As you can tell by the header on this website, I’m a sucker for sketchy designs and hand-lettered fonts. I don’t get to use them very often when creating visual materials for the library, so I decided to sneak them into this announcement slide on our library website.
Dafont.com is a great source for free fonts, including handwritten styles. The ones used above are Claire Hand (from Dafont) and Chalkduster (which I believe comes standard with most computers). The clock is a modification of a sketch from Flickr user Xv.
For the original Photoshop file, email Veronica Arellano Douglas.
February 8, 2013 at 9:49 pm
Sketchetik is a nice font for this kind of use, too. Outlines with scribble-fill can look like pencil or chalk, depending on the color scheme. The scribbles look better in larger sizes, so it’s a good title/headline font. Sketchetik Light is a freebie. If it’s something you find yourself using all the time, you can get more options buying the font family as a package. May be available elsewhere, but I picked it up at MyFonts.com.