28 Best Hand Lettering Fonts (Free & Premium) – 2023

Want a unique and characterful font to complete your designs? You need a hand lettering font. 

Hand lettering fonts or hand-drawn fonts are perfect for adding some style and creative flair to artistic designs. However, the internet is filled with thousands of hand-drawn fonts, and it can be difficult to choose the right one for your designs.

That’s why we’ve put together this list of the best hand lettering fonts available online. We’ve included 28 fonts to suit every style, as well as a mixture of free and premium options. 

Before we jump into the list, let’s take a look at what hand lettering fonts are and how they can be used.

What is a Hand Lettering Font? 

Hand lettering fonts are fonts that have been drawn by hand instead of using a digital program to create the characters. As a result of them being drawn by hand, each letter is unique and this can help to give your designs more flair and character. 

With fonts that have been designed digitally, things are a little more uniform, and you won’t see any rough edges or unique flair like you do with hand lettering fonts. 

Hand lettering fonts are popular with designers and are often used to create artistic designs such as logos, quotes, and posters. 

28 Best Free and Premium Hand Lettering Fonts 

Now we’ve learned a  little more about what hand lettering fonts are, let’s jump into the list, starting with our favorite…

1. Devilion – Our Top Pick

Devilion is a delicate and curvaceous hand lettering font (and the most popular font in this category on Envato Elements). It’s super stylish and could be used in a variety of different designs. Although Devilion is written in a cursive style, it’s still extremely clear and easy to read, making it perfect for just about any project. 

Why it’s our top pick

We love this font because it is stylish, versatile, and extremely legible. Whether you’re using it as part of a logo, or on t-shirts or merchandise, this font will help your designs to look professional and unique.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

2. Backabon Hand Lettering Font

Backabon is a cursive-style hand lettering font. This bold font is extremely classy and would look great on stationery, business cards, posters, and more. Backabon is quite legible but would look best used in header text rather than in smaller bodies of text.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

3. Daytonia

Daytonia is another elegant hand lettering font that would work well in many different types of designs. The long, looping tails and swashes add character and a touch of elegance that would make it particularly well-suited to elegant designs such as wedding invitations. 

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

4. Lastinger

Lastinger is a hand lettering ink script font from designer Olexstudio. While still chic and stylish, the striking letterforms look less delicate and soft than the other hand-lettered fonts we’ve looked at so far, which makes this font a good choice for ‘edgier’ designs.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

5. Brilganttyne

Looking to inject a little love or romance into your designs? This is the font for you. Brilganttyne is a romantic calligraphy font with unique, looping swashes that form heart shapes. It’s the perfect typeface for Valentine’s day greetings cards, wedding invitations, romance book covers, and all your other love-themed projects.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

6. Chervil Hand Lettering Font

Chervil is a truly unique hand-drawn font with a minimalist feel. Unlike many hand lettering fonts, Chervil is not cursive and it has super easy to read narrow characters. If you’re looking to create unique and modern designs with a minimalist feel, then this is the font for you. 

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

7. Belgedes Hand Drawn Font

Belgedes is a hand-drawn font with a brush script style. This font pairs perfectly with serif fonts, and can be used to create eye-catching and intersting designs. The font pack also includes ligatures and a full set of stylistic alternate characters which provides a lot of flexibility when creating your designs.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

8. Weem Hand Drawn Font

Weem is a playful hand-lettered font, perfect for adding a fun and youthful edge to your designs. This serif font is modern and extremely easy to read. It would look great on business cards, posters, and more. 

The font pack includes upper and lowercase letters, as well as Latin, extended letters, numbers, and symbols.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

9. Santoy Hand Lettering Font

Santoy is a calligraphy-style hand lettering font with a feminine feel. This elegant font would look perfect on wedding invitations, or in a logo for a female-focused business. 

The font can be used in programs including Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Microsoft Word. The font pack also includes tons of glyphs, alternates, and ligatures.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

10. Assassin Ninja Hand Drawn Font

Assassin Ninja is an interesting hand lettering font that is reminiscent of Japanese-style calligraphy and art. This font would be a great choice for a martial arts business or even event posters. The font is bold, clean, and easy to read, so it would also work well as a logo font.

Price: Free for personal use. For commercial use, contact the designer

11. Marquis Sans Font 

Marquis Sans is a modern and bold hand-drawn font family. This font is perfect for posters, album covers, and t-shirts. The font family includes 4 different font options; Bold, Italic, Regular, and Outline. Therefore, the font is very versatile and can be used in different ways throughout your designs.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

12. Woodland

Woodland is a trendy and minimalist hand-drawn sans serif font in all caps. The tall, narrow letterforms and brushstroke texture would look great on designs for invitations and merchandise like T-shirts and mugs. 

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

13. Diora Sport Hand Lettering Font

Diora Sport is a super bold hand lettering font that would look great on t-shirts and other merchandise. This chunky font really jumps off the page and is quite easy to read too. Whether you’re creating a stylish poster or a logo for a business, Diora Sport is a great option.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

14. Erasmus Casual Hand Lettering Font

Erasmus Casual is an elegant flowing hand lettering font, that is perfect for adding a touch of sophistication to your designs. This highly cursive font is sleek and stylish and would look great on greetings cards and when used for quotes.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

15. Ahay Hore

Ahay Hore is a heavy hand lettering font, that will give your designs a fun and nostalgic feel. The curvy lettering will really help your designs to stand out.  Ahay Hore is also really easy to read, so it would be perfect on posters, t-shirts, and more.

Price: Free for personal use. For commercial use, contact the designer

16. Stay Home Handwritten Font

Stay Home is a classy hand-drawn font with a festive feel. This font would look great on invitations for Christmas parties and other festive occasions. This super lightweight font is modern and attractive, and despite its cursive nature, it’s very easy to read. 

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

17. Creme Modern Chic Hand Lettering Font 

Creme is a bold hand lettering font with a playful feel. The font would look great as part of child-centric designs, as it is clean, modern, and easy to read. Whether you’re making posters for a school or party invitations for children’s birthday parties, this font is a perfect choice.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

18. Gulf. Hand Lettered Font

Gulf. is a bold and impactful font that is perfect for modern and unique designs. The chunky characters are made up of an interesting and seamless wave pattern. If you want your designs to be eye-catching and jump off the page, Gulf. is the font for the job.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

19. Vadderick

Vadderick is a bold, decorative hand-lettering font with a distinctly Victorian aesthetic. This gothic-inspired typeface is best suited for antiquated designs in which you’re trying to evoke a medieval feeling.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

20. Yellow Ginger 

Yellow Ginger is a highly legible hand lettering font with an oriental feel. This font is very eye-catching and perfect for creating standout designs. This font would be perfect on restaurant menus or signboards. It would also work well on labels and merchandise. 

Price: Free for personal use. Paid commercial license available

21. MeeMee Handwritten Kids Font

MeeMee is a fun hand lettering font that is perfect for child-focused designs. The font is really easy for children to read, and it also has a cool doodle style that is appealing to young readers. The font download also includes a selection of doodles that complement the font.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

22. Betterlove Handwritten Font

Betterlove is a gorgeous hand lettering font that is complete with elegant and eye-catching swashes. This font is perfect for use in artistic quote designs, and would also look good on posters or business cards. The font pack includes lower and uppercase letters as well as ligatures and a stylistic set.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

23. Ramestone Hand Lettering Font

Ramestone is a bold and attractive hand-drawn font perfect for sophisticated designs. The font is cursive and easy to read and would work great as a branding font, or on event posters and stationery.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

24. Ngopikita Font

Ngopikita is a quirky and feminine hand drawn font. This font would look great used in Instagram stories, web designs, and even on posters and merchandise. The font pack includes upper and lowercase letters, ligatures, and international glyphs.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

25. Sellwyne Hand Lettering Font

Sellwyne is a modern hand lettering font with an urban, masculine feel. This font would look great on shirts, hats, and other types of merchandise. The font pack comes with a stylistic set, ligatures, and swashes for adding extra visual interest to your designs.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

26. Blessing Classy Hand Lettering Font

Blessing is a relaxed and flowing hand lettering font perfect for modern and trendy designs. The font has a fashionable feel and would be a great choice as a branding font for beauty and fashion businesses. The font is elegant and classy, but also easy to read.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

27. Berline Hand Lettering Font

Berline is a bold and playful hand-drawn font. The curvy and unique letters are eye-catching and elegant and would look great on a poster or signboard. The font pack includes alphabetical glyphs, numbers as well as punctuation.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)

28. Bolgen Sketch Font

Bolgen is a chalkboard effect hand-drawn font that’s perfect for use in restaurants, cafes, and even school settings. The bold characters will easily catch the eye of passers-by and make your designs more visually appealing and interesting. The Bolgen font pack includes upper and lowercase characters as well as numbers and punctuation.

Price: Commercial and personal use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month)