Lucida Handwriting font
Lucida Handwriting is an informal cursive, as if written with a felt-tipped pen. It was designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, and first issued by Bigelow & Holmes in 1992. Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font; elsewhere it is a paid typeface, sold by Monotype and Bigelow & Holmes. 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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Lumanosimo
Made to stand in for Lucida Handwriting in documents · Google Fonts: Lumanosimo
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Not measured against Lucida Handwriting: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Lucida Handwriting or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Lucida Handwriting
- Designed by
- Charles Bigelow and Kris HolmesSource: Wikipedia: Lucida , Microsoft: font list
- First issued
- Bigelow & Holmes, 1992Source: Wikipedia: Lucida , Microsoft: font list
- Class
- Informal cursive, as if written with a felt-tipped penSource: Wikipedia: Lucida , Microsoft: font list
- Comes with
- Microsoft 365, as a cloud font: Lucida HandwritingSource: Microsoft: cloud fonts in Office
- Sold by
- MonotypeBigelow & Holmes
- Trademark
- Lucida is a registered trademark of Bigelow & Holmes.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.
Lucida® is a trademark of Bigelow & Holmes. FontKind is not affiliated with Bigelow & Holmes, and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Lucida Handwriting
Is Lucida Handwriting free?
Not to use anywhere you like. Microsoft 365 includes it as a cloud font, for Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Anywhere else it needs a licence, sold by Monotype and Bigelow & Holmes. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Lucida Handwriting?
Lucida Handwriting was designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, and first issued by Bigelow & Holmes in 1992.
Can I use Lucida Handwriting in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word, yes, with Microsoft 365: Lucida Handwriting is one of its cloud fonts, which Word downloads when you pick it. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Lucida Handwriting isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Lumanosimo, Permanent Marker and Shadows Into Light 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 Lucida Handwriting?
FontKind hasn’t measured Lucida Handwriting: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. The free fonts whose own descriptions name it, or its model, are Lumanosimo. Beside them, Permanent Marker, Shadows Into Light and Caveat are casual scripts in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Lucida Handwriting.