Find a handwriting or script font
Script fonts are the hardest to identify. Here is how to get a usable answer anyway.
Drop an image of handwriting or script type
If the letters join up, try to crop a section where they separate.
Free and unlimited. No account. Your image is never stored.
Drag to select just the text. Tighter crops are far more accurate.
Which word?Pick the one whose font you want.
Check the letters.
Matching
Comparing letter shapes against 1,900+ fonts…
Results
How this was matched
Your image
Getting an accurate result
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Joined-up scripts are the one case where letter-by-letter measuring fails, because the letters form a single connected shape.
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When that happens you will be told, and results are ranked by overall letterform character instead — treat them as "similar", not "identical".
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Look for capital letters or the start of a word, where letters are more likely to stand alone.
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Real handwriting is not a font at all. If the image is genuinely handwritten, the best you can hope for is a font with a similar feel.
Why scripts are different
Every other category of type can be measured letter by letter: crop the image, separate the letters, compare each shape against the library. Connected scripts break that method at the first step, because “Handgloves” in a flowing script is one continuous shape, not ten letters.
Rather than pretend otherwise, this tool detects the situation and says so. The results shift to fonts with a similar overall character — useful, but a different kind of answer, and labelled as such.
Getting a better script result
Look for a crop where letters separate: capitals, the first letter of a word, or a more upright script. Even three or four separable letters give the matcher something real to measure.
Frequently asked questions
Why is my script font not identified exactly?
Identification works by comparing each letter's shape individually. In a connected script the letters run into one another and cannot be separated, so there is nothing to measure letter by letter. We tell you when this happens rather than presenting a guess as a match.
Can you identify real handwriting?
No — and neither can anything else. Real handwriting is not a typeface. What you can get is a font that resembles it, which is what the results offer in that case.
What are the best free handwriting fonts?
The library includes several hundred open-source handwriting and script families, all free for commercial use. Browse them by category in the font library.