Abitz.Com Multilingual Software

Berlin-based company that sells these school fonts: TrueType-Schulschriften (including Lateinische Ausgangsschrift mit 1, 2, und 4 Linien, Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift mit Lineaturen, Schulausgangsschrift, Druckschriften Hamburg und Bayern, MO-MARA, auch mit angepassten Buchstaben für die 1. Klasse, Schwungübungen für die Schreibschriften, mit und ohne Linien), TrueType-Rätselschriften (which includes mainly dingbat fonts), and TrueType-Schulpiktogramme (dingbats such as Symbole und Sinnbilder für den Schulalltag, Anlautschriften, Bausteinschriften, Kästchenschriften, Matheschriften mit dem Zahlenstrahl, Rahmenschriften, Spaßschriften und Symbole, Uhren). [Google]

Académie de la Guadeloupe

Orthographic fonts by C. Verchery: PlumBAE, PlumBAL, PlumBDE, PlumBDL, PlumNAE, PlumNAL, SeyesBDE, SeyesBDL, SeyesNDE, SeyesNDL, plumNDE, plumNDL. [Google]

Académie de Nice
[C. Verchery]

French site with four interesting TrueType fonts: first, the well-known KuenstlerScript_TwoBold (connected calligraphic letters); then a connected handwriting font with many dingbat glyphs by Philippe Tassel (1994, called PcTassel), and finally connected glyph fonts by C. Verchery such as the Plum, Seyes and Crayon series, some with lines as for first graders. Fonts disappeared? [Google]

Adaudt

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the dotted letter lined font Preschool. [Google]

Alejandro Paul

Designer who lives in Buenos Aires and who teaches graphic design and typography at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has worked as an art director in prestigious Argentina-based studios, handling high-profile corporate brands such as Arcor, Marta Harff, Morph, SC Johnson, Danone, and Movicom. He runs Estudio Paul. Co-creator, with Apostrophe at Apostrophic Laboratory, of Usenet (2000), FontCop I through IV (2000) and the pixel font family Cayetano. Published the dot matrix font Stardust wth T-26 in 2000. Designed the gorgeous font Elektora in 2000. He developed with Michael Lynch a 17-font Tennis set of grid-based pixel fonts. At Typeworx, he published Reflex (2002), a commercial 6-style unicase font family. Another web site by Alejandro. Cofounder of DAS, a design studio in Buenos Aires. Cofounded Sudtipos (2003), where he does custom work and creates new typefaces: His work there includes Tierra (a titling face), Latinaires (originally called Latina Sans), Reflex, Downtempo (2003), Stardust and Mosaico (1999, pixel face). Still at Sudtipos, he digitized the beautiful handwriting/calligraphic faces by Angel Koziupa called Alma (2005), Murga, Habano and Tiza, which together with his script face Argenta (2004), Oxida (2005), the medieval script face Mama Script (2004, designed with Alfredo Graziani) and the sans family Kautiva (2004) can be bought via Umbrella Type at Veer. For children's orthography, he developed Estrada Hand, on commission for Editorial Estrada. Working on the serif family Libertina (2004). Herencia (2004, a handwriting face done with Diego Giaccone), Grover (2004, slab serif), Milk Script (2004, with Alfredo Graziani), Mama Script (2004, with Alfredo Graziani), Politica (2004, a techno face with a very thin Thin weight) are at Sudtipos. The Bluemlein Scripts (2004-2005, Umbrella and Veer) are based on the calligraphic renderings of Charles Bluemlein, shown in a 1943 ink catalog: Miss Le Gatees, Mr Rafkin, Mr Keningbeck, Mr Lackboughs, Lady Dawn, Mrs Von Eckley, Mr Sheppards, Mr Dafoe, Mr Canfields, Mr Stalwart, Mr Sandsfort, Mr Leopolde, Mr DeHaviland, Mr Blaketon, Miss Stanfort, Miss Packgope, Miss Fajardose, Mrs Saint-Delafield, Mrs Blackfort, Mr Sopkin, Mr Sheffield, Miss Lankfort, Herr Von Muellerhoff, Dr Sugiyama, Dr Carbfred. (Note: Soft Horizon's Lainie Day (1993) is an earlier free font in the style of Lady Dawn and Mr Lackboughs). Sudestada (2005, Sudtipos) is a handwriting script developed with Diego Giaccone. Cuisine (2005, Umbrella Type) is an informal bold script. Mousse Script (2005, Sudtipos) is based on Glenmoy, a 1932 Stephenson Blake typeface. Suave Script (2005) is a 4am jazz bar script. Ministry (2005) is related in style but less funky, Chocolate (2005) is for sales ads, and Cenizas (2005, with Angel Koziupa) is straight from an old manuscript. Whomp (2006, Umbrella) was based on a partial sign-painting font by Alf Becker (1930s), and so was Buffet Script (2006, Sudtipos). Affair (2006, Umbrella) is swashy and calligraphic, while Candy Script (2007) is based on Argentina's market lettering. Galgo Script (2007) is a brush calligraphic font based on a design of Angel Koziupa. Burgues Script (2007) is an ornate calligraphic script based on the lettering of calligraphy teacher Louis Madarasz (1859-1910) (PDF; award at TDC2 2008). Burgues Script, Adios Script (2008: it won an award at TDC2 2009), Feel Script and Sugar Pie all won awards at Tipos Latinos 2008. Sinfonieta (2006) and Buffet Script are fifties style connected scripts. Feel Script (2007) is based on lettering that calligrapher and logo designer Rand Holub created in 1950 and that was subsequently captured in Intertype's face Monterey (1958). Some letterforms were redrawn from vintage American magazine ads (some by Holub himself), Cuisine (2008, food advertising script), Pronto (2008, comic book style, by Alejandro Paul and Angel Koziupa), Grover (2004, rounded sans family), Grover Slab (2004). Burgues Script, Adios Script, Feel Script and Sugar Pie all won awards at Tipos Latinos 2008. Calgary Script (2008, Umbrella) is a pure signpainting job. Accolades from all typophiles for his calligraphic wunderkind, Compendium (2008, see also the slide show). The 2009 haul: Kewl Script (for displays), Sugar Pie (signage font), Bravissima Script, Theorem (upright semi-script). Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. [Google]

Anyetipo

Spanish place with commercial fonts for teaching children: Escolar, Escolar Pro, Preescolar, Preescolar pro, Infantil, Preainfantil, Junior, Trazos (tracing fonts), Precalimex, Calimex (used in Mexico), Calimex Pluma, Andina, Caliprico, Basica, Caliredo (used in the Domican Republic). Also: Ibarra Antiqua, Pautas, Ezelvir, Mates (math synmbol fonts), Gregoriano (blackletter). Anyetipo also has a type making service. [Google]

aRc (or: Azelea Rodgers Creations)
[Azelea Rodgers]

aRc was established in 2008 by Azelea Rodgers (b. 1974, The Philippines). It is located in Lathrop, CA. A graduate from Skyline College, she created the alphabet tracing font Kerp (2008) for kids in pre-kindergarten. She also made Rosebud (2008, letters composed of thorny rose stems), Asvet Mono (2009, a playful stencil), Azelea (2009) and Lelet Script (2009). [Google]

Arkady M

Russian designer of Propisi7 (2004, a connected Cyrillic school script). [Google]

Arnold Lämmel

Author in 1969 of an article in Die deutsche Schrift of Schulschrift in Deutschland (about handwriting education in schools in Germany). [Google]

Ashley's Mom
[Kim Voss]

"School Fonts for Beginning Writing, designed by Kim Voss (Ashley's Mom) and published by Mayer-Johnson Co., is a series of 13 fonts to be used for designing curricular adaptations and educational materials for teaching reading, writing, and spelling. Available for both Windows and Mac, they come in both TrueType and PostScript formats. Twelve of the fonts are in various "dashed" manuscript configurations for tracing. " [Google]

Aussie School Fonts

Many handwriting types used by schools around Australia; New South Wales 1 & 2, Queensland 1 and 2, South Australia 1 & 2, Tasmania 1 & 2, Northern territory, Western Australia and Victoria. Designed for writing skills in the 5-12 years age group. The fonts are made by "New Horizons". [Google]

Bedoodle
[Susan Derrick]

Susan Derrick's foundry in Dayton, OH. Her fonts can be bought at MyFonts. Alternate URL. The list of creations (2005): Ancestry (caps), Angeline, Angelique (both curly scripts), Banderole, Fred and Ginger (two-line display face), Garden Gate (gate-inspired curly script), Monogram, Oxymoron (simple sans), Relativity, Scrapbook, Beads (dingbats) and Beading. In 2006, some handwriting fonts by Matthew Derrick were added: Funnies, Grimble Castle, Paparazzi, Scratch Pad, Selvin, Love Me and Wavy Gravy. Additions in 2009: Barack, Mrs. Obama, Malia (upright connected script), Violette (female script), Abbatia (ornaments), Frame Ups (frames), Sasha (didactic font with lines). [Google]

Berthold Ludewig

German teacher and typographer who created the calligraphic metafont Sueterlin, which can be found here. This font can be used for writing in the so-called Schwell style. [Google]

Bienvenue chez Béa

Archive with the free cursive educational fonts Verchery, as well as the didactic fonts by Beaumale and Tassel. [Google]

BJU Press Pre-Cursive Fonts

Free truetype fonts with dots and/or arrows for helping kids write: PrecursiveNew, PrecursiveNewArrow, PrecursiveNewDashed (2000). Produced by "Handwriting for Christian Schools". See also here. [Google]

Blue Vinyl Free Fonts
[Jess Latham]

Blue Vinyl has free and commercial designs by Jess Latham: Giant Head (2008, ultra fat signage face), Synthetique (2008, thin dot matrix), Print Clealy, Dashed and Bold (2008, simple sans), Disko (2008, comic book style), Grumble (1999, grunge), MyScars (2005), My Bleeding Scars (2005), Azuki (2005, Japanese brush simulation), Shimmer (2004, connected cursive handwriting), Spin Cycle (2004), Rock Star 2.0 (2004, dings), Gros Marqueur (2004, marker pen typeface), Hot Fudge (2003), Dia De Los Muertos BV (2003, Halloween-style dingbats), Delorita BV (2003), Dance Craze (2002), Redford (2002, black display font), CharmsBV (2002, dingbats), LearningCurve BV (for children), HornyDevils, Princess (girls stuff dings), TurnTable (2001), Vinyl Smooth (2001), StereoLab, PrintClearly (children's orthographics), 60sChic, Airwave, Cafe Noire, Lucky Charms, Punk Rock, Chains, Slasher, Blue Melody, Sugar Coma (1999, junk food dingbats), Metal on Metal, Hearts, Crushed Out Girl, Nuwave, Deco Cafe, Screen, Rock Star (dingbats), Gothic Ultra Trendy, Film Star, Mary Jane, Turning Japanese, Lushus, Rockabilly, (my favorite thick display letters) Moma Grape, Modular 2000, Cyber Phonic, Comic Zine (3d), Grrlz Stuff, Retro Bats, Terrible Nervz, Pop Up, Moonbow, Tropicana (Luau dingbats), Tiki Tooka, That 70's Ding, Karaoke Superstar, Pippi, Pocket Calculator, Kool Ding, Kool Ding 2, LittleTroubleGirl, Grumble, SeeingStars, AllStarBV, Awesome80sBV, HellcatsBV, HotRodGangBV, Stereolab, SweetHeartsBV, BumbleBeeBV, CandyStoreBV, CHAINSColorFill, ComicZine, CHAINS, EeronautsBV, Charms, Film-Star, JimmyDoodles, LooseCruseBold, LooseCruse, MODULAR, MonkeyWrench, OneTrickPony, PubertyStrike, PUNKROCKColorFill, PUNKROCK, Plexifont (see-through letters), SeeingStars, SooperDooper, TerribleNerves, Pandamonium BV, TrickorTreatBV, WebstarBV. Sonic Reverb and Jacks (2003) at at Chank. Some retro fonts (50s, 60s). Direct access. Commercial fonts: Rodeo Girl BV (2003, handwriting), Jacks BV (2003, free), Majorette, Albedo, Retroclassics (two dingbat fonts), Westmore BV, KnockOut, Spellbound (2000), Speedway, Chocolate Mint Surprise, Pinky, Sparky, Glamorous, Bohemian Garden Party (1999), Fashionista, Pink Martini, ValentinesBV, Macrame BV One (2002, single, double and triple-lined commercial font), Macrame Super Triline (2002), Redford BV (2002), Charms, Wedding Wishes (2002, dingbats), BV Sans (2006), Bric A Brac BV (2002). At MyFonts, you can buy Meringue BV (2002, handprinting), Retro Classics 3BV (2002, dingbats), Roller Baby BV (2003), Swan Song (2004, calligraphic), Taroca (2005), Taroca Extras (2005), Save Her (2007, ecological dingbats), Confection (2007, fancy script), Lavender Script (2008), Parsley Script (2007), Pointed Brush (2007), Synthetique (2008, dot matrix), Lavender Script (2008, ormal calligraphic). Fontspace link. Font Squirrel link. [Google]

Canan / Zanerian College
[C.C. Canan]

Author of C.C. Canan Collection of Penmanship - The Canan Book. [Google]

Cartables.net
[Ch. Perrier]

Orthographic fonts for script handwriting: from Bernard Vivier, BV_Api, BV_Batboi, BV_Baton, BV_Baton_Italiques, BV_Rondes, BV_Rondes_Boite, BV_Rondes_Ital, Bv-AriBoi; from C. Verchery, PlumBAE, PlumBAL, PlumBDE, PlumBDL, PlumNAE, PlumNAL, SeyesBDE, SeyesBDL, SeyesNDE, SeyesNDL, plumNDE, plumNDL, CrayonE, CrayonL; from Ch. Perrier & Agape, RomaScript (1997). [Google]

CAT Design Wolgast
[Peter Wiegel]

Wolgast-based type designer Peter Wiegel (b. 1955) runs CAT Design Wolgast. Designer of these free fonts: KochFetteDeutscheSchrift (2009, blackletter), MoradoFelt-Regular (2009, upright connected script), MoradoMarker (2009), MoradoNib (2009), PreussischeVI9 (2009, DIN-like family), PreussischeVI9Linie, PreussischeVI9Schatten-Linie, PreussischeVI9Schatten, SchatternvonPreussischeVI9, Stage (2009, art deco), Ring Matrix (2009, dot matrix), Nathan (2009), Amptmann Script (2009, upright connected script), Cat Shop (2009), Blankenburg (2009, blackletter), Murrx (2009, arched face), Schwaben Alt (1988, blackletter), Vrango (2009), 14LED (2009: Regular, Phattt-Heavy, Rised-Black), 24LED (2009: +Bright, +Grid, +Modul), DIN1451fetteBreitschrift1936-Regular (2009), FibelNord (2009, basic sans family with an architectural twist), FibelSued (2009, family), PaneuropaBankette (2009), PaneuropaCrashbarrier-Black, PaneuropaFreeway, PaneuropaHighway, PaneuropaRoad, PaneuropaStreet, PaneuropaWrongWay, Quirkus (2009, family), RingMatrix (2009, dot matrix family), RingMatrix3D (2009), RingMatrixTwo (2009), DiscipuliBritannica (2009, connected script), GruenewaldVA-Regular (2009, connected school script), Rudelskopfdeutsch-Aufrecht (2009), WiegelLatein (2009, connected school script), WiegelLateinMedium (2009), Morado (2009), Moebius (2009), Elbaris (2009, sans), ElbarisOutline (2009), Nomitais (2009, multiline face), RostockKaligraph (2009), Waschkueche (2009), WaschkuecheGrob-Ultra (2009), WiegelKurrent (2009, traditionall German school script), WiegelKurrentMedium (2009), XAyax (2009), XAyaxOutline (2009), Kaufhalle (2009, squarish), Quimbie (2009, art deco), CasaSans-Regular (2009), Elb-Tunnel (2009), MeyneTextur (2009, blackletter), Yiggivoo (2009), TGL 31034-1 (2009, futuristic sans), Beroga (2009, a simple organic sans), PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3 (2006, a severe sans), Utusi Star (1989, very condensed all-caps face), Avocado (2006, script face), CbeNormal (2006, script face), Leipzig Fraktur (+Bold) (2006), Berlin Email (2006, a condensed sans family, followed in 2009 by Berlin Email Serif), MaassslicerItalic (2006, a futuristic face made for Rudolf Maass + Partner GmbH), Powerweld (a gorgeous avant-garde face made for OPTI Pumpen und Technik GmbH), WolgastScript (2005), WolgastTwo (2006, connected script), WolgastTwoBold, ZeichenDreihundert-Regular, ZeichenHundert-Regular, ZeichenVierhundert-Regular, ZeichenZweihundert-Regular (2006, traffic dingbats), Djerba simplified (Arabic font, Computer and Technologie, Hamburg, 1995; t can be downloaded here), Titus FrakturBaltic (1998), TITUS FrakturEast Normal (1998), and TITUS FrakturWest Normal (1998) [which used to be downloadeable here; these fonts were retired and the Titus name dropped; most of the glyphs made it to Schwaben Alt]. Dafont link. One more URL. Fontspace link. Yet another URL. Font Squirrel link. [Google]

Catinka Keul

Designer of the children handwriting font Hansel (1993). She is part of the Apply Design Group. [Google]

Charles Paxton Zaner

Author of Lessons in Ornamental Penmanship (1920) and The New Zanerian Alphabets (1900, Zaner & Bloser, Columbus, OH). [Google]

Charles Paxton Zaner

In 1888, Charles Paxton Zaner founded the Zanerian, College of Penmanship, in Columbus, Ohio. The schools curriculum included courses that prepared students for careers as penmen who, at that time, wrote by hand most of the documents used by business and industry. The school also trained students to become teachers of penmanship, illustrators, engravers, and engrossersspecialists in the kind of ornamental writing used for diplomas and certificates. In 1891, Zaner sold a share of the Zanerian to Elmer Ward Bloser, whom he met in 1883 while the two men were students at Michaels Pen Art Hall. Bloser, who had been working as an instructor at the Spencerian Business College in Cleveland, was a superb penman, and he had accumulated the capital necessary to sustain the college in its early days (when its three instructors had only three pupils). By 1895, the Zanerian College of Penmanship had become the Zaner-Bloser Company, an institution that offered courses in penmanship, published professional materials about handwriting and illustration, and sold handwriting supplies. In 1904, Zaner-Bloser published The Zaner Method of Arm Movement, a landmark text that taught the simplified style of writing learned by students at the Zanerian to children in elementary schools all over the United States. This book also applied the findings of psychologists who had discovered that young children completed manual tasks more easily if allowed to use the large arm movements that were natural to them at their early stage of motor skills development. In 2006, Paul Hunt designed a set of connected calligraphic scripts, called P22 Zaner. [Google]

Children's handwriting fonts

Charles Sartwell (Knoxville, TN) explains where to find children's handwriting fonts. [Google]

Christophe Beaumale

Christophe Beaumale's educational handwriting fonts, Cursif and Cursif&Lignes (without and with lines). Free. [Google]

Club Type
[Adrian Williams]

Original typefaces designed by Rosemary Sassoon and Adrian Williams (b. Bridgwater, Somerset, 1950), an English advertising typographer and type designer. Located in Red Hill, Surrey, Club Type was founded in 1985 by Williams and Sassoon. Before that, Williams had been been converting many established metal designs for the new filmsetting devices in 1969, and continued with conversions into the digital era. This led to the production of custom made fonts for Renault, Marks & Spencer, Jaguar Cards and Foster's Lager among others. Wide font services. Sassoon worked on scripts with joined letters. She is most famous for her Sassoon Primary font family (primary school writing). Adrian Williams designed the following families: Admark (1990), Bulldog (1990), Bulldog Slab (2009), Club Type, Club Type Script Pro (quill pen script), Column (1992), Congress Sans (1992), Eurocrat (1991), Leamington, Mercurius (1989, a bouncy typeface inspired by the lettering used for cartoon captions in the Mercurius Aulicus, England's first regular newspaper, from 1642 to 1647), Monkton (1990), Poseidon (1991), Raleigh, Seagull, Stratford, Veronan and Worcester Rounded and Worchester. Fontshop page. MyFonts link. [Google]

Commercial School Fonts

Jacci Howard Bear takes us on a tour of commercial school fonts. [Google]

DaFONT
[Rodolphe Milan]

Useful French archive with nice categories such as Cartoons, Horror, Tech, Fantasy, Script, Symbols, Famous fonts, pixel fonts, typewriter, Gothic. It has the orthographic fonts by Douteau and Verchery, many Larabie and Scriptorium fonts, and so on. All designers are clearly identified. Links. About 6000 fonts now, with monthly additions. Newest stuff. Links to all designers. Run by Rodolphe Milan. [Google]

Datafull

Huge archive (in Spanish). Subarchives include children's orthographic fonts. [Google]

David Occhino Design (was: Treehouse Graphic Design)
[David A. Occhino]

Treehouse Graphic Design was David Occhino's font outlet. It is now called David Occhino Design. The Treehouse collection specialized in Startrek, futuristic, Disney and Indiana Jones style fonts, but has widened lately. Most fonts are commercial, but there are a few free ones:

• Exclusive Designs: Tangaroa (2009, tiki font), TradeWind, Nautilus, Graviton, Voyager, Cinema, Firefly, Forest, Emblem.
• Movie Fonts: Safari, Venture, Astro, Galax-E, Time Travel, Iron Hero, Knight, Blade, Aeronaut.
• Art Deco Fonts: Aeronaut, Cinema.
• Theme Park Fonts: Kingdom (1996, blackletter), Mansion, Encounter, World.
• Sci-Fi Fonts: Astro SE, Basestar, Blade, Encounter, Galax-E, Graviton, Nautilus, Time Travel, Voyager.
• Halloween Fonts: Hocus Pocus, Nautilus, Mansion 3.0 (1996-2009), MansionCryptBats (2009, free).
• Education Fonts: School.
• Free Fonts: Aurebesh, Forbidden Eye, Tangaroa Glyphs (Hawaiian petroglyphs, 2009), World Symbols, Big Thunder Dingbats (2009: Western dingbats).
• Western fonts: Big Thunder (2009).
• Fonts I can no longer find: Aurebesh, DNealianArrows, DNealianGuides, DNealianRegular, Starspeeder, StarspeederUpright, Pyramid's Venture, Victorian Mansion.

David Sudweeks

Designer who used FontStruct in 2008 to make the dotted face Pullchain, which could be used for teaching children how to write. [Google]

David Wilson

British teacher with a research interest in foreign cursive handwriting fonts. He wrote this "doc" document on the topic. [Google]

Deutsche Schreibschrift in Österreich

The German handwriting model for schools (Deutsche Schreibschrift) was also adopted in Austria as these examples from 1953 (due to Professor Alois Legruen) and 1971 show. [Google]

D'Nealian Handwriting

Commercial outfit marketing D'Nealian handwriting fonts and software. Based in LaSalle, MI. [Google]

Don Becker

Prof. Don Becker of the German Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has made his Sütterlin font (1995) available to the public. [Google]

DownHill Fonts
[Ramón Abajo]

Free children's handwriting and lettering fonts by RamóAbajo: AbcPrint (1998), AbcPrintArrow, AbcPrintDotted, AbcPrintDottedLined, AbcPrintLined, Abckids (1999). Ramon is a high school Spanish teacher in California. His home page has none of the fonts I just listed--these are floating around in cyberspace though. [Google]

DSM Technology

Infadot is a suite of five fonts specially developed for pre-school and primary school teachers. Commercial product. [Google]

Dyana Weissman

American type designer, b. 1980, who graduated from the RISD, and worked at Font Bureau in Boston. Interview at Daidala. Interview by Christian Palino. Her typefaces:

• Materot: calligraphic.
• She expanded the Benton Sans family into an ultra for Toyota, commissioned by Saatchi & Saatchi.
• Baskerville was modified by her for Northeastern University (via Korn Design).
• She made a font for learning handwriting for TouchMath.
• Apotek: based on lettering on old medicine bottles seen in Oslo. Benton Modern Display (2008), codesigned with Richard Lipton at Font Bureau: Benton Modern Text was first prepared by Font Bureau for the Boston Globe and the Detroit Free Press. Design and proportions were taken from Morris Fuller Benton's turn-of-the-century Century Expanded, drawn for ATF, faithfully reviving this epoch-making magazine and news text roman. The italic was based on Century Schoolbook.

eBuch

When you download eBuch, you get these school fonts: Schulschrift95 (2001, Edelweiss), Druckschrift95 (1997, Edelweiss). [Google]

Edelweiss

Designers of the educational font Schulschrift95 Normal (2001). [Google]

EFI Fonts

EFI makes and sells D'Nealian-style, Zaner-Bloser-style, Harcourt Brace-style, Peterson Directed Handwriting-style, McDougal, Littell-style, Getty-Dubay Italic (handwriting method developed by Barbara M. Getty and Inga S. Dubay), and Palmer style handwriting fonts. The Harcourt and Brace HB Cursive and HB Manuscript font families are useful for connect-the-dots and orthographic exercises. 250USD for the HB family for one school. They mention that their fonts are in over 8600 schools. At 4 styles per school, that looks like a 8.6 million dollar affair... Also, two Braille fonts at 10 USD a shot. [Google]

EFI Home Page (Educational Fontware)

Sells handwriting-fonts designed to exactly replicate many educational handwriting styles. In particular, they have these:

• D'Nealian: DN Cursive and DN Manuscript.
• Zaner-Bloser: ZB Manuscript, ZB Cursive, OZ Manuscript, OZ Cursive.
• A Beka: AB Cursive and AB Manuscript, based on the style shown in workbooks developed by A Beka Book, Inc.
• Bob Jones University: CCU Cursive and CCU Manuscript, ugly fonts based on materials copyrighted by Bob Jones University.
• DKL Cursive and DKR Cursive, patterned after the handwriting methods in the workbooks Cursive Writing Skills (Educators Publishing Service, Inc, 31 Smith Place, Cambridge, MA), by Diana Hanbury King.
• Frank Schaffer: FS Classic, FS Contemporary, and FS Manuscript, developed using materials copyrighted by Frank Schaffer Publishing.
• Getty-Dubay Italic: GDI Basic, GDI Combined, and GDI Cursive, a handwriting method developed by Barbara M. Getty and Inga S. Dubay at Portland State University, Continuing Education Press. EFI worked with Getty and Dubay to develop its GDI fonts.
• Handwriting Without Tears: HWT Cursive and HWT Manuscript, pretty upright cursives and a hairline geometric sans. Handwriting Without Tears is a registered trademarked of Jan Z. Olsen.
• Harcourt Brace: HB Cursive and HB Manuscript.
• Loops and Groups: LG Cursive, based on the handwriting samples in the copyrighted Instructor's Manual Loops and Other Groups---A Kinesthetic Writing System by Mary Benbow.
• McDougal, Littell: McD Cursive and McD Manuscript, based on materials copyrighted by McDougal, Littell & Company.
• Palmer: Palmer Manuscript (simple hairline sans), Vintage Palmer and New Palmer, which include several variations of the cursive handwriting style that constitute the Palmer Method. Vintage Palmer is based on a 1923 workbook, and New Palmer on a 1987 workbook.
• Pentime: PT Cursive and PT Manuscript, developed for use by the Amish communities, through workbooks rather than directly with computers. The fonts were created for JKL Services, who use the fonts to produce handwriting materials for the Amish community.
• Peterson Directed Handwriting: PM Cursive, PM Block, and PM Slant.
• Queensland: QM Cursive and QBA Manuscript, based on samples from workbooks by Horowitz Martin Education.
• Russian: RU Cursive and Manuscript families (9 fonts) for Cyrillic.
• Seattle School District: SSD Cursive and SSD Printscript, based on handwriting samples and methods developed by Patricia Heller and Elaine M. Aoki for the Seattle Public Schools. samples were found in a 1993 K-5 handwriting manual called Write It Right (Seattle Public Schools).
• Steck Vaughn: SV Cursive and SV Manuscript, developed using materials copyrighted by Steck Vaughn Company.
• Specialty Fonts: four Ball-and-stick and Dashes fonts, Braille 24 and Braille 24 Hollow, Clocks, EFI Count Dots on Numbers, EFI Direct Instruction, EFI Music Symbols, Emo-faces, Fingerletters (for American Sign Language), Lettersound Pictures, Morse Code, Phonetics Phont, POSTNET-16.

Emil Gursch

German foundry based in Berlin, active from 1866 until 1917, when it was acquired by H. Berthold AG. Klingspor's file on Gursch. Typefaces published by them include:

• Accidenz-Versierungen.
• Akademisch.
• Alexandra (<1897).
• Antiqua No. 2 through 9.
• Apollo Grotesque (1897).
• Alt-Gotisch (1899) mager & halbfett. Altgothische initialen.
• Bambus Grotesque (1896).
• Berliner Fraktur (ca. 1897).
• Briefschrift Deutsch (<1899).
• Britannia-Versalien (1902).
• Continental Grotesque.
• Dekorative Vignetten (1899).
• Egyptienne.
• Elzevir, ca. 1899: many weights and styles.
• Eskorial (1909) and Eskorial halbfett (1908) by Eduard Lautenbach.
• Flächer Ornamente (1899).
• Fraktur 14g (1910), Fraktur 14 halbfett (1915), Fraktur 16 (1916), Fraktur No.4 through No.8. Halbfette and Moderne schmale halbfette Fraktur, Schmale Fette Zeitungs-Fraktur, Fette Fraktur.
• Gloria (1898), Fette Gloria Kursiv (1904), Gloria fett (1902), Gloria schmalfett. Gloria Kuric schmalfett.
• Gothisch (schmale enge, Courante and Accidenz), Renaissance Gothisch (1902: eng, magere and halbfette), Fette Gothisch (neueste and breite). Gothische Federzüge.
• Grandezza I and II (1904) by Hermann Zehnpfundt.
• Grotesque.
• Hermes Grotesque (1897).
• Hortensia (<1902). A digital version of this was done in 2009 by Canada Type: Hortensia was Gursch's most popular typeface, used extensively and prominently in many beautiful type catalogs, and a commonly seen design element in Germany for quite a while after its release.
• Industria (1913, a grotesk designed for ads). Weights include Zart, Halbfett, Fett and Zephyr. By Hermann Zehnpfundt.
• Journal (1912-1913) by Hermann Zehnpfundt. Weights include Antiqua, Kursiv, Antiqua Halbfett.
• Breite Kanzlei, Moderne halbfette Kanzlei, Antike Kanzlei (wow!).
• Kavalier (1910) by Hermann Zehnpfundt.
• Klinger (1919, +Antiqua) by Julius Klinger.
• Koenig-Type (1903-1907, Heinz König), Koenig Schwabacher (1912-1913, Heinz König), Koenig-Fraktur (1910, Heinz König. This is also called Gursch Fraktur),
• Kontinental Grotesk.
• Korona (1905, + Halbfett) by Albert Auspurg.
• Mediaeval, Cursiv, Mediaeval Cursiv.
• Monument (+Halbfett).
• Moderne Schreibschrift.
• Phönix-Cursiv (1897).
• Polygon Undine (1904).
• Roma (ca. 1897).
• Rubens (1905) by Albert Auspurg.
• Rundschrift.
• Saxonia Einfassung (borders).
• Schwabacher, Fette Schwabacher (1899).
• Schwarze Hände, and many great math and astrological sets.
• Senefelder (1908).
• Sirius Ornamente (1908).
• Skulptur (1901): has styles called Halbfett and Licht.
• Sütterlin Unziale (+Halbfett), made in 1905 by Ludwig Sütterlin himself.
• Versierte Italienne.
• Werk Fraktur (fett, halbfett), done before 1907.
• Zierschrift Roma, Zierschrift Apollo, Zierschrift Gloria, Boston Zierschrift..
• Zirkular Kursiv (1913) by F. Müller-Münster.

Emmanuel Beffara

Located at the University of Paris, Emmanuel Beffara designed the French Cursive font, a cursive hand-writing font family in the style of the French academic running-hand. It comes in Metafont format. Experimental type 1 versions are available too: TeX-fcbx10, TeX-fcc10, TeX-fcf10, TeX-fcr10. See also here (last updated in 2004). He also created CMLL (2006, type 1), a set of symbols used in Linear Logic, designed for use with standard Computer Modern fonts. [Google]

Eric Leproust

Designer of the connected educational font A La Main (2005). [Google]

eSnips: Didactic fonts

Didactic font archive: Amandine, ColorFont, CrayonE, CrayonL, Cursif-&-Lignes, Cursif, DJ-Fancy, Ecolier, Ecolier_court, Ecolier_lignes, Ecolier_lignes_court, Gessele-Regular, GinoSchoolScript-Bold, LA-El-2, LA-El-2-Italic, Maternellecolor-trace-cursive, Penmanship-Print, PlumBAE, PlumBAL, PlumBDE, PlumBDL, PlumNAE, PlumNAL, SeyesBDE, SeyesBDL, SeyesNDE, SeyesNDL, Trace, UlusalOkul.Com-Çizgili, PlumNDE, PlumNDL. [Google]

Estherville Lincoln Central Community School District

Free children's teaching fonts by ELC (Estherville Lincoln Central Community School District): ELCZB, ELCZBLined, ELCZBTP (2001). Page by first grade teacher Mary Twentyman. [Google]

Expert Software

Sells a 2000 font (TT and T1) CD called Fantastic Fonts for 13USD. Plus 300 truetype handwriting fonts for 13USD. And 300 funky fonts for 13USD. Font Magician (13USD) lets you create special effects. Kid's Fonts (300 truetype fonts) for 13USD. Based in Rockland, DE. Footnote: Expert Software is one of the world's largest font cloners. I doubt that they ever made an original font. For example, under the label Ly's Media, they renamed all the WSI "Hand-Plain" series LEHN001 through LEHN283, and sold them once again. It is a real mess. Download that collection here. [Google]

Flat-It
[Ryoichi Tsunekawa]

Japanese foundry in Nagoya that offers these free and commercial Latin fonts made by Ryoichi Tsunekawa (Nagoya, Japan), who also runs Bagel & Co and HolidayType and Prop-A-Ganda: Concrete Stencil (2009, a stencil calligaphic script), Perfect Magic (2009), HT Maison (2009, signage face), HT Farmacia (2009, connected school script), HT Espresso (2008, upright script), HT Cartoleria (2008, connected script), HT Cafe (2009), Sneaker Script (2009), Bistro Mono (2007, an awkward monoline face), Balaghat (2008), Garash Script (2008, a Halloween face), Woodstamp (2008), Banana (2008, brush script), Rebel Train Goes (2008, a piano key font), Rouge (2007, an elegant lipstick-on-the-bathroom-mirror pair of faces), Yasashii (2007, a great art deco Briadway-style family), Lily Wang (2006, calligraphic script), Nothing (2007), Garash (2007, Arab simulation), Moon Star Soul (2007, Western saloon font), Grandes Vacances (+ Une, Deux) (2007), Pansy Bo (2006, calligraphic), Dremie (2007, an art deco headline face with Open and Fill weights), Grandes Vacances (2007, based on 19th century billboard letters), Xesy (2007, a fantastic "ronde" high-contrast upright connected script), Deluta Black (2007), Cigarette (2007, Bauhais/Peignot-style), Cotoris (2007, a 4-style family that takes inspiration from Koch Antiqua and the art nouveau movement), Daisy Lau (2006, calligraphic), Agedage Luxeuil (2006, based on a monasteric script from the 8th century), Amsterdam Modern (2006, art nouveau influences), Flat10 [Holly, Holy, Stencil, Fraktur] (2006, a set of pixel faces), Machiarge (2006, a heavy brush script), Chic Hand (2006, connected script), Double Dagger (2006, geometric stencil family), Fault (2006, an art deco striped lettering face), Killernuts (2006, headline serif face with brush stroke endings), Underconstructionism! (2006, a rectangular look family with associated dingbats), Machia (2006, decorative script), Kiwi (geometric hairline), Bagel (roundish comic book face), Jaguarundi (2006, distressed), Boycott (2006, distressed), Tokyotrail (2006, futuristic techno family), Coconut (noisy outline face), Coconut Split, Fresh Tomato (LED simulation), Dried Tomato (LED simulation), Dutch Style, Mocha Harrar (great stencil face), 103 (experimental, Bank Gothic style), Airhead, ArealBlack, Awkward, BagelNew, BagelOld, Banbino, Bebas, Berlin89, Blackout, Boycott (grunge), Built-1970, Bunyan, Busted, Camera (2007), Canstop, Chiangmai (Thai simulation face), DBLline, Dijkstra, Dutchstyle, Fling, Graphite, Harcomaso, Hiexplosive, Hitech, Honeycomb, Junkmix, Kanatypo, KemikalHi, Machia (2006, a calligraphic family), Meegoreng, Mikrob, Natsupopy, Overwork, Palsu, Plamo, Plasitico, REC001, REC002, REC003, Resistance, SQRT, STdigi (LED font), Shandy, Superstar, Tembaga, Tenaga, Tomodachi, Tragedia, Trucker, VRdigital, VRembroidery, Welcome2M, Workaholic, Zeebraa, plot-A, plot-K, Appendix 3, Gesso, Pusab, Sushitaro, Typewrong, Celtics Modern (2006, a Celtic family of fonts). Alternate URL. At T-26, he published CRZ (2006), Guppy, Ohana (2006, octagonal), Picnica (2006), and Wearetrippin. MyFonts link. [Google]

Florian Hardwig

Berlin-based designer who spoke at ATypI 2007 in Brighton. His "manuscribe" is a research project on international school scripts and the dialects of handwriting. His slides on this project. Flickr page. Comparison of Bauer Bodoni and Linotype Didot. [Google]

Font Island

1000+ font archive. Regularly updated with new fonts. Categories include 3D - Beveled, 3D - Contour, 3D - Perspective, 3D Drop Shadow, 50's, Angular Fonts, Art Deco, Asian Fonts, Balloon Fonts, Blackletter, Blackletter - Initials, Block Thick, Brush, Calligraphic Pen, Circular Letters, Comic Book, Comic Book. Computer - Digital, Computer - Dot, Computer - Monitor, Computer - Pixelated, Curly, Dingbats, Eroded, Famous Famous, Felt Marker, Fire and Ice Fonts, Futuristic Fonts, Fuzzy Fonts, Graffiti, Grunge, Hand - Kids, Hand - Printing. Hand - Sketched, Hand - Writing, Holiday Fonts. Initials, Letterbats (alphadings), Medieval, Metallic, Microsoft, Mirror, Monospaced, Morse, Braille, Movie, Music Album Covers, Outlined, Scary, School Teaching, Script-Cursive, Script-Separate, Stamped, Stencil, Striped, Texture, With Holes, Thin, TV shows, Videi games, Wavy, Western, Wood Grain. [Google]

Fontfarm
[Natascha Dell]

Natascha Dell (Fontfarm, aachen) is a graduate from FH Aachen (Germany) who wrote a thesis in 2004 on the use and abuse of typography on the web. Fonts designed at Fontfarm in 2005-2006 by Kai F. Oetzbach and Natascha Dell: Agendatype-Bold, Agendatype-BoldItalic, Agendatype-Italic, Agendatype-Regular, AgendatypeSmallCaps-Bold, AgendatypeSmallCaps, AgendatypeSwash-BoldItalic, AgendatypeSwash-Italic, Goffik-Outline, Goffik-Shadow, KofiPureSan-K153Regular, KofiPureSan-K155Bold, KofiPureSer-K353Regular, KofiPureSer-K355Bold, KofiSemisKursiv-K263RegularItalic, KofiSemisKursiv-K265BoldItalic, NakoticaBarrow-Bold (techno), NakoticaBarrow-Light, NakoticaBarrow-Medium, NakoticaBarrow-Regular, NakoticaBarrowSlab-Bold, NakoticaBarrowSlab-Light, NakoticaBarrowSlab-Medium, NakoticaBarrowSlab-Regular, NafiFarm-Regular, NafiLigaEnd-Regular, NafiPix-Regular, NafiWrite-Regular (2005, upright connected script and some dingbats), Caput (2008, a sans family), Jenny (a six-style family that grew out of Jenson Antiqua into a more angular carapace), Parker-Barrow (a sans+slab experiment). [Google]

Fontmenu.com

Michel Bujardet (a Frenchman living in West Hollywood, CA) runs Matchfonts, and started Fontmenu.com in August 2001. Commercial fonts, but free demos in all formats. A partial list of fonts: Square Text (old English), Block Letters (orthography for kids), Skryptaag (2001, educational), Boulons (letters made from nuts and bolts), Kindergarten (funny faces), Learning Handwriting (K2), Learning Cursive Handwriting (Grade 2-4), Japanese Hiragana-Katalana (Year 1), Morse code, Dictionary phonetic notation for pronunciation, the calligraphic fonts Chancellerie Moderne, Oncial, Rodolphe, Willegha, the dingbat fonts Dinosotype, Matched Potato, Nahkt hieroglyphs, SilBooettes, Angelots. Sceaux, Seraphiques, Talismans, the monospaced fonts Bordofixed, Dactylographe, Normafixed, Oloron fixed width screen font), the mathy fonts Oloron program, Hexalist and Numberslist, the handwriting fonts Charlotte, Louise, Mariette, Milko, Pierre, Quinze, Raoul, and Thibault, the pixel font 8-PinMatrix, the Bauhaus font BabyFace, the Chinese simulation font Chinoiseries, the LED fonts Diode, Cristolikid and Display, the Greek simulation font Grecques, the display fonts Zebrures, Venitiennes, Ruban Dis-Moi, Parador, Osselets, Octogone, Metropolitain, Malabars, Halloween Match, Coulures, Chapou Relief, Candy Kane, Calebasse, Bujardet Freres and Big Bacon, the MICR font MICR E13B, the serif faces Baguad, Chap Clerk, Parlante, Presse, TSF&Co, and the sans serif faces Bordini, Boum-Boum, Halotique (a sans family), Junien, and Normographe. Alternate URL for his shareware typefaces. MyFonts link for his commercial typefaces. Alternate MyFonts link. [Google]

FontParty.Com

Sara Rachelle's huge font archive. And font links. There is also a popular "random font generator" for the indecisive font collector. School fonts archive. Dead link? [Google]

Fonts 4 Teachers (or: Tiende Escolar)

Outfit that sells 31 children's handlettering fonts created by Ramón Abajo. [Google]

Fonts4Teachers

DownHill Publishing sells ""Classroom fonts for teachers, parents, students & librarians including manuscript, cursive, & D'Nealian-style fonts for learning handwriting, math, reading, & phonics in English & Spanish, plus clip art, math & ASL symbols."" This is a commercial outfit. They give away just one font, ABC Kids. Math fonts: ABC Math, ABC Domino. ABC Cursive font set (with lines). ABC Apple, ABC Print, Fun Art (dingbats). ABC Faces, ABC Headkines, ABC Alegria, ABC Bulleting, ABC Teacher. [Google]

Forest Techologies

Stanley Ng (Cary, IL) offers fonts for beginners, with dashed lines and directions of writing. [Google]

Free School Fonts

Archive and discussion of free school fonts such as Jarman, Jardotty, Primer Print, Print Clearly, Penmanship Print, Zyia Learns Letters, Learning Curve BV. Also a listing of shareware and commercial school fonts. A nice start page if you need such fonts. [Google]

Gail Peterson

Designer of the children's orthographic font Young Reader. [Google]

Gene B

Gene B (aka geneus1) is the creative and prolific designer at FontStruct in 2008-2009 of these faces:

• Aerologica (2009): 3-d headline face.
• Alphadings: DeTracks.
• Arkham Bloodletters (2008).
• bay6
• Bauhaus style: Slink (2009) is a tribute to Josef Albers---one copuld also call it a piano key font.
• Bevelicious (2009): 3d shadow face.
• Brikd is a fantastic headline face.
• Bubble Lab EF (2008) and Bubble Lab Bang (2008): dingbat fonts.
• ChequereBoard (2008): a 3d face.
• Clone War (2008).
• code2
• Country Fried (Western style)
• Decorata (stylized art deco)
• Dingbats: DeTrayne (graffiti-clad trains).
• ElSeeDee (2008, white on a black grid, inspired by the baggage claim LED scrolling message system at the Oakland Airport)
• Eurostijl (2008)
• Exersia, Excursia
• Ferno (hell?)
• filmstryp
• Flameon (2008) is a vertically striped athletic lettering font.
• Fluoralei (2008) and Fluoralyte (2008) are all caps floral-themed typefaces.
• Futuro (2008) and Futuro Extra Bold (2008).
• Futurity Watch (2009).
• Framestore (2008).
• Geolateral
• Glossierre (2009).
• Hammerslab (2008) is a very thick heavy slab serif face.
• Happy Halloween (2008): Halloween dingbats.
• HellStruct (2008): flamed letters.
• hollo, holloback, holloblack
• HulkSmash has the look of cracked concrete blocks---has to be seen to be believed!
• IronManic (2008, letters resemble armor steel plates with bolts)
• Leefer is a kitchen tile font.
• LegoManiax (2008).
• Modulus and Modulus Black, ultra fat fonts.
• Mucro Bold, a heavy metal band font
• Multiverse Diagonality (2009).
• pixsle
• Roboscript (2008): an upright connected school script.
• Rubrix (2008): a Rubik cube dingbat font.
• sedagive
• Sharp-serifed almost modern faces: Legality, Petrissage, Effleurage, Karuso68.
• Stanley Twobrick (pointy minimalist face)
• Startrek faces: Transformicon (2009).
• Structurocca and Structurozza (2009): Horizontally stencilled black faces.
• Tangience and Tangience Solid (2008) are fonts in which the glyphs are built up from circles glued together.
• Tetrisyde
• The Pax Man (2009): metallic whatever.
• Upriteous and Upriteous Black, condensed protestant fonts.
• Victoriana (Victorian caps)
• Wall-F, whitel squarish letters in black circles
• Waverly, with scary pointed barbs like on German WWI helmets.
• Weaver (Celtic knot-themed letters)
• Yeomamuh, a fat look face.

Gert Wettschureck

Frankfurt-based designer of some children's fonts and dingbats: LoKinderDingsbums-Links, LoKinderDingsbums-Rechts, LoKinderSchrift-Dunkel, LoKinderSchrift-Hell, all dated 1994. [Google]

Gestecole
[Bernard Vivier]

Bernard Vivier's educational fonts, 1998-2003: BV-Cursive-Ital-Italic, BV-Api, BV_Baton-Boite, BV_Baton, BV_Baton_Italiques, BV_Rondes, BV_Rondes2, BV_Rondes2-ital, BV_Rondes_Boite, BV_Rondes_Ital, Bv-Arial-Boite. [Google]

Grundschule Kreativ

Original fonts at this German site: Druckschrift Bayern (sans), and these school fonts for writing between lines (also known in German as Lateinische Ausgangsschrift), all copyright Joot-Soft: Schreibschrift 1./2. Klasse, Schreibschrift 3. Klasse, Schreibschrift (or: BREY Schreibschrift). These were designed by Lothar J. Brey from Landshut (Germany). [Google]

Grutjardbai

Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of the school font Zauberschrift. [Google]

H. Pesendorfer

H. Pesendorfer is the creator with H. Pollhammer of the Schuschri 95 family (Austrian school writing). Residing in Salzburg. [Google]

H. Pollhammer

H. Pollhammer is the creator with H. Pesendorfer of the Schuschri 95 family (Austrian school writing). Residing in Salzburg. See also here. Alternate URL where one can find Schuschri69-0, Schuschri69-1, Schuschri69-4, Schuschri95-0, Schuschri95-1. [Google]

Handwriting font styles

Jacci Howard Bear discusses the various styles of cursive and manuscript fonts used to teach handwriting:

• D'Nealian
• Getty-Dubay Italic
• Harcourt Brace
• McDougal, Littel
• Palmer
• Peterson Directed Handwriting
• SSD
• Zaner-Bloser (old style)
• Zaner-Bloser (new style)
• UK handwriting
• Australian handwriting

Handwriting for Windows

The Handwriting for Windows software contains a cursive handwriting font. Commercial product. [Google]

Handwriting Interest Group

UK handwriting interest group. Links and information. [Google]

Handwriting Interest Group (HIG)

Alison McRae's page on good handwriting, especially for kids. [Google]

Handwriting Models
[Benedikt Gröndal]

Handwriting Models An Icelandic Manual, 1883, was written by Benedikt Gröndal (1826-1907), an Icelanic poet, painter, draftsman, calligrapher and library historian. After a master's degree in Scandinavian Studies from the University of Copenhagen in 1863, he taught, wrote, and published a periodical, Gefn. In 2007, a foreword and useful introduction to handwriting models was added by Gunnlaugur Briem, and he placed all on his web site for free download. I quote: In 1875, Denmark changed handwriting models, replacing blackletter cursive by copperplate. This extended to its Icelandic dominion, where copybooks and model sheets in the new style were in short supply. Eight years later, a much needed handwriting manual by Benedikt Gröndal was published. The old style and the new are similar in appearance but have different letterforms. This picture shows the old blackletter cursive (top) and the new copperplate (bottom)---it was taken from Almanak Hins íslenzka þjóðvinafélags, Copenhagen (1877). Gröndal's copperplate and Gröndal's ronde. The foreword by Briem also shows a Danish ronde that appeared in Rundskrifts-Bogen; til Skolebrug og Hjemmeøvelse, ca. 1880. He also grabs the opportunity to showcase the most handsome of all Icelandic copperplate models done by Jón Þórarinsson in Skrifbók með forskriftum, 1. hefti (Reykjavík, ca. 1896). The American Palmer method, more open but less gracious, is illustrated in this alphabet from 1922 by Steingrímur Arason (from Litla skrifbókin, Reykjavík. Variants of this are shown in the alphabets of Guðmundur I. Guðjónsson, published between 1939 and 1953. Briem concludes: Handwriting based on copperplate was largely abandoned in Icelandic schools in 1984. It was replaced by italic, a modern monoline version of renaissance handwriting that owes much to Ludovico Arrighi's approach. A large selection of model sheets in this style is available for free download from the internet. He also shows Italiuskrift05, his own suggestion for schools. [Google]

Hans Eduard Meier

Swiss type designer, born in 1922 in Horgen am Zürichsee. Created ITC Syndor book, Barbedor (1987), Syntax (originally 1955; first released in 1968-1972; the modern Bitstream version is called Humanist 531, and it is an example of a humanist sans serif; see also Saxony and S841 Sans on the SoftMaker MegaFont XXL CD, 2002), Oberon (1994; as an OEM for Institut fuer Computersysteme in Zürich; in February 2004, it will be available from Elsner&Flake as OberonEF), Barbetwo, Syntax-Letter, Lapidar, Neue Syntax, mostly while at ETH Zürich. He also designed the school fonts BasisSchrift Eins EF (2002), ABCSchrift Drei EF (2002), ABCSchrift Eins EF and ABCSchrift Zwei EF, and the calligraphic family Elysa EF (2002). In his own words: "Es entstanden die Druckschriften Barbedor, Syndor, Oberon und die Entwürfe für Barbetwo, Syntax-Letter und Lapidar sowie verschiedene Fonts mit mathematischen Zeichen für den Gebrauch am Institut." Superb analysis of his life and contributions by Roxane Jubert (in French). Linotype Syntax, a reworking of his original Syntax, earned him a Bukvaraz 2001 award. Check also Linotype Syntax Lapidar (2000). His latest project is a school script for handwriting. [Google]

Harvey & Karen Tonkin
[Harvey Tonkin]

Ozzies Harvey & Karen Tonkin have created Victorian cursive fonts that might also be used for primary schools. Address: 31 Deschamp Road, Noranda, WA 6062. URL that mentions their work. Fonts by Harvey Tonkin: DottedVicModCursive (1998), VicModCurJoinedNormal (1998), VicModCursiveNormal (1993). [Google]

Honey Clark

Designer of the free fonts Regnad Kcin (handwriting), Curses (connected orthographic handwriting), HoneyLaura (handwriting), Newt (handwriting), Eggplant (dingbats), Treats (alphading font with ghosts). [Google]

Inclipz Graphics Inc

Free clipart and some free fonts: ClipzBirthday (alphadings), ClipzBusybee (alphadings), ClipzSmallworld (first grade emulation font), ClipzBirds, ClipzButtons, ClipzFlowers, ClipzSmallworld ClipzStardust. [Google]

Infadot

DSM Martland House in Haydock, UK, sells Infadot, "a suite of 4 specially developed post cursive computer fonts and a phonetic depict font designed to enable teachers and parents to quickly and easily produce their own resources for teaching hand writing for all ability levels." [Google]

Ingofonts
[Ingo Zimmermann]

Ingofonts is a foundry in Augsburg started by Ingo Zimmermann (b. 1967) in 1994. It offers Fraktur fonts, handwriting fonts, sans serif fonts, Antiqua fonts and some pixel fonts. Full fonts go for 50 USD a piece and up. Some fonts are free. Many fonts are adaptations or revivals of historically important fonts. Ingo also practices calligraphy, and in particular, calligraphy for wine labels. The list:

• Absolut Pro (2008) is a classy sans family that comes in Regular, Licht, Thin and Schmuck.
• Amhara (2009): An experimental font inspired by the Ethiopic writing system.
• AnatoleFrance (1997, art deco font): in the style of Georg D. W. Callwey's PlakatschriftCCC, it is in conformity with a script pattern ca. 1920/30, Karl Schäffer.
• Behrens Schrift (2008) is based on Behrens' famous 1902 Jugendstil script.
• Biró Script is a handwriting font (2007).
• CharpentierBaroqueIF, CharpentierClassicItaliqueIF, CharpentierClassicistiqueIF, CharpentierRenaissanceIF (1996, modeled at first from the Roman Capitalis).
• De Borstel (2009): brush face.
• DeFonte (1995): a grungy Helvetica.
• Déformé: grungy Clarendon.
• Deko-Blakk, Deko-Yello (art deco faces from 2007).
• DeKunst (1995, deconstructivist). DeKunst Initialen (2007) is Bauhaus-inspired.
• DePixel (1999: based on Apple's Geneva and Chacago; and Illegible DePixel).
• DeutscheSchriftCallwey (1998): a free handwriting face in the style of the 1800s that was later taught in German schools under the generic name of "Sütterlin type".
• Die Überschrift (1998): headline sans.
• Faber Eins, Faber Zwei (1996, legible sans family), Faber Drei, Faber Gotic Text, Faber Gotic Gothic, Faber Gotic Capitals, Faber Fraktur.
• Façacde Pro (2007, art nouveau brush face). Cyrillic version.
• Fixogum (1998, scratchy handwriting).
• FrakturFaber (1994-2002).
• Graz2006 (1994, a sans family for the 2006 OlumTypographerpic Games in Graz; later renamed by Linotype to Olympia).
• Gutenberg (1995, a textura).
• Hero (angular handwriting).
• Josef (2000), Josefov (slab serif for Josef), JosefPro (2006, a free sans family).
• Klex: calligraphic brush.
• LettreCivilitdeGranjon (1997, a reworking of S. Moye's font by that name).
• Maier's No. 8 (2002) and Maier's Neue No. 8 based on forms found in work of Karl O. Maier from before 1914, which already has the geometrical simplicity characteristic of the Weimar period. Examples: Halbfett, Leicht, Pro, Pro, Pro, No8. Maiers No. 21 (2006) is in the same direction. A precursor of the MICR chequebook fonts, and the FontStruct fonts? Examples: No21 Pro, No21 Pro.
• Menschenalphabet, based on Peter Flötner's alphabet.
• Novello Pro (2009): The serifed counterpart of his Absolut Pro family.
• OlympiaBuchIF, OlympiaFettIF, OlympiaHalbfettIF, OlympiaLeichtIF, OlympiaSemiSansBuchIF
• Palmona (2008, blackletter).
• Saeculum (1996, cursive connected handwriting).
• Rudolf Diesel (2008-2009): Based on the handwriting of the inventor of the Diesel motor.
• SchwabacherDeutscheReichsbahn (after Koch's first font from 1909).
• Tobyfont (2007) is for children.
• Wendelin (1996, sans family).
• Whole Europe (2008, outlines of countries), now called Countries Of Europe.

Jacci Howard Bear

Links and samples of children's orthography fonts. [Google]

Jakob Rask Arnesen

Article in Norwegian about the life of Norwegian calligrapher and typographer Jakob Rask Arnesen, 1918-2008. A type specialist, he devoted his life to calligraphy, the development of models for handwriting in schools, and books on letterforms and type. [Google]

Jean Boyault

French designer of the cursive and other school fonts for teachers, all free and made in 2006-2007: JBCursive, JBEtude-Regular, JBMatrice, JBBatonRond-Bold, JBBatonRond-Extra, JBBatonRond-Italic, JBBatonRond-Regular, JBChantier, JBCursive++Feutre, JBCursive++Marqueur, JBCursive++Normal, JBFil, JBScolaireT1-Bold-Italic, JBScolaireT1-Bold, JBScolaireT1-Italic, JBScolaireT1, JBScolaireT2-Bold-Italic, JBScolaireT2-Bold, JBScolaireT2-Italic, JBScolaireT2. Alternate URL, where one can also find JB Etude (2007), JB Lames (2008), JB Elegant (2008), JB Cursive, JBStyle (2008), JB Fil Std (2009) and JB Calli (2008). [Google]

Jean-Marie Douteau

He made free school handwriting fonts (with and without rulers): Ecolier, Ecolier_lignes, Ecolier_court, Ecolier_lignes_court, Douteau, Obase, Odumo. See also here. see also here and here. [Google]

jinx

Designer in 2009 at FontStruct of the bilined family Alkador (+Light, +Dark), the alphading Sound Waves, the artsy Jirix (!!!), Postage, and the scratchy Oops. Other faces there include Petal, Kryptonian and Error. He calls himself a grasshopper in the field of fontmaking. [Google]

Joel Brogniart

Joel Brogniart from the University of Lyon created the connected school handwriting font Cursiv JB based on Cursif by Christophe Beaumale. [Google]

Joel Miller

With Joe Hoffman, Joel Miller designed tens of fonts at ScenoGrafica from 1995-1997. These include Angelou, Autumn, BabysBlocks, BastilleDay, Bugs, Buonarroti, CakeandCandles, CandyCanes, CaptainSmith, Chaucer, ChineseNewYear, ChristmasDay, Cityscape, Clemens, ColumbusDay, Coward, Dante, DayoftheDead, Dinosaurs, Easter, Einstein, FathersDay, Faulkner, Fermi, Fiesta, Fitzgerald, Foster, Halloween, Hanukkah, HappyNewYear, Headliner, HeartsandFlowers, Heller, HollyTime, Jefferson, Keller, Kwanzaa, MPrimaryLined, MPrimaryTrainerLined, MPrimaryLined, MPrimaryTrainerLined, Melville, Michener, ModernCursiveTrainerLined, ModernCursiveTrainer, ModernCursive, ModernCursiveLined, ModernCursive, ModernCursiveLined, ModernCursiveTrainerLined, MothersDay, OCasey, OldGlory, Orwell, Paine, Party, Picnic, Pinter, PowWow, PunkinPatch, Quilt, Rainforest, Rand, RoshHashanah, SaintPaddy, Sampler, Scott, Shaw, Simon, Snowcap, Sousa, Spenser, SpringTime, StNicholas, StarSpangled, Stockings, SummerBeach, Tarkington, Thanksgiving, ThanksgivingII, Valentine, Valentine1, Waugh, Whitman, Willson, WinterWonderland, Winthrop, Wright, Zola. [Google]

John Hudson's six rules for teaching handwriting
[John Hudson]

John Hudson gives this great advice for teaching children.

• Do not provide any single model to copy.
• Provide students with good writing implements that they can control effectively. Almost all ballpoints except the most expensive are not suited to controlled writing. Fixed nibs are preferred, and students should be encouraged to experiment with both round and broad nibs as well as with split nibs, although the latter really require decent motor skills that are more easily acquired first with round or broad nibs.
• Show students *lots* of good examples of different styles of writing to inspire them.
• Discuss the concepts of legibility (you want other people to be able to recognise your letters), letter and word spacing (you want letters to group visually into words), and ask them to consider the merits of speed vs elaboration (you want to be able to write fast).
• Invite them to develop their own writing styles, with continuous feedback in terms of legibility and speed.
• It shouldn't matter at all in what style a student writes so long as the results can be read and it can be achieved reasonably efficiently.

Judex

Designers of the educational font MM Schuldruck (2001). [Google]

Just in Type (was: Tipomovel)
[Tony de Marco]

Just in Type (ex-Tipomovel) is a Brazilian foundry run by Tony de Marco in Sao Paulo. Tony de Marco was an illustrator for Folha de S. Paulo, 1987-1994. He co-edits Tupigrafia with Claudio Rocha Franco. As a type designer, he created over 50 faces for the newspaper Noticias Populares, for America Online, and the magazines Moderna, Saraiva, FTD and Atica. Free fonts at the Tipomovel site included Ariana, Beabá, Bloco, CyberComix, Cyber Rounded, Cyber-Zinha, Digital Typewriter, Egly (my favorite--a Bodoni with curly serifs), Futura Vítima, Futura Vítima Bold, Futura Vítima Extra Bold, Games, Genoveva, Helvetica Backlight, Illinoise, Macmania Bold, Neurastenic, Notícias Populares, Oficina Bold, Pin ups, Pixel, Pravda, Sequestro, Simbolo, Splash, Stalin, Sumô, Super Braille (created for the Dorina Nowill Foundation), Times Change, Tipografia, Toxic Bodoni, Web Power, Zine. Samba LT (2003, Linotype, designed with Caio de Marco; this art deco face was inspired by the lettering art of J. Carlos, a Brazilian illustrator during the early 20th century) won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003. Tony de Marco was at one point illustrator for the Folha de Sao Paulo. In 2005, Tony and Caio de Marco set up Just in Type and started selling their fonts via MyFonts. Offerings there include HallowHell Dingbats (2006, Halloween dingbats), Drop It (2005, dot matrix), Illinoise (2005, techno-grunge, by Tony and Caio de Marco), Pixel Zoo (2008, dingbats), Inferno Dingbats (2008), Brazil Pixo Retro (2007, rune simulation). [Google]

Just van Rossum

Dutch experimental nutty (in the good sense!) and prolific type designer (b. Haarlem, 1966) who created famous fonts such as Beowolf, Brokenscript, BeoSans, Trixie, Flixel (FUSE 2), and Schulbuch. He is also a font software expert who has initiated many ideas in the areas of type software. Check Phaistos at the Font Bureau. Designer or co-designer at LettError of LettErrorRobot-Chrome (2001), FFTrixie (X-files original), FFAdvert, FF Schulschrift, FFStampGothic (1992), FFKarton (1992), FFDynamoe (1992), FFHands, FFBrokenscript, Federal, and the random font Beowolf. At FUSE 11, he designed What You See/What You Get (with Erik van Blokland). Myfonts write-up. Bio at Emigre. [Google]

Karlgeorg Hoefer

German scribe, type designer and unbelievable calligrapher, b. 1914 in Schlesisch-Drehnow, d. 2000 in Offenbach. Following schooling in Schlesien and Hamburg, he served a four-year typesetting apprenticeship from 1930-1934 in Hamburg and later at the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts) in Offenbach am Main. From 1939 until 1945 he was in active military service and became a prisoner of the Russians. After that ordeal, he became a calligraphy teacher at the Werkkunstschule in Offenbach, and developed a universal pen with novel writing and drawing techniques for the company Brause. It is at that point that Hoefer started designing types as well. From 1970 to 1979, Hoefer was a lecturer and later professor at the HfG (School of Design) in Offenbach. From 1981 to 1988, Hoefer ran summer calligraphy workshops in the USA (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, New York, Washington, and other cities). In 1982, Karlgeorg Hoefer founded a calligraphy workshop in Offenbach for everyone, with evening courses and summer school, and in 1987, the registered association "Calligraphy Workshop Klingspor, Offenbach, Supporters of International Calligraphy." From 1987 to 1995, he was the chairman of the association while teaching continuing courses and summer school classes with leading foreign calligraphers. Hoefer has written two books about calligraphy: "Das alles mit einer Feder" (Brause, 1953) and "Kalligraphie, gestaltete Handschrift" (Econ, 1986). Numerous articles about Hoefer's work have appeared in calligraphy journals in Holland, France, the USA, and Japan. In 1989, the book "Schriftkunst/Letterart Karlgeorg Hoefer" was published as part of Calligraphy-Editions Herbert Maring (Die Kalligraphie Edition, Hardheim, Germany, 1989). For his activities as a calligrapher, Hoefer received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1993. His typefaces:

• At Klingspor: Salto (1952), Saltino (1953), Saltarello (1954), Monsun (1954). Salto is a famous and often-copied brush script.
• At D. Stempel: Prima (1957), Zebra (1963-1965, D. Stempel, a script that plays on the simulation of grey; revived by Colin Kahn in 2007 under the same name at P22).
• At Ludwig & Mayer: Permanent (1962-1979, a large Grotesk family developed over many years), Stereo (1963, an outline poster headline script developed between 1957 and 1968; digitally revived in 1993 as Stereo (Font Bureau)), Elegance (1964, a handwriting script, which was the basis for Sincerely (2005, Canada Type)), Big Band (1974, a fat poster script revived in 2007 by Nick Curtis as Baby Cakes NF), Headline (1964, a poster face that emanated fom Permanent).
• Programm-Grotesk (1970): Hoefer's first digital typeface, commissioned by JT Hellas for the Greek telephone books It was first used in the digital machine Digiset of Dr. Ing. Hell in Kiel.
• From 1978-1980, Karlgeorg got involved in the development of a German license plate font that could withstand forgery by black marker pens. The typeface, FE Mittelschrift/Engschrift, had also input from other sources.
• Lateinischen Ausgangsschrift (1974): a school script for the Linotype phototypesetter. This led later to VA Schrift (Berthold and Linotype).
• At Linotype: Omnia (1990, with a Celtic uncial feel), San Marco (1990, round gothic / Rundgotisch), Notre Dame (1991-1993, a full blackletter face), Dominatrix (1994), Sho (1992, brush script), Beneta (1992, a Fench bastarda).

Kid Letters
[Juan José Marcos]

Kid Letters is a set of eleven instructional style truetype fonts designed in 2005-2006 by Juan José Marcos, a professor of classical languages in Plasencia, Spain. 60 Euros for the set: KidLetters-Bold, KidLetters, KidLettersArrows, KidLettersDotted, KidLettersDottedGuided1, KidLettersDottedGuided2, KidLettersDottedSquared, KidLettersGuided1, KidLettersGuided2, KidLettersMajuscules, KidLettersSquared (2006). This font family is specifically designed for teaching kids how to write, using aids such as dotted glyphs, lined letters, directional arrows and a combination of these. Letters do link to each other in a natural fashion. These manuscript fonts contain all the common signs, as well as accented characters - acute accent, grave accent, circumflex, tilde, diaeresis or umlaut mark, ring, cedilla, ae and oe ligatures, o slash and German double s - for Western European languages (Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Danish, Norvegian, Swedish and Icelandic, among others) and current symbols. [Google]

KidsFonts
[Teresa Knezek]

TraceFont, NealFont and ColorFont by Teresa Knezek from Fairbanks, AK. Truetype for PC and Mac. Shareware. See also here. [Google]

KidTYPEPaint

A brush font published by Monotype in 1998. See also here. [Google]

Kimera Type (was: Diseño Kimera)
[Gabriel Martinez Meave]

Kimera Type (was: Diseño Kimera) is a Mexican design firm founded in 1994 by Gabriel Martinez Meave (b. Mexico City, 1972), who is by far Mexico's most prolific and talented type designer. He won a TDC award in 2000 for the font Arcana Manuscript. In TDC2 2001, he won again, with the display face Basilica. At TDC2 2006, he won again, this time for the roman blackletter face Darka (2005). In 2006, he made the powerful serif face Artifex. At Adobe he designed the OpenType face Organica, dubbed a semiserif. For Lagarto (2001, based on the hand of a 16th century Mexican calligrapher, Lagarto) and Arcana (2000), he got Bukvaraz awards in 2001. The script font Arcana was traced out with a pointed metal quill and then digitized to give it a thoroughly 19th century look. Basilica (1999) is an extra-condensed experimental font based on a modern high-contrast design. Mexica (2002-2003) is a large octagonal font family created to set text in náhuatl. Neocodex is an organic family, Rondana (2002) a rounded character family in the style of VAG Round, and Integra a contemporary roman sans family. Puuc, according to Meave, was inspired by the Mayan puuc style of modular architecture. For calligraphy for kids, Meave made Pearson Calligraphic in 1999. Mystix is a rune font based on a secret alphabet for a Delaware Punch promotional program. Aztlan (1998, fun artsy slab serif), Comanda (handwritten), Basilica Rotunda (ultra narrow modern), El Economista (serifed), Indio (handwriting), Integra (the whole family), Mexica (1996, octagonal), Neocodex (1996, organic), Organica, Rondana, Sol, Solida and Fulgora (medieval) are shown at Tiypo. Diseño Kimera has made numerous custom fonts for Mexican clients. For the department stores El Palacio de Hierro, he made the Ferra Sabs family. Economista is a text face created for the Mexican business newspaper El Economista. Sol and Indio Script were made for the ads for the Sol and Indio beers. Interview. Presidencia (2008) won an award at TDC2 2008 and at Tipos Latinos 2008 (for extensive text family). Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. [Google]

kindergarten.com

Kindergarten and New Kindergarten are two 4-font families for school age children. With and without rules and arrows. Commercial product, truetype and type 1. Kindergarten (2000), New Kindergarten (2002). Company located in Wichita Falls, TX. [Google]

Klaus Düring

A German page about Sütterlin, the "Deutsche Schreibschrift". It includes a free font by Klaus Düring appropriately called Deutsche Schrift (1996). [Google]

Koelooptiemanna Productions (was: KosteX)
[Roel Koster]

Roel Koster made the royalty-free KosteXSchool (or: SchoolKX) font for kids' letter tracing. It is in fact an Avant-Garde style font. Available in truetype and type 1 formats. Direct access. See also here. [Google]

L' Encrier
[Philippe Tassel]

Philippe Tassel at L'Encrier made free school handwriting fonts: Beaumale, Ducahire. [Google]

Lars Törnqvist Typografi
[Lars Törnqvist]

Born in Karlstad, Sweden, in 1952, and now living in Stockholm, Lars Törnqvist's designed many typefaces:

• Dialekt Svi: a series of three phonetic fonts for Swedish dialects.
• Dialekt Uni (2001): a huge Unicode phonetic font that includes the West European characters, the characters and diacritics of the Swedish dialect alphabet and most of the IPA characters.
• Hnias (2004): a unicode runic font.
• Remington Reseskrivmaskin (2000): a typewriter font.
• DecCode (2000) and HexCode (2000): numerical fonts.
• Pitmanita, a font containing the characters of Sir James Pitman's Initial Teaching Alphabet. This alphabet was used in many English schools in the 1960s.
• Morsealfabetet, a Morse-Code font.
• Korsstygn 1, a cross-stitch font.
• Tant Brita (2006), Tant Ingrid (2006), Tant Ulla (2006), Tant Gertrud (2006), Tant Lilian (2006): stitching faces.
• Knappast (2006), Endast (2006), Emedan (2006): letters in circles.
• Karolin Fraktur (2006): A slightly regularized digital version of a late Baroque Fraktur type, probably from the beginning of the 18th century, issued by the Norstedts type foundry in Stockholm in 56 point size as Sju petit fraktur nr 2.
• Simpliciter Sans (2006), in 3 styles.
• Huruvida (2006). Varvid (2006, a biline tubular caps face).
• Vibertus (2007): a didone headline face based on Gras Vibert (1840, Vibert, for the Didot typefoundry).

Lateinische Ausgangsschrift

Letters for kids when they learn to write. Metafont format. [Google]

Lehrerweb

Free school fonts: Schulschrift95 (2001, Edelweiss), Druckschrift95 (1997, Edelweiss), MM Schuldruck (2001, Judex). Alternate URL. [Google]

L'encrier, Ecriture scolaire
[Bernard Vivier]

At this site, there used to be wonderful school handwriting fonts (with rulers): EC, EC2, Douteau (from Jean-Marie Douteau), Beaumale, DuCahier (Philippe Tassel), Bernard Vivier (who made BV_Api, BV_Batboi, BV_Baton, BV_Baton_Italiques, BV_Rondes, BV_Rondes_Boite, BV_Rondes_Ital, Bv-AriBoi), Verchery. The site also had a bibliography (in French). I say "had", because it is now reduced to a single-font site, offering just DuCahier (Philippe Tassel, 1994). [Google]

Leonid Silkin

Designer at Graphic bureau Az-Zet of the Cyrillic/Latin fonts AZ HighWayC (1990-1995, similar to Broadway, Morris Fuller Benton, ATF, 1928), and AZ PoligonC (1990-1995). See also here. He also designed the educational font series Didactica (1997), useful for both Latin and Cyrillic. [Google]

Les Besnardtypo
[Michel Besnard, Roselyne Besnard]

The French type designers Michel (b. 1942) and Rosalyne Besnard (b. 1946) live in Rouen. Under the brand Les Besnardtypo, they jointly designed Micmac (Creative Alliance, 1997), ITC Odyssee (1996), ITC Typados (1997), Rom (Creative Alliance, 1998), Bouchon (Letraset, 2000), Huit (Visual Graphics Corporation, 1972), Sargon (Visual Graphics Corporation, 1974: bilined and futuristic), Migraph (Agfa Monotype, 1999), PistolShot LT Std Normal and Light (Linotype, 2003), Nazca (Monotype Imaging, 2005), Sargon (Monotype Imaging, 2006), First One (Monotype Imaging, 2006: a family for teaching the alphabet to children), Mickros (Monotype Imaging, 2007), Pantin (Monotype Imaging, 2007), De Gama (Monotype Imaging, 2008), Pasta (Monotype Imaging, 2008). Linotype page. FontShop link. Another FontShop link. [Google]

Louis Madarasz

Author of Lessons in Advanced Engraver's Script, published by C.W. Jones. He also wrote The Madarasz Book - The Secret of the Skill of Madarasz (1911, Zaner-Bloser, Inc). [Google]

Ludwig Sütterlin

Berlin-based graphic designer (b. 1865, Lahr, d. 1917, Berlin) who in 1917 invented the Sütterlin Schrift, which was used to teach children handwriting. Various Sütterlin fonts can now be found on the web. It was introduced in the German schools starting between 1924 and 1934, and was used until 1941-1950, depending upon the region, when standard handwriting was taught. Marcus Hahn's course at the University of Saarland covers the Sütterlin Schrift. See also the 1983 essay by Wolfgang Hendlmeier: A, B, C, D, E. Digital fonts for Sütterlin:

• Suetterlin by R. G. Arens, Saarbrücken, 1995: free.
• Sütterlin (2001) by Delbanco.
• New (current Deutsche Schreibschrift).
• Don Becker's free Sütterlin fonts.
• Softmaker's commercial Sütterlin package in 14 variants.
• Klaus Burkhardt's Sütterlin.
• Heimatvest has some Sütterlin software that contains truetype fonts for Sütterlin.
• SuetterlinEF (1992, Elsner&Flake).
• Rainer Will Software Entwicklung has some Sütterlin fonts.
• Ingo Fonts (Ingo Zimmerman) published its version, DeutscheSchriftCallwey, in 1998.
• Walden Font has its own Sütterlin. [Google]
  

Mada Engel

Designer of ArtDecoBlock (2003), Jason Bunetta Hand (2002), DooHickiesOneNormal, DooHickiesTwoNormal (fleurons!), JasonBunettaTwoNormal, LineArtDooHickiesOne, LineArtDooHickiesTwo (useful paragraph separators), MaxineNormal, ShadowLandNormal, SimplePrintNormal, all in 2002. In 2003, she made Connect the Dots. [Google]

Manfred Klein's Fonteria
[Manfred Klein]

Frankfurt-based designer (b. 1932) whose creative output is so large that he deserves a separate web page. His URL at Moorstation from 2000-2007. New page on him by Florian Rochler. Font squirrel link. [Google]

Martin Hermersdorf

German writing expert. In 1950, Rudolf Koch and he proposed a Deutsche Schreibschrift for the fourth grade of Bavarian schools. Martin wrote Die Entwicklung der deutschen Schreibschrift in 1960. [Google]

Match Software
[Michel Bujardet]

West Hollywood, CA-based foundry led by Michel Bujardet (b. Bordeaux, France, 1951), who is Mike Budge on alt.binaries.fonts. They make and sell interesting font paks. A particular favorite of mine is the Calligraphic Fonts Pack 2, which has the beautiful medieval-look face Rodolphe (2001), together with the Chancellerie family, the blackletter font SquareText, and a few Uncial fonts called Oncial. Free demos. Cursive Handwriting is a 6-font pak for teaching handwriting. Also offering a handwriting and signature font service. Among free offerings, check Le Blackmail (ransom font). Also, commercial fonts for these languages: Armenian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Greek, Hawai`ian, International Phonetic (IPA), Hebrew, Hieroglyphs, Hungarian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Marshallese, Polynesian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Turkish, Ukrainian, Yiddish. Interesting creations: Boulon (letters with bolts), Bujardet (French restaurant type), Calebasse, Chinoiseries (Chinese look-alike), Cristolikid (LCD), Diodes Light, Grecques, Halloween, Malabars, Metroplitain, Monogram, Octogone, Osselets (bones), Parador, Ruban Dis-Moi, SilBooettes, TSF et Compagnie, Venitienne, Yiddilatin, Zebrues, and the dingbats Dinosotype, Alphabetzier, Nahkt Hieroglyphics, Norman Prince (children's handwriting), Angelots, Sceaux, Seraphiques, Talismans, La Main Guided, La Main Solid (both children's tracing fonts).Plus text fonts such as Bordini, Bordofixed, BoumBoum, ChapClerk, Dactylographe (nice!), Halotique (sans serif), Tortillon (2001), Normographe (great too!), Normafixed, Oloron, Parlante (serif family), Presse (typewriter), Technicien. Plus handwriting fonts Skrypta, Skryptaag (upright and connected) and Willegha. And a Morse Code font. The Halloween pack includes Coulures, Halloween, Osselets and SilBooettes. Bitstream write-up. Fixed width fonts include Dactylographe, Oloron, Bordo, Norma. Direct access. Interview and photo. Alternate URL (in French), with many more fonts, such as the handwritten Pierre, Mariette. MICR E13 B font. [Google]

Maternellecolor
[Jean-Claude Gineau]

French free font designer, specializing in school fonts to teach handwriting. Font subpage. The fonts: -Boite-pleine, Boite-vide, Cursive-Fléchée, Maternellecolor-creuse, Maternellecolor-creusesans, Maternellecolor-cursive-case, Maternellecolor-graphisme, Maternellecolorgraphisme2, Maternellecolor-numération-espace, Maternellecolor-trace-cursive, Picto-Moustache. All these are made in 2005-2006. Only Maternellecolor cursive case has a 1997 date and shows the name Jean-Claude Gineau. I have no idea if he made just this or all the fonts. Alternate URL. Designer of a cursive school script face called GinoSchoolScript (1997), which can be found in this archive. [Google]

Médiatic

This French outfit specializes in beautiful handwriting fonts, often calligraphic or with an old look. Prices vary from 50 to 200USD per font: Calligraphie Parchemin, Calligraphie Princesse, Ambassador, Karen, Charlotte, Sebastian are some of the fonts. Your personal handwriting font for 360USD. For a few extra dollars, you can have alternate characters made as well, such as dingbats, math, bold characters, signatures, or special accents. They also sell the handwriting fonts of famous people: Delacroix, Rousseau, Van Gogh, Voltaire, Gauguin, Chateaubriand, Monet, Mme de Sévigné, Georges Sand, François Rabelais, Victor Hugo, Rimbaud, Georges Washington, Nostradamus, Léonard de Vinci. For 600 dollars, you can get an 8-font set of your handwriting which, under Word, will make the letters change as you write. Finally, they offer a collection of orthographic fonts for kids (for connected handwriting). [Google]

Medienwerkstatt Mühlacker
[Ralf Lohuis]

German commercial school font outfit. Free demo fonts. The categories: Lateinische Ausgangsschrift, Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift, Schulausgangsschrift, Druckschriften, Druckschriften Bayern, Pädagogische Zeichensätze, Zeichensätze für die Mathematik, Weihnachtsfonts, Sekundarfonts, Sekundarfonts. Of the many fonts, here are some made by Manfred Klein: KreuzWort, Norddruck, Sdfett, Vahalb, Veraus, Verfett. Ralf Lohuis (from Hünxe) made these fonts: Adam, Atlas, Bausteine, Blackwhite, Boxquestion, Domino, Eisenbahn, FlaggenABC, Geheim, Guitar, KreuzWort, Lapunkt, Lineatur, MatheRechner, MatheTangram, Meteo, Musik, Norddruck, Nordspur, Saspunkt, Sdfett, Sport, Telegraf, Trainee, Vahalb, VeenPikto, Veraus, Verfett, ZahlenABC. Subpage on school fonts. Christmas fonts made between 1999 and 2002, also by Lohuis: Fichten, Lichterglanz, Osterei, Schnee, Tannen, Verschneit, Weihnacht. Sub-page on Swiss school fonts where one finds CH Schrift 1 through 4, and Stein and Stein 1-Linie, Stein 2-Linie and Stein 4-Linie. At the Austrian school font sub-page, we find Druckschrift and Schulschrift 95. [Google]

Montessori
[Thomas A. Osthege]

On this site, we have two collections of truetype fonts. The first one is a Helvetica-style collection by Thomas A. Osthege (Eurocomp HH, 1993) with these fonts: HH123quadrRechnenQuadrate, HH123Rechnen, HHKursiv, HHmod123quadrModifiziertRechnenQuadrate, HHmod123ModifiziertRechnen, HHmodModifiziert, HH and HHUmrissUmriss. The second one is a collection of children's fonts and dingbats by Dr. Gert Wettschureck (Frankfurt, Germany, 1994): LoKinderDingsbums-Links, LoKinderDingsbums-Rechts, LoKinderSchrift-Dunkel, LoKinderSchrift-Hell. [Google]

Mountain Lake Software

Children's handwriting fonts: School Text [Plain, Bold, Lined, Lined-Bold, Arrows], all made in 1994. Commercial Kiddo font. Based in San Francisco. Register to obtain the free font Dracula. Their free lined educational font SchoolScriptLined (1994) is here. [Google]

Nancy J

Designer in 2009 at FontStruct of Somge DT, a hairline dotted line font for teaching children writing by tracing. [Google]

Natalia Fernández

Designer of the custom typeface La Seño (1998-2001) for an editorial company. This face extends Memima and can be used to teach connected handwriting to school children. Typography professor since 1996 at the University of Buenos Aires. [Google]

Natsuko Hayashida

Born in Takamatsu, Kagawa-ken, Japan, in 1984, Natsuko is a Canadian-educated graphic designer who created the high school handwriting fonts Geisha Holiday (2008) and Exchange Student (2008, Okaycat), and the dingbat fonts Little Japan (2008, exquisite Japanese dingbats) and Trees of Africa (2008, Okaycat). Hand Cursive and Stitch Cursive (2009) are upright connected scripts. Ribbon Cursive (2009) was developed from Mercator's Italic Hand. 3D Blocky (2009) is a hand-drawn 3-D font done with Luke William Turvey at Okaycat. Art of Japanese Calligraphy (2009, Okaycat) is a kanji font with calligraphic glyphs. [Google]

NBGNGS (or: New Beginings)

Swedish design site. The owners made some interesting free fonts: New Begindings, Fubbick (based on fraudulent signatures), Bintje Bold (potato print face), and New Handwriting (2007, based on a unsuccessful handwriting reform that the Swedish head council of education attempted to implement during the mid 70s). [Google]

nq2u

A 1.3MB file with D'Nealian fonts (for orthography) by EFI. [Google]

NSW Foundation handwriting

NSW Foundation handwriting. [Google]

Oesterreichische Schulschrift
[Gerhard A. Bachmaier]

Oesterreichische Schulschrift: Austrian School Writing Letters developed in 1995 by Gerhard A. Bachmaier. In metafont format. [Google]

outils pour l'ecole

Orthographic fonts (Verchery, Beaumale, Ducahier, Vivier). [Google]

P. J. Cassel

Designer of Smiley (not smilies!), Frowny, Oak Leaf (registration required), and Trace Font for Kids. [Google]

Paed Boutique

Commercial fonts by Will Software, mainly for orthography and teaching purposes: DR-BY2, DR-BY2Bold, DR-BY2Italic, DR-BYEl2, DR-HH, DR-HH2, DR-HH2Bold, DR-HH2Italic, DR-HHEl2, DR-HHEl2Bold, Fraktur, HW-Jeff, HW-Stone, KL-Antiqua2, LA-El2, LA-El2Bold, LA-El2Italic, Old-London, SAS-2, SAS-2Italic, SP-AB, SP-AnlPflanzen, SP-Anlaut3, SP-DRHH3, SP-DRHHQuadrat, SP-DRHHRahmen, SP-DRViereck, SP-Geld, SP-Inlaut1, SP-Mathe3, SP-SASQuadrat, SP-SASQuadratItalic, SR-Abstrakt1, SR-Blatt, SR-Puzzle, SR-Radierer, SR-Schatten, SR-Schloss, SR-Tiere, SR-Wappen, VA-Pe, VA-Pe2, VA-Pe2Bold. Some dingbats. [Google]

Page Studio Graphics (or: Pixymbols)
[Roger Vershen]

Page Studio Graphics is Roger Vershen's Oro Valley, AZ-based company specializing in symbols and symbol fonts, founded by him in 1986. The fonts (grouped under the name PIXymbols) include ADA symbols v.2.0, Africa, Alphabox, Alphacircle, Ameslan (ASL), Antorff (fraktur), Antorff Fractions, Apothecary, Arrows, Astrology, Backstitich, Boxkey, BoxNLines, Braille grade 2, Casual, Chalk Casual, PIXymbols Chess, Command Key, Courex, Crossword, Digit&Clocks, Dingbats&Online, DOSScreen, Fabric Care, FARmarks (Federal Aviation Regulations lettering), Flagman (semaphore), Fractions, Gridmaker, Highway Gothic (U.S. Department of Transportation's Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs), PIXymbols Highway Gothic 2002, Highway Signs (U.S. Department of Transportation), Hospital&Safety, LCD, Luna, Malkoff (calligraphic font), Marina, Meeting, Menufonts, Morse, Musica (instruments), Newsdots, Orchestra, Passkey, Patchwork, PCx, Phone, PIXymbolsMusica, PrimerD (letters with lines), Recycle, Roadsigns, Shadowkey, Signet (family), Squared, Strings, Stylekey, Tolerances&Datum, Travel&Hotel, TV List, Unikey, US Map, Xcharting, Xstitch. They also sell EPS files of all Arms of Swiss cantons, and many nice initial caps. Look also for Faux Hebrew (simulated Hebrew), as part of the Faux package that also includes Faux Sanskrit, Faux Runic, Faux Hebrew, Faux Japanese, Faux Arabic, Faux Chinese and Faux Chinese Sans. Alternate URL. Previews at MyFonts. [Google]

Paul Alan Grosse

Truetype fonts by Paul A. Grosse (2000): Cut-Out-PG, Jotter-PG, Gas-Plasma-PG (dot matrix), Typewriter-PG, Water-Rocket-PG, Handwritten-PG, MySchoolFont (2001, chalk on blackboard style). O=In 2008, he made the Gurmukhi font families Bulara, Magaz, Karmic Sanj, GHW Dukandar, Punjabi Typewriter, Raaj and Raajaa. Alternate URL. Another site for his Gurmukhi fonts. [Google]

Pelikan Lehreinfo
[M. Kahler]

After registration, you can download school fonts at this German site (PC and Mac): SAS-Schulausgangsschrift (school style introduced in the DDR in 1968), Lateinische Ausgangsschrift (introduced in Germany in 1953), Druckschrift Hamburg, Druckschrift Bayern, Druckschrift Bayern 2001, Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift (by M. Kahler at Pelikan, 2001), Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift (unliniert). On subpages, one can see samples of Picturalis. [Google]

Penny Font Foundry (or: Pennyzine)
[Jason Ramirez]

As part of the Chank Army, Jason Ramirez (Penny Fonts, Brooklyn, NY) offers mainly grunge fonts, many of which were made with the Data Becker software program. Free, of course. The list: Cocaine Nosejob (2008), Strip Club Motion Sickness (2003), One Fell Swoop (2003), Futon Revolutionist (2002), Bill Hicks (2002), Elliot Swonger (2002), Elliots Bad Day, Gumuski (2002), DUMMY (1999), Acid Reflux Baby (2002), Times-New-Omen (1999), punk rock rummage sale (2001), Thatluvinfeelin1 (2001, a sexual positions font), cut-n-paste (1999), Maydogg (1999-2002, handwriting), My-wife-sucks (1999), Stamped-out (1999), Stank (1999), StankII (1999), uncle-tom (1999), uno (1999), Coopdeville (2002), Dirtysocks, FourMoreYears (2003), Punkrockrummagesale (2001), Theregoestheneighborhood (2003), Thiskettle (2002, handwriting), Mr. Rogers (2003), Regime Change (2004), Hotel Coral Essex (2006, grunge). Alternate URL. Direct downloads. Alternate direct download path. Commercial fonts: Redneck Superstar (2002, Chank's). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. Another link. [Google]

Peterson Method Font Family

EFI made the Peterson directed handwriting style font family (250 USD per license). [Google]

P-Font Dispenser (was: Yuji-3001)
[Yuji Adachi]

Free original fonts by Yuji Adachi: Nice Age, Arcade (pixel font family, 1998), Bop Gun, No Problem, Dymos, One Nation, Atari 80, Bad Matrix and Lavalite. TrueType and PostScript, Mac and Windows. His fonts are called the P-Font Series. Recent additions: Dimension (kids' orthographic font, 1999), UHF (baseball shirt lettering, 1999), LogoSystem (1998), Bangalore (Stephen Coles says that this is still the world's best small pixel script), Radio Dept, Ole Segments, Code3X (barcode font, 1999), Neo Dymos, Major Kong (handprinting, 1999), Ohio Player. Font Pavilion sells his Dymos (katakana), One Nation, Bop Gun, Logo System. In Digitalogue's DPI72 package, he published the screen pixel fonts CODE14X (1999), DryBones7 (1999), Tempo9 (1999). Promised fonts: Wax, Problems, Bad Matrix, Atari80, Neo Dymos, No Problem, Ole Segments. [Google]

PiROG
[Henri Rogelet]

Free school fonts by Henri Rogelet: Alphonetic, AlphoneticGB (two phonetic fonts), Cursiv, MonsieuretMadame (a funny dingbat font, 2002), Scriptcasecole, Scriptcole. [Google]

Présence Typo
[Thierry Puyfoulhoux]

Friendly French Agfa Creative Alliance designer (b. 1961) who lives in Baratier. He was an ex-student of José Mendoza at the Imprimerie Nationale à Paris. He started Présence Typo in 2000. Great web pages, great designer, fantastic fonts. Bio. He published numerous typefaces in various places. Trying to group these, I get:

• ITC: ITC Korigan Light (1997), ITC Friz Quadrata Italic (2003, to complete the ITC Friz Quadrata of 1965), Friz Quadrata Bold Italic (1994).
• Agfa creative Alliance: Alinea (1995-1997).
• Présence Typo: Cicero (1995; Cicero2 is promised), Bebop (1996), Adesso (1999), Classica (a very elegant family, 1999), Classica Gallic (2001), Madisonian (1999), Tschichold (1999, the only lineale face by Tschichold drawn in 1933-1936 for the Uhertype photo-typesetting machine), Presence (1998), Prosalis (1998), Tangram (2001), Tuxedo (1999, a fun didone experiment), Kouros (2003, a Greek simulation font), Indigo Sans (2003), Indigo Serif (2003), Classica Prestige, BigTicy (2005), Ubik (2004, an 8-weight sans family), Diana and Princess (2004, calligraphic faces, after designs by Roger Excoffon in 1956). A.M. Cassandre's Cassandre (1968) was largely unfinished, after having been turned down by Berthold and Olivetti. It was finished in a revival of sorts (3 weights) by Thierry and is still called Cassandre (2003) [Cassandre Original includes only the letters drawn by A.M. Cassandre. Cassandre Normal and Bold are completed and expanded interpretations of the original drawings of 1968. Cassandre was the last typeface designed by the great poster artist and type designer A.M. Cassandre (1901-1968)]. Fonts available at MyFonts include Fusion Engraved, Fusion Standard, Laricio, Tandem, and Zipper, Placebo Sans (2003), Tuxedo (1999, a fun didone experimental face), Placebo Serif.
• Typotek: Tangram (1999, letters and dingbats made from triangles and squares), Présence (1999, sans serif), Classica (1999, serif), and Prestige (1999, serif).
• Custom fonts: Add Electric City, Add Iron, ITC Friz Quadrata Italic (2003, to complete the ITC Friz Quadrata of 1965), Père Castor Flammarion (designed for Flammarion by José Mendoza and digitized by Thierry), Option Italique (designed as an italic for Optima), ITC Korigan (uncial).

Primarlehrer.de Tipps Schulschriften

Jump page for free school fonts in Germany. [Google]

Primary School Fonts
[Rupert Russell]

The Sheperdson Community Education Center's Primary Math's Font set includes 3-d geometric shapes, coins, 2-d shapes, die faces, LED digits, math symbols and fractions and pies. There is also a cursive script set for children at 25 Aus$. All by Rupert Russell. [Google]

Primecole

Children's orthographic fonts by Philippe Tassel (Ducahier) and C.Verchery (CrayonE, CrayonL, PlumNAE, PlumNAL). Plus a phonetic Arial-lookalike by Réal Saint-Jacques (Apicar). Plus several relevant links. [Google]

Queensland Schoolfonts
[Greg Shum]

Greg Shum sells his Queensland School Fonts (handwriting) series here. [Google]

R. Wimmer Schriftfonts

Archive with orthographic fonts. Included are KHK-Fibelschrift mit Linien, SchuDruck1 (österreichische Schuldruckschrift), Schuschri 95-0 (österreichische Schulschrift seit 1995), and Sütterlin. See also here. There is also some history of Austrian school fonts. [Google]

Radana Lencová

Czech designer of Comenia Script (Storm Type), an upright script designed for teaching writing. [Google]

Rafael Gaga

Designer of the educational connected handwriting font Mamae Que Nos Faz (2007). [Google]

Red River Parish

Located in Coushatta, LA, this parish site has an archive with some free "school fonts": FirstGrader, LearningCurve, LearningCurveDashed, MSDWTManu, PrimerPrintBold, PrimerPrintMedium, PrintBold, PrintClearly, PrintDashed, SchoolText, SchoolTextBold, AbcPrint, AbcPrintArrow, AbcPrintDotted, AbcPrintDottedLined, AbcPrintLined. [Google]

Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas is the designer of Penmanship, a font with letters between lines. See also here. [Google]

Roland John Goulsbra

Made the children's handwriting fonts AgrafieLL (1994) and AlexieLL (1994), both available from Linotype. He also made the Fraktur fonts Linotype Textur Gotisch (2002) and Textur Lombardisch (2002). [Google]

Roman Georg Arens

Saarbrücken-based designer of the freeware font Suetterlin. [Google]

Rosemary Sassoon

Born in 1931, Rosemary Sassoon is a British handwriting and script expert who has worked a lot on didactic scripts for children. She obtained a PhD from the University of Reading for her work on how models and teaching methods affect children's handwriting. She is the author of Handwriting of the Twentieth Century: from Copperplate to Computer (Routledge, 1999) and Better Handwriting with G.S.E. Briem (Teach Yourself series, 1994). She is most famous for her Sassoon Primary font family (primary school writing). Her fonts were developed by Adrian Williams of Club Type. [Google]

Rupert Russell

Vendor of Australian school fonts including Victorian script fonts, a set of math fonts with many geometric shapes, and dotted outline fonts. [Google]

ScenoGrafica
[Joe Hoffman]

Original display and special occasion fonts by Joe Hoffman and Joel Miller at ScenoGrafica, all designed from 1995-1997, such as Angelou, Autumn, BabysBlocks, BastilleDay, Bugs, Buonarroti, CakeandCandles, CandyCanes, CaptainSmith, Chaucer, ChineseNewYear, ChristmasDay, Cityscape, Clemens, ColumbusDay, Coward, Dante, DayoftheDead, Dinosaurs, Easter, Einstein, FathersDay, Faulkner, Fermi, Fiesta, Fitzgerald, Foster, Halloween, Hanukkah, HappyNewYear, Headliner, HeartsandFlowers, Heller, HollyTime, Jefferson, Keller (sign language face), Kwanzaa, MPrimaryLined, MPrimaryTrainerLined, MPrimaryLined, MPrimaryTrainerLined, Melville, Michener, ModernCursiveTrainerLined, ModernCursiveTrainer, ModernCursive, ModernCursiveLined, ModernCursive, ModernCursiveLined, ModernCursiveTrainerLined, MothersDay, OCasey, OldGlory, Orwell, Paine, Party, Picnic, Pinter, PowWow, PunkinPatch, Quilt, Rainforest, Rand, RoshHashanah, SaintPaddy, Sampler, Scott, Shaw, Simon, Snowcap, Sousa, Spenser, SpringTime, StNicholas (letters in the shape of cozy snowy houses, 1995), StarSpangled, Stockings, SummerBeach, Tarkington, Thanksgiving, ThanksgivingII, Valentine, Valentine1, Waugh, Whitman, Willson, WinterWonderland, Winthrop, Wright, Zola. ScenoGrafica has hundreds of commercial fonts in categories appealing to teachers--many cute fonts and dings, some primary school fonts, some math & science fonts. [Google]

Schnur

Schnur is the Swiss Schulschrift. [Google]

School Fonts (was: Shepherdson Community Education Centre)
[John Greatorex]

Jean Greatorex is the Ozzie designer (Casuarina, NT) of the freeware font YMVictorianDots (1995). Commercial font set (20 A$$) includes 3D Geometric Shapes, Australian coins, 2D geometric shapes, die faces, digital numerals, math symbols, fraction pies and tallies. His "Shepherdson Community Education Centre" is now called School Fonts. Among handwriting fonts for kids, he has NSW Foundation (7 weights), Qld Modern, Qld Beginners (7 weights), Tasmanian School Fonts (8 weights), SA Beginners (7 weights), Victorian, WA, NT and SA Linked Cursive. The math set includes Geometric Shapes, Any Fraction, Mathematical Symbols, and Time and Money. The handwriting sets come with seven fonts, Bold, Dots, Cursive, Outline, Regular, Numbered Dots and Numbered Outline. He also has New Zealand school handwriting fonts (7 styles), Stick&Ball (4 fonts), Letter Box (4 fonts) and Casual (2 fonts). [Google]

SchoolFonts.com

A commercial outfit for children's educational fonts. Part of Matchfonts. [Google]

SchoolHouse Fonts

Commercial educational fonts from Signature Software. Includes D'Nealian and Zaner-Bloser style schoolhouse fonts. All demos are complete except for the lower case a. Defective web page. [Google]

Schriftenatelier Taufkirchen

German foundry somehow related to BERTLib/Fontstuff in Berlin, through which they sell their creations: Vereinfachte Ausgangsschrift Pro, Lateinische Ausgangsschrift Pro (didactical connected script), Needle Printer Schrift (dot matrix), Standard Grotesk ST (+Condensed, Extended, Extra Condensed). Berthold AG used to be located in Taufkirchen, hence the name. [Google]

Schul Rätselschriften

School fonts and dingbats at Will Software. [Google]

Schulschriften
[Rainer Will]

Rainer Will Softwareentwicklung (Schöffengrund, Germany) developed these school and cursive writing fonts: DR-BY2, DR-HH2, LA-El2, VA-Pe2. Another URL. [Google]

Schulschriften.de

Free German school fonts, all made by Ralf Lohuis from Hünxe in 2002: Bayernmiba, Latmiba, Nomiba, Schumiba, Suemiba, Vamiba. There are even more commercial fonts for uses in schools, including official pedagogical handwriting fonts, Christmas fonts, and many symbol fonts for mathematics and other subjects. Most fonts were designed between 1996 and 2000. Free demos: Adam, Atlas, Bausteine, Bayerndruck, Blackwhite, Boxquestion, Domino, Eisenbahn, FlaggenABC, Geheim, Guitar, KreuzWort, Lahalb, Lapunkt, Lateinaus, Lineatur, MatheRechner, MatheTangram, Meteo, Musik, Norddruck, Nordspur, Saspunkt, Schulaus, Sdfett, Sport, Sueline, Telegraf, Trainee, Vahalb, VeenPikto, Veraus, Verfett, ZahlenABC. [Google]

Signature Software (or: Vletter Inc.)

Expensive, so-so quality signature/custom handwriting fonts at this company run by Dave Fenwick. Signature Software, Inc., 489 N. 8th St. Suite 201, Hood River, OR 97031. About 100 US dollars per handwriting font. West Europeans pay almost double. Demo fonts for personal handwriting, as well as D'Nealian and Zaner-Bloser style schoolhouse fonts. All demos are complete except for the lower case a. Alternate URL. The company is also called Vletter Inc What I find incredible is that the home page says that over 75,000 handwriting fonts have been sold. That adds up to a nifty 7.5 million dollars in raw income over a twelve year period. Alternate URL. Their children's font series DMOACursive (2000) and DMOBCursive (2000) was posted on alt.binaries.fonts in November 2002. It also sells handwriting fonts of US presidents such as Abraham lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, as well as a font in the style of the Declaration of Independence. [Google]

SoftMaker Software GmBH (now: freefont.de)
[Martin Kotulla]

SoftMaker, Martin Kotulla's German foundry in Nürnberg, is selling the 10,000-TrueType font Megafont XXL CD (50 USD, www.megafont.de). Every month, a different font or font family (TT and T1) is given away for free. The MegaFont XXL has most standard Monotype/Adobe/Linotype families (up to 1995/1996). They say that most fonts are licensed from URW++ and Brendel Informatik (Cologne). Contents of MegaFont XXL's predecessor, MegaFont Profi CD, here. Since early 2001, you can download one font family from the CD MegaFont XXL here. Martin Kotulla also started infiniType, a collection of 5050 fonts at a good price (Mac and PC). The XXL series has character sets for Western and Central European languages, Turkish, and Celtic, and comes with many expert sets. For historical accuracy: older packages by Softmaker include the 3333-font (TT and T1) MegaFont Profi CD-2.0 (99DM), the 5000-font MegaFont Euro (50 Euro), the Truepack Profi-CD and the 500-font TypeMaker 5.0 Profi-Pack (10DM). In 2008, SoftMaker started selling fonts on MyFonts: fonts there include the 28-style Suetterlin family (2008), based on the handwriting taught in German schools in the first half of the 20th century. [Google]

SP fonts from Will Software

A number of school fonts from Will Software, made in 2001: SP-Anlaut3, SP-DRHH3, SP-DRHH318248, SP-DRHHRahmen, SP-DRViereck, SP-Inlaut1, SP-Inlaut118248, SP-Mathe3. [Google]

Spencerian penmanship

From Encyclopaedia Britannica: "Style of cursive script developed by Platt Rogers Spencer (d. 1864) of Geneva, Ohio. Energetically promoted by five sons and a nephew, the Spencerian method became the most widely known system of handwriting instruction in the third quarter of the 19th century." [Google]

Spotpages

Two tracing fonts for kids: NealFont (2000), Trace (2000). [Google]

StartWrite

Handwriting Software to trace dots, intended for kids. Software comes with three trace-the-dot fonts. "Included with StartWrite are the Manuscript (Zaner Bloser), Modern Manuscript (D'Nealian), and Italic (Getty-Dubay or Portland Italic) font styles." With an additional cursive font, 50USD. Based in Salt Lake City. [Google]

Storm Type Foundry
[Frantisek Storm]

Storm Type is a major Czech foundry that offers the inspiring work of Frantisek Storm (b. 1966, Prague). Most typefaces are made by Storm himself. The typefaces:

• Aaahoj: a ransom note font.
• Academica: Josef Týfa first published Academia in 1967-68. It was the winning design in a competition for scientific typefaces, announced by Grafotechna. It was cut and cast in metal in 1968 in 8 and 10 point sizes in plain, italic and semi-bold designs. In 2003 Josef Týfa and Frantisek Storm began to work on its digital version. The new name Academica distinguishes the digital execution (and modifications) from the original Academia.
• Aichel: originally designed for use in architecture (in this particular case for a UNESCO memorial plaque for a church built by Jan Santini-Aichel on Zelenà Hora). It has a stone-chiseled look.
• Alcoholica
• Amor Sans and Serif (2005).
• Andulka (2004): 24 weights for use in books, mags and newspapers
• Antique Ancienne, Moderne & Regent (2000): Baroque typefaces.
• Anselm Sans and Serif (2007): 20 styles about which Storm writes The ancestry of Anselm goes back to Jannon, a slightly modified Old Style Roman. I drew Serapion back in 1997, so its spirit is youthful, a bit frisky, and it is charmed by romantic, playful details. Anselm succeeds it after ten years of evolution, it is a sober, reliable laborer, immune to all eccentricities. It won an award for superfamily at TDC2 2008. It covers Greek as well.
• Areplos (2005): Based on Jan Solpera's 1982 face with serifs on top and serifless at the bottom.
• Bahnhof: poster typeface from the 1930s.
• Baskerville Original comprising Baskerville Ten Pro, Baskerville Ten Cyr, Baskerville 10 Pro, JBaskerville, and JBaskerville Text. This is an importantand thoroughly studied execution strating from photographs of prints from Baskerville's printing office, ca. 1760.
• Biblon (2000; note: ITC Biblon is a watered down version of Biblon, so please go for the original, not the ITC version). Biblon Pro (2006) is even better; 6 weights.
• Clichee
• Cobra (2001)
• Comenia Script (Radana Lencov&acaute;), an upright script with a handwritten look for teaching writing.
• Comenia Text (2006): a serif family for school books. Also called Comenia Pro Serif.
• Compur (2000)
• Defender (2008): a heavy slab family.
• Digita (2004)
• Dynamo Grotesk: Storm's 60-weight sans family going back to the early sans traditions
• Etelka (2005): a corporate identity sans family, which became commercial in 2006. Four Etelka Monospace styles were added in 2008.
• Evil
• Excelsior Script (1995-1996)
• Farao (a great Egyptienne font in 3 weights)
• Gallus Konzept (2007):Carolingian-Roman-Gaelic-Uncial script, or an exploration into how the Latin alphabet could look were the evolution of the Carolingian Minuscule to stop in the 8th century AD in Sankt Gallen.
• Genre: a modern face
• Ideal Gothic
• Jannon (this is a formidable Garalde family)
• Jannon Text Moderne (2001): thicker hairlines and smaller x-height than Jannon Text, thus more generally useful
• JohnBaskerville (2000)
• JohnSans (2001, a 72-weight sans version of Baskerville)
• Juvenis (2003)
• Kompressor: techno face
• Lexon Gothic: newspaper and magazine type family
• Libcziowes: based on the oldest lettering found in Bohemia, on a gravestone in Libceves dating from 1591
• LidoSTF (2001, free): a redrawn Times with lots of individuality, yet still a newspaper face
• Lokal Script (2009): a large handprinted letter family.
• ITC Malstock (1996-1997)
• Mediaeval
• Metron (2004, a digital version by F. Storm and Marek Pistora after a huge sans design from 1973 by Jiri Rathousky, which was commissioned by the Transport Company of the Capital City of Prague in 1970 to be used in the information system of the Prague Metro. In 1986, the metro started using Helvetica): this face is eminently readable!
• Modell: techno
• Monarchia [The "Monarchia" family, consisting of three designs, is a transcription of "Frühling" of the German type designer Rudolf Koch, enriched by a bold and text design]
• Moyenage (2008): a 25-style blackletter family for Latin and Cyrillic, almost an experiment in blackletter design and flexibility. Winning entry at Paratype K2009.
• Mramor
• Negro
• Ohrada: condensed upper case
• Ornaments 1+2
• Ozdoby 1+2 (great dingbats): The set includes heraldic figures, leaves, decorative endings, various skull forms, weather signs, borders and many more
• Patzcuaro
• Pentagramme
• Pentagraf: a slab serif
• Pivo (2006), a connected diner script inspired by Bohemian beer labels.
• Plagwitz (2000, blackletter)
• Preissig Antikva + Ornaments: a 1998 digitization and interpretation of Preisig's polygonal type from 1925
• Preissig 1918: a typeface by Vojtech Preissig cut in linoleum
• Preissig Ozdoby
• Regent II: a rustic Baroque typeface
• Regula Text and Regula Old Face. Regula is named after the secular monastic order Regula Pragensis. Initially, the digitized font (regular old Face, which is now free) had jagged edges and a rather narrow range of applications until the summer of 2009, when Storm added text cuts. Regula was a baroque alphabet faithfully taken over from a historical model including its inaccuracies and uneven letter edges.
• Rondka (2001)
• Sebastian (2003, a sans with a funky italic), about which he writes: Sans-serif typefaces compensate for their basic handicap - an absence of serifs - with a softening modulation typical of roman typefaces. Grotesques often inherit a hypertrophy of the x-height, which is very efficient, but not very beautiful. They are like dogs with fat bodies and short legs. More# Why do we love old Garamonds? Beside beautifully modeled details, they possess aspect-ratios of parts within characters that timelessly and beauteously parallel the anatomy of the human body. Proportions of thighs, arms or legs have their universal rules, but cannot be measured by pixels and millimeters. These sometimes produce almost unnoticeable inner tensions, perceptible only very slowly, after a period of living with the type. Serifed typefaces are open to many possibilities in this regard; when a character is mounted on its edges with serifs, what is happening in between is more freely up to the designer. In the case of grotesques, everything is visible; the shape of the letter must exist in absolute nakedness and total simplicity, and must somehow also be spirited and original.
• Serapion (a Renaissance-Baroque Roman face with more contrast than Jannon)
• SerapionII (2002-2003): early Baroque
• Solpera (digitization of a type of Jan Solpera, 2000)
• SplendidOrnamenty (1998, a formal script font)
• Splendid Quartett: an Antiqua, a sans, a bold and a script. Stor writes: "The script was freely transcribed from the pattern-book of the New York Type Foundry from 1882, paying regard to numerous other sources of that period."
• Tenebra: a combination of the Baroque inscriptional majuscule with decorative calligraphic elements and alchemistic symbols
• Teuton (2001): a severe sans family inspired by an inscription on one German tomb in the Sudetenland
• Traktoretka
• Tusar (2004): a digitization of a type family by Slavoboj Tusar from 1926
• Tyfa ITC + Tyfa Text: Designed by Josef Týfa in 1959, digitalized by F. Storm in 1996.
• Vida Pro (2005), a big sans family designed for TV screens. Vida Stencil Demo is free.
• Walbaum Text (2002)
• Zeppelin (2000): a display grotesk

Suetterlin

Freeware program for teaching the Suetterlin handwriting style. Includes a free Suetterlin truetype font (by Roman Georg Arens, Saarbrücken). Informative page by Marcus Hahn from the Historisches Institut der Universität des Saarlandes in Saarbrücken. [Google]

Sütterlin --- Deutsche Schreibschrift
[Andreas Göbel]

German pages by Andreas Göbel about the Sütterlin way of writing as proposed by Ludwig Sütterl;i(1865-1917) which was taught in schools in Germany from 1915 untril 1941. It is also called German handwriting (Deutsche Schreibschrift). [Google]

Sütterlin Schrift Lernprogramm

German page about the Sütterlin writing system developed by Ludwig Sütterlin (1865-1917). Page by Marcus Hahn, Historisches Institut der Universität des Saarlandes. The software has some Sütterlin truetype fonts. [Google]

Swansbury
[Nan Jay Barchowsky]

Educator Nan Jay Barchowsky from Aberdeen, MD, designed many fine handwriting fonts. She wrote "BFH, a Manual for Fluent Handwriting" and runs Swansbury Inc. Her connected and didactical fonts are part of a commercial package, BFH. In 2002, John Butler made a connected OpenType version of Barchowsky Fluent Hand. MyFonts sells Barchowsky Dot and Barchowsky Fluent Hand. [Google]

Teachers' Parking Lot

Educational handwriting fonts. Great dingbat and alphading archive too, all organized and presented by Joanne Lindgren. [Google]

The Difficult Type
[James Kilfiger]

James Kilfiger (The Difficult Type) designed the free calligraphic typeface Inkcallig (2006), as well as T-Ball (2006, handwriting), LetsTrace (2006; a *very* readable light sans, even at small sizes), LetsTraceruled, Pugsley (2006, a bi-ped Tuscan), Pugsley Oblique (2006), AlphabetofChildren (2006, based on 16th century illuminated caps), Animal Silhouette (2006), Fold (2006, an origami-inspired face), Pierce Roman and Oblique (2006, after Gentium) and Contrans. Link at the Open Font Library. [Google]

The Icelandic Method
[Gunnlaugur S.E. Briem]

A free instruction booklet by Gunnlaugur S.E. Briem written in 1985, and concerned with handwriting education for Icelandic children. Nan Jay Barchowsky, who published it in her series called Cursive Italic News says: The Ministry of Education in Iceland is introducing italic handwriting in schools. That is the result of pressure from teachers who were dissatisfied with the style they had, a copperplate-based business hand. A group of Icelandic teachers who are interested in experimental teaching of italic formed a working party last year, They were interested in the method and asked Briem to put together instructions that could be used with children by teachers who had little or no experience with italic. The members of the working party initially paid for the printing out of their own pockets. Dr. Gunnlaugur S.E. Briem donated his work. The scheme has been very well received. Letters of support have come in from handwriting experts in many parts of the world, Education authorities in other countries have suggested collaboration. The PDF showcases three font families by Briem himself, Italiuskrift05 (his casual handwriting for instructions, dated 1985), BriemAnvil06 (serif family) and BriemAnvilSans07 (sans family). [Google]

The Logical Choice

A free font, vicmodcu, for "Victorian Modern Cursive Handwriting" (truetype). [Google]

Thomas Ledin

Illustrator in the San Francisco area, b. 1970. Dafont link. Creator of the signage face Tom Bombadeill (2009), Bone Hymie (2009), Tioem Handwriting (2009), Tioem Open (2009), Tioem Black Distressed (2009), Flim-Flam (2009). He also made the lined didactic font Life Lessons (2009), the multilined scratchy face Scrum Bucket (2009), the grungy Rock Biter (2009), Truffle Shuffle (2009, Kafkaesque), Metal Up Your Ear (2009), Griswold (2009), Seismacrap (2009), Snarky's Machine (2009, 3d shadow face), and Grog-Binge (2009, handprinted). [Google]

Topologika Software

Located in Cornwall, UK, this company has free educational font downloads: Christopher Jarman's Jarman, Jardotty, Jarital and Jumper. [Google]

Trace Font

"Trace font for kids", by PJ Cassel Designs, 1997. Free at this site run by Home Education and Homeschooling. [Google]

TrueBlue
[Gianni Marcolongo]

Located in Canegrate, Italy, TrueBlue is the foundry of Gianni Marcolongo (b. Legnano, 1963). He created the scholastic handwriting font Pinocchio (2006), the connected calligraphic faces Emanuela (2008) and Martina (2007), TB FireSigns (2007), TB Matrix (2007, dot matrix font), TB Abacus (2007), TB Valentine A and B (2008, Valentine Day-themed dingbats), and the American-flag inspired TB StarsAndStripes (2007). [Google]

Type Revivals (or: SourceNet)
[Tim Ryan]

Tim Ryan is a Thousand Oaks, CA-based type designer and font enthusiast, who has helped me out generously with font links. His fonts are distributed by ITF and Monotype and Precision Type. Font list: AES, AcmeTR, AdmiralTR, AlpineWhiteTR, AncientTextTR, AssayTR, August family, AutomationTR, BinnerGothicTR, BinnerTR, BlackboardLinedTR, BlackboardTR, BoboCapsTR, BonGuia, Bondage-Oblique, Bondage-Regular, BoomerangTR, CameraStencilTR, CartoonPartyCapsTR, ChopinTR, CiviliteTR, ClaudiusTR, CollegeCapsTR, CoreDumpTR, DirectionTR, EclipseCapsTR, EngravedTR, ExpressTR, FlairTR, FrenchCapsTR, GabrielleTR, GaelicCapsTR, GoudyMediaevalTR, HelvinBlackTR, HelvinTR, HostessTR, KhayyamTR, KiddoKapsTR, KleukensTR, LadyDawnTR, MaximeTR, ModTR, PencilCapsTR, PlayBlocksTR, SaltinoTR, SansPlateCapsTR, SchoolScript-Bold, SchoolScript (1994), SchoolScriptDashed, SchoolScriptLined-Bold, SchoolScriptLined, ShalimarTR (Indic simulation), ShalomTR (Hebrew simulation), SimplexTR, SpringtimeTR, SukiakiTR (Japanese simulation), SusieQTR, VarianteInitialsTR, WashingtonTextTR, XerxesTR, SchoolOblique. Santa Barbara, CA-based SourceNet used to market didactic fonts, ca. 1992-1994, such as those listed above: SchoolScript-Bold, SchoolScript (1994), SchoolScriptDashed, SchoolScriptLined-Bold, SchoolScriptLined, but also DnealianCursive, DnealianCursiveLined, DnealianManuscript, DnealianManuscriptLined. [Google]

Typoecke

General type site (in German) run by Helmar Fischer from Dresden. Type history. Pages about educational fonts. [Google]

Typofabric

Plymouth, UK-based foundry, est. 2009. In 2009, they made the organic and slightly experimental sans faces Aplica, Shelter, Qero Lite and Qero Nite, and the schoolbook handwriting faces Sweety and Sweety Hollow, and the industrial Fabrikey (2009). [Google]

Ulusal Okul

Mersin-based Turkish designer (b. 1969) of UlusalOkul.Comizgili (2006), a handwriting face, with lines, useful for teaching. Alternate URL. [Google]

Visions Technology in Education

School font collection at 40 USD for the lot. [Google]

Walden Font
[Oliver Weiss]

Walden Font sells historical typefaces & clip-art by Oliver Weiss from Winchester, MA. A nice package called Civil War Press can be bought here. Free font Jugend WF (which can also be found here). They have also a gorgeous collection of Fraktur fonts, called the Gutenberg Press, which includes the great old German script font Kurrent Kupferstich and the charming Zentenar Fraktur and the elegant Peter Schlemihl. All 18 Fraktur and old German script fonts for 60 USD. Their pages include a brief history of blackletter. Their Renaissance & Handwriting font pack has 9 different handwriting fonts from 1450 to 1700. Minuteman Printshop has colonial fonts. Fraktur font list: Alte Schwabacher, Breitkopf Fraktur, Coelnisch Current, Fette Haenel Fraktur, Ganz Grobe Gotisch, Grossvater Kurrent, Gutenberg Bibelschrift, Kurrent Kupferstich, Luthersche Fraktur, Maximilian Gotisch, Neue Schwabacher, Peter Schlemihl, Suetterlin, Theuerdank Fraktur, Unger Fraktur, W'bg. Schwabacher, Zentenar Fraktur. [Google]

Way Cool Tools

From ETT (Educational Techniques and Technology) in Kingwood, TX: commercial font packages such as Teacher's Font Series(24 USd per font), School Font Collection (50USD per font), and ArithmeFonts Collection (49 USD per font). [Google]

WCM
[Paul Woods]

WCM, or Woods Creative Media, which is based in Salburg, UK, is run by Paul Woods. At MyFonts, it sells Skulebook (2007), a school book-style handprinted font. [Google]

Wegerer

Schuschri95-0 (orthographic handwriting font by H. Pollhammer and H. Pesendorfer from Salzburg, 1995), MM (sans serif by Judex, 2001). [Google]

Will Software
[Rainer Will]

Rainer Will Softwareentwicklung (Schöffengrund, Germany) developed many school and cursive writing fonts, ca. 1996-2005. They sell their fonts in 10 to 30-font packages, such as handwriting, Altdeutsche schrift, Barcodes, Schulschriften (school fonts). There are also East-European, Cyrillic, Greek, Thai and IPA fonts. Here, we have demos for various programs, and if you download and unzip them, you will discover these alphading fonts: FT-BruchTon, FT-HochztsGlocken, KD-Kaesweich, HB-Kegel, HB-Kegelhardt, HB-Kegelweich, KD-Pilz, KD-Singvogel, and these dingbat fonts: NW-BioBlatt (leaves, 1998), Pikto5 (1997). The caps font IN-Barock is here. Will Software made hundreds of fonts, including the handwriting fonts HW Jeff and HW Stone (1998), KL-Antiqua2, Old-London, Fraktur. A fuller list, by type:

• Alte Schriften (blackletter): Black-For, Chevalin, Civotype, Fleisman, Fraktur, German-Script, Germen-Type, Ghiollier, Goethe, Gotik, Gudenberg, Heinrich-Kanzlei, IN-Barock, IN-Barock2, IN-Barock3, IN-Florentine, IN-Fraktur2, IN-Fraktur3, IN-Geometric, IN-Gothic, IN-Gothic1880, IN-Innsbruck, IN-Jugendstil, IN-Jugendstil1920, IN-Jugendstil3, IN-LaRose, IN-OldGothic, IN-Schwabach, IN-Silhouette, IN-Uncial1475, IN-Walbot1, IN-Woodcut, IN-Woodcut2, KL-Antiqua1, KL-Antiqua2, KL-CapitalisQuadrata, KL-Fraktur1, KL-Gotic1, KL-Gotic2, KL-HKursive1, KL-HKursive2, KL-HKursive3, KL-Karolin1, KL-MKursive1, KL-MKursive2, KL-Rotunda1, KL-Rotunda2, KL-Unziale1, KL-Unziale2, Limpach, Luthan, MA-BastardAnglicana, MA-Bastarda1, MA-Bastarda3, MA-Current, MA-FereTextura, MA-GKursiv1, MA-GKursiv2, MA-Gotbuch, MA-Gotic, MA-InsularMinuscule, MA-Kurrent1814, MA-KurrentBarock, MA-Minuskel1, MA-Minuskel2, MA-Schreibschrift1900, MA-Schreibschrift1900Bold, MA-Urkunde, Meriage, Offenbacher, Old-Germen, Old-London, Petjes, Ried, Romand-Genealogie, Schlei, Schwaben, Suetterlin-2, Theudan, Verdn17, Verdn2, Walbot, Zentar-Bold, Zentar.
• Alte Schriften 2 (more blackletter fonts): AD-AlbrechtDuerer, AD-AltSchwaben, AD-Ballo, AD-Barock1720, AD-Blackpool, AD-British, AD-Burgundy, AD-CalligraphicAntiqua, AD-CalligraphicFraktur, AD-CalligraphicTextura, AD-Celtic, AD-CelticCollege, AD-Coburg1, AD-Coburg2, AD-Diagoth, AD-Dublin900, AD-Fraktur2, AD-GothQuad, AD-Gothisch, AD-Gotisch2, AD-Gotisch3, AD-GottfriedLeibniz, AD-Handschrift1, AD-Handschrift2, AD-Handschrift3, AD-Handschrift4, AD-Handschrift5, AD-Handschrift6, AD-Hans, AD-Herefordshire, AD-Hohenstein, AD-Huddersfield, AD-Italia1650, AD-Kaiser, AD-Odin, AD-Offenbach, AD-OldEire, AD-Patron, AD-Ponti, AD-Renaissance, AD-Sachsen, AD-Stebark, AD-Thingvellir, AD-Toulouse, AD-Turin, AD-University, AD-Wallgau, AD-Zierfraktur, Col-Barock, Col-Barock3, Col-Celtic, Col-Florentine, Col-Fraktur3, Col-Geometric, Col-Gothic, Col-Gothic1880, Col-Jugendstil, Col-Jugendstil1920, Col-Jugendstil3, Col-LaRose, Col-OldGothic, Col-Uncial1475, Col-Woodcut, Col-Woodcut2, Suetterlin-2, Suetterlin-4, Suetterlin.
• Familienschriften (fonts for kids, alphadings, dingbats): ArGlas3, ArSchatten7, Calos-Glas1, EffOutline, FT-Amor, FT-BruchGlas, FT-BruchTon, FT-GluecksKaefer, FT-GluecksKlee, FT-GluecksSchwein, FT-HerzanHerz, FT-Herzhardt, FT-Herzkranz, FT-Herzweich, FT-HochztsGlocken, FT-HochztsHerz, FT-Karneval, FT-Klecks, FT-Osterhase, FT-Sektknall, FT-Trommler, FT-WeihnachtsBaum, FT-WeihnachtsMann, Fingprnt-1, HB-Brfmarkclassic, HB-Brfmarkhardt, HB-Dart, HB-Fackel, HB-Fechten, HB-Filmklappe, HB-FrzBlattHardt, HB-Kegel, HB-Kegelhardt, HB-Lorbeerkranz, HB-Palette, JD-Halali, JD-Kerbe, JD-Pille, JD-Popblut, JD-Pseudokinese, JD-Pseudonippon, JD-Pseudoruski, JD-Schachhardt, JD-Timur, JD-Wurm, KD-Blumehardt, KD-Esel, KD-Franja, KD-Handschrift, KD-Kaeshardt, KD-Kaesmaus, KD-Katze, KD-LKW, KD-Lamm, KD-Nacht, KD-Obstigel, KD-Schneemann, KD-Zwerg, Revont-Kraeusel1, Teje.
• Festtagsschriften (holiday-themed fonts): FT-Amor, FT-Babyputte, FT-Babystorch, FT-Bethand, FT-Betkind, FT-BruchGlas, FT-BruchTon, FT-Clownslachen, FT-Cupido, FT-Eihardt, FT-Eikranz, FT-Eiweich, FT-Familienbande, FT-Getreide, FT-GluecksKaefer, FT-GluecksKlee, FT-GluecksSchwein, FT-HerzanHerz, FT-Herzbruch, FT-Herzhardt, FT-Herzkranz, FT-Herzweich, FT-HochztsGlocken, FT-HochztsHardt, FT-HochztsHerz, FT-HochztsJubilaeum, FT-HochztsKranz, FT-HochztsPaar, FT-Hufeisen, FT-Kalenderblatt, FT-Kanzel, FT-Karneval, FT-Kerze, FT-Klecks, FT-Kreuzlamm, FT-Menora, FT-Osterhase, FT-Schule, FT-Sektknall, FT-Spiegelfrau, FT-Spiegelmann, FT-Spukhaus, FT-Torte, FT-Trauerzweig, FT-Trommler, FT-Trompeter, FT-WeihnachtsBaum, FT-WeihnachtsMann, FT-ZuckrtuetHardt, FT-ZuckrtuetWeich, FTH-Fische, FTH-Jungfrau, FTH-Krebs, FTH-Loewe, FTH-Schuetze, FTH-Skorpion, FTH-Steinbock, FTH-Stier, FTH-Waage, FTH-Wassermann, FTH-Widder, FTH-Zwillinge, HB-Fackel, HB-Lorbeerkranz, HW-Handpic, KD-Blumebundt, KD-Lamm, KD-Nacht, KD-Schneemann, SP-Blume, SP-DRHH2, SP-DRHH3, SP-Face, WinterNacht.
• Geheimschriften (codes or secret fonts): SP-DRBYQuadrat, SP-DRHHQuadrat, SR-Abstrakt1, SR-Abstrakt2, SR-Abstrakt3, SR-Abstrakt4, SR-Abstrakt5, SR-Abstrakt6, SR-Astro, SR-Blatt, SR-Braille, SR-Chaos, SR-ChaosBold, SR-ChaosItalic, SR-Finger, SR-Geheim0, SR-Gesicht, SR-Labyrinth, SR-LabyrinthBold, SR-Marine, SR-Morse, SR-Puzzle, SR-Radierer, SR-Rune, SR-Schatten, SR-Schiffe, SR-Schloss, SR-Schmetterling, SR-Skyline, SR-Strichmann, SR-Tiere, SR-Wabe, SR-WabeBold, SR-Wappen.
• Handschriften: A1, A2, A3, Agnieszka, F1, F10, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F9, Ghiollier, Goethe, HW-Agilo, HW-Andrew, HW-Brouet, HW-Burg, HW-Clay, HW-Emmi, HW-Feliks, HW-Foster, HW-Guga, HW-Handpic, HW-Harico, HW-Hilly, HW-Jeff, HW-Jesco1, HW-Jesco3, HW-Jesco7, HW-Josh, HW-Marbo, HW-Pablo, HW-Phil, HW-PizPaz, HW-Renate, HW-Sarx, HW-Schneid, HW-Stone, HW-Tolomeo, HW-Tommi, HW-Turandot, HW-Veneto, HW-Vincent, HW-Vogel, HW-Volker, Handwrites-CTrac, KD-Handschrift, KG-Hand, Limpach, Offenbacher, Ried, Rw2, Schlei, Teje, Uggy, Verdn17, Verdn2.
• Handschriften 2: HW-Alec, HW-Allan, HW-Armand, HW-Bjarne, HW-Brian, HW-Carlo, HW-Cathy, HW-Claude, HW-Danielle, HW-Dario, HW-Eleanor, HW-Enrico, HW-Estelle, HW-Fabio, HW-Federico, HW-Giorgio, HW-Giovanna, HW-Giuliano, HW-Hakon, HW-Harald, HW-Jacques, HW-Jaro, HW-Jelena, HW-Juri, HW-Justine, HW-Kuno, HW-Larissa, HW-Laslo, HW-Lennart, HW-Lizzy, HW-Luitpold, HW-Manolo, HW-Marcello, HW-Murielle, HW-Nadine, HW-Paolo, HW-Pascal, HW-Pietro, HW-Roxana, HW-Thery, HW-Valerian, HW-Vittorio, HW-Wally, HW-Wilma.
• Schulschriften (lined fonts, didactic fonts): DR-HH, DR-HH1, DR-HH1Bold, DR-HH2, DR-HH2Bold, DR-HH3, DR-HH3Bold, DR-HH4, DR-HH4Bold, DR-HHBold, DR-HHEl, DR-HHEl1, DR-HHEl1Bold, DR-HHEl2, DR-HHEl2Bold, DR-HHEl2Italic, DR-HHEl3, DR-HHEl3Bold, DR-HHEl3Italic, DR-HHEl4, DR-HHEl4Bold, DR-HHEl4Italic, DR-HHElBold, DR-HHElItalic, DR-HHOL, LA-El, LA-El1, LA-El1Bold, LA-El2, LA-El2Bold, LA-El3, LA-El3Bold, LA-El4, LA-El4Bold, LA-ElBold, LA-ElOL, MA-Schreibschrift1900, Offenbacher, SAS-1, SAS-2, SAS-2Bold, SAS-3, SAS-3Bold, SAS-4, SAS-4Bold, SAS-Bold, SAS-OL, SAS, SP-AnlEssen, SP-AnlHaus, SP-AnlTiere, SP-Anlaut1, SP-Anlaut2, SP-Anlaut8, SP-Anlaut9, SP-Bear, SP-Blume, SP-DRHH1, SP-DRHH2, SP-DRHH3, SP-DRHHKubik, SP-DRHHQuadrat, SP-Dino, SP-Face, SP-VAKubik, SP-VAQuadrat, SPAnlMensch, Suetterlin-2, Suetterlin-4, Suetterlin, VA-Ansi, VA-Pe, VA-Pe1, VA-Pe1Bold, VA-Pe2, VA-Pe2Bold, VA-Pe3, VA-Pe3Bold, VA-Pe4, VA-Pe4Bold, VA-PeA, VA-PeABold, VA-PeBold, VA-PeOL.

Wilson Thomas

Designer (aka Funk King) who used FontStruct in 2008-2009 to make over 200 decorative fonts. Dafont link. Additional URL. Fontspace link. His creations include

• Alphabots
• Alphadings: Teed Off, Book Stack, Speaker Box, Ant Farm, Sound and Vision, Speaker Grill, Conga Lounge, Spinal, Add Van, Frostruct, Picket Fence, Regatta, Cranestruct, Impossible Alphabet, Igloo Village, Mortar Board, Jack, Marionette, Golden Gate (+Short, +Solid), Crossed, Eff U ("the finger"!), Tall Big Top, Jackpot, Skulls & Cross Bones Redux, Crosshairs, Drama Club, Good Day Sunshine, Butterfly, Steps and WEindows, Heartbroken, O Christmas Tree, and Christmas Lights, Supper Time (alphadings of plates), Sands of Time (alphadings of hour glasses), Fishbones (alphadings), Handy (alphading with hands), Hang Ten (feet alphadings) and High Five (hand alphadings), Armade and Ghost Ship Armada (ship alphadings), Cut Here (stitching alphadings), Schematic (electric circuit alphading), Masquerade, Mortar Board, Gearswork, Hi-Lo Gears, Gears, Gear Shift, Castle, Castle with Flags, Antique Keys, Rounded Keys, Pods, Piano Keys (+Alt, +Correct), Framework, Dixieland Jazz, Spats, and City of New Orleans (the last three are alphdings based on the same Victorian alphabet), Saturn, Piggy Bank, Voodoo Doll, Dice, Fist Bump.
• Antennas, Antennas Outline
• Antiquity
• Architect, Ruled, Gridworks, Blueprint (Solid, Dashed), Quadular (+Serif), Isometric Modified (+Light, +Bold Outline), Isometric (+Basic Latin, +Basic Latin Lite, +More Latin, +Bold.
• Art deco: Shift (bold), Eye Spy (this says Peter Sellers), Mod Squad.
• Atomic.
• Avenue
• Badge
• Ball and Chain (neat)
• Balls and Bats
• Barber Shop
• Barcoded
• Beachwear (horizontally striped)
• Beatnik
• Beltway.
• Birdseye
• Birdsteps
• Bitten
• Blackletter: Abbey
• Blanket Serif Caps, Blanket Sans Serif
• Block Inline Block
• Block Mosaic (great gridded letters)
• Blockheads
• Blood Sweat & Tears
• Bolt, Bolted
• Build A Bridge
• Buzz Kill
• Carp Black, Carp Blanc
• Caterpillar, Tall Caterpillar.
• Cattails
• Chain Gang, Krazy King
• Channel
• Cherry Bomb.
• Chubby
• Circuit Board Solid, Circuit Board Outline, Circuit Board Outline Numbers, Circuit Board Simple, Micro Clean, Microcircuitz, Circuit Board Simple.
• Circus Maximus Outline
• Clean
• Cobblestones
• Compass (+Plain)
• Connected scripts: Cruise, Jet Cruise (2009), Notched Script (upright, connected), Rough Script (italic, connected), square Script (pixelish, connected).
• Contempole
• Crispy Inline (classy)
• Crooked Marker, Marker
• Crop Circles
• Curls And Twirls
• Cut Here
• Daisies (nice rounded square letters with painted daisies)
• Decoscriptic, Decoish.
• Diamonds Are Forever, Liberty (dot amtrix fonts)
• Didactic fonts: Back to School.
• Digital, Digital Whimsy (gorgeous fonts in which the meat of the glyphs is made up of 0's and 1's), Digital Italics, Digital Non-italics.
• Dingbats: FSEmoticons, Maven Pictograms, Temp (weather dings), Sports Wave, Bullet Arrows
• Dinner at 8
• Diode
• Directional
• Disco Ball, Disco Salvation
• Domino, Dominodot
• Dot matrix fonts: Ying Yang (2009)
• Double Decker
• Eiffel family: mechanical.
• Emergency
• eq Regular, eq Radio Waves, eq Tight
• Extension Cord
• Fairy Tale (curly)
• Fantastic
• Fast Cars, Fast Lane, Fast Forward
• Fifty Famous Fairy Tales (bi-lined and bejeweled)
• Flair Ornate, Flaired Script, Flair, Flaired
• Floor Plan
• Flash (gridded face)
• Folk Art (wooden plank simulation)
• Font Troll
• Fractal, Wireframe, Hemisphere, Origami (now Mummification): experiments in glyph partitioning.
• Funk, Funky palms
• Gemstone (letters in a mosaic)
• Glyphs made from broken objects: Broken Combs, Broken Glasses
• GI Joe
• Grain
• Graphont
• Heath Robinson (gorgeous mechanical font).
• Honeycomb Black
• Inline: Hi-Fi Deco, Track (+Filled), Crispy Inline
• Iphont (white on black dot matrix face)
• Ironside, Ironworks.
• Isomixed (+Inline, +Inverted, +Light, +Inline Light), Isomixerd Moire (nine textured styles).
• Jeannie
• Jelly Bean series: I's, Wide, O's, Split
• Jetsons
• Kaleidoscope, Kaleidoscope Solid
• Lace
• Ladder
• Last Days Of Summer, Endless Summer, Beach.
• Lattice, Lattice Black
• Lean
• Leaves
• l-e-display
• Little Miss Muffet.
• Loom.
• Love, Love Letters
• Madison Avenue: kitchen tile face.
• Martini
• Metroliner and Metroliner Deluxe.
• Mike
• Modern Ancient (chiseled font imitation)
• Molecular (+Complex, +Complex 1), Dense Molecular Complex (1 through 5), Molecular Architecture, Tessellation 1 (+Continuous).
• Montreal (+Italics)
• Monumental, Less Monumental,
• Mortar Booted (+Thick, Separated, Mission).
• Mouthy
• MyBlock
• Necklace
• Ninja.
• Oblique
• Octovision Remix
• Open & Shuttered Day, Open & Shuttered Night
• Oriental simulation/look: Shoji Pixel, Shoji Stage & Screen Soapbox, Chinese Democracy, Asian Influence.
• Outline Habitat
• Palm, Tall Palm
• Patterns
• Pavers
• Pipes
• Pixel Dust, Pixels Dusted
• Plaid
• Popsicle Sticks (nice vertically striped glyphs)
• Power Grid, Power Gridlocked
• Puzzle
• Radio Waves
• Razorback Block
• Regular Habitat
• Relativity
• Repeat
• Riveted
• Road Trip
• Satellite
• Say What? (Exaggerated ink trap face)
• Scripts: Diode (+Dioded, Diodoubled, Diodocked, Diodedocked, Diodiced), Scherzando, Fontstitution, Rough Script, Scriptilicious, Whipped Cream, 45 Degrees.
• Skulls, Skully
• Slice N dice
• Skyscraper.
• Small Wonder
• Sole
• Soma (2009): 3d letters mades from cubes.
• Spooky Eyeballs (2009).
• Squiggles
• Stained Glass, Stained with Cross
• Starburst
• Stencil fonts: GI Joe, Kid's Stencil (white on black), Tri-Fold, Tri-Fold Cut, Tri-Fold Rounded, Stencil, Stencil Plate, Stencil Face, Semi Stencil, Psuedo Stencil, Psychedelic Stencil
• Stitching fonts: Sampler
• T-Shirts on a Clothesline
• Swamp Frog and Tadpole: artsy fat letters
• Swamp Funk, Mojo (curly letters)
• Tabular
• Tall Habitat
• Techno look: Technified, Slick.
• Teepee (wood look)
• Textile
• Thalistic.
• The Big Top
• The Real McCoy
• Tiki.
• Time
• Timpani, Timpaniless, Timpaniblok, Alien Crop Circles (outer space face).
• Upright connected scripts: Madie (2009)
• Valentine's fonts: Hearts and Flowers, Hearts and Arrows, Keys to your Heart, Bed of Hearts
• Vapors and Mirage: evaporating glyphs
• Victorian fonts: Alouette, Swamp Funk
• Waveform
• WPA Household Arts Stripes, WPA Household Arts Chex, WPA Household Arts (poster stencil face)
• Wee The People
• Werner Paperclip (2009).
• Western fonts: Western Doodle, Sparky, Buckaroo, Diamond Buckaroo, Saloon and Desert Rose. Western style alphadings: Cart Before The Horse, Wagon Train
• Weird
• White on black faces: Tabs, Dot Keys, Rounded Keys, Block Keys, Keys.
• Wiggles
• Wim Crouwel-related fonts: Edgar Fernhout (a Wim Crouwel tribute font taken from a 1963 poster), Kalender 1976 Letters (octagonal based on a Wim Crouwel calendar from 1976), Kalender 1976, Brusselmans (based on a Wim Crouwel poster), Rabobank (based on a Wim Crouwel poster), Brabant (based on a Wim Crouwel poster)
• Woodcut, Woodcut Recut
• Woven.
• Wrenched
• Yay Team
• Zebeast (Zebra-striped letters)
• Zodiac Block