Free Cursive Fonts
A curated list of free cursive fonts for designers
With so many cursive fonts trending nowadays, it’s hard to know what ones are free. Also, the usage rights and licenses are difficult to understand. In this article, we will give you a curated list of cursive, calligraphy, and script fonts we found on the web. Some are free for only personal use. Others are free for commercial use.
No matter what question you need answering like what’s the prettiest cursive font? , what is a pretty script font? , or which of the good fonts are free, I will give try to answer these questions with visual examples. Let’s get into it!
If you are looking to add some handwritten fonts to your designs, chances are you are looking for cursive, calligraphy, script, or hand-lettering fonts. There are differences between each. But they are share one thing, they all look like handwriting. I won’t bore you with the dictionary descriptions of each. Instead, let’s look at our list or free cursive fonts.
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Free Cursive Fonts
Satrinah
By Nanda Hardiansyah
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Satrinah is a light and luxurious hand-drawn signature font. This font is good for a variety of design projects such as; packaging, quotes, posters, shopping bags, t-shirts, invitation cards, greeting cards, labels, photography, watermark, and special events. Really anything that needs a light and airy handwritten look. This font’s basic version is free for personal use. The full version is paid, and available with different licensing options.
Olivia
By Font Bundles
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This modern calligraphy typeface is both sophisticated and elegant. This font is ideal for invitations, greeting cards, posters, gifts, and much more. It comes with 351 glyphs. This free font comes with a premium license that allows commercial and personal use.
Oliver Quin
By Sigit Nur
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Oliver Quin is a handwriting script/cursive font. This font is made in detail featuring an elegant, sweet, and simple style. It is free for personal use. However, if a commercial version is available for around $30.
Salmela
By Genesislab
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Salmela is a beautiful hand lettering calligraphy typeface from Genesislab. This cursive font is perfect for creating wedding invitations, signatures, letterheads, logos, T-shirts, and everything in between. This font is free for personal and commercial use.
5th Grade Cursive
By Lee Batchelor
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5th Grade Cursive is a graceful handwritten cursive font. To be honest, it looks like a handwriting example from my grade school teacher from 30 years ago. It uses OpenType features to flow nicely and look natural. This font is free for personal and commercial use.
Brittany Signature Script
By Creatype Studio
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Brittany Signature Script is a fashionable sophisticated signature-style script font with its own unique curves and an elegant inky flow. This font is free for personal use. The commercial license is available for around $20.
Barcelony Signature
By Creatype Studio
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Barcelony Signature is an elegant and casual monoline signature script/cursive font. It is perfect for branding projects, logo, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, watermark, invitation, and any projects that need that handwriting look. This font is free for personal use only. A commercial license is available for less than $20.
Cervanttis Signature Script
By Creatype Studio
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Cervanttis Signature is an elegant yet relaxed monoline signature cursive font. It is perfect for wedding designs, social media, product packaging, labels, photography, watermark, invitation, and any projects that need that handwriting look. This font is free for personal use only. Commercial license is available for less than $20.
America
By Alex Joganic
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America is a bold textured script with large capitals and a natural flowing stroke. It features a full upper & lower case character set along with several alternate characters for creating a custom hand-lettered feel in your work. This font is free for personal and commercial use.
Bimbo
By Francesco Canovaro – Zetafonts Foundry
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Bimbo is a simple and playful handwritten cursive script font. This monoline font looks very natural. Bimbo comes in 6 weights and over 300 characters. You can download a free version. But personal and commercial licenses are a little bit pricey.
Ochre Script
By Gizem Kiliç
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Perfect for wedding stationery, cards, letters, and much more, this elegant cursive font is another free for personal and commercial use. This font is free for personal use.
Serendipity
From Pixelbuddha
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Another beautiful and playful cursive font is Serendipity. This font is available in OTF and TTF formats. In addition, web fonts are included as well (EOT, SVG, WOFF & WOFF2 Files). There Are over 90 different hand-drawn characters available for a bunch of languages and dialects. This font is free for personal and commercial use.
La Sonnambula
By Fernando Haro
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La Sannambula is an extended cursive hand-written font. It was designed after an opera by Vincenzo Bellinin, performed by Maria Callas in Milan way back in 1957. The commercial license will cost you just under $20.
Beautiful Bloom
By Mats-Peter Forss
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Beautiful Bloom is another delightful hand lettering cursive font. It comes with full sets of upper and lower case, numbers and some glyphs. This font is designed to work perfectly in a variety of applications such as invitations, logos, social media and more. This font is free for personal use. Licenses for commercial use are also available.
Alex Brush
By Rob Leuschke
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This appealing and flowing cursive font was designed by Rob Leuschle of TypeSETit. This font is free for personal and commercial use.
Shink
By 7NTypes
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This thick and simple cursive font by 7NTypes is a good choice if you want something that is highly legible. Shink is free for personal use. The commercial license costs about $15.
Debby
By Artimasa
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Debby is a hand-drawn brush style cursive font with an overall natural aesthetic. It features irregular stokes and imperfections that make it look very organic. This font is great for wedding invitations, quotes, posters, logos, greeting cards, etc. Debby font is free for both personal and commercial use.
Flanella
By Bangkit Tri Setiadi
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Flanella is a beautiful looping script/cursive font, ideal for invitations, cards, quotes and more. This one-of-a-kind typeface is free for personal and commercial use.
Noelan
By NDROADV
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Noelan Script is a modern calligraphy typeface from Ndroadv. This font features a very clean, modern, and ornate design. Noelan includes many special characters, glyphs, and international characters! This cursive font is free for personal & commercial use.
Youth Touch
By Guihem Greco – Herofonts
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Youth Touch is a simple cursive script font that is full of life. This font is very clean, legible, and versatile. This font is free for personal use. A commercial license is available for about $50.
Salted Mocha
By Stephanie Arsenault
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Salted Mocha is a hand-drawn brush script typeface designed by Stephanie Arsenault. Created on the iPad Procreate app using our free brush pack, Salted Mocha features authentic brush stroke textures. It’s loopy strokes & bouncing baseline give it a fun playful feeling. Perfect for branding, invitations, quotes, and prints that stand out. This font is free for commercial use.
The Woodlands
By Jeremy Vessey
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The Woodlands is a free brush script from Jeremy Vessey. It has a modern calligraphy aesthetic that is extremely popular. The Woodlands was created to give designers a free alternative which will help you achieve that lettering feel we all love – Free for personal & commercial use.
Briberra
By Sarid Ezra
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Briberra is hand lettering script font that contains stylistic alternates & swashes that will help to create your own customized designs. You can use this font for quotes, t-shirt designs, branding, plus plenty of other projects. This font contains multilingual characters, supports PUA and is available in OTF and TTF formats. This font is free for commercial use.
Arkipelago
By Nasir Udin
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Arkipelago features a wet inky brush script style traditional vibe. What’s great about this font is its imperfections which adds to the character.The font comes with alternate letters and several ligatures that make the letters look and feel naturally handwritten. This font is free fro personal and commercial use.
Hensa
By Vlad Cristea
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Hensa is a carefully hand-painted brush script typeface ideal for logos, quotes, packaging designs or greeting cards. Hensa contains the basic latin lowercase and uppercase letters, punctuation glyphs, numerals, ligatures, and several swashes. This font is free for commercial use.
Tahu
By Khurasan
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Tahu is a clean and professional modern script font. You will love using it for ads, logos, branding and social media. This font is free for commercial use.
Sophia
By Emily Spadoni
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Sophia is a hand-lettered script font made by the designer Emily Spadoni. This font is hand-lettered brush style typeface come together nicely with a playful flow. This font is free for commercial use.
Garment District
By Jeremy Vessey & Alex Joganic
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Garment District is the result of a collaboration between Jeremy Vessey of Hustle Supply Co. & Alex Joganic of 1871 Project. This font is a beautiful monoline script that features a unique set of vintage inspired characters including alternates for each uppercase letter. This font is perfect for a variety of projects and would fit well in any type of branding, apparel design, posters, signage, advertising, and product design.
Tuesday Night
By Font Forestry
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Tuesday Night, by Font Forestry, It is a handcrafted script font made for many different applications & styles to personalize your products. Tuesday night features extra-large capitals for a unique signature style that is perfect for wedding invitations, logos, apparel, decorative quotes, prints, scrap-booking, and much more! This font is free for commercial use.
Quentin
By Get Studio
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Quentin is a flowing handwritten typeface. This typeface turns out to look authentic with its rough texture from dry strokes. Yet this typeface appears with natural curves and has its own personal taste. Quentin is going to be perfect for branding, since it has the signature touch on it, also great for product packaging, and the popular social media ads. This font is free for commercial use.
Buffalo
By Jeremy Vessey
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Buffalo is a loopy & quirky monoline script font from Hustle Supply Co. This premium free font is vintage themed and perfect for branding and promotional projects! This font is available free exclusively from Pixel Surplus! This font is free for commercial use.
Quake Love
By Besttypeco
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Quake Love, created by Besttypeco is a fresh new handmade calligraphy font. It features a choppy, natural hand-drawn stroke making it very suitable for projects like greeting cards, branding materials, quotes, posters, social media posts, and more! It features multilingual characters and plenty of ligatures for an even more natural appearance. This font is free for commercial use.
Shellahera
By Ryan Prasetya
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ShellaHera is a handwritten script font family made using original brush pen and scanned with high resolution make this font is very personality and yes, it’s so beautiful with a dancing baseline. This font is free for commercial use. This font is free for commercial use.
Bitter Rose
By Sarid Ezra
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Bitter Rose is a hand-drawn brush font that features plenty of premium options like stylistic alternates, swashes, ligatures, brush strokes & multilingual characters. Create your own customized signature, quotes, logos, ads, and much more. As a bonus, you’ll also receive 5 extra textures! Available in OTF and TTF formats. This is a font that is free for commercial use.
Restless
By Jeremy Vessey
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Restless is a beautiful hand-drawn brush script from Hustle Supply Co. It features natural flowing characters made with authentic brush texture in a signature style. The loose baseline helps make this font seem very casual, perfect for quotes, signature logos, cards, packaging, and much more!
Monique Script
By Font Forestry
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Monique Script is a free signature font created by Font Forestry. This naturally flowing handwritten font is perfect for business cards, watermarks, photography, inspirational quotes, logos, branding, invitations, and much more!
Noble Company
By Pixel Surplus
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Noble Company, from 1871 Project, is a vintage-inspired hand-drawn mono-line script. It comes with 2 styles, rough & regular. This font will give your next project that unique hand-drawn look you’ve been searching for.
Valencia
By G. Senzana
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Valencia typeface is a great example of a calligraphy font that features uppercase, lowercase letters, as well as numbers and glyphs. The font is perfect for design projects like logos, posters, packaging, and other personal and commercial projects.
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Are Public Domain Fonts Free For Commercial Use?
Public domain, or open domain, fonts are ok to use for commercial use. It is important to understand the difference between “public domain fonts” and “free fonts”. Just because a font is labeled as free doesn’t mean you can use it for commercial use. It’s important to know the difference. Because using a font that is not free for commercial use can lead to lawsuits. So how do you really know what font are really free for commercial use? We answer that in the next section below.
What Fonts Are Free For Commercial Use?
How do you know a font is free for commercial use? Fonts that are free for commercial use are fonts that the owner, foundry, or publisher that hosts the font have specifically documented the usage rights as free for commercial use. Or if the font is specifically listed as public domain or open domain. Read on to see our list of the best free font sites.