Write Like They Used To

Today is National Handwriting Day in the US. For years I’ve typed almost all my correspondence and my handwriting has gotten quite illegible. Plus I’ve never really liked my own scrawl very much. So I love to find digital handwriting fonts, especially old-fashioned ones like Old Fonts — “authentic 18th and 19th century penmanship” fonts from Three Islands Press in Maine. The example below is Emily Austin. And be sure to check out the lovely ampersand in the text font Broadsheet.

www.oldfonts.com example

5 thoughts on “Write Like They Used To”

  2. Thanks for sharing the link to OldFonts. I love handwriting fonts… I think because I’m not such a fan of my own handwriting.

  3. Absolutely fantastic. They’re beautiful – and very clever.

    (BTW, your pop-up post inspired me to do one about a favourite pop-up book of mine from the 1930s.)

  4. I love handwritten fonts. My handwriting is not my favorite, so when I need a to do something that requires this skill, I look to my trusty Font Book. Thanks for sharing the link!

  5. Bought Old Man Eloquent a few hours ago and have been playing with it. Love it. But don’t understand the s letter that seems to arbitrarily look like an f (not sure what that’s called) and sometimes an s. Mostly, it does it when an o follows the s, and seemingly always as the first letter of a word. Also, I don’t see the symbol in the options list, so don’t know how to be in control of it.

    Any other little oddities I should know?

    Thanks for sharing these.

    Necia

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