About this site

When my children were learning to read and write I searched everywhere for a font which matched the handwriting style they were being taught at school. There didn't seem to be any, at least none that were affordable for a parent.

I'm now a family learning tutor which means that I work with parents and children in several schools. I wanted to use fonts for worksheets and activities which would match the varied styles used by the schools, particularly the cursive writing style with an entry stroke.

Eventually I decided to make my own font. My first attempt involved scanning a sample of my own handwriting and sending it to a website to be turned into a font. I was disappointed with the result. I had written my handwriting sample very carefully and thought all my letters were neat and the same height, but the finished font looked very messy! In the end I decided to buy some font editing software and have a go at tidying it up. After many hours of effort I had produced a quite reasonable font. Since one of my courses included handwriting development I looked for an easy way to convert my font into a dotted style. I couldn't find an easy way to do it so I spent ages editing each individual character and copying and pasting little dots into place to make up each letter. I got quite carried away and moved on to arrow fonts and styles with handwriting guidelines too.

That's how it all started. I ended up creating several fonts so that I could match the styles in each of the schools where I teach. Once the first font was completed I found it was fairly easy to alter just one or two characters as needed.

If the style used in your school is slightly different to the fonts offered here, contact us and send me a description (or better still scan in a picture and attach it to an email). If I think it's doable in the time I have available I'll make the changes and add it as a new font to my collection.