Chalk fonts have a childlike appeal, emulating the imperfect style of chalkboard writing. They add a visiual texture to your design, giving it a richer mixed-medium feel.

Songwriters Fonts lets you channel rock stars of the past by downloading a program that lets you write in their script. Besides Kurt Cobain, there's also the David Bowie or Leonard Cohen fonts.

For a more professionally produced handwriting font, look to Chank Diesel’s Go Font Yourself, volumes 1 and 2. Each collection contains several dozen handwritten fonts by real people.

No one has done more to kill off handwriting than typographers. The fonts and typefaces they have created are the primary non-verbal medium through which we communicate our ideas: on computers, on ...