10 Must Have Casual Script Fonts with a Vintage Flare

For Your Inspiration & Font Folder

Nothing lands closer to a designer's heart than nostalgia. Especially for the 1950s when things were done by hand. Illustration and lettering were essential skills in the designer's arsenal. Just browsing through a magazine from that time period you can find a vast array of casual script fonts that define that time period. In this round up, we'll take a look at 10 must have fonts that take a few vintage cues.

League Script Number One
By The League of Moveable Type

This ain't no Lucinda. League Script #1 is a modern, coquettish script font that sits somewhere between your high school girlfriend's love notes and handwritten letters from the '20s.

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Thander
By Artimasa

Thander is a combination of brush lettering and speed writing. It is thick, tight, and has irregular shapes to make it feel much more personal.

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Mission Script
By James T. Edmondson

Mission Script is a signage-lover's dream. Condensed, casual, sweet, and sincere. A celebration of the brush.

Download Mission Script by James T Edmondson

Gilded Hand
By Nathan Brown

Gilded Hand is a free hand drawn script font. Its elegant yet imperfect lines are great for adding a hand written feel to your artwork.

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Ventography
By Måns Grebäck

Ventography is an awesome brush style script. The letters have a fast, yet clean style, that forces you to take notice.

Download Venography by Måns Grebäck

Wisdom Script
By James T. Edmondson

Wisdom Script was originally designed for Woods of Wisdom, a 50 part poster series on bad advice.

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Reklame Script
By Hannes von Döhren

Reklame Script is a brush typefamily consisting of four weights. This family is influenced by the handlettering of printed advertisements of the 1940s and 1950s.

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Thirsty Script
By Yellow Design Studio

Thirsty Script from Yellow Design Studio is a contemporary script conceived as a marriage of elements from vintage signage scripts, Wisdom Script, Deftone Stylus, and Lobster. The result is a typeface with a ‘new meets vintage' vibe.

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Lighthouse
By Måns Grebäck

Wonderfully thick vintage inspired typeface.

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Shepia
By Seniors

Shepia is a Monoline Cursive Handwriting. classic and fun vintage script. With almost 390 glyphs and 188 alternative characters, contain with opentype features. Stylistic alternates, Ornament, swash and more.

Download Shepia by Seniors