Is it just me or do people LOVE FONTS? I don’t know what it is about pretty letters that gets us all tingly excited, but when I find the perfect font for a project, or a new, undiscovered treasure, I can’t help but feel mild euphoria. Since I know a lot of you are bloggers and creatives, I thought it would be fun to introduce a once-in-awhile series, sharing my favorite font finds (would you be interested in me sharing other design resources, too?). Today, given the fact that hand-lettering is taking over the world (and because I just discovered one of the fonts below and LOVE IT) I wanted to share some of my recent favs.
The fonts below are a mix of paid and free fonts. Why not just include only freebies? Because, in my opinion, paid fonts tend to be of higher quality and variety. Not always, but often! Many paid calligraphy fonts also include alternatives, meaning there might be 10 different letter “B’s” so you can make your work look more natural and less font-y. Another plus is that purchased fonts are generally not as popular as free fonts, so your work has the opportunity to stand out a bit from other typography.
I only started purchasing fonts about a year ago, but I think it has made a big difference in making my design work unique. I still download free fonts, too, but it’s nice to keep your options open. 🙂 One last thing — if you DO download free fonts, check the license. Many free fonts are only free for personal projects. If you intend to use them on client or commercial projects, you sometimes need to purchase a commercial license. If you don’t, your butt could get in trouble! Anyways, enough of my blabbering! Here are my ten favorite calligraphy fonts at the moment…and my favorite dog breeds, because #CrazyDogLady. 😉
Halo Handletter // Cantoni Pro
Which is your favorite? Any other fonts you’re loving?
p.s. My Calligraphy Practice + Process + Freebie Calligraphy Wallpaper
This is a great idea for a series, and yes, please share your other kinds of resources. 🙂
Will do, thanks for the interest, Anna! 🙂
I love these! I’d also love to see other design-related posts. I like to see the things people use to be creative.
Coming right up! 🙂
Love these fonts! I just downloaded a lot of script, handwritten fonts this week and I’m loving these. Can’t wait to check them out! 🙂
Awesome, Gina! 🙂
Dasha has been one of my favorites for months!
Love that one!
I live in China too! Well, I’m about to move back to the States for my freshman year of college. Anyways, I can totally relate to missing all of those delicious foods! // I was actually looking for fonts similar to Jacques & Gilles just a few days ago. Most of the fonts you listed are much more affordable, thank you! -Audrey | Brunch at Audrey’s
Glad to hear that, Audrey! And how neat that you live in China, too!
Such a good collection! ♥ Thanks for sharing. My favourite are Halo and Satisfy.
Glad you like them! 🙂
the designs are amazing
Glad you like them 🙂
Your Boston Terrier font is right up my alley, thank you for sharing! Also, musicalpoem is kind of great so more thanks for introducing us all to Manda!
Glad you like ’em both, Eliza! :))
There are so many cool fonts out there, but I always have trouble finding “the one” that jives with my business. This is a really great collection, though. 🙂
First of all let me tell you how much I enjoy your blog, but mainly your enthusiasm and the fact that you are so generous in sharing what you know. Thank you so much for sharing these fonts, they are exactly what I was looking for for my own blog!
Hi Maxine! What a totally sweet comment — thank you! Very glad to have you here. 🙂 Also, my mom’s name is Maxine, so I’m EXTRA glad to have you here. Have a beautiful day!
How cool is that, that your mom’s name is Maxine! Okay, you’ve got me for life now 🙂
haha yay!! 🙂
This post is sooo useful! Super excited to do a post using some of these beauties. Thanks Melyssa! http://chezstella.com
Woo! Glad you like them Stella 🙂
Ahhh love SAISSANT. Thanks for sharing these! And yes, pretty fonts make me all tingly too.
That was one of my favs too! So quirky. 🙂
I love At Mahogany Script & Sacramento
Thank you for sharing, Marija! So hard to choose a favorite 🙂
Fonts are very important element in a designer cause when a designer create a design he or she need to lot of font so that i think it is very useful so that please keep up regularly in more font updet