What's this handwritten font?

August 22, 2008 12:40 PM

Can anyone identify the font in this picture?

I've already tried What the Font with no luck. I know it's a really low resolution image, but does anyone recognize this handwriting font? Thanks in advance for your help.

posted by MythMaker to media & arts (8 comments total)

Based on the amateur quality of the letterforms (tails and 's' too long, create awkward spaces), it's likely a free font. Peruse the handwritten category at dafont.com.

If you want something a little more professional, have a look at this list of handwriting fonts.
posted by Typographica at 12:44 PM on August 22, 2008

I already checked out dafont, actually, with no luck so far. Thanks for the suggestion!
posted by MythMaker at 12:50 PM on August 22, 2008

Is there a chance that it's not a font at all, but rather the original artist's actual scanned handwriting?
posted by wabbittwax at 1:05 PM on August 22, 2008

Here is the the creator's deviantART page. You could try emailing him and see if he'll tell you what font he used.
posted by studentbaker at 1:31 PM on August 22, 2008

I ran through the questions on Identifont, too, and while I got 30 matches, none of them were right. This is kind of making me crazy...that lowercase "m" and the awkward spacing Typographica mentioned seem SO familiar; however crude it might be, it's definitely a font I've seen elsewhere and not something made from scratch by the designer.
posted by bcwinters at 2:14 PM on August 22, 2008

Found it. It's a free font called Arabdances.
posted by bcwinters at 2:28 PM on August 22, 2008

Oh wow, very different than the image implied. Do I get half a point for guessing it was free?

If you're interested in other Arabic emulation emulation Latin type, there's FF Falafel and Faux Arabic.
posted by Typographica at 4:53 PM on August 22, 2008

That's it! On his deviantART page, he has a much higher resolution version, and you can see the little dots over the lower case i. I guess he erased the extra dots on the other letters.

Thanks so much everybody!
posted by MythMaker at 5:01 PM on August 22, 2008