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Brush Fonts

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I remember a few years back when I was just getting my start as a logo designer, and realizing that brush fonts were really gaining in popularity. I didn’t have much to back it up with, but I thought that brush fonts might just be the latest design fad. I’ll tell you, though, my attitude changed whenever my own clients began requesting the use of brush style fonts more & more often.

And thus began my love affair with purchasing brush fonts!

PS, my opinion now? The textured brush style is here to stay!

A good brush font should be many things: textured but not too textured, legible, and versatile. I adore the movement that they have often have, and I love the organic quality that the texture brings. It’s a little rough around the edges – quite literally – and they’re perfectly imperfect. More often than not, the brush options are script style, rather than serif or sans, although there is a fantastic range of options out there for all styles.

My Favorite Brush Font To Use

Angeleno Brush Script is my all-time favorite brush font that I’ve ever created. Brush scripts aren’t typically my strength, but I really do enjoy creating them and using them. Angeleno is a little gritty and has a specific edge to it – I lettered it with Los Angeles’ attitude in mind.

Designers, guess what?! I’ll let you in on a little secret. I didn’t use a paint brush or even a brush pen for this font. It was created entirely digitally! I made my own Procreate Brush that had the specific amount of texture I was hoping for. Digital lettering is my favorite, really – I love the ease of use for creating, easily undoing, and always skipping the scanning process. I suppose you could say this enables me to be a little more environmentally conscious – no paper waste! – but it’s really just because digital is so much more convenient for me and there is no clean up involved.

Anyway, this font has pretty impressive features, if I do say so myself! I really wanted to make sure that it held true to a handwritten look & style, so…in addition to 35 lowercase alternate characters, it has over 100 ligatures. The ligatures lend themselves to a more flowy, handwritten look because they mimic how a person would write a combination of letters. Feature rich font designs are something that I’m known for, so this font is no different!


This script would be a perfect fit for a variety of projects, but my favorite is for logos. You can check out a few versions that I’ve put together below. I simply love that it looks like a scrawly signature, and it really does have a moody, in-a-rush kind of attitude! I also think that blogs & product packaging would be a good type of project for this font, and clearly this script looks fabulous on quote graphics, too, so social media-related usage would also be a fantastic fit.

You can grab this script font for $14, and it includes a personal + commercial license. BUT, I have a better suggestion if you love this style.

I Offer A Collection of Brush Fonts!

If you truly love using a brush script to design, I would recommend checking out the designs in my Brush Font Bundle! It includes five of my most popular brush scripts – Angeleno happens to be in there, as well as The Glen, Waterssong, Key Largo, and Wild Children. Wild Children is actually a font duo, which makes it even cooler! While each of these has a similar quality using textures to create visual interest, they all have totally different styles, which makes them super useful and versatile for a wide variety of projects. To top it all off, the Brush Font Bundle gives you pretty impressive savings, too! There are $58 dollars worth of goodies in this bundle – it’s only $18 to make them a part of your own collection, though!

One of my goals for 2021 is to put together a few new brush font additions for my site. I’ve thought about how merging the texture of a brush font with the bouncy nature of calligraphy might go, so I might have some additional styles to add in. Keep your eyes open for that – I have so much planned and so much to design!

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Brush Fonts Make a Great Website Accent

Web designers, you’re always looking for something to make your page design stand out right away that’s easy to use, not what everyone else has, and will impress your clients, right? Use of a textured font like these is one surefire way to do just that, if your project lends itself to that. Sometimes, though, it’s a good idea to call in a little extra design help.

Free Brush Fonts

If you’re looking for a free brush font to play around with & see if it’s your preference for your next project, I have one for you! I give away five free fonts when you sign up to my mailing list, and lucky for you, I have a lovely textured mini font in there called Edgewood! (A mini font simply means that it’s lacking punctuation, accented characters, etc. It’s only letters!) This little brush font was my first venture into the world of creating brush texture on letters. Initially, I wasn’t sure how I felt about it, but I’ve grown to quite like this font. It seems that other folks do, too, so I’m sharing it with you!

You can sign up through the link below to get your freebies!

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Cute Fonts for Designers

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Hey there designer, if you’re here, it’s because you’re actively looking for some super cute fonts for your projects. I’ve got them & here’s the self-serving spoiler alert – you can get 300 of my fonts in a single bundle. Now that I’ve made my pitch, I have what might be some of the best information you’ll read today.

You Can Have a Great Business in Fonts

If you’ve got the desire to learn & the commitment to invest in the tools needed, you can have mobility & a steady, predictable revenue stream.

Confession: My actual handwriting is pretty much crap. It’s amusing to me that my husband will often push a form toward me whenever we need to fill out information, saying that my handwriting is better than his. It may be a bit more legible, but if I have to fill anything out, it will look absolutely nothing like the cute fonts that I have on my website – I literally had to train myself to letter every single one of the fonts you see on my site.

During the early stages, I’d seen so many lettering artists talk about drills and developing muscle memory. I questioned it — sometimes literally out loud — whether muscle memory was even a thing as it relates to lettering. Turns out, it is. Y’all, it’s a real thing. Who knew?!

Anyway, I always think about it like this – even if the world’s greatest artist was playing Pictionary, what you’d see would look nothing like their actual real work. That’s because it takes time, effort, and inspiration to design a font … much in the same way that a painter would plan out their next masterpiece.

How Does One Begin Designing Fonts?

I started out in the design world as a branding expert, designing logos and brand identities for my customers. I’d always had an interest in font design and learning how to hone my lettering skills. To make a long story short, I took a font design course and learned how to do all of the seemingly complicated things to turn my lettering into an actual quality font. To a new learner, it is complicated, but I would actually say that the process more complex than anything.

Cute fonts are my favorite to letter & program. I take a lot of time to plan out my alphabet, create various versions of the letters, multiple symbols, and select the characters that fit the style of font that I’m envisioning in my head…and trust me, at any given time, there are a ton of ideas floating around in there, especially for new cute fonts! On occasion, a font idea will often completely change into something I never intended it to – I think that it’s part of trusting the process that leads to the end result.

It seems that my followers think cute fonts are pretty awesome, too. I typically get the most comments on things that I think are “cute” even though they can take on a variety of styles, like printed fonts or script fonts. I think that my crafting font bundles are the best collections of cute fonts that you’ll be able to find on my website! These font bundles are also some of the best values for picking up multiple fonts at a fraction of the cost!

My Bestselling Cute Fonts

Best Buds is one of my more recent releases, and the cuteness is almost unbearable. This sort of font has many possible uses but I really like it best for social media graphics. I think that the text has an interesting quality to it – oversized capital letters, smaller lowercase letters that sit higher than the baseline, and some really fun alternate characters that feature either a heart, a line, or a dot. Anything designed using this font will have a super playful mood, and I think that Valentine’s Day would be the perfect occasion to be able to use this font! That’s also why I gave it such a fun brand with the idea of things that go well together & my customers constantly come up with even more ideas in their own content!

Frick and Frack is another one of my cute fonts that I think people absolutely adore. It’s a monoline font – meaning, there aren’t thicker downstrokes and thinner upstrokes, it’s just consistent all the way through! It mirrors the way a ballpoint pen or a gel pen would write, and it’s got a slightly messy handwritten look! I love the ligatures that I included in this font, because it really enhances the handwritten feel!

You can purchase both Best Buds & Frick and Frack as individual fonts, but if you’re really looking to expand your arsenal of cute fonts, I would highly recommend checking out my Handlettered Font Bundle!

My Recommendations for Aspiring Font Designers

Check out Teela’s course – that’s the first investment that you’ll need to make to begin designing your very own fonts & creating more than the boring sort of fonts that so many of us get tired of seeing. She makes additional tool recommendations in the course that will help in any of your font designs along with specific settings that you might want to use on your given system & all sort of fun facts & helpful information that you’ll need for font-making. There’s also a closed Facebook group that you can ask questions & get information specific to what you’re working on – maybe I’ll see you there!

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Fun Fonts Make a Website Happy

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Fun fonts make my world go ’round, but that might be because I’m obsessed with all things letters & lettering! I’d venture a guess to say most designers obsess over fonts, though!

I think that out of all the design resources available on the web today, fun fonts are the best, but “fun” could mean so many things, can’t it? I think what makes a fun font fun is how it affects your mood – it doesn’t matter if it’s a sans font, a script font, a display font, or even a font that has doodles – fun font styles can all be used so many ways simply because of how the word “fun” can be interpreted by any given person.

For me, I love fonts that are versatile and have many possible uses in a wide variety of projects – I mean, if you think about it, even a slight change like the font weight can impart the perfect touch to your typography. Most of my fonts get used in branding projects, and social media posts. I also know that a lot of crafty people purchase my fonts so that they can create their own designs in Cricut Design Space!

If you’ve been searching for a few fun fonts, look no further – I have a few recommendations that come from my font shop! There are so many styles that you’re sure to find one that is the perfect look & feel for your project.

Lemme make it easy for you – here are the super fun fonts listed in this post!

My Favorite Fun Font

Boogie Down! is my absolute favorite fun font to use whenever I need to create something that is playful and whimsical! This font makes me smile for a few reasons! Apart from it being adorable in general, it’s named after my Husky puppy, Boogie. (Let’s be real, though – she’s two and a half years old, but she will always be a puppy!) Look at that cheesy smile!!

Boogie loves playtime, walkies, scritches, and she loves my kids. The name Boogie Down! also makes me laugh – obviously, it can be taken in a fun & playful manner, like dancin’ and gettin’ down, right? But since Boogie is a dog, it’s also sorta like telling her to get down off of something. Funny, eh? Or maybe I’m just easily amused.

At any rate, Boogie Down! has a really fun look & feel, and I love the handwritten style. It has super clean edges, which makes it a great fit for your Cricut or Silhouette machine and vinyl cutting projects. It includes some really cute ligatures that make the letters fit together perfectly & playfully. These double-letter variants work a bit better than two standard characters typed out. If you’re working in Adobe CC Illustrator or Photoshop with the ligatures button toggled, your program will make an automatic replacement for you! Easy as pie when you’re working with this typeface!

While it is an all-caps style font, I’ve taken a bit of liberty with a few characters – namely, the lowercase i and j characters, and have dotted them with the cutest little heart for just a little something extra. All other characters are uppercase letters, though, in varying sizes with a bouncy baseline!

Designers can use Boogie Down! for logos & branding for a child-centric brand, like perhaps a children’s boutique or someone that works with kids on a daily basis. I mocked up a logo design using Boogie Down! – you can see one of them below! I love how the TT ligature works together in this one.

kidswear Boogie Down
I think that the font is also really awesome for creating fun social media graphics. Creating cute shirt designs or other fun apparel is also a great use for this font. Check out a few examples below!
love and tacos Boogie Down
Why be moody, Boogie Down

Looking At You, Web Designers – Dress Up Your Links!

Web designers, I know that you tend to like getting things done efficiently & that you guys & gals tend to get stuck in a rut in terms of what’s paying the bills because you get to be known for a certain style so you feel obligated. But you’re also able to remember when website design was fun for you, right? Truthfully, it still is, if you’re able to take a few minutes to add that je ne sais quois to your client’s site.

Using fun fonts to draw the user’s eye more to your on-page links is a great way to do just that & will make that website stand out from the crowd that much more & bring increased demand for your services. Smart typeface use on your links for the win!ย 

What About A Fun Script Font?

Boogie Down! is a great example of a fun sans font, but what if you’re looking for a fun script font? Meet Autumn Love, you’re gonna love her! This bounce calligraphy script is so incredibly versatile. Not only does it have a few cute alternate characters and ligatures, but it also includes hearts galore!! My favorite feature of this font is that each lowercase letter has a swash option that makes it so that the designer can connect words with a little heart! I also include left and right heart swashes, as well as a swash option with no heart – just a beautiful, flowy line. I even include a few glyphs that feature only heart shapes as a bonus.

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heart font extra features

Autumn Love has a clean edge, which makes it perfect for crafters, but I find that any project or occasion is a good fit for this one! Feminine logos or branding are an instant perfect fit. It’s also great for web design, since the letters are quite legible and easy to read.

I released this font in the fall, close to Halloween, so I put together a few cute designs that were autumn-themed, and I think that it looks so adorable! What do you think?

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heart font shirt design

As an added bonus, Autumn Love comes with another version that is perfectly paired with the bouncy calligraphy script! Yes, Autumn Love is a font duo, so you get both the calligraphy font, as well as the sans font shown in these images. Font duos make it super easy to design things, because you don’t even have to worry about whether or not your project will be cohesive with regard to font pairings — it’s already done for you!

Free Fun Fonts

If you’re new to downloading & using custom fonts, you might want to look into some free fonts first! This will basically let you know if you’re a fan of using something that isn’t a standard font that comes on your machine already. I do have a few free fun fonts — say that five times fast! — that I offer to my fans & followers. All you need to do is sign up for my mailing list!

Whenever you do sign up to my mailing list, you’ll receive a few select fonts for free! I provide a few different handwriting fonts for you to test out. If you like what you’re working with, you might want to consider investing in more fonts. (Did you know I offer a badass font bundle that includes 200 of my fonts?!)

My free fonts are personal use only, so if you really dig one or more of them, you’ll only need to purchase the font itself to begin using it commercially!

Oh, and about that mailing list? Don’t worry, I won’t spam you. I only occasionally send out a news letter to let folks know about new fonts I’ve released, or perhaps provide you with a bit of inspiration for your next project.

Font Support – I Gotchu Babe!

As always, I offer support for any font purchases. You’ll receive more than one format in your download: .otf, .ttf, and webfont files! The font format I recommend installing is the .otf file since it’s the most widely used type. If you help with your download, installing your font, figuring out how to use the OpenType features, or inspiration on how to pair your font for a project you’re working on, you are quite welcome to send me an email or a contact form so that I can help you!

Any font purchase comes with personal use and commercial use, so you are welcome to create items for yourself and for your business by using my fonts!

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Rustic Fonts Add Design Relevance

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Similar to farmhouse fonts, rustic fonts can help to bring the perfect feel to your new website page or post with just the right typography styles. Rustic font styles can help give a vintage look to wood signs, as well, if you’re a Cricut or Silhouette user, so this isn’t limited to the online audience. Finding the perfect rustic font to complete your project can sometimes feel like Christmas morning!

Having spent so much time learning about typography, letter forms, and font styles, it’s not always an easy task to find the fonts that complete your design! It can be incredibly complex, and sometimes, a single letter can throw your entire design off & leave you in frustration over not quite nailing the style you had in mind. Don’t worry, though, there’s no need to resign yourself to a boring Times New Roman style font, I can help you with a look at how rustic typography can be put in just the right place!

I frequently get questions from my customers, asking which fonts might pair best together with some of my rustic font options. Rustic fonts come in all types of styles – sans serif, serif, cursive, and even brush fonts!

Rustic Fonts In This Post

Just to make it easy peasy for you, here is a list of the fonts I reference in this post!
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My Go-To Rustic Font

Brioche is my go-to rustic font these days….but the best part is that isn’t not a single font! It’s actually a font family. It includes more than one weight – regular and bold weights are included, and I also include an outline version, as well as an italic version of the font. How’s that for versatile, my friends?

Brioche is handlettered, but it doesn’t have quite the same handwriting look & feel that many other fonts have – it’s more precise, clean, and has a touch of simplicity. I like that it also has a slight vintage elegance.

Rustic Font Brioche Sign Example

This display font has a slight, subtle texture which really lends itself to the rustic, country style. Perhaps my favorite thing about this font is that it has a few extra characters, which are a little whimsical! The capital letters A, J, K, and R extend below the baseline and add a bit of play between the other characters.

Rustic Font Brioche Cookbook Example
Rustic Font Brioche Cookbook Cover Example

Other Rustic Font Styles I Love

Spring Market Serif looks fantastic in all caps, and is a bit more rustic in nature than Brioche!

tote mockup using rustic font Spring Market

Magnolia Tree includes two font styles – regular, and inline!

Sassafras Sans comes in two weights, and is reminiscent of Rae Dunn home decor!

Sassafras Sans Rustic font

Script Fonts

I think there is a misconception that rustic fonts are always more masculine in nature, and may be perhaps a bit harsh. That is not the case, though, because even script fonts can have a rustic, organic, or whimsical feel!

Sanibel Brush Font is one of my favorites to recommend whenever someone requests a recommendation for a cursive style font. Sanibel has a textured edge, which adds to the rusticity. When paired with that neat, bouncy calligraphy feel, it’s the perfect fit for your project if you need something that produces a more feminine result!

Sanibel is the kind of font that designers will find incredibly versatile, since you can use it for so many different things! This script font has a lot of cool features. In addition to the slightly rough edge, it boasts ligatures and alternate characters that enhance the handwriting style! This font pairs well with Brioche, which is the font I chose to label the features below! I’m a fan of using rustic fonts paired together just like that!

Sanibel Brush Font

Sanibel is ideal for designs such as social media graphics, logos & branding, or even on your website to draw attention to headings. Here are a couple more examples!

Sanibel Brush Font
Sanibel Brush Font

Other Font Styles

Script and serif fonts are not the only style fonts I have available! Rustic Market Sans is another rustic font I have available! I mean, it even has the word “rustic” in its name! There are so many things that I love about this font! In comparison to some other rustic fonts, this actually has a very smooth edge. It cuts very cleaning on vinyl cutting machines like Cricut or Silhouette, which makes creating your own rustic & farmhouse style items a total breeze!

It also includes a full set of alternate characters — both upper and lowercase. It effectively makes it two fonts rolled together, which is probably the best reason this is so appealing to a designer like me! It’s hard to go wrong with more bang for your buck, and the lettering styles are entirely complementary of each other. It also includes all of the standards: punctuation marks, numbers, Western European language support, and it’s all PUA-encoded!

I don’t typically like to use mixed case for my projects, but even with this font, it looks totally cute! Check out the picture below – it creates a playful, fun mood!

Rustic Market Sans - Rustic Font

When lettering & designing this font, I definitely had the crafting audience in mind. Like I said, smooth edges on each of the letters, a cute and whimsical look & feel, and the perfect touch for farmhouse chic designs!

I love the result this sort of font gives whenever you apply it to a t-shirt design, but I also find that it works really well on social media graphics, too! I also think that it would work really well for a website heading, or elements needing just a little more oomph and attention.

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Project Ideas Using The Rustic Style

Check out a few more ideas using the rustic fonts in this post!

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Font Bundles Save Designers Money

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Listen up, people, I’ve got some great information for you on font bundles. Most serious designers will tell you that investing in a font bundle is one of the smartest decisions that a designer could make! I’m not telling you this just because I offer aย killer font bundle, though.

Bundles typically offer a tremendous value to people – designers, crafters, & hobbyists alike. As an example, any one font in my shop sells for $5-15 each but if you look at my bundles, they’re usually no higher than what 2-3 individual font files would cost & my font bundles will have far more than just 2-3 files in them. Individual font designers, like me, offer font bundles on their own websites and through various marketplaces that allow digital downloads & design resources to be sold. Be sure to check licensing on font bundles that you’re considering purchasing to be sure that how you’d like to use them is allowed by the designer – my font bundles all include user license & commercial use.

Font Bundles Are A Great Investment, Boss

Font bundles aren’t only for individual designers, either. Being able to purchase in a bundle means that businesses, such as design agencies, printers, etc. can save a little cash, for starters. Most font bundles range in price from $15-$50, and will often save you hundreds or thousands of dollars compared to purchasing a single font.

In addition to that, bundles are often curated for very specific styles, which allows people to expand their font arsenal with a variety of options. Me? I have some specific bundles that feature certain styles like farmhouse or signature style fonts. 

The search for the perfect font sometimes feels like a neverending, lengthy, and sometimes maddening search, but you won’t need to look very far…promise!

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The One & Only Font Bundle You’ll Ever Need (At Least From Me & Until Volume 2 Comes Out!)

I do offer multiple font bundles to people but the best of my font bundles is this one, guys! Allow me to introduce to you myย Handlettered Font Bundle. I’m serious, it’s the only one you’ll ever need. (Although, as a font addict myself, I can’t guarantee it’ll stop you from purchasing other individual font files or other font bundles!)

This bundle has it all! The vast majority of my fonts are totally handlettered, although I do have a few mouse-made fonts lurking in my collection. You’ll find such categories as handlettered sans & sans serif fonts, all the way to cute crafty fonts perfect for your Cricut machine, trendy signature fonts, and elegant calligraphy fonts. The ways in which you can use these are practically endless & people love how unique they are on gifts!

Are you a numbers + brief detail kinda person? Check this out.

  • Over 200 fonts, all of which include basic characters, numbers, punctuation, and Western European language support
  • Individual font files valued at over $2400
  • Personal + commercial licensing included

The font bundle price? $29. Crazy, right?

Check out a small sampling of what’s included!

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What Do You Use This Font Bundle For?

Many of my followers and customers use my fonts for things like logo & brand design, social media graphics and ads (marketing people will tell you that using the perfect font on ads can make all the difference!), making or designing crafts (like Cricut machines), creating products like signage or posters, and many other creative items. You can find some of my fonts used on Amazon products, on Minted.com, on Smallwoods, and in many individual Etsy shops!

I do my best to make my licensing easy peasy for my customers. Your purchase of this font bundle (or any individual font) includes a single user license that covers personal and commercial use! That means you can use my fonts for your personal projects, and for products & items that you sell, whether you’re selling in person or on an online marketplace like Etsy!

I love packing my fonts full of extra features. Many of them feature alternate characters that truly enhance the handwritten look & feel. I also include fonts that have lovely flowing swashes. Some have more extensive features, like heart doodles or hearts that connect words, like my Autumn Love font.

Customer Support

Need some extra help? I offer continued customer support for all of my products and offerings. I have a variety of blog posts to help you learn how to harness the cool features that I like to include. If you’re a novice font user, I even include blog posts on how to download & install! Your experience with my resources should be smooth & seamless!

I remain available via email to answer any questions and assist with any technical difficulties.

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Being able to provide fun to use tools, helpful information, design resources, and really awesome font bundles is extremely important to me…and nothing is better than being able to see your font designs out in the wild! It’s truly gratifying to see my own work show up in the designs of other creative professionals!

Don’t spend one more dollar on hand-lettered fonts in another marketplace – get this bundle, and you’ll be set to design to your heart’s content!

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