It occurred to me years ago that the graphic arts community might find useful a digital typeface that mimicked the classic look of nineteenth-century handwriting. Conveniently, my mother then still volunteered at the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, my hometown. She made copies of the letters of a few famous Texans -- Houston, Austin, Travis, Burnet, Rusk. Thomas J. Rusk’s penmanship caught my eye as the most accessible of the bunch. I hadn't realized at the time what a challenge it'd be to render a realistic-looking script face, but the result has, in fact, filled a niche.

Although the early 1900s through the 1920s seemed to be the "Golden Age" of ridiculously long novelty song titles, it appears that even the decade of the 1940s had its fair share as well. Song Merchant JNL was modeled from the hand lettered [but exhausting] title of the sheet music for "Princess Poo-Poo-Ly Has Plenty Pa-Pa-Ya (and she Loves to Give it Away)". Despite the obvious double-entendre inferences of the title, the square block letters with rounded corners make for a useful headline font (even if the source material it was drawn from is quite forgettable). Available in regular and oblique versions.

Let me tell you a secret: This font has got absolutely nothing to do with nougat or France. I just love nougat, and I actually ate some while finishing this font! My wife is a good at making cakes, and lucky for me is that she too adores nougat - that way I often get delicious cakes with nougat :) Well, back to the font - a handmade rounded sans-serif, comic, organic, all-purpose with a playful attitude. Goes very well in both UPPERCASE and lowercase. I'd say you can use this for pretty much anything, but categories such as organic, packaging, kids product or sweets come in mind!

RAN Reformed Typeface for Beginners by Georg Salden - 
a headstrong and courageous approach to an improved handling of handwriting. Diverse and sometimes irreconcilable theories exist about how beginners are supposed to learn writing and reading. This has led to fierce discussions among experts already. We don’t want to pour more oil on the fire, but hope to create a new awareness for this topic, which is important to everyone of us. For beginners the combination of single characters (sounds) to whole words is essential during the acquirement of reading and writing. In this process they develop the skill to recall entire terms from memory. Therefore, after current practice, every word shall be written in a single stroke without lifting the pen in between. Georg Salden contradicts this postulate and warns, that coercively holding the pen down within a word can easily lead to exaggerated loop formations and a general meandering of the written text. The intellectual process in connecting single sounds to words while writing would happen anyway and the prohibition to lift the pen would often lead to tensions. 
To still support the necessary connections in general and to simplify the connecting, he teaches to write all round letters like a, e, g, o with inclusion of the connecting stroke, so that the spacing and combining with the next character arise by themselves. By settling the stroke at certain points and with a clear and logical writing method, a conscious and careful contact with the various strokes arises. All this automatically leads, together with a certain deceleration, to an increase of beauty and readability in the handwriting. 
The repeatedly discussed topic »connected or unconnected« appears to be solved in the most comfortable way as, depending on the particular character combination, both solutions are possible.

Megaverse VF Design 2023, Volker Schnebel JP-Fonts GmbH, Hamburg, Germany Megaverse VF opens up a universe that is beyond others. Not only its style is mega and the scope of the supported languages is beyond others, but the variety of variants opens up a design space that is unique. The complete family includes at least 90 fonts in 5 width levels from UltraCondensed to ExtraExpanded, each in 9 weights from Thin to Black, both upright and italic. It is a universal font that can be used for almost anything. From the official announcement or the informal letter to the letterpress and to the screen display as a corporate font: Megaverse is always convincing. Her character is quite graceful, but also neutral. She seems likeable, but also serious. She impresses with sharpness and precision and yet remains down-to-earth. Her wide range of variants is unique, both in terms of boldness and width. The very different forms of appearance fit together harmoniously as a whole, which gives the user an enormous freedom of design. Megaverse VF is a must-have for anyone who wants to keep adapting a typeface to different circumstances and who enjoys using variants that make the layout more colorful and perfect. All the advantages of the new variable font technology can be optimally applied with Megaverse VF, including optical scaling. Kerning, hinting and other technical requirements are carefully implemented so that the fonts work perfectly under any condition.

A gothic style script based on a writing system devised by J.R.R. Tolkien, also known as the Tengwar of Feanor, used for many languages in Middle-earth. NOTE: this font comes with an interpretation guide in pdf format.

Nouveau To Go JNL is the digital version of the hand lettered title found on the 1915 sheet music for the song "Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You", and is available in both regular and oblique versions.

Just in case you need something crispy for your next project - this could be it! Handmade, multilingual and with contextual alternates - 4 different versions of each letter, and these cycle automatically as you write, for a random look.

HU Mois KR is a calligraphy typeface with a sense of speed and a naturally slanted feel as if writing. It also gave a sense of free rhythm of handwriting. Includes Korean from the existing 'HU Mois' font.

A cursive style script based on a writing system devised by J.R.R. Tolkien, also known as the Tengwar of Feanor, used for many languages in Middle-earth. NOTE: this font comes with an interpretation guide in pdf format.

Gerber is a fully accented pixel font for use at 10 pt size (or multiples). Gerber is supposed to look like children's writing on a chalkboard and it is named after an Austrian novel about an unhappy schoolboy.

Family type designed by Felipe Calderón. This type is a display with a modern style and a different and innovative concept. The development of this type was a challenge because it was set out from the begining as a script font with ornaments and complements, where the round shapes do not have prominence in the result. Planet Express is an interesting job from the aesthetic point of view, it works for big scale texts and contains little shadow-cuts in each character to give it more personality and stand out among other fonts from this gender. I hope this new project works to solve issues in design. Planet Express is composed of Regular & Italics, it has 250 intelligent ligatures to produce the best signs in big scale, it is perfect for branding and works very well with the geometric complements. It is designed with programming in opentype: Ligatures, Discretionary ligatures, Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic set 01, Stylistic set 02, Stylistic set 03, Stylistic set 04, Stylistic set 05, Stylistic set 06, Stylistic set 07, Stylistic set 08 & Stylistic set 09, multiple language support and a complete set of extras like arrows, catchwords, flags, emblems, hands, fleurons & crossed elements. Planet Express can be used in different ways, each character pretends to cover the needs in any circumstance where it is used. It is funny to write words and play with the complements. It also works with current concepts in graphic design like sports, cars, hip hop, music, social network, skateboarding and more. Everybody can use this font, it works with different languages like italian, french, portuguese, danish, german and so forth. See specimen and samples here. Enjoy it!

The real handwriting script. Very powerful impression because of its heavy, wide and speedy shape. Award Winning No. 1 font 2007 at MyFonts and Rising Star. There is one more script designed by in the same concept. -Banana -Nothing

Based on some script in the 19th century. Inky texture gives realistic handwriting appearance. Smooth writing feeling creates antiqued and nostalgic atmosphere. There are two other script designed by in the same concept. -Daisy Lau -Lily Wang -Pansy Bo

Allison Style is my newest font duo. Contain two fonts, the delicate serif and a free hand writing script. This font duo also support multilingual, number and symbol, end swash and many ligatures. Also this font already PUA Encoded.

This is our newest product, we call it Sakola! Sakola is a hand writing font, with sweet touches and unique personality in each letter. Sakola is very good to use on: - Wedding invitations - Fashion magazines - Logos - Signatures - Photography watermarks

Winsberg comes from hand scratches to get a natural and natural writing. Winsberg is very suitable for use in various media such as packaging, logo, label, poster, shirt design, quote of wisdom, hand lettering, typography and many other media.

Mariner is based on hand lettering originally done by Willy Pogany for his illustrated edition of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It's a variation of classic medieval lettering with decorative elements and alternative versions of almost every character.

This is our newest product, we call it Catalonia! Catalonia is a hand writing font, with sweet touches and unique personality in each letter. Catalonia is very good to use on: - Wedding invitations, - Fashion magazines - Logos - Signatures - Photography watermarks

This is a radically modernized uncial with many OpenType features and 415 characters: Caps, lower case, small caps, numerators, denominators, accents characters and so on. There are 21 ligatures. It is an experimental look at medieval writing for the 21st century.

Fanteo is a cool, modern and neat display font. This font is ideal for writing web designs, business cards, or pretty much anything else that requires a unique touch. What's Included? Uppercase & Lowercase Numbers & Punctuation Regular & Italic Multilingual Support PUA Encoded

As its name suggests, PlainPensle is a handwriting font that emulates printing and writing with a pencil or ballpoint pen. The plain and bold styles have hand printing that is ordinary and nondescript. The italics and bolditalics contain simple handwritten cursive.

Step into the world of cultural sophistication with Turban Genie - Arabic Font. This meticulously crafted digital typeface embodies the elegance of Arabic calligraphy, adorning your designs with intricate details and strategically placed dots on select characters, reminiscent of traditional Arabic writing.

Ru'ach is the work of British designer Timothy Donaldson, a dynamic, dry brush script typeface. The typeface should be set with close letter and word spacing. Donaldson's experiments with writing tools on different surfaces resulted in Ru'ach's strong, confident letterforms.

The Maricava font was designed for a lady, who received her first computer on her 60th birthday. Maricava is loosely based on her own handwriting and now used intensely by herself in her short stories, writings, recipes and so on.

Bill Smith is a fast writing brush script with textures and swashes. This will make your design or project look perfect with authentic characteristics. It's perfect for branding, marriage invitations, poster designs, business cards, bulletins, stationery, logos, packaging, design and more.

Tenison is a semi-formal script which echoes the way the designer was taught to write in school. It is not overly decorative and it is highly legible. All lowercase characters link with each other, just as we were taught.

Malamondo is a versatile and effective all caps display font. Each version has 200 interlock ligatures that will help you to create custom looking designs. To access the ligatures you only need to write in CAPS in any Opentype supporting program.

This quirky script is packed with features. Best of all: Optical sizes! The three style family is based on the writing of calligrapher Natascha Safarik. All glyphs were redrawn manually to produce vector shapes that look perfect in literally every size!

Tower was originally created as a school assignment at the University of Industrial Art & Design Helsinki in 2006. Tower is an experimental dingbat font. Try writing different kind of towers: set font size and leading the same and start experimenting!

Bush Market is a handwriting script typeface designed to give off a bouncing, fast writing vibe, and informal. It can be used as a handwritten header display or as a stylish text for magazine, blog, branding, packaging, wedding invitation project, etc.

Screeech! Ack! Ack! Mantisboy was created by Chank Diesel in 1995 as a custom font for the Cartoon Network's Space Ghost Coast to Coast web site. This font represents the printed voice of the talk show's bandleader, an evil alien mantis.

Based on some beautifully blobby lettering, handwritten by printer and mailartist, Alan Brignull. Alan creates amazingly credible artistamps for the virtual countries of Adanaland and the Perfect State of Flatby, lands frozen in boyhood Englishness forever. He writes nicely too.

Colibre Bristole Pro is a serif font family that crafted with precision, Colibre Bristole consist of 9 styles from thin to black. has 49 ligatures to make writing more interactive Features : · Multilanguange · Alternates · PUA Encoded · Font Family totals 9 fonts

Margin Notes font offers a natural handwriting look. It had imperfect, organic curves and off set lines that imitate natural hand written writing. Give this handwriting font a try with note-taking, organization or even a back to school poster.

Monster was originally created as a school assignment at the University of Industrial Art & Design Helsinki in 2006. Monster is an experimental dingbat font. Try writing different kind of monsters: set font size and leading the same and start experimenting!

The Tecn@ Standard family was designed so that its characters are legible and easy to interpret in any writing; among them, the descriptive memory of plans for example. Tecn@ Standard complements the Tecn@ Background Light and Dark Square Triangle font family.