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 know which font you want, click on the name below, or if you aren't sure, scroll though the samples below until you find letters that work for you. The fonts are compatible through Windows 8/Word 2010, and OS 10.8/Word 2011.
Each purchase of a Teacher Pack License gets you all the fonts on this page. Teacher Pack Licenses are only sold to real, live teachers in public schools, private schools, homeschools, or therapy rooms (OTs) or parents. A Business Project License gets you one font family.
Note that the cursive alphabet letters shown in the boxes below are NOT connected - they are individual letters only - followed by a linked sample.
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 33 different font families - a lot of scrolling! - so we put the 4 most popular ones on top, followed by the rest in alphabetic order.
Handwriting Without Tears® - style* (HWT) variation
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D'Nealian® - style* (DN) variations
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Note: The DN font family comes with accents for French, German and Spanish, both Manuscript and connected Cursive. See below.
Zaner-Bloser© - Simplified style* (ZB) variations
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Getty-Dubay Italic© - style* (GDI) variations
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A Beka® - style* (AB) variations
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AIDI - style (AIDI) variations (Peruvian jungle languages)
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Bob Jones University© - style* (CCU) variations
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Cursive First© - style (CF) variations*
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French D'Nealian® - style* (FDN) variations (Note: The regular DN Manuscript fonts are equipped with French accents.)
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Frank Schaffer© - style* (FS) variations
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German D'Nealian® - style* (GDN) variations (Note: The regular DN Manuscript fonts are equipped with German accents.)
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Harcourt Brace® - style* (HB) variations
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Hawaiian D'Nealian® - style* (HI DN) variations
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Hawaiian Palmer® - style* (HI NP) variations
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Hawaiian Zaner-Bloser© - style* (HI ZB) 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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Mexican - style (MX) variations
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New South Wales - style* (NSW) 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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PenTime© - style* (PT) variations
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Seattle School District style (SSD) variations
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Spanish D'Nealian® - style* (SDN) variations (Note: The regular DN Manuscript fonts are equipped with Spanish accents.)
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Steck Vaughn© - style* (SV) variations
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SuperKids® - style* (SK) variations
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Zaner-Bloser© - Traditional style* (OZ = Old style ZB) 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.
*We developed the AIDI fonts for the Asociación Indigena de Desarrollo Integral, Yarinacocha, Peru, with the support of SIL International. AIDI is an entirely indigenous Peruvian organization dedicated to textbook production and teacher training for the languages of the Peruvian Amazon.
*Our Benson fonts complement the workbooks and material from Perfection Learning Corp.
*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 teaching materials, see their website: http://www.handwritingsuccess.com.
*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.
*We did a font for the Advanced Methods Publishing Company (AMCO) that is the basis for our Mexican set of fonts.
*We used copyrighted workbooks from Pascal Press in Australia as a basis for our EFI NSW fonts.
*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.
*Our SK fonts are based on fonts we producedfor Rowland Reading Foundation to use in their Superkids (® Rowland Reading Foundation, Inc) program.
*We were told that Spencer handwriting is used in Central and South America, but have not been able to find any information about this style.
*We developed our SV fonts using materials copyrighted by Steck Vaughn Company.
*We used copyrighted workbooks from Macmillian Education Australia to develop our Victoria Modern fonts.
*We developed our ZB and OZ fonts using materials copyrighted
by Zaner-Bloser, Inc.