Educational Fontware, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells handwriting fonts based on workbooks produced by companies listed at the end of this page, whose registered trademark (®) or copyright (©) marks are asterisked (*) below.
If you have questions about how to use handwriting fonts in general, click on the FAQs. Otherwise, if you know which font you want, click on the name below, or if you aren't sure, scoll though the samples below until you find letters that work for you.
Note that the cursive alphabet letters below are NOT connected - they are individual letters only.
Clicking on the name of the font family (in blue) below will open a printable page of the font variations in the font family. There are 21 different font families - a lot of scrolling! - so we put the 4 most popular ones on top, followed by the rest in alphabetic order.
D'Nealian® - style* (DN) variations
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Note: The DN font family comes with accents for French, Spanish, and German, both Manuscript and connected Cursive.
Zaner-Bloser© - Simplified style* (ZB) variations
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Zaner-Bloser© - Traditional style* (OZ = Old style ZB) variations
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Handwriting Without Tears® - style (HWT) variations*
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A Beka® - style (AB) variations*
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Bob Jones University© - style (CCU) variations*
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Cursive First© - style (CF) variations*
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Frank Schaffer© - style (FS) variations*
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Getty-Dubay Italic© - style (GDI) variations*
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Harcourt Brace® - style (HB) variations*
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Loops and Other Groups© - style (LG) variations*
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McDougal, Littell© - style (MCD) variations*
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Palmer© - style (NP = New Palmer, VP = Vintage Palmer) variations*
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Peterson Directed Handwriting© - style (PM) variations*
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Seattle School District style (SSD) variations
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Steck Vaughn© - style (SV) variations*
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Specialty (SP) font variations
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Decorative (DF) font variations
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A primary grade Special Ed teacher has developed a program to help reinforce handwriting lessons. It has an animation of how to write each letter, both cursive and manuscript. Check it out.
Our handwriting fonts are not endorsed by the workbook publishers below. The fonts are intended to be a supplement to their workbooks.
Apple Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple Computer,
Inc.
Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
DN Cursive, DN Manuscript, ZB Cursive, ZB Manuscript, OZ Cursive,
OZ Manuscript, HB Cursive, HB Manuscript, HWT Manuscript, HWT
Cursive, PM Cursive, PM Block, PM Slant, McD Cursive, and McD
Manuscript are trademarks of Educational Fontware, Inc (EFI).
LinkLetter and UndoLinkletter are copyrighted by EFI.
*A Beka is a registered trademark of Pensacola Christian College. EFI based this font on the style shown in workbooks developed by A Beka Book, Inc. EFI, however, is in no way affiliated with Pensacola Christian College, Inc., A Beka Book, Inc., A Beka Academy, Inc. or A Beka Foundation, Inc.
*Our CCU fonts are based on materials copyrighted by Bob Jones University.
*Cursive First is a copyright of LITHBTH Publishing. Our fonts were developed to support the Cursive First workbook and the Spell to Write and Read© methodology.
*Workbooks using the DK fonts are available from Educators Publishing Service, Inc, 31 Smith Place, Cambridge, MA, 02138-1000; 1-800-225-5750
*D'Nealian is a registered trademark of Scott Foresman - Addison Wesley Publishing Company.
*We developed our FS fonts using materials copyrighted
by Frank Schaffer Publishing.
*Getty-Dubay Italic is a handwriting method developed by Barbara
M. Getty and Inga S. Dubay. We worked with Ms Getty and Ms Dubay
to develop our GDI fonts. For more information about Getty Dubay
Italic teaching materials contact: Portland State University,
Continuing Education Press. URL: http://www.cep.pdx.edu/
*Handwriting Without Tears is a registered trademarked of Jan
Z. Olsen.
*Harcourt Brace is a registered trademark of Harcourt
Brace & Company.
*Our LG fonts are based on Loops and Other Groups, copyrighted
by Therapy Skill Builders.
*Our McD fonts are based on materials copyrighted by McDougal, Littell & Company.
*Palmer is copyrighted by Macmillan Company. Palmer Method is ® by the A N Palmer Company.
*We developed the Pentime (PT) fonts for JKL Services, who use the fonts to produce handwriting materials for the Amish community.
*We worked with the people at Peterson Directed Handwriting and used their copyrighted materials to develop our PM fonts. Their web site is http://www.peterson-handwriting.com.
*We developed our Queensland fonts using workbooks by Horowitz Martin Education.
*We developed the Seattle School District (SSD) fonts using a 1993 K-5 handwriting manual called Write It Right, published by Seattle Public Schools.
*We developed our SV fonts using materials copyrighted
by Steck Vaughn Company.
*We developed our ZB and OZ fonts using materials copyrighted
by Zaner-Bloser, Inc.