Dearfont
✍️ Free to start · No design skills needed

Turn your handwriting into a real font

Write on any paper or draw right here. Download a font you can type with in Word, Canva, Cricut and every other app.

Create my font — free

Free · No credit card · About 10 minutes

Install once, use it in every app on your computer

Microsoft WordPagesCanvaCricut Design SpacePhotoshopIllustratorFigmaProcreateAffinitySilhouette StudioKeynoteInDesign

two ways to start

How would you like to write?

Both make the same real font, and you can mix them any time.

Draw in your browser

Finger, mouse or Apple Pencil. Each letter gets its own box with guide lines.

Start drawing

Write on any paper

No printer needed. Write the alphabet on a sheet, snap a photo and every letter is cut out for you.

Start with paper
  1. 1

    Draw or scan

    Write each character with your mouse, finger or stylus. Prefer paper? Write them on any sheet — no printer needed — and take a photo with your phone.

  2. 2

    Fine-tune

    Preview your font live as you go. Adjust size, baseline and spacing, redraw any letter, and add alternates so repeated letters look natural.

  3. 3

    Download & type

    Get a TTF (plus OTF, WOFF and WOFF2 on Pro). Double-click to install and start typing in your own handwriting.

everything included

A font studio, minus the learning curve

Natural variation

Draw up to three versions of each letter. Your font cycles through them so double letters never look copy-pasted.

170+ characters, 30+ languages

Accents and special letters like é ñ ü ß ç ł ø ş — so your font works in French, Spanish, German, Polish, Turkish and more.

Smart spacing & kerning

Letters are spaced automatically from their shapes. Fine-tune any pair when you want total control.

TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2

Desktop-ready and web-ready files that pass the same validation browsers use.

simple pricing

Start free, upgrade when you love it

Make and download your first font for free. Go Pro for more characters, formats and natural variation.

Free

$0

2 fonts · TTF

One font

$9

one font, every Pro feature

Pro

$4

/ month, billed yearly

Lifetime

$99

once, Pro forever

Compare plans

Questions, answered

Yes. The free plan lets you create fonts with A–Z, a–z, numbers and basic punctuation and download them as TTF. Pro adds accented and extended characters, alternates, ligatures, more formats and more fonts.

No. You can draw every letter directly in your browser with a mouse, a finger or a stylus. If you prefer pen and paper, write on any sheet and take a photo with your phone — no printer or scanner needed. A printable template is there if you want the most precise result.

Any app that uses installed fonts: Microsoft Word, Pages, Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, Procreate, Cricut Design Space and many more. Canva lets you upload fonts on its paid plans. You can also use the WOFF2 file on websites.

You do. Your handwriting and the font generated from it are yours to use for personal and commercial projects. See our Font License page for details.

Yes. The free plan covers A–Z, a–z, numbers and basic punctuation. Pro adds 170+ characters — accents and special letters for French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Nordic, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Turkish and more — plus symbols like € £ © ♥.

Real handwriting never repeats a letter exactly. With alternates you draw up to three versions of each character and the font rotates through them automatically in apps that support OpenType features, so words like 'hello' look natural.

Yes. Cancel from your billing page in two clicks; you keep Pro until the end of the period and your fonts stay yours forever.

Guides & tutorials

All guides
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Your handwriting deserves to be a font

It takes about ten minutes and it's free to start.

Create my font