Inspired by a series of handwritten menus produced in 1980, La Carte is a stylish but legible script that sets as well in body copy as it does in headlines.

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An endearing upright script with outspoken shapes, casual connections and generous swashes. Somewhere between very legible handwriting and calligraphy, Dominique captures the attention of a much larger audience than either strictly elegant calligraphy or regular everyday handwriting.

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Satisfaction is a casual vintage script font developed from hand-lettered words in various 1930s cigarette ads.

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What do you imagine the ideal casual invitation font would look like? It has to be cheerful, inviting, legible, creative, and loads of fun. But first and foremost, it has to look like real handwriting. Fonts seeming like real handwriting are always a major task, and although Canada Type already has plenty of fonts that solve the “looks like handwriting” issue in a variety of ways, we're once again raising the bar a little higher with this one.

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Madeleine is an open script face with influence from early 50s scripts. The stroke doesn't have much variation, and the characters are wide and flowing. The script also features OpenType end swashes and discretionary ligatures to extend the twirling and fluid nature of the script.

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Philip Bouwsma’s offbeat mind, always working in mysterious ways, brings us one the unlikeliest syntheses of historical influences in a perfectly fluid, organic, and highly expressive connected script.

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Bounce Script is a nice hand lettered upright font. This font has an appealing “bounce” characteristic which gives it its charm.

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Friz Biz is an handwritten font; your designs will be really funny and fancy!

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Just a straight and simple font with a character of its own: written with a HB pencil which is very recognizable in its appearance.

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A stylish handwritten script.

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This script has almost no historic roots. It is named after hajdamakas, Ukrainian guerilla fighters from past times.

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Sudestada is a typeface with distinctive handwritten style and personality. An alternate weight provides a large number of lowercase character variations and swashes for more realistic-looking handwritten text.

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A light-hearted fun handwritten script.

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Flax Regular lives in a somewhat unusual space... it is not a normal “handwriting” font, nor is it a formal script, or a rounded italic. Flax is a slightly more formal handwriting script that is extremely legible and useful- it can stretch from invitations to packaging, to menus, to brochures to ads.

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Designed in 1993 by Ann Chaisson and Mark Altman, this script typeface was based on a proposal by Rudolph Ruzicka to the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in 1939. (Ruzicka designed the Fairfield typeface, and was also an artist and book illustrator.)

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As marketing research shows, the first thing people read on a page is the handwritten notes; then the captions. Eventually they might read the body copy.

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Ocalla Hand comes from the hand of a seasoned Creative Director who uses this style during concept meetings to critique comps and layouts internally.

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Murbia was written with a glimmer-pen which has left the letters with a grungy look. What’s even better is that the font comes with loads of ligatures for both double letters/numbers and the most common letter combinations...just to make the font look more like real scribbled handwriting!

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Based in Manuel Corradine’s handwriting, Mucura is a very spontaneous font.

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Everything is a simple, yet beautiful handwritten font.

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Sudestada is a typeface with distinctive handwritten style and personality. An alternate weight provides a large number of lowercase character variations and swashes for more realistic-looking handwritten text.

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British designer Trevor Pettit based this dramatic typeface on the signature of the great 20th century master, Pablo Picasso. The result is stunning - a chunky lowercase captures the very essence of Picasso’s influence and the capitals, although designed for initialling purposes, can be used on their own with an equally artistic effect. Excellent for work requiring a vivid, cutting edge appearance.

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This is a connected script font with a trendy flair. You can add little flourishes to the beginning or end letters for a whimsical touch.

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Based on informal handwriting. The face resembles sophisticated but naive childish hand and brings associations of summer vacation and meadows spread with daisies. It may be useful in designing of invitations, picture-cards, posters, funny headers and certainly in advertising.

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Designed at ParaType in 1995 by Tagir Safayev. Based on informal handwriting (caps-only). For use in advertising and display typography.

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Felt Tip Roman began as an experiment in 1989, a straight adaptation of the designer’s handwriting. The Bold and Heavy weights were added in 2003 to broaden the usefulness of this very popular typeface.

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Sandscript comes from the hand of the Original Copywriter.

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This extremely heavy informal script was created in the early 1920s by Lucian Bernhard. Like so many of his designs, this typeface has its roots in his earlier poster work. Bernhard Brushscript invokes a rather warm, pleasant feeling despite a number of quirky characters. Originally created for the Bauer Foundry of Frankfurt, Germany, the face looks as though it’s been drawn with a brush and contains looping ascenders and descenders. Perfect for situations where a quaint and casual lettering effect is desired.

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Based on a combination of 1950’s advertising and Nate Piekos' own cursive handwriting, EAST SIDE is named after the historical district of Providence. Regular and Italic included.

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Bello is a brush typeface for headline point sizes - it’s big & beautiful. Bello has lots of ligatures and start and ending swashes. They are automatic in Bello Pro, which is a cross-platform OpenType font with many OpenType features.

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Now showing at your local picture house is the latest romantic comedy coupling featuring Matinee Idol and Matinee Idol Bold; famous faces you've come to know and love in features like Warners' “Hush” and Columbia’s “The Evil That Men Do.”

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Inspired by many hand-lettered European package designs.

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Enchanted is a unique contemporary font that mimics the style of handwriting and brush scripts; yet it is neither.

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Pauline is a sans serif with a strong influence from retro scripts. Pauline is a geometric face formed with slow and deliberate rounded brush strokes. The tall ascenders give it a useful touch of naïveté. It’s a face suitable for some interesting titling and short bits of copy.

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Dolce is the next step in Elena Albertoni’s ongoing exploration of handwritten letterforms that started with her typefaces Dyna and Scritta.

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Maline is a line. Letters, words, paragraphs are linked to each other.

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An outstanding informal display typeface that beautifully captures the spontaneous qualities of hand-rendered brush lettering. Freestyle Script features an extensive lower case font including ligatures so that every conceivable letter combination can be linked, ensuring a fluid, brush-rendered effect. The capitals can also be used alone in word settings. Created by the talented British lettering designer Martin Wait.

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The spontaneously fun font for all things whimsical.

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Its manuscript and informal profile emphasizes its sweet and feminine style.

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A handwriting font with a decidedly sexy, Mediterranean flair.

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A handwritten font created with a 0.5 - 1 mm felt tip pen that works great with illustrations and comics.

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Calligraphic, hand-lettered script.

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Eye Catching was handwritten with a glitter gel pen on pink notebook paper... not really, but it sure looks like it could have been!

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Originally created by the Tart Workshop’s own Crystal Kluge as a logo for an online tea store for chicks, Henparty Serif and Henparty Sans are sure to delight!

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Tiza is a rough take on informal faces and handwriting, brought on by the recent demand for scripts and brush lettering. Its flow leaves traces simulating runny pen ink, which makes it very suitable for handwriting-like paragraphs as well as casual greeting card and invitation setting. The bold weight, Tiza Negra, fits very nicely on book covers as well as large signs. Tiza is the proverbial reminder that typefaces can sometimes be more human than they are normally perceived. Designed by lettering great Angel Koziupa, and digitized and completed for Sudtipos by Alejandro Paul.

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Constanza is a joining high-contrast-script, extreme ascenders and descenders for added personality some descenders swing under its neighboring letters.

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GretchenHello is an informal and rather ordinary cursive face which looks as if it were written with a calligraphic pen.

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This attractive handwriting typeface from Typadelic exudes casualness and informality. Very readable at small and large text sizes...perfect for scrapbooking, greeting cards and casual letter-writing.

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The unmistakable hand of Angel Koziupa and the technical expertise of Alejandro Paul brings us once more the kind of calligraphy that reads softly yet commands attention.

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Based on Mr. Hubbard’s own hand printing, Richfont Medium is an extremely casual design. Actually light in weight, it renders best at 14 point and above. Richfont Light and Bold are available from the designer.

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Walcome is a simple, informal handwriting font.

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Designed at Polygraphmash in 1953 by Igor Zhikharev, based on his handwriting.

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Mirielle is curvy yet angular at the same time. Whimsical yet orderly. As with all Typadelic fonts, this script typeface is unique and original, with a playful twist.

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Alie is a casual textured script with sophisticated flair.

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Laramie Pro is a new profonts script typeface family supplied in the OpenType Pro font format.

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Script font developed for ParaType in 2007 by Gennady Fridman based on informal handwriting.

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Heather is a really nice, informal, handwriting typeface perfect for clean, straightforward letters and office correspondance.

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Daiquiri is a revival of a handlettered font in two weights, from an ad for Puerto Rico Rum dating back to the forties or fifties. I found the ad on a French antique market on my last visit for Mardi Gras in Nice. The ad read “Breeze through the heat, be a Daiquiri fan”.

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Genovaite Baroniene is former school teacher and a native of Lithuania who loves fancy letters. When she writes, she likes to add extra flourishes to her handwriting and printing. It simply appeals to her to do so. While living in the United States a few years ago and working in the health care field, she put pen to paper to provide a specimen of her writing from which a font could be developed. The process has taken longer than either of us expected. Now we are finally able to present Baroniene ML, a stylishly unique example of what we call Lithuanian Folk Baroque.

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Sansarah began as a custom type commission for Columbia College, Chicago. Sarah Faust, photographer and designer on the school’s Creative Services staff, had been contributing her own handwriting to the brand. When it came time for Sarah to take maternity leave, we developed a limited character set in the regular weight for the staff to use in her absence.

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Natalya Monoline is the rounded monolinear companion to Natalya.

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PT Adventure™ was designed by Natalia Vasilyeva and licensed by ParaType in 2001. An original calligraphic script. For use in advertising and display typography.

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The idea for SuziScript came from a girl named Suzi who wrote her "e"s in a peculiar way. The typeface does not replicate her handwriting, which was very hard to read; it just draws inspiration from several of her letters.

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Annie is inspired by the friendly handwriting of a female hand which exudes a casual feeling perfect for scrapbook journaling.

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Kaufmann was designed in 1936 for the American Type Founders by Max R. Kaufmann, a letterer, typographer, and one-time art director for McCalls magazine.

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Sunnydale really is a sweet little typeface, great for scrapbooking or any design where you're wishing to convey a friendly, casual message.

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Rosa Love is a laid back and legible handwritten font.

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Bolívar is a contemporary calligraphic display typeface inspired in the handwriting of one of the most prominent personalities of the nineteenth century in latin america: Simón Bolívar, “the liberator".

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The Ray Johnson font was inspired by the Father of Mail Art. It’s based on the block lettering style used by Ray to add the names of his correspondents to their bunny head portraits (the film How to Draw a Bunny is a superb introduction).

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Hopeless Heart isn't really all that hopeless! With it’s jumpy baseline and the different sized serifs, it’s a font full of fun and games, suitable for your next wedding invitation or loveletter.

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Kickshaw is definately a hardcore tagfont.
Its rough edges and hard lines makes it perfect for imitating writing on the walls!

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All you need is love, you know ;)

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Ex Ponto, designed by acclaimed calligrapher, type designer and artist Jovica Veljovic, is a spirited script typeface. Based on the rhythm of Veljovic’s handwriting, Ex Ponto combines the vigor of handwritten letters with the grace of meticulously crafted script typography. Veljovic began by drawing calligraphic characters on rough paper and then carefully modified these ragged-edged letterforms to produce graceful, balanced characters.

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