How it works
These hand lettering fonts are twelve faces with the look of drawn letters: brush and sign scripts, poster faces and one marker hand. Type a sign or a card line in Your text and save it as a picture.
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Twelve faces, kind by kind
Brush scripts: Cookie, Pacifico and Yellowtail, whose own description names sign painter scripts. Other scripts: Lobster is bold and joined, Oleo Script unjoined, Mr Dafoe slanted and joined, and Sacramento one thin line throughout. Poster faces: Boogaloo, Bubblegum Sans, Titan One and Luckiest Guy. Yusei Magic follows letters written with a permanent marker.
Tiles, shape and file
Under More options, a row of tiles shows a letter in each face, and Shape has Every line full width, which draws a short line largest. Once you type, Download SVG saves a file that stays sharp at any size.
- Luckiest Guy has no small letters: the lowercase keys give capitals of nearly the same height.
- Accents are safe in every face: é, ñ, ü, ö, ç, ß, ø and å are all drawn.
- On Arch and Wave, under Shape, your lines join into one, and the line stops at 60 characters.
Questions and answers
What is the difference between hand lettering and calligraphy?
Lettering is drawing letters; calligraphy is writing them. Wikipedia's Lettering article puts it that way, and adds that a hand-lettered alphabet turned into a repeatable system is type design. These twelve are fonts of that kind.
Does it work as a hand lettering generator?
Yes. It draws what you type, up to 120 characters on four lines, in the face, look and colors you pick, and saves the result as a picture. It does not write the words for you.
Are the hand lettering fonts free?
The page is free, and every face is an open-license font: ten under the SIL Open Font License, Yellowtail and Luckiest Guy under the Apache License 2.0. Each is listed under the tool with its designer and license.
Can I download these fonts as files?
Not from this page. It saves a picture of your words, a PNG or an SVG, and no font file. The list under the tool gives each face's name, which is enough to look the font up.