If it's a typography project, honor it by using fonts that don't look handwritten.

Also, what you're drawn to isn't unimportant, but consider who it's for. Just yourself?

hhp

I like Rollerscript by Nick Cooke.

I should ask, what kind of handwriting? And why are you using type instead of the real thing?

I'm basically fusing a quote with an image, every day for an entire year. It's quite a lot of images so I'm looking to expand my type collection. After nearly 300 images.. I'm hoping to bring some freshness!

I'm not really looking for hand-writing, per se... just something to add some flavor. It's a personal project so there is not really an audience exactly. Some of the quotes are more playful or light though... so a typeface that reflects that would be great! (I assumed hand-written... but I'm open to other suggestions).

I've enclosed a few basic examples of typefaces I thought reflected this 'feel'. I'll post them in type ID ... but if you have any other suggestions -- it would be much appreciated.

Thanks! :)

http://www.1001fonts.com/antherton-cloister-font.html

hhp

Hi Jason,
Check out some of the categories at this site —
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/style/Handdrawn

Theo

I like the Dear Joe fonts from JoeBob

http://www.myfonts.com/foundry/JOEBOB_graphics/

Tim

Blado, all lower case.

The effect of using a foundry text type in display is that of the blow-up, a graphic effect which enhances the roughness of the image—the same effect as that of using a “hand-written” face. There is something of the objet trouvé in this, which gives it an artistic quality.

The no-caps setting, which was a popular concept in the 1950s, further serves to distance the setting from a commercial title or headline; there is something poetic in this, in the manner of cummings, and something modern, in the manner of Bayer.

I think what you're looking for are closer to the keyword 'brush' than 'hand-written'. if you've got some time, have a go at with some paint, its quite fun. good luck.