Brush Script™ font
Brush Script is a casual script by Robert E. Smith, first issued by American Type Founders in 1942. It comes with macOS, and Microsoft 365 includes it too as a cloud font; elsewhere it is a paid typeface, sold by Monotype. 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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Free for commercial useApache 2.0
Fonts like Permanent Marker02by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Shadows Into Light03by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Caveat04by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Patrick Hand05by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Marck Script06by class
Free for commercial useOFL
Fonts like Gloria Hallelujah
Not measured against Brush Script: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Brush Script or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Brush Script
- Designed by
- Robert E. SmithSource: Wikipedia: Brush Script
- First issued
- American Type Founders, 1942Source: Wikipedia: Brush Script
- Class
- Casual scriptSource: Wikipedia: Brush Script
- Comes with
- Microsoft 365, as a cloud font: Brush Script MTmacOS Tahoe: Brush Script MTSource: Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office , Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe
- Sold by
- Monotype
- Trademark
- Brush Script is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation 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.
Brush Script™ is a trademark of The Monotype Corporation. FontKind is not affiliated with The Monotype Corporation, and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Brush Script
Is Brush Script 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 Monotype. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Brush Script?
Brush Script was designed by Robert E. Smith, and first issued by American Type Founders in 1942.
Can I use Brush Script in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: Brush Script is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Brush Script 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 Brush Script?
FontKind hasn’t measured Brush Script: 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 casual scripts in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Brush Script.