Original handwriting release

CTG Everly Script

Handwritten with Love

A free joined cursive built the way a hand actually writes: every letter carries an entry and an exit stroke, so words connect continuously instead of sitting as separate shapes. Downstrokes swell, upstrokes thin, and the slant is drawn into the pen path rather than sheared onto finished outlines.

FamilyCTG Everly Script
StyleRegular · v1.000
Glyphs600
FormatsTTF, OTF, WOFF2
LicenceOFL 1.1
Type tester

Write something in it.

The box below is editable. Type a name, a quote or a signature and watch the letters join as you go — the connections are real glyph substitutions in the font, not a CSS effect.

Beautiful Things
76px

Try little offer with the dlig box ticked, or turn contextual joining off to see the lead-in strokes reappear at the start of every word.

How it joins

Four shapes for every letter.

Each lowercase letter is drawn four times: with a lead-in and an exit for the middle of a word, without the lead-in when it opens a word, with a lifted terminal when it closes one, and standing alone. The font picks the right one as you type. Doubled letters get a slightly taller second copy, because a hand never writes the same letter twice the same way.

Joining on — as shipped
stellar morning
Joining off
stellar morning
Default
little offer
Discretionary ligatures on
little offer
Specimen

Every character in the family.

CTG Everly Script specimen showing the pangram, alphabet and sample phrases
Main specimen: pangram, alphabet, numerals and set phrases. A full character-set sheet is also available as an image.
Character coverage

600 glyphs, 257 characters.

Complete Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement, plus the Central European letters, typographic punctuation and currency marks that a real project asks for.

Uppercase

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Lowercase

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Numerals

0123456789

Punctuation and symbols

. , : ; ! ? ' " ‘ ’ “ ” - – — _ ( ) [ ] { } / \ | & @ # $ % + = * < > ^ ~ ° ± × ÷ § ¶ • … « » ¡ ¿ © ® ™ € £ ¥ ¢ ¼ ½ ¾

Accented characters

Á À Â Ä Ã Å Ç É È Ê Ë Í Ì Î Ï Ñ Ó Ò Ô Ö Õ Ø Ú Ù Û Ü Ý Æ Œ Ð Þ
á à â ä ã å ç é è ê ë í ì î ï ñ ó ò ô ö õ ø ú ù û ü ý ÿ æ œ ß ð þ

In use

résumé   cañón   façade   Stråle   Grüße   crème brûlée
Install and embed

Desktop and web, same family.

Install the TTF or OTF for design apps, or drop the WOFF2 into a site. On macOS, double-click the file and choose Install Font; on Windows, right-click and choose Install; on Linux, copy it into ~/.local/share/fonts and run fc-cache -f.

Embed on a website
@font-face {
  font-family: "CTG Everly Script";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/ctg-everly-script/CTGEverlyScript.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-display: swap;
}

.handwriting {
  font-family: "CTG Everly Script", cursive;
}

/* Optional: joined tt and ff */
.handwriting--ligatures {
  font-feature-settings: "dlig" 1;
}

OpenType features

TagDefaultWhat it does
caltOn Contextual alternates. Drops the lead-in stroke at the start of a word, swaps the exit for a terminal at the end of one, removes the connector from a capital with no lowercase after it, and varies the second letter of a doubled pair.
dligOff Discretionary ligatures. Joined tt and ff written with a single continuous crossbar.
kernOn Pair kerning for punctuation and free-standing capitals. Joining letters are deliberately left unkerned, because they meet at fixed geometric points and any kern would tear the connection apart.

Good for

Names & signaturesContinuous joins hold up at signature sizes.
Quotes & invitationsReadable at body sizes, expressive at display sizes.
Social graphicsFull accent coverage for multilingual captions.
Cursive generatorsWeb-ready WOFF2 with shaping intact.

Licence and distribution

CTG Everly Script is published by Cursive Text Generator under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it in personal and commercial work, embed it in websites and apps, and bundle or modify it, as long as the font software itself stays under the same licence and is not sold on its own.

How it was made

Letters are authored as pen skeletons rather than as outlines. A variable-width nib is run along each skeleton, the resulting shapes are unioned and refitted with cubic curves, and the right slant is sheared into the skeleton before expansion so stroke weight stays perpendicular to the pen path. Sources live in font-source/ctg_everly_script/; rebuild with python3 scripts/build-everly-script.py followed by the finish, preview and validation scripts.

Looking for something bolder? See CTG Signature Script, our display release. For more online tools, visit the Cursive Fonts page or the Cursive Text Generator homepage.