handwriting font that isn't totally ridiculous
I’m looking for a display font for a book about American folk art. I want something funky and handdrawn, but not novelty or wedding-invitation-y. Seems like the vast majority of script faces out there are just silly.
Storm’s Rondka is really close, but too slanted for my purposes. I like that it’s deliberate, not like dashed-off handwriting, and not too ornamental.
Any suggestions?
18.May.2006 2.49pm
i really love mahogany script, but its not really what you’re looking for i think?
18.May.2006 2.49pm
Mark Simonson’s Coquette
18.May.2006 2.54pm
I have one called Montessori script which is a free font... if you like it please go ahead and use it up! But on the other hand you might consider it too silly? ;-)
http://www.identifont.com/show?7UL
Cheers
18.May.2006 3.00pm
Stanyan Autumn
Handwriting
18.May.2006 3.09pm
Thanks all for the suggestions. Sadly none of them are quite right. Stanyan Autumn is way too casual, Coquette too stylized (though I’ve always loved it), Mahagony Script too journal-y. Stefan, Montessori is really nice and not at all silly, but also not quite what I need.
I’m really looking for something that looks like it was labored over, but labored over by an amateur. Something like a Brothers Quay title card. Something like the attached image, which is a portion of a piece in the book...
18.May.2006 3.11pm
A hand drawn serif?
18.May.2006 3.13pm
I’m really looking for something that looks like it was labored over, but labored over by an amateur.
then maybe you want something from www.dafont.com? >^P
18.May.2006 3.17pm
Those are both awesome links. Thanks!
ETA: OK, actually Stephen’s was awesome. Paul’s hurt my tender eyes.
18.May.2006 3.25pm
LTR Salmiak is pretty tasty...
18.May.2006 3.52pm
lol. my recomendatioin was made tongue-in-cheek. my line of thinking: what better to look amature than fonts made by ametures? heh
18.May.2006 3.58pm
my recomendatioin was made tongue-in-cheek.
I figured that out...but not soon enough!
18.May.2006 4.04pm
Also try: Yanone Tagesschrift. Its free too.
Mikey
18.May.2006 4.20pm
Maybe Syncopated script? from Harold’s fonts?
18.May.2006 4.59pm
fontplayer> I thought of that too... but I think he wants something rougher.
Mikey
18.May.2006 5.35pm
Dear Sarah
http://images.veer.com/IMG/PTYP/UMT/UMT0000104_P.GIF
18.May.2006 5.53pm
GaryW> Great one!!!
Mikey
18.May.2006 6.14pm
if this is just for the cover, or not too many different places, why dont you just draw it yourself and scan it?
18.May.2006 8.59pm
http://www.chank.com/freefont_detail.php?sku=1091
19.May.2006 10.42am
Check out Fortunaschwein here:
http://www.anke-art.de/e_fonts.htm
20.May.2006 4.21am
http://nicksfonts.com/
Handlettering section maybe Heberling or Speedball?
http://www.veer.com/products/typedetail.aspx?image=UMT0000054
Olduvai
Neither amateur in feel though
Tim
20.May.2006 8.23am
timd> great choices! Olduvai is lovely.
Mikey
21.May.2006 3.37am
Olduvai was critiqued here a while back (Google cached search result).
Tim
22.May.2006 12.10pm
Maybe FourScore could work?
http://fonthead.com/font-sampler.php?l=1&font=fourscore