Bradley Hand font
Bradley Hand is a handwriting face, as if written with a felt-tip pen. It was designed by Richard Bradley, and first issued by ITC in 1995. It comes with macOS, and Microsoft 365 includes it too as a cloud font; elsewhere it is a paid typeface, sold by ITC. FontKind hasn’t measured it, so the free fonts below stand beside it by their own description and by class, not by measurement.
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Not measured against Bradley Hand: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Bradley Hand or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Bradley Hand
- Designed by
- Richard BradleySource: Microsoft: font list
- First issued
- ITC, 1995Source: Microsoft: font list
- Class
- Handwriting face, as if written with a felt-tip pen
- Comes with
- Microsoft 365, as a cloud font: Bradley Hand ITCmacOS Tahoe: Bradley HandSource: Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office , Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe
- Sold by
- ITC
- Trademark
- ITC Bradley Hand is a trademark of Monotype ITC Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.Source: Monotype: trademarks
Read by hand on 1 October 2026 from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), Microsoft’s and Apple’s lists of their fonts, Monotype’s list of its trademarks and the foundries’ and shops’ own pages. The references are linked beside each fact; a page that sells or hands out the font is not, so a fact read only there shows no link.
ITC Bradley Hand™ is a trademark of Monotype ITC Inc. FontKind is not affiliated with Monotype ITC Inc., and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Bradley Hand
Is Bradley Hand free?
Not to use anywhere you like. It comes with macOS, so a Mac already has it; Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font, for Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Anywhere else it needs a licence, sold by ITC. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Bradley Hand?
Bradley Hand was designed by Richard Bradley, and first issued by ITC in 1995.
Can I use Bradley Hand in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: Bradley Hand is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Bradley Hand isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Permanent Marker, Shadows Into Light and Caveat are there, under More fonts. Canva publishes no list of its fonts: search its font menu, or, with Canva Pro, upload a font whose licence allows it.
What is the closest free alternative to Bradley Hand?
FontKind hasn’t measured Bradley Hand: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. Permanent Marker, Shadows Into Light and Caveat are handwriting fonts in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Bradley Hand.