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Calligraphy fonts. 10 free pen and brush scripts for cards and prints you sell.

Fondamento scores 8.65 in the lab’s calligraphy style, the highest of the 10, with Quintessential at 8.27 and Lugrasimo at 8.15.

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Every calligraphy pick is lettering drawn with a pen or a brush, licensed for cards, quotes and place cards and for prints you sell.

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calligraphy score 8.65 · pick 1 of 10

Fondamento

Fondamento · free

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Why Fondamento fits calligraphy: calligraphy score 8.65, 1 weight, and 1 italic.

Print for calligraphy: cards, quotes and place cards.

Selling for calligraphy: prints and goods sold with the lettering.

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Can I use them for cards and for prints I sell?

Licence verdicts for 10 free calligraphy fonts
Free fontLicencePrintSelling
FondamentoOFL 1.1✓✓
QuintessentialOFL 1.1✓✓
LugrasimoOFL 1.1✓✓
Eagle LakeOFL 1.1✓✓
Water BrushOFL 1.1✓✓
Comforter BrushOFL 1.1✓✓
Island MomentsOFL 1.1✓✓
BabylonicaOFL 1.1✓✓
Kolker BrushOFL 1.1✓✓
CherishOFL 1.1✓✓
  • Print (cards, quotes and place cards): yes for all 10, OFL 1.1 Condition 5.
  • Selling (prints and goods sold with the lettering): yes for all 10, OFL 1.1 Condition 5; the font file itself may not be sold on its own (Condition 1).
  • OFL 1.1 text

Which of the calligraphy fonts to pick

Fondamento is a starting point for names on place cards, with calligraphy score 8.65 and Google Fonts popularity rank 157. Quintessential can carry the words on quote cards, with calligraphy score 8.27, while Water Brush can handle the main lettering on prints and goods, with calligraphy score 7.49 and Google Fonts popularity rank 406.

Setting calligraphy

Fondamento at calligraphy score 8.65 is the most typical pen lettering of the 10; Cherish at 6.5 is the least typical, a freer hand.

Fondamento is the only calligraphy pick with an italic, for a second line under the main one.

What the rule selected: the 10 calligraphy fonts and their numbers

10 of the 36 fonts that pass the rule for calligraphy, out of 1,674 checked, the most typical first
Free fontcalligraphy scoreWeightsItalicsGoogle Fonts rank
Fondamento8.6511157
Quintessential8.2710572
Lugrasimo8.15101080
Eagle Lake7.7110349
Water Brush7.4910406
Comforter Brush7.34101155
Island Moments7.1710409
Babylonica6.86101568
Kolker Brush6.72101285
Cherish6.5101619

Calligraphy: selection rules

Calligraphy fonts: questions

Which free font is best for calligraphy?

Fondamento, with the highest calligraphy score of the 10, 8.65; Quintessential follows at 8.27 and Lugrasimo at 8.15.

Are these calligraphy fonts free for print and products you sell?

All 10, from Fondamento to Cherish, are under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows print (cards, quotes and place cards) and products you sell (prints and goods sold with the lettering).

Which calligraphy font suits place cards?

Fondamento or Quintessential: they score 8.65 and 8.27 as calligraphy, the most of the 10, then compare a guest’s full name at your actual card size.

Which of these calligraphy fonts is the most used?

Fondamento, at rank 157 on Google Fonts, then Eagle Lake at 349; Cherish is the least used of the 10, at 1619, and all of them come in one weight.

How were these calligraphy fonts chosen?

Calligraphy is lettering drawn with a pen or brush: the lab’s calligraphy style. 36 of the 1,674 free fonts we checked pass that rule for calligraphy. The 10 here are the most typical of the style, from Fondamento at calligraphy score 8.65 down to Cherish at 6.5, one font a family.

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