40 Free High Quality Hand-drawn Fonts

hand-drawn fonts

Unlike the serif font family, these hand drawn fonts looked less serious but they tend to give and convey strong human touch wherever they are applied. Hand-drawn fonts are hard to stand on it’s own, but they are utmost perfect for these following situations:

Hand drawn websites

If you are inspired to give your new web design a sketchy or hand-drawn look and feel, these fonts are without a doubt the perfect math to the layout. Click here for more examples of Hand-drawn style websites.

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Guides and instructions
Whether its a storyboard, an online guide & tutorial or merely an attempt to help user understand an illustration better, arrow, pointer and text guide gets the job done seamlessly. In terms of text, typography that mimics human writing tend to make reading and understanding things easier. Here’s a good example:

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Comic and dialogues
You don’t need Marvel to tell you Helvetica won’t fit for the text in drawing and illustrations.

Free Hand-drawn Fonts

Here are 40 high quality hand-drawn fonts you can download and apply on your design. Please check with the creator if you are intended to use it for commercial products.

Alpha Mack

Analgesics

Bubbly Frog

Christopher Hand

Dali

Fabulous 50s

Fail

FFF Tusj

Daniel

Note this

Pisan

Rabiohead

Glider Girls

Green Piloww

Grutch Shaded

Hand of Sean

HandVetica

Jamaistevie

James Fajardo

Estrya’s Handwriting

Jerry’s handwriting

Joe Hand 2

Journal

Just Me Again Down Here

Later On

Love Ya Like A Sister

Luna Bar

Mia’s Scribblings

Pappo’s Blues Band

Peixe Frito

Positiv-A

Rock Show Whiplash

Salamander

Sophie, Regular

The Quiet Scream

Thurston Erc

Two Turtle Doves

WC RoughTrad Bta

Windsong

Comments

dev July 2nd, 2009

Really great hand draw font!
Maria Ozawa July 2nd, 2009

Thanks Hongkiat!
hongkiat July 2nd, 2009

I thought most of them don’t really look impressive on plain white background and black text; but when applied to some artwork (grunge or sketchy type especially), it totally rocks!
Phaoloo July 2nd, 2009

Great, thanks for compiling the list.
Prasanth Chandra July 3rd, 2009

Nice list. you can even create your own fonts using your handwriting. I got an article which explains how..

http://pcsplace.com/tips-n-tricks/make-your-own-fonts-from-your-handwriting/
Chris July 3rd, 2009

Thanks for the great List
Jake July 3rd, 2009

This is an excellent collection, definitely have a use for these in some of my projects. Thanks for the share!
Raphael July 3rd, 2009

Great, thanks a lot.
Jenny July 3rd, 2009

those are awesome. Thanks for sharing them.
Matthew July 3rd, 2009

I just OD’d on awesome resources!
Aparecida43 July 3rd, 2009

I liked these sugestions. They’re criatives and take us to good ideas.
Congratulations!
Maxime July 3rd, 2009

I think my favorite is The Quiet Scream, this is a very nice collection. MPC
Ah Hong July 3rd, 2009

Cool one…I am looking for cool font. Love the one for Salamander :)
bob July 3rd, 2009

Any chance u would have a single link to download all instead of clicking on 100 links? :(
Flat Baby July 3rd, 2009

Thanks, huge great collection, im still improving my design !
Edwin De la Cruz July 3rd, 2009

Realmente son muy buenas, muchas de ellas ya las había bajado de http://www.dafont.com y las usé en algunos diseños, aunque en algunas les falte algunos caracteres como la ñ o tildes, eso se podía arreglar porque sólo lo usaba como texto principal.

Saludos :)
Carlo Mendoza July 3rd, 2009

Excellent list!
Vim July 3rd, 2009

great list, some of these fonts will come handy, are these free to use?
Gratis July 3rd, 2009

Nice list. My favourite is Luna Bar, very beautifull.
create own website July 3rd, 2009

i like this list
Zac Johnson July 3rd, 2009

An excellent source of fonts here. I love the different look from the hand drawn work.
ginwe July 3rd, 2009

Thanks for sharing this collection of handwriting font, really nice list and appreciate it, Thank HK.
Design guy July 4th, 2009

Good work!

More fonts are always welcome – as i am designing websites, a good collection of that stuff is quite needed.. thanks!
raj July 4th, 2009

nice work …great font for web designers…..thanks for sharing ………
Phil E. Drifter July 4th, 2009

Don’t get me wrong, some of these are beautiful, but some of them look like they’ve been manipulated by computer means.
MyCeloteh July 4th, 2009

wow hong kiat, this what i’m looking for, absolutely beautiful hand drawn fonts, but if you can compile all and give 1 direct dowmload link for all, it is much easy ,btw it is my suggestion, hong kiat boleh !!
rich July 4th, 2009

this is really good. are there more? thanks for this.
sid July 5th, 2009

great list, the handvetica rulez :)
hasnuri July 5th, 2009

Pretty cool post. I just found your blog and wanted to say that I have really liked reading your posts. …
Cat July 5th, 2009

Cool! I’d also like to suggest that there’s a bunch of free quality handwriting fonts at http://kevinandamanda.com/fonts/fontsforpeas.
Rich July 5th, 2009

Freaking awesome fonts. Great job!
Jose Damiao July 5th, 2009

Hi,
In order to avoid a lot of handwork to download the fonts, you can do the following:
- download and install “Orbit Downloader” from http://www.orbitdownloader.com
- With the mouse select all the text starting from the title “Free Hand-drawn Fonts” till after the image of last font. So, the links for the fonts and the images will be highlighted in blue.
- If you have IE, just right click the mouse and select: “Download selected by Orbit”
- In the small windows that opens you will see a list of links to the fonts and also to the images. If you click in the column title “Type” you will see all the fonts and images grouped together.
- Just enable/disable at the left of each line the files you want/not want to download
- Clicking in “Browse” you can change the destination folder
- Finally, pressing “Download” will download all the files enabled by you.

This is an excellent download manager that aceletrate a lot the download of files and that also has some nice capabilities like this one. If instead of IE you have Firefox, then with the right click you will not have the “Download selected by Orbit”, but instead a “Download All by Orbit” and so, you will get in the next window more links to download because it refers to the entire page. So you will have a little more work to disable the files you don’t want to download.
I hope this helps you

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- In “Location”, inside the “Preferences Settings”, choose the destination folder
Wallpapers July 6th, 2009

Thanks for sharing , Really Cool
teratips July 6th, 2009

good and appreciating
ZC July 6th, 2009

(may be wrong) but I’m counting 39 fonts, not 40.. :s
ZC July 6th, 2009

Anyway, I donwload ‘em all. 39 fonts.

Here’s the zip file with all the preview PNG and .ZIP files containing the fonts.

http://d01.megashares.com/dl/d5148ee/Fonts.zip
Xtence webdesigners July 6th, 2009

Nice and usefull, keep on the good work !
Steve July 8th, 2009

Love your stuff…
Raul Vargas A. July 11th, 2009

Gracias por las fuentes, estan buenas
Johar July 12th, 2009

Thanks for it ESC-creation
Leather Furniture Indonesia July 13th, 2009

Awesome, great compile handwriting collection.
Jake Rocheleau July 13th, 2009

Sick collection, really nice share thanks! I think my Delicious bookmarks are started to become crowded with the tag “inspiration”
ufuk July 14th, 2009

Nice infos thanks for share:))
marco July 23rd, 2009

wooouwww exlents fonts coool!!!
squareart July 23rd, 2009

FAB list of fonts. THANK for compiling: )
PelFusion July 23rd, 2009

thanks i was looking for hand drawn fonts
Annie July 31st, 2009

Thanks mate! Some are awesome!
sadasd August 3rd, 2009

sdadasfg sar
Zane Trance August 6th, 2009

This is leeet! Thanks Mang!
Jaspal Singh August 17th, 2009

Nice list of hand-drawn fonts, Thanks for sharing.
Most Interesting Ideas August 27th, 2009

One more thanks for beautiful handy fonts collection
rajishkappad August 28th, 2009

superb works
wayan September 4th, 2009

wow..it’s awesome font collections…
make me more creative to make a design..thanks a lot…that’s help so much
cuubaa September 24th, 2009

Great compilation, thanks!
Travis September 26th, 2009

Cool… when I first saw the article I thought I wouldn’t have need for such a thing, but I didn’t realize how original most of these were!
tanu October 7th, 2009

wow, i wish i could have all
KIZILSUNGUR October 16th, 2009

Great article and fonts!

http://pythontr.jimdo.com/

– KIZILSUNGUR
Mario Lat October 23rd, 2009

I really love that “Share it!(If you like this article)” font. What is its name? Is it a free font too? Btw, thanks for the bubbly Frog and Hand of Sean; luv em! :)
Student Brands November 22nd, 2009

Thanks cool fonts really good. good job
Rich November 27th, 2009

Awesome list of resources! Thank you for sharing.

I would just like to add one more set of typography resources and that is the forum of http://www.pilo.me

It is a private typography forum with an unbelievable amount of free fonts, premium fonts and exclusive typefaces. I think it was voted the best typography forum of 2009. If you are a font lover/addict, check it out. Like I said though, it is either private or invite only. I have never seen a typography site like it with all it has to offer. Anyhow, check it out, pilo.me

Anyhow, great article, I definitely will be referring to these time to time.
a December 2nd, 2009

wow..nice font..
good idea..
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Carmen December 6th, 2009

This is a great list.
graphic design classes online January 17th, 2010

Sweet fonts the FAIL font is my fav works really well as a big headline font.
kreator February 5th, 2010

Great fonts. But this music advert is some kind of grim joke. So annoying.
PK February 19th, 2010

very cool handwritten fonts, thaks :)
Now is my fav script font this one http://www.fonts2u.com/valentinajf.font
Glenn February 25th, 2010

its so very nice fonts