All business owners appreciate their clients and know that their success relies on them, but do clients know that? Companies usually send out holiday cards in December and January which makes it tricky to stand out from other mail. Enter Valentine’s day! Show your clients some L-O-V-E this February by sending them cute postcards.
Sending postcards to your customers is a very cost-effective marketing strategy for both small and large businesses. Sending postcards offers benefits such as reinforcing your call-to-action, increasing customer engagement and showing appreciation. According to DMA, there is a 5.1% response rate when it comes to sending direct mail. This rate is the highest since 2003, according to Response Rate Report. Therefore, sending postcards is an excellent marketing strategy.
When designing Valentine postcards, you need to keep in mind a few things such as your target audience, the card size, what you want to achieve, and so on. The colour, design elements and style are also very important factors to consider when designing a postcard. This is why, we have listed ten FREE handwritten fonts that will help you create a postcard for your client with a personal and loving touch.
Missy Meyer design this is a free, natural, brushed handwritten font. There are two versions of this font available, which is the rough version and the smooth version. Both versions have unique characters, accented characters, and 15 lowercase and uppercase double-letter ligatures.
It is a beautiful font to use on Valentine Postcards, T-shirts, headlines, logos, posters, wedding invitations, and so on. It can be used both commercially and personally by designers, photography professionals, or anyone interested in using a beautiful font.
Missy Meyer also created another font to test Type 3.2, a software that is used for editing and font creation. This font is usually referred to as the one-day font because the kerning, letterforms and spacing were created on the same day, therefore because of this, some features might be a little bit off. With a file size of one hundred and five kilobytes, it does not take up a lot of space.
It, however, has only one style, with an intuitive pen tool. Cavorting is available in three formats, which include OTF, WOFF, and TTF. It can be used on projects such as logo design, branding and is also an awesome font to use on T-shirts, Valentine Postcards, book covers, billboards, and so on. This handwritten font is free for personal and commercial use. You can download cavorting here.
Want a stylish font that is full of life for your valentine postcards? This one was created by Free Goodies for Designers and is an excellent font for anyone seeking to use it in a graphic design project such as digital or print. Brux font is available in OTF, Webfont, and TTF formats with a file size of 3.6 MB. It is a very vivacious and animated font that commands attention from any audience.
An impressive feature of this font is that its characters are available in multiple languages, which include Latin, Spanish, Swedish, and German. This uppercase only font is free for both commercial and personal use. You can download Brux here.
Polem Studio creates this beautiful, modern, free, calligraphy typeface. It has a natural-looking writing style with a lot of cool features, which include swash, standard ligatures, stylistic sets, stylistic alternates, and contextual alternates. Available in OTF, WOFF, and TTF formats, free for personal and commercial use.
Excellent for use in wedding invitations, greeting cards, logos, letterhead, T-shirts, signage, news postcards, labels, badges and so much more. It has a file size of 412 kilobytes and is available only in Pixel Surplus. You can download Ambarella Font here.
Rawberry Strubarb Ink designed this handwritten font. With a file size of sixty-four kilobytes, it does not take up space on your device. It is available in OTF and TTF formats and is free for both personal and commercial use. This brush script has exciting features like a wet brush style, which makes it quirky.
It is incredible for projects such as billboard posters, headlines, logos, titles, and, of course, valentine postcards! It can be used by designers, marketers, etc. You can download Westchester Font here.
This beautifully designed free font was created with dry brushes, designed by Artimasaan and is free for commercial and personal use. It boasts of three styles, which are Ornament, Script, and Caps, which can be used together to create excellent looking designs.
This font comes in both TTF and OTF formats with a file size of seventy- six kilobytes. A handy font for designers, photography professionals, artists, and anyone interested in design. It is perfect to use on Postcards, T-shirts, mugs, bags, throw pillows, birthday cards, invitation cards, badges, illustration purposes, and so on. You can download The Playlist Font here.
Dafont designed this free font. It has handwritten shapes that are natural with an irregular baseline. It looks like a hand-lettered brush because it was optimized from the drawing of the regular brush. This modern brush script comes with some open features, which are ligature, stylistic set, and contextual alternates.
It comes in handy when you need to design wedding invitations posters, Valentine Postcards, T-shirts, mugs, throw pillows, hoodies, book covers, and so on. It is a free font that can be used both commercially or privately. You can download Cutie Star Font here.
This is also a free hand-painted brush font. The edges of this font look messy with different line thicknesses, but it still gives a hand-drawn feel that genuine. This caps only font comes in both TTF and OTF format with a file size of 14 kilobytes.
This Rambler Creative design is best used for designs that have to do with outdoor and exploration because of its unique look. It is free for commercial and personal use.
This beautiful signature looking free font was designed by et Studio. This premium font has dry strokes that have a texture that looks rough but at the same time, has the appearance of natural curves, thereby making it look authentic. It is a script typeface that has rave reviews with a file size of 248.96 KB.
Accessible in Adobe Photoshop Open Type menu under stylistic sets and also in Adobe Illustrator Glyphs panel. It boasts of different stylistic sets ligatures for characters that are lower case which makes it perfect for branding, postcards, wedding invitations, badges, hoodies, social media ads, throw pillows, product packaging, book covers, and so on. It comes in TTF and OTF format and is free for personal and commercial use. You can download Quentin Font here.
Lanmikraz Studio designed this premium quality calligraphy typeface. It boasts of sixty-nine alternate characters and two-hundred and forty-four glyphs. It is available in OTF format with a file size of 47Kb. A very nice font for branding, greeting cards, postcards, invitations, quotes, t-shirts, and any design that will require a personal feel.
It’s accessible on Adobe illustration. Coreldraw X6-X7 and Adobe Indesign, which are all compatible with Open type program. Character Map in Windows should be used to get access to the alternate characters for applications that are not open type or Glyphs supported. It is free for personal and commercial use. You can download Setta Script Font here.
This carefully selected list gives you 10 of the best handwritten fonts that are free for download for both personal and commercial use. Beautiful handwritten fonts are varied in style and execution; therefore, as a designer, knowing the best font to use for a project can make a significant difference in how your designs, such as postcards, turn out which goes a long way in giving your design a personal feel.
Cynthia Young loves taking every opportunity to share her knowledge with others. Along with digital marketing, Cynthia is also passionate about personal growth and wellness. When she isn’t writing, she goes hiking with her dog, cooking Thai cuisine, and enjoying hi-tech thrillers. She also frequently writes articles on the company The Word Point translation service.
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