Today is National Handwriting Day in commemoration of John Hancock, the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence. This special day was established to promote the fine art of handwriting. Monotype Imaging has provided Typophile with examples of Handwriting Day Fonts that add a personal, handwritten quality to a variety of projects. The Handwriting Value Pack found on Fonts.com provides five great fonts that deliver the look and feel of handwriting designs.

Handwriting has inspired some great formal script typeface designs including several Inaugural Invitation Fonts. For example, the invitations to the January 20th presidential inauguration, which while hand engraved on copperplate, were based on modified versions of two Linotype typefaces: The Shelley™ Allegro and the Kuenstler™ fonts.

Designed by Matthew Carter for Linotype in 1972, the Shelley™ Allegro font is a formal script design that can bring elegance not only to invitations, diplomas, or greeting cards, but it also works equally as well in display applications such as packaging or advertising. Based on the traditional English copperplate scripts, the Kuenstler™ font is another formal script and features a small x-height and fine hairlines.