5 Resources for Handwritten Fonts

Handwritten Fonts are a great way to break up a stream of boring looking text.

If your in the business of being online, publishing, selling or educating. It’s important not to forget that your also in the business of entertainment and connecting. A more entertaining web page can hold the interest of your readers and prospects, while a little bonding can help build trust and conversions.

Handwriting Fonts, as the name suggests, are computer fonts that simulates the warmth of handwritten letters and the sincerity of handwritten signatures.

This post is collection of top resources for
creating and downloading handwritten fonts
Split into 5 different categories.

Rather than pick the best handwriting fonts for you, I will be linking to other resources and lists for cool handwriting fonts and online tools that allow you to create your own handwritten font based on your own handwriting.

Create Your Own Font Online

These are online tools where you download a template, add your handwriting, upload, and then it generates your handwriting as a font for you to preview. Some sites will, of course, charge you around $10-ish to actually download your new handwritten font.

• BitFontMaker
  Is a very basic, online tool to create your own font using a bitmap grid, no scan required.
  http://pentacom.jp/soft/ex/font/edit.html
• Fontifier
  Upload your scan and buy your handwritten font for $9
  http://www.fontifier.com
• FontStruct
  Is a more advanced, online tool for create any font you can think of. FontStruct also has a social element where you can share and comment on the user created fonts called FontStructions.
  http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/
• FontGarden
  They have some pretty cheap handwritten fonts ($4), but on the flip side, there service to turn your handwriting into a font is expensive at $39.95 even if it does come with the option to have it listed in the shop and get a 25% cut every time its sold.
  http://www.fontgarden.com
• YourFonts
  Upload your scan and buy the font for $9.95
  They also have a 40% affiliate program if any one is thinking of getting into the font niche.
  http://www.yourfonts.com
• FontCapture
  Upload your scan and download your handwritten font.
  100% Free
  http://www.fontcapture.com

Free Handwriting Fonts

The following is a list of sites that have a decent collection of handwriting fonts free to download.

• SimplyTheBest
  25 free handwriting fonts.
  http://simplythebest.net/fonts/handwriting_fonts.html
• Woork
  10 hand written fonts that a pro web designer often uses in his projects.
  http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/08/10-handwritten-fonts-you-cant-miss.html
  

Old Handwriting Fonts

• Old Fonts
  6 exquisite, historical pen fonts. Expensive at $30 to $40 each and delivery is mail order via CD, but the fonts are gorgeous.
  http://www.oldfonts.com/fullpackage.html

No Download Required

• TypeKit
  This is a very cool service because normally, with a handwritten font you have to render it into an image for it to show on your website (on someone else’s computer). What TypeKit does is allow you to use any of its fonts in the main body of your text and headers, the font gets served up to the reader from their servers. There are a number of pricing packages - from free to $50/yr - and over 40 fonts available in the handwriting category alone.
  http://typekit.com/libraries/full?tags=handwriting

Just Hand Write It!

• Pen and Paper
  If you want that handwritten, hand drwa look just hand write it and hand draw it. It’s a great look that will make your webpages stand out from all the others.

So plenty of options there, wether you just type and print letters that look handwritten, add some warmth to your salespage, or make your website look totally unique with an awesome font…

Everyone needs at least one handwritten font in their arsenal.