Hello everyone! I’m Caroline, the Studio Manager at Flourish and this week I’m excited to be able to share my thoughts on my five favourite handwriting fonts of the moment. Over the past month I’ve been focusing on finding some gorgeous fonts for a handful of our customers, some for logos and some for accents fonts within website designs and I’ve taken the opportunity to bunch a few of the best ones together. Enjoy!
Federico I love the natural curves of this font. The length of the downward and upward letters adds energy to what is quite a small base font. The beautiful loops and flicks make for a very graceful font that has a subtle sense of flurry.
Goo Goo Gjoob There’s even more energy in this one but in a very different style. It has a great spontaneous feel and you’d think that with letters slanting in so many different directions that it wouldn’t tie together very well, but it does in a very natural way. I can see small imperfections in the style of the ‘q’ and the ‘f’ but, to me, this just makes the handwriting style more believable.
Jefferson With similar traits to Lanier, the letters do a little of what you don’t expect and this adds character and diversity. I’ve very often fallen in love with a handwriting font but then when put it into context found that it’s too faint/light. This option has a great weight to it that gives it visible punch when in the context of a brochure or a website.
Lanier-SC This has a beautiful pen and ink style that’s relaxed and casual. I don’t care that you can’t read every word very clearly because it just adds to the naturalness. I’m inspired by the out-of-the-ordinary touches like the curvature of the d and the spontaneity of the p. It’s tough finding a font that accurately represents a natural handwriting style but this one does it for me!
Sacre Bleu Probably the most visually ‘fluent’ of the bunch, I love the way that the letters join so gracefully but still have a friendly ‘flick’. I would consider this the safest option from them all as well as it has a good size, weight and flick consistency throughout.
lovely! Sacre Bleu looks just like your handwriting Caz but Federico is my favourite – it has the most personality
I like to think Sacre Bleu looks like my handwriting as well, thank you! Federico is beautiful isn’t it? Very classical with lots of character and passion. I love the classy, educated impression it gives.
Ha! that sounds like me then…
Oooh. Lovely – have been looking for some classy handwriting fonts. I’m not up for cutesy, or too floral (if you know what I mean) but a couple of these might be perfect.
They are lovely aren’t they? There are plenty more where those came from at http://www.myfonts.com