Free Scrapbooking Font

Basic Scrapbooking Fonts

Of course most people, when they begin digital scrapbooking, start with the fonts that came with their computer. There are many simple script fonts that come with word processing programs that can be used in scrapbooking. Here’s a rundown of a few you might already have on your computer:

• Brush Script is a clean script font that looks like the letters were painted on the page.
• Chalkboard is a font that looks like school letters written on a chalkboard.
• Curlz is a cut font with curls in all the letters.
• Edwardian Script is a fancy, elegant script font.
• French Script is a little more upright and formal looking, but still pretty.
• KidPrint is another font that looks hand-lettered and is reminiscent of school days.
• Lucida is a font with a variety of scripts, from Blackletter, which looks almost Gothic, to the slightly swingy calligraphy script.
• Papyrus looks like a its written with a quill pen.
• Sand is a messy looking font, like the kids just made mud pies all over the page.
• Stencil looks like the words were formed with stencils.
• Swing is a pretty basic script font that looks like cursive handwriting (the lowercase letters join together when you type with them).

Free Scrapbooking Fonts

Once you’ve grown tired of the fonts that came with your computer, you might want to download some free scrapbooking fonts from the Internet. These fonts are often available from sites that specialize in scrapbooking and sometimes include cute seasonal fonts that incorporate decorations into the fonts. Here are some sites to check out:

• A cute collection of fonts is available from Brainy Betty. Be sure to download the Baby Blocks font if you’re planning any baby (or shower) pages.
• Moms Corner 4 Kids has an amazing, large selection of fonts, searchable by letter (in the name of the font). It’s a fun page to browse and think about how you could use all those great fonts. I particularly love the font made in the shape of conversation hearts.
• Activity Village has printable alphabets in all sorts of themes, from Easter to Quidditch. These could easily be printed and cut out for use in a traditional scrapbooking project.
• Provo Crafts has a free font each month that you can download if you register at the site (registration is free). These fonts are usually seasonal and really cute (use them for homemade cards, too).
• Scrap Village has a good collection of fonts available in tif format (they are not compatible with Macintosh computers). See the newest fonts first, or look at samples by letter. This site also has some great dingbat fonts, from the Simpsons characters to Kilroy, butterflies, leaves and more.
• The Dingbat Pages offers digbats (picture fonts) sorted into categories like alien, ancient, creatures etc

Using a Free Scrapbooking Font

These sites make it easy to install the fonts on yru computer. Usually all you have to do is click on the picture of the font you want to download and it will automatically download to your computer.

Some sites may include fonts in zip files instead of just having the font itself download. If this is the case, you need some kind of file expansion program (such as WinZip or Stuff-it) to open the zipped file.

Then you can simply drag the font into your fonts folder or use your font management program to install the fonts, if you have such a program.

Once you have installed the fonts you should be able to access them in your word processing program. Use them for titles or journaling, for a decorative touch, or in any other way you like. Have fun!