Use these free brush fonts to add a playful handcrafted feel to your designs.
The best free brush fonts can be a great way to give creative projects a unique handcrafted look without breaking the bank and whether it's for print or digital use. There are lots of options out there, but we've taken the time to sort through them to help you find the best, picking out a diverse range of options to suit different designs.
Do remember that some free brush fonts are offered for personal use only, while others may be free to use for all uses. Always check the licence conditions and buy a licence if needed. If you can't find something that fits what you are looking for, also check out our pick of the best free fonts overall. We also have a roundup of the best best free handwriting fonts, which could also be an option for a more organic look.
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The best free brush fonts
01. Zallord
Hand drawn font Zallord is truly unique (Image credit: Alice Whales)
Zallord, a hand-drawn brush font, features strong upper and lower case lettering as well as numbers and punctuation (the whole package). The striking font with an authentic brush feel was created by artist Alice Whales and is available to download for personal and commercial use from Graphic Design Freebies.
02. Hackney Hand-Painted Typeface
We love this rustic feel (Image credit: Tom Anders Watkins/Ellen Luff)
Bold and eye-catching, Hackney Typeface looks the real deal with its intricate paintbrush-style detailing. With a rustic feel and strong lettering, this font is perfect for taking your projects to the next level. You can download this font for personal use from Dropbox.
03. Bathi font
Bathi is casual yet elegant (Image credit: TwinLetter on fontlot)
Bathi is an gentle hand lettering font, created using a brush pen by Twinletter. This font is perfect for giving your project a calming and unobtrusive typeface. Free for personal use (and a mere $4.99 for a commercial license), this is casual yet soothing font has unusual flourishes that create a feeling of movement.
04. The Cat Has a Hat
'The Cat has a Hat' Font is youthful and fun (Image credit: Lukee Thornhill)
Taking the popular stories of Dr Seuss as its jumping off point, creator Lukee Thornhill has made The Cat Has a Hat playful and humorous. Thornhill has condensed over 1500 letters, numbers and symbols designed over the space of a weekend into this merry set that's full of character.
Whilst this typeface is fun and lively, Thornhill has made sure that this isn't a childish font meaning that it's available to download to help you with a variety of branding and marketing purposes. Some users have even pointed out that it bares a resemblance to the Nando's typography.
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05. Odachi
This Japanese-inspired brush font design is truly stunning
The beautiful Japanese-inspired design Odachi was created by UI and type designer Mehmet Reha Tugcu. With an organic and archaic feel to it, we think this font would not look out of place in a Zelda game. There are many stunning typefaces created by Tugcu but this has got to be our favourite of his brush fonts designs, not least because he's made it available for others to use in any project, even commercial endeavours.
06. Takhie
This multilingual font supports Latin and Greek characters
Simple, delicate and soft, Takhie was made by designer and illustrator, Nantia for personal and commercial use. Nantia has created many more beautiful fonts to help you with your projects, just check them out on her Behance Page. Furthermore, if you'd like even more of Takhie then you can purchase the pro version on Nantia's website for just $15.
07. Leafy
Leafy includes 95 individual characters [Image: Krisijanis Mezulis]
Leafy is a handwritten brush font with an endearingly warm feel designed by Latvian artist, Krisijanis Mezulis. It includes 95 quirky characters, including all-caps lettering, each of which are individual with a naive, neat feel. This gentle font will suit a range of projects, whether they be personal or commercial.
08. Banaue
Banaue is a handwritten free brush font with a homemade look [Image: Ieva Banaue]
Hand brushed by Ieva Mezule, Banaue is a serene handwritten free brush font with a rustic look and Filipino influence. The name Banaue is derived from the Philippines – Banaue being a place in the north where rice terraces stretch around mountains. Banaue features 104 beautifully tranquil characters and is free for personal or commercial use.
09. Kust
Every letter has a unique structure, with a distorted look [Image: Ieva Mezule]
Kust is another font created by fashion designer and painter Ieva Mezule (she designed Benaue seen previously). These thick letters were drawn with a brush using black ink on hard paper, giving the glyphs a very authentic look. Featuring 80 characters, every letter has a unique structure, with an unpolished and distorted feel. This font is available for both personal and commercial use.
10. True Lies
True Lies is sure to make your text look rough and ready [Image: Jonathan Harris]
Jonathan Harris' chilling True Lies font is free to download for personal use. This spooky typeface wouldn't look out of place on a horror poster and with it covering the alphabet, numbers, symbols and punctuation marks you won't want to miss out on this gritty font ready to give your projects that rough look.
11. Levi Brush
Some say this font looks like Coldplay's Viva La Vida cover [Image: Levi Szekeres]
Romanian designer Levi Szekeres designed this free quirky brush font. With people drawing comparisons to the fonts on David Guetta's 'One Love' to Coldplay's 'Viva la Vida' cover, you're onto a winner. Szekeres captioned his font with 'A very personal one' meaning that it's sure to give your work an authentic and meaningful touch. You can also download Levi ReBrushed which includes variations on the paint splatter.
12. Lazer 84
Inject some 1980s neon into your projects with this fun brush font (Image credit: Juan Hodgson)
Laser 84 is a free brush font with a difference. Free for personal use (make a donation for commercial use), it oozes an 80s retro vibe. Created by Juan Hodgson, it looks it belongs in the graphics from a music show from the time, and could give a nice nostalgic look to posters of flyers.
13. Strive
Strive offers a rough hand-drawn look (Image credit: Pixel Surplus)
Created by Pixel Surplus, this stylish brushstroke font emulates the look of hand-painted lettering with a chunky all-caps style. It could work as a headline font for signs, social media and marketing if you're looking for a punchy raw look with a lot of energy.
14. Fjord
Beautiful, and slightly chilling (Image credit: Krisjanis Mezulis)
Inspired by Norway's natural, rugged landscape, Fjord was drawn by painter Krisjanis Mezulis with a thick brush on plastic to make it appear uniquely distorted. It's beautiful and also slightly chilling, but could suit a variety of contexts.
15. Oh Now!
Strange name, but Oh Now! delivers (Image credit: Syaf Rizal)
It might seem a strange name, but I think I get the idea. Oh Now! shouts and it gets attention. This beautifully textured brush font by Syaf Rizal has an edgy feel that could work well on posters and social assets. It comes with uppercase, lowercase, punctuation, symbols and multilingual support.
16. Mustache
Mustache is a more elegant free fonts (Image credit: Joel Maker)
This brush font designed by Joel Maker has a more elegant feel. Free for personal and commercial use, it includes a full set of uppercase and lowercase letters, along with a large range of punctuation, numerals, and multilingual support.
This hand-drawn brush font available from Pixel Surplus aims to add a summery feel to graphic designs with a carefree hand. The free version of this font even features multilingual characters, but it's for personal use only.
18. Reckless
Free font Reckless has an upbeat feel (Image credit: Nadi Spasibenko)
Speaking of carefree, Nadi Spasibenko's Reckless is another very playful free handwritten brush font. Free for personal and commercial use, it includes uppercase and extended Latin characters and could work well paired with handrawn illustrations for print or digital.
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