Patrick Hand
Patrick Wagesreiter digitised his own handwriting, and unlike most attempts at that it stayed legible — the letters are separated rather than connected, the stroke is even, and nothing is exaggerated for character. That makes it usable for the thing handwriting fonts are usually wanted for and usually fail at, which is a note or an annotation that has to actually be read. One weight.
Alphabets
Style
Specification
- Designer
- Patrick Wagesreiter
- Released
- 2011
- Category
- Handwriting
- License
- OFL-1.1
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Titles, Annotations, Packaging, Educational material
- Weights
- 400
- Styles
- Normal
- Variable
- No
- Glyphs
- 728
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Vietnamese
- Download size
- 88 KB
Size ladder
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40
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24
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
16
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
12
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Patrick Hand character map
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 Patrick Hand on the web
Self-hosted
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font-family: 'Patrick Hand';
/* 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/patrick-hand.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Patrick Hand', cursive;
}Hosted by us
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/patrick-hand.css">body {
font-family: 'Patrick Hand', cursive;
}Patrick Hand 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 Patrick Hand free for commercial use?
- Yes. Patrick Hand 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 Patrick Hand in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Patrick Hand belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Patrick Wagesreiter. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Patrick Hand?
- 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.
- Does Patrick Hand support Turkish?
- Yes. Patrick Hand includes the characters Türkçe 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.
- What languages does Patrick Hand support?
- Yes. Patrick Hand covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Vietnamese, across 728 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.