Dancing Script
A free alternative to Murray Hill
The letters in Dancing Script sit at slightly different heights and sizes, so a word wanders above and below its baseline instead of marching along it — that bounce is the whole design, taken from the casual scripts American foundries were selling in the 1950s. The capitals are large and drop below the baseline, which makes them awkward mid-sentence and excellent at the start of one. It carries a weight axis from 400 to 700, which script faces rarely get, so a heading can be thickened without swapping to a different font.
Alphabets
- Latin
- Latin Extendedaccented characters for most European languages
- Turkishincluding ı, İ, ğ, ş and the rest
- Vietnamesethe full set of stacked accents
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- Foundry
- Released
- Category
- Alternative to
- License
- Commercial use
- Good for
- Weights
- Styles
- Variable
- Glyphs
- Languages
- Download size
- Source
Size ladder
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Characters
Uppercase
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Lowercase
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
Numerals
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
Punctuation & symbols
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Use it on the web
@font-face {
font-family: 'Dancing Script';
/* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
src: url('/fonts/dancing-script.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400 700;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Dancing Script', cursive;
}License
OFL-1.1
You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.
Commercial use allowed
Questions
- Is Dancing Script free for commercial use?
- Yes. Dancing Script is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
- Can I use Dancing Script in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Dancing Script belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Impallari Type. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Dancing Script?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 1 font file inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up. Dancing Script is a variable font: the single file carries all 4 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — only reads the first weight and will show it as Regular. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 4 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
- Does Dancing Script support Turkish?
- Yes. Dancing Script includes the characters Turkish needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.
- Does Dancing Script support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Vietnamese?
- Yes. Dancing Script covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Vietnamese, across 643 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.