Fonts took on a revival in handmade styles this year, from calligraphic, script and handwritten to brush painted and block-printed. Combined with the great visual appeal of hero images and typographic layouts in web design, handwriting fonts are a trend that you can expect to see more of. In this article you’ll find a fresh and varied selection of high quality free fonts, each as lovely and flexible as their premium counterparts. Each includes scripts, serifs, and a range of ligatures and was chosen for their readability, impact and flavor.

Selima

A gorgeous hand-painted style brush font from Jroh Creative

Shorelines

Created by The Branded Quotes

Bromello

By Alitdesign, the paid version includes alternate and special characters

Hello Stockholm

By Matts-Peter Forss

Sophia

Co-owned by Emily Spadoni & Mats-Peter Forss

Noelan

Noelan Script is a modern calligraphy typeface from Ndroadv

King Basil

By Missy Meyer

Old Growth

A Freebie from Pixel Surplus

Westfalia

Hand-drawn sans from Pixel Surplus

Wild Youth

By Jeremy Vassey

Woodlands

Also by Jeremy Vassey

Caleb

Caleb is a hand drawn typeface from Greenhouse Supply Co. by Justin Greene.

Buffalo

By Hustle Supply Co.

Bartolomew

Bartolomew is a vintage hand lettered typeface from Klapaucius Co.

Hammock

By Andreas Twardzik and Mats-Peter Forss

Humble Rough

From Dirtyline

Bernier

A Handmade Sans Front by Ryan Pyae

LSTK Bembo

Thanks to studioelasik.com for this hand-printed style sans-serif

Happy Fox

Created by Lauren Green

Brux

By Marcelo Reis Melo

Bellaboo

By Marcelo Reis Melo

Bizon

Created by Fago Studio

Summer Hearts

By Jeremy Vesssey

Parabelo

Another lovely brush font from Marcelo Reis Melo

Reis Handmade

Another original free web font made by Marcelo Reis Melo

Kino 40

Gorgeous hand-drawn display font from les83machines

Frente H1

By Frente

WC Mano Negra BTA

From WC Fonts

Smoothie Shoppe

From Emily Spadoni

Amarillo

Made by Francis Studio

America and Stars

Classic handwritten script web font created by DCoxy

Trendsetter

From WornOutMedia Co.

Milkshake

By fairgoods.com

Playlist

By Antimasa Studio

Variane Script

By Boy Moch Tomi

Ruffle Beauty

A minimal handwritten font by Anis Iday

Mink Type

A playful handwriting font by Feliz Sahin

Mathlete

By Mattox Schuler

Emily Lime

By Emily Lime Design

Buttercup

From pollem.co

Archipelago

A classy caligraphic script font rom Fenotype

Hamish

A nice heavy-weight script font by get studio

Pamega

By Aktab Studuo

Mightype

By Adam Fathony

Ludicrous

By Missy Meyer

Wolf in the City

By Maelle K. and Thomas Boucherie

Streetwear

Another great retro calligraphic font from Antimasa Studio

Nautilus

From Punk You Studio

Black Jack

Script font from Typeadelic

Cyllburn

A classic hand script font from Dai Foldes

Lavanderia

A classic script choice from James T. Edmonson

Wisdom Script

Another classic from James T. Edmonson

Stackyard

By Mans Grebck

Milasian Circa

Three lovely weights on this script font also by Mans Grebck

Tindra

By Marcelo Reis Melo

Brusher

A clean script font from Vlad Cristea and Raul Taciu

Kust

From Wild Ones Design

Besom

Co-created by Krisijanis Mezulis and Gatis Vilaks

Fibre

A handmade Sans-serif brush font by Krisijanis Mezulis

Deepo

By Gatis Vilaks

Lemon Tuesday

By Daria Kwon

Gallow Tree

From Simon Stratford

LAZER 84

80’s retro style brush font from Juan Hodgson

Westchester

By Sneflenie

Cheddar Jack

By Brittney Murphy Design

StoneStick

An imperfect script font by Jroh Creative

Bakery

Made by StereoType

ShellaHera

A free alternative to Willow or similar dancing script fonts, by Lostvoltype, with a wonderful sans-serif alternative

Cute Punk

Created by Flou

Kitsune Udon

Handcrafted font from rrry.me

Yozakura

Get a little Eastern script style from?Kotonoha Kuju

Paunchy

By Mirco Zett

Google Fonts

Google fonts has hundreds of high quality professionally designed free fonts vetted by the Google design team. You can use their handwriting or script fonts in your webpages directly with @fontface or any Google Fonts plugin, or thanks to the built-in Google Fonts support in Themify.

Many of them were featured on Web Designer Wall in 2010 and have since become classic choices. Read the post or check them out here.