The best handwriting fonts to add personality to your designs

Handwriting font
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Taking advantage of handwriting fonts is a great way to give your designs a personal feel and with such a diverse selection available, there's an option to suit almost every project. Whether you need an elegant cursive script to give your design a refined elegance, or a bespoke scrawl to create an organic feel, handwriting fonts add a fantastic flourish to a range of design styles.

All of the fonts listed below are free for personal use, and many accommodate commercial use too (be careful and always check the licensing terms just to be sure). If you're after a broader selection, you can check out our collection of the best free fonts, or for more specific styles, take a look at our list of the best free script fonts.

Buy fonts from myfonts.com

Buy fonts from myfonts.com
As well as the fonts below, we highly recommend myfonts.com by Monotype to find fonts for all kinds of projects. It has over 130,000 fonts, from brush fonts to display, and more than 900 of them are completely free.

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Alison Barretta

Alison is a freelance writer and editor from Philadelphia, USA. She's been sharing buying advice and retail news for over a decade. When she isn't hunting for deals, Alison can be found teaching/training in martial arts, fawning over skincare, and indulging in her quarantine-borne hobby: cooking. She has written for a number of publications including TechRadar, Forbes and Business Insider.

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