17 fonts that look like handwriting

Find the perfect handwriting font for your next project with our handpicked selection of 17 realistic handwritten fonts.

Published on 26th Aug, 2024
Author Laura Eddy

Handwritten fonts are an excellent way to add warmth and a natural touch to any design. It can be tricky to find the perfect font that reflects the style and tone you want to convey. We've found 17 unique handwritten fonts that look like real handwriting; realistic and natural, each with their own individual personality.

You'll find a range of styles in this list: marker fonts, pencil fonts, feminine fonts, messy fonts, cursive fonts, uppercase fonts - all unique and all handwritten.

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Oliver Label

Oliver Label solves a problem many creatives face – the endless search for a realistic pencil-textured font to add handwritten notes to images, quotes, blog posts, and more without having to do it themselves.

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Oliver Label

Tequilas and Tacos

For those ultra natural-looking handwritten, jotted down notes, say hello to Tequila and Tacos! Designed to look casual and carefree, but with business to take care of.

The characters consist of uppercase letters, but they differ in style for the uppercase and lowercase keystrokes, to make the font appear more like natural handwriting.

View font: creativemarket.com/Nickylaatz/14657742-Tequila-and-Tacos-Font?u=TYPEHEIST
Tequilas and Tacos

Manic Erratic Font

Manic is truly a messy handwriting font. It's scribbly, it's scratchy and above all, it's unique. It has a massive amount of glyphs and ligatures (650+) and each alternate's characters can be mixed and matched to create that extra messy look. Manic looks like real handwriting, like it was scrawled onto paper with a lead pencil.

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Manic Erratic Font

Seasalt

Imbued with a sense of freedom and breath of fresh air, Seasalt Typeface is a captivating casual marker typeface that has been meticulously designed by Nicky Laatz with an artistic touch. Meant to mimic natural-looking handwritten notes, it maintains an informal yet captivating appeal that is poised to invigorate your design projects.

View font: www.youworkforthem.com/font/T21611/seasalt-casual-marker?u=TYPEHEIST
Seasalt

La Belle Epoque

La Belle Epoque is a charming, all-caps handwritten font with fast signature-style strokes and textured ink. It embraces it's imperfections, and that's what makes it grab your attention, especially when paired with a contrasting clean font.

This font comes with a Regular set and an Alternate Set, allowing you to mix-up different letterforms to create your own custom text layouts and maintain handwritten realism.

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La Belle Epoque

Juniper Bay

Juniper Bay is a cool, calm & sophisticated handwritten typeface with an organic feel and effortless vibe.

With over 130 custom ligatures, this charming and elegant marker font is perfect for handwritten notes, fashion mockups, social media or even wedding stationery.

View font: typeheist.co/font/juniper-bay/
Juniper Bay

Cactus Jack

Cactus Jack is more than just a font. It's a feeling in your bones, it's a perspective on life, it's a war cry to be heard... But it's also a font. This gritty and oddly stylish font pack comes with not one BUT TWO hand drawn fonts. That's over 125 regular character variations and 50+ international language characters. This guarantees you never have to have repetitive characters in your designs. Mix-n-match to your heart's desire!

View font: www.youworkforthem.com/font/T12729/cactus-jack?aff=2428
Cactus Jack

Amoretti

Amoretti is an expressionist handwritten typeface whose ethereal and flowing strokes perfectly reflect the soul of a poet's work. The erratic twists and turns give the appearance of an authentic, passionate, and emotional handwritten message. This font have a different iterations of each character were made to accentuate the font's organic appearance and to convey a sense of spontaneity and randomness.

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Amoretti

Pink Champagne

Ultra chic, ultra casual...she's ready to take on the job. Pink Champagne is designed to emulate natural handwriting, with inky, wobbly edges to add to it's authenticity - perfect for adding that natural-looking handwritten touch to your designs.

She also has a large selection of Opentype ligatures to make her appear even more natural and free flowing.

View font: creativemarket.com/Nickylaatz/21320019-Pink-Champagne-Script?u=TYPEHEIST
Pink Champagne

Naturalist

Naturalist is a simple handwritten notes font. It has three sets of A-Z and 0-9 characters in total (and they randomise when you type).

Naturalist's printed, handwritten style, organic texture and natural strokes gives each character an authentic, handwritten feel - as though the words were penned on the very paper you hold.

View font: typeheist.co/font/naturalist/
Naturalist

Editor's Hand

Say hello to Editor's Hand, perfect for creating handwritten notes, quotes, logos, or just adding a hand-written touch to any project!

While other handwritten fonts have some visible letter patterns, Editor's Hand comes with three sets of letters that automatically alternate, so you don't have to worry about swapping them out yourself!

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Editor's Hand

Coldia

Introducing Coldia, a captivating font family boasting six exquisite weights: Thin, ExtraLight, Light, Regular, SemiBold, and Bold. With its delicate nuances and signature-style handwriting, Coldia exudes an aura of sophistication and untamed elegance.

Each weight of Coldia reflects a spectrum of handwritten strokes, ranging from the thint to the bold, all while maintaining a consistent allure and grace. Its versatility extends to multilingual support.

View font: www.youworkforthem.com/font/T23060/coldia?aff=2428
Coldia

Basil Lime Margarita

Dive into the refreshing elegance of "Basil Lime Margarita" – a font that dances between carefree spontaneity and sophisticated allure. Crafted with the attention to detail reminiscent of bespoke calligraphy, every stroke tells a story. Featuring 123 meticulously designed ligatures, it brings words to life with a seamless flow.

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Basil Lime Margarita

Amber Dawn

Amber Dawn is a lively, bold and characterful brush font with an untamed, carefree style. Hand painted with a real paintbrush and acrylic ink, this charismatic font maintains its hand crafted authenticity with its charmingly erratic brush strokes and textures. It’s an eye-catching choice for playful logos and branding, and retro-revival display text.

View font: www.youworkforthem.com/font/T24908/amber-dawn?aff=2428
Amber Dawn

Des Montilles

Des Montilles is a casual handwritten font. Perfect for greeting cards, wedding stationery, photographer watermarks logos, modern websites, apparel design and more.

This realistic font features handwritten ligatures, beginning and end swashes for lowercase letters and heart connections.

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Des Montilles

Lore

Lore is a 'less than perfect' all caps handwriting font.

It's a font that looks like real handwriting - because it was made from my own actual handwriting. It’s not supposed to be neat... because I don’t write neat. It doesn’t align and it’s annoyingly all in caps (but it's kinda charming right?).

View font: typeheist.co/font/lore/
Lore

The Secret Things

Relaxed and unpretentious, "The Secret Things" script brings a natural flair to any design. With 45 ligatures, this font seamlessly incorporates a handwritten feel, making your text appear genuinely personal and unique.

Perfect for a variety of projects, this script adds a touch of authenticity and charm, whether you're working on invitations, branding, or any creative venture. Enjoy the effortless elegance and organic style this font delivers to your designs.

View font: www.youworkforthem.com/font/T24754/the-secret-things?aff=2428
The Secret Things



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