Comments on: 10 Beautiful Free Hand-Sketched Fonts

By: Kok Siong Chen

Kok Siong Chen — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:45:47 +0000

Among the fonts you recommended above, i like the Sketch Block the most. It is more nature to look at. Thanks for sharing!
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By: Nicholas Cardot

Nicholas Cardot — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:20:14 +0000

Gonzo the Great » Thanks for those recommendations. I’m in no need of a commercial font right now as I personally do very little graphic development myself but I’ll keep them in mind if I do need something like that.

By: Gonzo the Great

Gonzo the Great — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:19:09 +0000

Hi Nick,

great selection of free hand-sketched fonts. As always with free fonts it’s always missing some character, style or symbol and some have really issues problems like the kerning. Therefore not always of good use in your graphic design work!

I love the Sketch-book type and if you’re willing to use this font on a ‘commercial basis’, best buy this: http://tinyurl.com/cluugh (light and bold version)

And yes, check out the charactermap, almost all are there: http://tinyurl.com/ydaqv5g

And best part of it all: Both fonts cost you just $30! And no, I’m not working at this particular foundry/fontshop, hihi!

Thanks again for the post, Cheers & Ciao …
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By: Nicholas Cardot

Nicholas Cardot — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:52:11 +0000

Lauren –> Thanks for letting us know about your fonts. I checked them out last night and they actually are very cool. And even though you think that your newest one is cutesy, as you said, I think that it looks very professional and I plan on using it for some graphics probably around Valentines day. I think it looks great.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:53:19 +0000

Nice sketchy fonts. Lindsay is right, free fonts can be very useful in serious web designs and this is particularly true regarding those of the hand-drawn variety.

I make fonts so I know that it is true. Making quality traditional serif or sans serif fonts requires attention to EVERY detail and aspect of each character, while making a good hand-drawn font does (or should) require attention to detail, much of what needs to be considered when makign tradiotnal fonts does not apply.

BTW ::aghem:: I know of another amazing sketchy font not on this list. Just so happens to be my LT Chickenhawk font. You can find it on my blog or dafont http://www.dafont.com/lauren-thompson.d1997

Love fonts, really nice of you to share them with your readers.
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By: Arisu

Arisu — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:41:08 +0000

As I said, people that ain´t into typography won´t get it. But my English is not good enough to explain fonts in proper but simple terms.

By: Nicholas Z. Cardot

Nicholas Z. Cardot — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:31:32 +0000

akira07 –> This site is actually using Sketch Rockwell.

By: lindsay

lindsay — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:29:08 +0000

Look at the shapes of the lettering. In the SKETCH BLOCK the letters look like BLOCK letters called Slab Serifs. They have big thick vertical lines and big thick Serifs. A serif font is a font that has the little “tabs” that come off of the letters. For instance, this font here is a serif:
OLD STYLE FONT – serif font

If you look at the letter L you will see two tabs that come off of the bottom, they kind of look like a stand.

A sans serift (meaning without serif) is like this font:
Sans Serif example
You can see that there are no tabs coming off of the font.

Now, a slab serif is just a serif with big, thick lines. The font i posted is VERY different from the SKETCH BLOCK font in that the shapes of the lettering offer a much more “refined” feeling with their thinner serifs and vertical lines.

By: akira07

akira07 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:18:42 +0000

Haha i’m not font freak so i’m sorry if i can’t get that .

I think what makes it different is just a line pattern inside the alphabet.

If sketch rockwell and sketch block using diagonal pattern, intimidacy font have horizontal pattern. Do you understand what i said, i fear my english is hard to understand

By: Arisu

Arisu — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:07:43 +0000

Akira>>

Not at all! Even if having the same uhm, pattern? The form of the characters and the feeling they give it´s very different.

But I guess only font freaks like us get that -_-U