Alice in Wonderland. Innocent, emotional, almost childish, looks like it just came out of a fairy tale. The long stems, quirky serifs and loose characters, as well its youthful energy, establish an emotional attachment to this typeface. So perfect for children’s books. Designer Dimitris Foussekis completed this font with a matching series of 62 pictograms the so-called ‘Wonderbats’. Now, the brand new ‘Pro’ version has been expanded to include all European languages by supporting simultaneously Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts.

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This is not just a typeface inspired by a kid’s first attempts to write. This is in fact how exactly a kid writes. Alexandros Papalexis was born again kid when he became a father. This series came about while designing his daughter’s birthday invitations. Since its first release, it has been constantly on our most wanted list. You step into a supermarket, a bookstore or a clothing store and you see tens of products using this typeface. Anything from baby products, food, clothing, children’s books and magazines, print and TV campaigns, you name it. But don't just stick to the name. Every single weight serves the right purpose. This is why this typeface has also been used extensively for grown-up market. Recently, it was upgraded to include Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Furthermore, the accompanied series of pictograms was completed and loaded with 125 western and eastern European pieces.

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Octin College is a tough headliner in 7 weights: light, book, regular, semi-bold, heavy & black. Octin College isn’t just for school; it’s also great for prison, sports, construction, police or military themes. Check out the rest of the Octin families: Octin Sports, Octin Prison, Octin Stencil, Octin Vintage & Octin Spraypaint

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A heavy contoured all cap font, great for poster, school and sports, will also work in many other applications where a strong statement is needed.

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Darlin was created by an actual 6-year old girl and fonted for your pleasure.

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This font was created from the handwriting of my friend Ingrid. I always felt she had great handwriting and this font is proof of this. There are for styles to choose from, a great alternative to the common handwriting fonts seen everywhere.

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Diffie is a funky font that is informal yet legible, in 4 standard versions and 2 FX versions.

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Montag is an extended, rounded sans-serif.

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Updated in 2009, Chennai has new weights and OpenType features. Chennai is a simplified sans-serif with a full complement of OpenType alternates. The typeface is rounded, slightly extended and geometric. Over fifty OpenType alternate characters are available, including swashed lower forms, traditional caps and a traditionally formed lowercase. Chennai also includes seven style sets, oldstyle figures, and small caps. Please see the sample .PDF to see these in action.

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Based heavily on Gill Sans especially in the mid weights, Astoria has a subtle top left serif which makes it not quite a Roman and not quite a Sans. Designed specificaly as a text face it still works very well as a headline font.

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Dienstag is an extended sans-serif and a new companion to insigne’s popular Montag family.

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Boopee bursts off the page with all the zeal of a seven year old exploding out the door at recess. About as tidy as the school cafeteria after lunchtime, Boopee gives you the impression that mistakes are part of its charm. Not big on staying on the lines, Boopee is freckle-faced friendly and easy to read.

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A rounded sans-serif with even stroke thickness, based on the standard round-pen ink lettering used on technical drawings in the middle of the 20th century. Accented letters for Western and Central European languages are included.

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Octin Vintage is a tough headliner in 2 styles (sans & serif) & 3 weights: regular, bold & black. Octin Vintage is perfect for police, sports, prison, construction, school or military themes. Check out the rest of the Octin families: Octin Sports, Octin College, Octin Prison, Octin Stencil & Octin Spraypaint

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Kidwriting recalls the handwriting of a child.

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Octin Sports is a tough headliner in 7 weights: light, book, regular, semi-bold, heavy & black. Octin Sports isn’t just for sports; it’s also great for school, construction, prison, police or military themes. Check out the rest of the Octin families: Octin College, Octin Prison, Octin Stencil, Octin Vintage & Octin Spraypaint

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Giggles is a unique, playful display typeface elegant enough for party invitations but playful enough for a children’s book.

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Sweater School is a friendly teacher’s font based on Cardigan. The structure is similar to the print style elementary school teachers prefer but with subtle compromises to improve readability.

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Report is geometric font with rounded ends, custom designed for education.

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Cardigan is casual enough to be friendly but manages to keep its cool without acting a fool. Three weights plus italics equals six styles: more than enough Cardigans for any designer’s wardrobe.

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Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. Originally in one weight, Steve designed and produced three additional weights.

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Although a sans serif, Colosseum owes its style to the original Trajan Roman form. Borrowing some characteristics from Friz Quadrata, in its san serif form it is more adaptable to text usage whilst still having a modern and original look which works well in headlines.

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In searching for a Roman to use there were bits of Bembo,Times,Garamond etc., that I liked and bits that I did not. So I set out to take the best bits of all my favorite Romans and tried to create the ultimate Roman typeface.

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Octin Stencil is a tough headliner in 7 weights: light, book, regular, semi-bold, heavy & black. Octin Stencil is perfect for police, sports, prison, construction, school or military themes. Check out the rest of the Octin families: Octin Sports, Octin College, Octin Prison, Octin Stencil & Octin Spraypaint

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This font is a classic scholastic handwriting font designed to help students learn to write.

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Beanstalk is a cute, cuddly, handwritten typeface. Its casual appearance is charming and easy to read. Beanstalk has an expanded character set including European letters and symbols!

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From the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, by way of Toronto, comes Martie’s handwriting. Martie Byrd is a school teacher in Roanoke, Virginia, and a friend of Canada Type’s Rebecca Alaccari. After years of admiring the cheer and clarity of Martie’s handwriting, we asked her to write out full alphabets for some cool font treatment. The intent was to do three different versions of her writing in two different pens, then use the auto-magic of OpenType to determine letter sequences and rotate character sets on the fly when the fonts are in use. A successful endeavor it was. Take a look at the images in the MyFonts gallery to see the character rotation in action, along with a visual explanation of why Martie is not just another handwriting font.

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The Heinemann fonts were initially developed by the in-house design team at Heinemann educational publishing out of the necessity to find the perfect font for use in early primary reading books and literacy products.

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The Heinemann fonts were initially developed by the in-house design team at Heinemann educational publishing out of the necessity to find the perfect font for use in early primary reading books and literacy products.

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Flyswim is quite slack. The OpenType format features letter pair autoligs to help break up the monotony of obviously-repeating letters.

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Otoboke was hand lettered on the sides of adorable white ponies. Letter pair thingamajigs (autoligs) make repeating letters less obvious. They really, really do, but only if an OpenType savvy application is involved. Look closely: you can see real (sort of) pony fur texture. Otoboke’s curly-whirly letter forms were inspired by Louis Minott’s 1965 classic, Davida.

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Based on the popular Girltalk font, cute, cheeky Girlscript, was specially designed for the young-teen market.

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Report School is a geometric sans-serif font custom designed for education.

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Hunniwell is a handwriting font, more like a felt-tip than a pen, but legible and easy-to-read. It’s almost like a script for school or children, with big serifs to clearly delineate the letter shapes.

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Octin Prison is a tough headliner in 7 weights: light, book, regular, semi-bold, heavy & black. Octin Prison isn’t just for jail; it’s also great for sports, school, police, construction or military themes. Check out the rest of the Octin families: Octin Sports, Octin College, Octin Stencil, Octin Vintage & Octin Spraypaint

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Catholic Girls is a timeless, handwriting-based, semi-calligraphic font that is highly readable yet has an informality combined with a quiet elegance. Above all else, Catholic Girls is well-behaved, ladylike, and can be expected to behave correctly and make the right impression in a wide range of situations.

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Introduced as the Chank Font of the Month for May 1998, Instructor was drawn Roger Lootine and fontified by Chank. Roger was an instructor at Art Instruction School. You know the “Draw Tippy the Turtle” ads? That’s where Roger used to teach. He also draws a cool comic called Residue.

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The P22 Platten font family is based on lettering found in a German fountain pen practice book in the1920s. (You may have seen the similar Speedball books in the US). This round tip pen lettering is comparable to the basic forms used in grammar school teaching alphabets, but with a few original characteristics. The Italic version has even more of these unusual features.

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This font is, like, totally inspired by the handwriting of, like, teenage girls.

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Folder is a font custom designed for education. Each style features:

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Kairengu is a casual and lively rounded sans serif. The characters are “gloopy” as if ink was poured onto page surface. Kairengu is a great choice whenever you need an amusing face with a lot of character.

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Argenta is an informal, "hand-printing" font.

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Octin Spraypaint is a tough headliner in 2 styles (sans & serif) & 3 weights: regular, bold & black. Octin Spraypaint is perfect for police, sports, prison, construction, school or military themes. Check out the rest of the Octin families: Octin Sports, Octin College, Octin Prison, Octin Stencil & Octin Vintage

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Bigfoot is the fattest font ever made.

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Even as a child, I was interested in letterforms. I admired my grade 4 teacher’s handwriting and so Ronita is based on fuzzy memories of her elegant script.

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Comenia Sans was designed in the framework of a unique typographic project for all types of schools. It is a complementary face for Comenia Serif, released by our friends at Storm Type Foundry. Comenia Sans has a lot in common with its serif sister: the height of both upper and lower case, the length of ascenders and descenders, and the general weight. This makes the two perfect partners which work well even when set side by side in a single line of text. Comenia Sans does, however, lack all serifs, ornamental elements and stroke stress variation. All these elements freshen up the feel of long texts, but for shorter texts use, they are not necessary. Despite that, Comenia Sans retains the soft, friendly character of its big sister, as well as a few tiny details which lend it its unique character without compromising legibility or utility.

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Calamity Teen is an oddity of a typeface with a seemingly basic lowercase, but Capitals that have flowing decenders all over to create a dated retro feel to it.

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Ruly is my newest font creation. My roommate in college always had the coolest writing. I thought that it deserved to be a font. The font is a great choice for newsletters, cards, etc.

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A font package in two line weights and two styles, which emulates handwriting pratice guides for children in pre-school. Designed for the preparation of excercise sheets. The second style includes guidelines. Can be used in any wordprocessor.

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Chank claims to have the fastest type design, we think we have the youngest.

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Just a cute little handwritten-like font, it’s whimsical, classy, yet relaxed and adds flair to anything. Perfect for cards, letters, recipes, journaling and much more!

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Copacabana is heavily based on one of my favourite typefaces Goudy Old Style Italic. It is sharper and more clearly defined than Goudy yet still retains it old style characteristics. The face is slightly angled so is basically upright whilst still retaining Italic characteristics.

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Kayla Sans is a sans-serif display font and works best in display applications, such as headline, magazine, posters, product branding, corporate branding, signage, logos and titles.

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Designed by M. Fahrenwaldt for the Schriftguss foundry in 1929, Minister is a contemporary design based on Garalde types.

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ArgentaBobbed is an informal, "hand-printing" font with little balls at the ends of strokes.

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School Rainbow was performed by Argentina Lián Types in 2008.

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A cutesy wootsy, love note-writing, school girl font.

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Sütterlin (Suetterlin) is a script that was taught at German schools in the first half of the 20th century. It is also called “German Script”.

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Milk Cursive is the healthy choice. Fortify your designs & fulfill your daily textual needs with these flowing, bubbly letters.

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Gens De Baton is based on a charming lower case alphabet that appeared in the Almanach des Enfants pour 1886 (Paris 1886) under the heading “Amusing Grammar Lessons.” Gens De Baton means simply “Stick People.” The unknown designer turned the bare letter forms into drawings of people for the enjoyment of the children for whom the almanac was intended. The letter forms themselves were based on the French Romain du Roi (King’s Roman), except for the ‘g’ and the ‘j’ -- which were based on Baskerville. The letters ‘w’ and ‘y’ were not included, as they are seldom seen in French. We have left the letters somewhat rough, as they appeared in the Almanach des Enfants , resisting the temptation to clean up all the lines and render them with digital perfection.

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My own hand writing, which is surprisingly messy for a font artist.

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A great thing about informal handwriting (or hand printing) faces is that they are safe--who can really say that there is a mistake in the design?

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Desard is a happy, sweet handwriting font.

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Mango is a teenage, emo freak-out.

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Designed by Les Usherwood. Digitally engineered by Steve Jackaman. A few weights were originally released by another foundry; but this complete version of the family is a better match to Les’ original drawings!

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Kerp introduces the new trend in handwriting practice for kids in preK-Kindergarten. It’s fun, unique and visually stimulating that will encourage any young “alphabet tracers” to find joy while learning their ABCs.

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What do kids do that most of us don't? Think outside the box, color outside the lines, and break all the rules. The same goes for my son Aiden’s handwriting.

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This strange mysterious “blubber” is told to hold the secrets of the universe, many legends and myths have been told about its strange and amazing powers. Great fortunes await to those who can harness its power.

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Richfont Bold is the bold version of my handwriting. I always felt that I had unique handwriting. When I was learning how to design fonts, the first font I made was Richfont Medium, which Bitstream is selling.

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Designed at Polygraphmash in 1958 by Elena Tsaregorodtseva; Latin characters and italic were added in 1987 by Emma Zakharova. An early sans serif (‘Grotesque’), it was developed for primers and the first level school textbooks.

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Bad Girl was designed to appeal to the young consumer and the young-at-heart. While clearly feminine, it manages to combine a charming naïveté with in-your-face rebelliousness.

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By any stretch of the imagination, Yorso Square JNL is an imperfect font...by design!

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Occidental Tourist JNL is based on a set of die-cut cardboard letters used by teachers. They were primarily found on classroom bulletin boards or felt boards.

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Skulebuk is a decorative typeface ideally created for use on edgy/street/urban or sports related design projects.

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If you grew up in the north, you may have stomped out letters in the fresh snow during the winter. Memories of such winter fun helped inspire these typefaces. If one can do the typeface with shoes or boots, one can also do it with barefeet and hands. Non-human variants are possible, such as bird tracks.

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