Top 10 Lettering & Calligraphy Fonts
A hand-lettered typeface can instantly bring a touch of drama and romance to your designs. These modern takes on calligraphy would look fantastic on invitations, posters, book covers or greetings cards.
The best bit? Most of these fonts are completely free to download!
1. Le Paris
A joyful, jaunty font with a retro vibe, this cheerful lettering style is a great companion to flat design illustrations and a mid-century color palette.
Price: $15
Kaiyaland with Envato Elements
Kaiyaland is a gorgeously dry brush font filled to the brim with edgy lettering and rustic characteristics. The font comes with multilingual support so the font is usable in just about any language!
2. Sweet Ink
Clean and very modern, Sweet Ink is a more slick take on calligraphic style. This typeface would be perfect for logo design and branding projects.
Price: $20
3. Harlott
A chunky script font with a masculine edge, this typeface will enhance designs that need a touch of informality, without edging into wedding font territory.
Price: FREE
Befitting Script with Envato Elements
Befitting Script is a gorgeous script font with a thick brush stroke throughout the entire typeface. If you’re looking to combine the beauty of a sans serif font with that of a script, Befitting is a great choice.
4. Aidan Script
Aidan Script is a modern copperplate calligraphy typeface with romance and elegance by the bucketload. This would be the perfect finishing touch to a watercolor-style wedding invite or a beautiful events programme.
Price: FREE
5. Meddon
Inspired by the handwriting discovered in an 18th Century legal document, Meddon is a traditional script typeface that works just as well for large headlines as it does for longer paragraphs of body text.
Price: FREE
Amithen Brush Font with Envato Elements
Amithen is a handmade brush font that is rough but at the same time carries a familiar weight to it. The font comes with a complete set of upper and lowercase and has ligatures, numbers and punctuation to boot.
6. Notera
A very attractive script font which balances feminine and masculine tones, and retains a sense of tradition while looking ultra-contemporary. You could use this font almost anywhere and it would up the elegance factor of your design, making it appear instantly high-end.
Price: $55
7. ShellaHera
With its dancing baseline and unbroken flow, this font feels feminine and youthful. Its distinctive style works best for headlines and shines brightest in strong, contrasting colors.
Price: FREE
Billy Ohio Typeface with Envato Elements
Billy Ohio is a playful script typeface that is almost built entirely for fancy quotes, t-shirt designs and coffee mugs! Pick up one of the many variants and get to work with a swirly script font guaranteed to make a great impression.
8. Brigitte
If you’re on the hunt for the perfect pen script font, your search may be over. Brigitte is a simple lettering font with ink-bled edging and a comforting, friendly style.
Price: $15
9. Futuracha
Based on Claude Garamond’s typefaces, this unique font references Art Nouveau styling to create something utterly stunning. Reserve this special type style for headlines—it will look incredible on poster layouts.
Price: FREE
Otella Signature Font with Envato Elements
Otella is an emulated signature font, and one that packs plenty of realism in its thin weight and naturally transitioning lettering mechanics. A great choice if you need to add a signature-like vibe to your work.
10. Duckbite
A similarly informal script style with a jaunty baseline and playful design, Duckbite would suit a range of projects that would benefit from a more casual typeface.
Price: $15
