Grungy, hand-lettered type has been with us for a long time. About a decade ago, I did all the headlines and callouts for my blog with a Bic pen -- I thought the look was super cool. That look gets pretty old, though; not many sites should look like a fifteen year old's angsty poetry journal.

More recently, the awesome opening sequence for the movie Juno put the spotlight on a growing trend towards scratchy, hand-lettered fonts that look like actual typefaces, rather than chicken-scratches. This look will probably be cliche soon enough, too, but in the meantime I've been hunting around for fun hand-lettered fonts that actually look like type. Naturally, they're all free...  Continue reading...