28 of the Best Cursive Fonts in 2025 for Your Logo and Brand

If you’re designing a logo and want to stand out, cursive fonts are a fantastic way to differentiate your brand. From ornate calligraphy to unique curves and wiggles, we’ve hand-picked 28 of the best cursive fonts to use in 2025, plus examples from famous brands, and tips on designing your own script logos.

Let’s take a look!

What is a cursive or script font?

The cursive handwriting style dates back to the 16th Century. It was designed to make writing quicker by hand, and more pleasing to the eye. In today’s context, cursive or script fonts look like they were hand-drawn.

Many calligraphers, designers, and writers note the beauty of handwriting and its bespoke nature. In the design context, evoking an emotion or personality through different types of fonts is a powerful tool for connection.

Note: Generally, most fonts are designed by hand, but cursive fonts – whether they’re hand lettering, calligraphic, or brush-based – actually still look like a human wrote them out.

Learn more about different types of fonts on our blog!

Here are more famous examples to spark inspiration.

Famous brands with cursive logos

Just think of iconic logos like Coca-Cola and Barbie. They’re holding on to tradition with a script font, but adding the crispness and versatility of modern-day fonts.

Here are some more script fonts you’ll recognize.

In today’s digital landscape, using a script font for your logo is a unique way to add some much-needed humanity and flair. It could be subtle, like a gentle handwritten style font, or more decorative. It totally depends on the statement you want to make!

How to use a cursive or script font

On the surface, it might not seem like there are any strict rules on when to use a script font, but as the above examples show, they suit some industries better than others. You’re more likely to find script fonts associated with the following business industries:

• Food and drink
• Hospitality
• Health and wellness
• Beauty
• Tattoo & piercing
• Retro brands (e.g. barbershops)
• Entertainment
• Personal branding
• Trades and equipment (e.g. auto-repair shops, instruments, or removals companies)

If you’re thinking of using cursive text for your logo, there are a few things to keep in mind. Ultimately, it comes down to what you want to achieve with your visual identity—how you want it to look, and feel, and how you want your customers to respond to it. Here are a few do’s and don’ts:

What are the best script fonts?

Now that you’re a cursive genius, let’s look at some of the most popular fonts for this year. We’ve grouped them loosely by style to help you out.

Retro cursive fonts

Retro fonts work well across a wide range of goods and services. They’re versatile, visually stunning, and full of nostalgia – they’re also some of the easiest script fonts for reading!

1. Dakota Motors

Rustic with thick strokes and smooth curves, Dakota Motors is a demanding and clear retro font. Making it perfect for headlines or brand names that you want easily legible. Handcrafted by Mans Greback.

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2. Monarda

This cursive font has a funky, energetic retro vibe, designed by Terrance Weinzierl for Monotype. Again, it’s a highly legible font and suits the fashion, beauty, and wellness industries.

3. Rampage Monoline

A beautiful vintage-era script by Hartawan Studio. In 2025, brush and handwritten styles are the top font trends. We expect to see this font style used for barbershops, tattoo parlors, bakeries, and personal branding. Or any business that wants to emanate that retro and handmade vibe.

4. Hope Sans

Designed by Charles Nix for Monotype, Hope Sans is a 60’s esque, modernized serif with beautiful script alternates. It’s easy for the eye to move along but has some unique curves and elements to it.

5. Amio

A funky, geometrical cursive font, Amio radiates a fun and lively energy. Designed by Eko Bimantara, this font is perfect for more youthful or wellness brands.

Hand-written cursive fonts

Hand-written fonts work well with health & wellness, and lifestyle brands. But there are exceptions! Take a look at this logo from Wilbury Stratton, an executive search and intelligence firm based in the UK:

They’ve used a hand-written cursive font to come across as timeless and authoritative. But note that the list of services under their name is in a legible sans serif font.

Here are a few of our favorite hand-written fonts for 2025:

6. Joyeux Script

Flowy yet geometric, Joyeux is a unique take on the script font style. Designed by Elyas Beria, it’s sharp and thin, evoking the feel of handwriting.

7. Conte Script

A lively font that emulates a human’s handwriting, Conte Script by Ingo Zimmermann is dense and bold.

8. Baltiholm

Like writing with a sharpie, this handbrush script font has a human touch. Designed by Allouse Studio, it makes it feel like the text was loosely scribbled out on a notepad.

9. Krysttal Spears

A casual cursive font released by Maulana Creative. It’s a beautiful romantic font with versatile uses among print or digital projects.

10. Prosecco and Baguette

The name and description of this font are incredibly fitting to the style. Prosecco and Baguette is inspired by “tipsy scribbles on a napkin at Bistro Parisien” and it looks exactly like that.

11. Aesthetic Notes

Another dynamic script by Henry Juanda for Letterhend. It brings a high energy and youthfulness feel to the timeless style of a script font.

12. Tahu

Designer Rizal Khurasan’s bold script font is one of the most popular in the last couple of years and for good reason. Even as a script font, Tahu is still easy to read with its thick strokes and simple style.

13. Biro Script

Creating the illusion that it was written from the tip of a ballpoint pen, Biro Script is a true hand-written style font.

14. Billie Sight

Billie Sight is another casual font, perfect for health and wellness style brands that want to portray class and elegance.

15. Bilanthy

Another banger from Maulana Creative. Bilanthy is a curly, swirly script with beautifully sharp edges that give it an easy-going, youthful elegance.

16. Youth Line

A simple, clean, casual, hand-written script font by the foundry Sakha Design. It’s tasteful and beautifully portrays class. We expect to see Youth Line used in the beauty, wellness, or fashion industries.

17. Palmer Lake

A fun and child-like handwriting script by designer Jen Wagner

18. With You

Gorgeously dynamic, with alternating baselines and sweeping terminals (the end bit of a letter), With You is one of our favorites for 2025.

Elegant cursive fonts

Elegance is what cursive is all about! Whimsical brush strokes add visual appeal and lots of variety. Use elegant fonts to make a statement in logos, headlines, wedding invitations, or other short forms.

19. Righten

Modern and casual, this script font is striking and flexible in its usage. Great for logos and basic designs alike! Designed by Fikryal, Righten can lean into a classic or cutting-edge feel, making it a versatile font.

20. Gustav

With crisp accents and clear lettering – Gustav is great for personal branding and artisan businesses. Designed by Supfonts, it’s a classy and airy font to level up your design projects!

21. Estampa

No font list is complete without something from the mighty Latinotype. Here’s Estampa, a recent favorite that contrasts both thick and thin lines to make a visually appealing text.

22. Stonington

A font that oozes wanderlust and adventure, Stonington uses long lines and curves to guide your eye along the text. This font is perfect for personal branding projects.

23. Buttermilk

As the name suggests, Buttermilk is soft-flowing and reads like a dream. With some unique flair, this font is still clear enough to make it easy to read.

Brush cursive fonts

Brush scripts are dynamic and full of movement. At one end of the spectrum, you’ll find grunge-style fonts that would be great for urban brands or streetwear. On the other, expect to see a lot of eye-catching swirls and delicate ligatures.

24. America

A modern brush font with a hint of classic Americana, America is a free font that’s a great choice for any designer working on a budget.

25. Myteri Tattoo

An edgy, classic tattoo script by Mans Greback, Myteri Tattoo is likely to be seen used as the font of choice for the branding of tattoo shops or inked on someone’s body!

26. Weathertop

Edgy, subtle, clean – Typotopia’s addition to the best brush script fonts is one of our absolute favorites. 

27. Little Bee

Little Bee is a brush-style font that adds just that bit of extra weight to the casual handwriting fonts we mentioned earlier.

28. Bonus – Juxta

And finally, our bonus font – Juxta. It combines the more harsh nature of a software or programming font with the beauty of cursive. Making it the perfect balance of modern and script.

Best cursive Canva fonts

Canva offers an overwhelming amount of cursive font options for those using the platform to design. We’ve sifted through to find the best script fonts on Canva and listed them for you here. 

Canva cursive fonts:

How to make a cursive or script font logo

Now that you’ve got an idea of the diversity of cursive font styles out there, you can start thinking about creating your cursive logo.

Keep in mind that you don’t have to use one style for a specific business category, although some cursive styles work better than others. Ultimately, ask yourself if your cursive logo suits the character of the brand you’re trying to build.

Looka’s logo maker offers a wide variety of cursive text to select from when building your logo. We’ll give you a little taste with some examples of cursive logos made in Looka below.

Food and drinks

Food and drink is such a diverse business category because there are so many different products you can sell. As a result, almost any cursive style would fit.

Here, we’ve gone for a beautiful brush-style script font for a brewery (inspired by the Budweiser logo!) We’ve also added supporting text in a simple, unobtrusive sans-serif with some extra spacing between letters.

Takeaways:

• Pairing fonts is a really cool way to tell a story and establish some authority. As a rule, combine cursive with low-visual information fonts, like sans-serifs. Looka’s logo maker has a “Suggested“ tab that offers hundreds of font pairings for you to explore.
• If you do add a supporting font to your logo, make sure you get the positioning right. Look for natural areas of space, like just below the ‘A’ in this logo. This maintains the visual direction of the font without taking away from the appeal of the cursive lettering. (Hence the phrase, ‘supporting’ text.)

Clothing

Clothing is also a super diverse field, so many fonts would work. Here, we took inspiration from the Champion logo, going with a modern script font, a symbol, and bold contrasting colors.

Takeaways:

• Use symbols when they complement the text but don’t make your symbol too busy. See how we’ve gone for a really minimalist one here? Let the script do the talking!
• Color can be a great way to emphasize the mood and visual appeal of the cursive text. If you’re using complementary colors, keep them in the same color register (don’t use really vibrant colors against muted pastels. It looks weird!)

Retro

Retro or vintage logo styles are often used in a large subset of businesses, like tattoo parlors, barbershops, old-school garages, instruments, food trucks…and so on.

Here, we were inspired by the Fender logo to create a powerful retro-feel name and logo that could work for multiple different businesses. What sort of product do you think it would go with?

Takeaways:

• Keep it simple. You don’t necessarily have to add supporting information to your logo to tell people what you do. Here, the visual appeal lies solely in the text itself. Cursive is great for this. Use the natural visual power of the script to standalone, before you add any new elements.
• Look at the silhouette of the script on its own. There is already so much visual information in a cursive logo that you don’t need to go mental adding a bunch of containers, symbols, and extraneous details.

Health and Wellness

You could easily see this logo as part of a lifestyle brand, or a getaway retreat or spa. It has a human quality to it, but also vivaciousness and energy – perfect for a health and wellness company.

Takeaway:

• Play around with capitals to get alternates on some of the brush and script fonts. Capitalizing letters in script fonts often display their alternate glyphs, and you can really start to add character (the S on this logo is actually capitalized, but adds to the ‘wildness’ of the script and the character of the logo overall.)

Don’t curse, have fun with cursive!

Ultimately, cursive fonts are great for logos because they offer a different kind of visual appeal in today’s digitally dominant, sans-serif world. If you want to imbue your brand with style and character, a script font like one of the above is a great way to do it.

Just keep in mind the following core principles:

Cursive fonts are all about expression. At the end of the day, you’re trying to get the tone just right for your brand. Play around with different styles, and draw inspiration from brands you like. Beyond that, get as swirly as your heart desires. Good luck!

Want to learn more about choosing logo fonts? Watch our video!