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Recommendations on hand-written typefaces?
Posted by Godsfingerprints in
16 Oct 2012 — 10:57am
16 Oct 2012 — 10:57am
Hey everyone,
I've been doing a year long typography project, and my limited selection of typefaces is making the project feel stale and laborious. I need some fresh typefaces!
I am particularly drawn to hand-written typefaces. Not script, so much... but anything that looks like it was written by hand. Fun, playful, fresh, etc... these are words I am drawn to.
Do you have any recommendations that aren't going to break the bank?
Look forward to hearing your responses.. thanks!
Jason
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16 Oct 2012 — 1:13pm
If it's a typography project, honor it by using fonts that don't look handwritten.
Also, what you're drawn to isn't unimportant, but consider who it's for. Just yourself?
hhp
16 Oct 2012 — 1:36pm
I like Rollerscript by Nick Cooke.
I should ask, what kind of handwriting? And why are you using type instead of the real thing?
16 Oct 2012 — 8:22pm
I'm basically fusing a quote with an image, every day for an entire year. It's quite a lot of images so I'm looking to expand my type collection. After nearly 300 images.. I'm hoping to bring some freshness!
I'm not really looking for hand-writing, per se... just something to add some flavor. It's a personal project so there is not really an audience exactly. Some of the quotes are more playful or light though... so a typeface that reflects that would be great! (I assumed hand-written... but I'm open to other suggestions).
I've enclosed a few basic examples of typefaces I thought reflected this 'feel'. I'll post them in type ID ... but if you have any other suggestions -- it would be much appreciated.
Thanks! :)
16 Oct 2012 — 9:02pm
http://www.1001fonts.com/antherton-cloister-font.html
hhp
18 Oct 2012 — 5:47pm
Hi Jason,
Check out some of the categories at this site —
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/style/Handdrawn
Theo
19 Oct 2012 — 10:38am
I like the Dear Joe fonts from JoeBob
http://www.myfonts.com/foundry/JOEBOB_graphics/
Tim
19 Oct 2012 — 11:11am
Blado, all lower case.
The effect of using a foundry text type in display is that of the blow-up, a graphic effect which enhances the roughness of the image—the same effect as that of using a “hand-written” face. There is something of the objet trouvé in this, which gives it an artistic quality.
The no-caps setting, which was a popular concept in the 1950s, further serves to distance the setting from a commercial title or headline; there is something poetic in this, in the manner of cummings, and something modern, in the manner of Bayer.
20 Oct 2012 — 10:46am
I think what you're looking for are closer to the keyword 'brush' than 'hand-written'. if you've got some time, have a go at with some paint, its quite fun. good luck.