Fonts to copy?

[musyc]

I'm wanting to try out some handwritten headers this year, but my idea of calligraphy is this Ye Olde English font-like thing that I learned years ago and which is not the best for my purposes unless I'm copying the Magna Carta. I'm not keen on the current trend of "thicken your downstrokes" that makes every single bullet journal look like every other. So I thought, why not try to imitate some fun fonts?

So.

What are your favorite decorative fonts that could be converted to handwriting?

Comments

[kiki_miserychic]

Last year I used The Seven Wonders from American Horror Story: Coven for writing my months.

I like to scroll through dafont.com if I want a style to copy for handlettering or whatnot.

[musyc]

Erk, I keep forgetting about dafont! And I used to look through it often. Thanks for the reminder!

[milo_r]

I looked at my Pinterest board and I remembered I had many more saved :O Anyway, I hope you might like some of these. I didn't understand exactly which kind of font you don't like, but these are all very different from one another, so hopefully you'll find something.

http://blogpixie.com/2017/02/free-fonts-for-commercial-use-logos-branding.html

https://dearcrissy.com/best-free-fonts-download/

http://www.itspinkpot.com/10-free-handwriting-fonts/

[eleanorjane]

I'm assuming the style the OP has seen everywhere is the handwritten font for "planner doodles" and "bullet journal" in this image.

[milo_r]

Oooh, I see, yeah, that's very overused

[eleanorjane]

Yeah, it got to the point where I was starting to wonder if there'd been a widely-distributed instruction manual on how to write in that font that I'd missed.

[musyc]

Yep, that's the one. :D

[musyc]

Ooooooooh, some of those are very lovely! Downloaded a few to put on my computer for use, not just for looking at! XD Thank you!

[anke]

Maybe something like Stacked?
https://creativemarket.com/denilchan/3398-Stacked-Font
(It's not a free font, but it sounds to me like for what you have in mind you only need to look at the example images they provide)

[musyc]

That's an interesting one! Definitely different. XD Thank you!