crafts store in my hometown and bought a bunch handwriting pencils. After practicing a while I came up with a brush script style that seemed perfect enough to start turning it into a digital font.
ShellaHera
It is a handwritten script font family made using original brush pen and scanned with high resolution make this font is very personality and yes, it’s so beautiful with a dancing baseline.