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Erratic Cursive
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CSSfont-family: 'Erratic Cursive', cursive; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;
Erratic Cursive is a free handwriting font by GGBotNet, from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Among the 331 handwriting faces on FontKind, Erratic Cursive has an x-height shorter than 80%, is of average width and, at its regular weight, is lighter than 83%.
01 / Light table
Laid on top of La Belle Aurore
Erratic Cursive on one light table with its two closest fonts, La Belle Aurore (81 out of 100) and Imrans School (80). La Belle Aurore is 17% heavier and 9% wider, with an x-height 34% taller; Imrans School is 24% narrower and 9% heavier, with an x-height 25% shorter.
Erratic Cursive and La Belle Aurore laid on top of each other.
Ink shared with Erratic CursiveLa Belle Aurore…
Most different letters first; the figure is the share of ink the fonts have in common. Where the fonts agree the letters cancel to black: every white sliver is a real difference.
02 / Letters
The Erratic Cursive alphabet
Capitals, lowercase, figures and signs · weight 400
Tap the letters you like, here and in other fonts, to find the fonts whose letters look most like them.
- &
- ?
- !
- @
- %
- (
- )
03 / Styles
Erratic Cursive, upright and italic
1 weight (400), with italics
- 400 Regular, with its italic
04 / Facts
Who made Erratic Cursive, and can you use it?
- Designer
- GGBotNet
- Kind
- Handwriting
- Styles
- 1 weight (400), with italics
- From
- GitHub
- Character sets
- latin, latin-ext
- Licence
- CC0 1.0, public domain
Can I use it?
- Commercial use
- Yes.
- Logos
- Yes.
- Websites and apps
- Yes. Self-hosted.
- PDFs and documents
- Yes.
- Changes
- Yes. No conditions: it is in the public domain.
- Sharing the files
- Yes. No conditions, not even a credit.
Erratic Cursive is under the CC0 1.0, public domain. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.
Already in your apps?
- Google Docs
- Not verified. Docs adds Google Fonts, and Erratic Cursive comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Google’s guide
- Word, PowerPoint
- Not verified. Install it from its maker’s repository on GitHub first. Microsoft’s list
- Figma
- Not verified. Search its font menu, or install it. Figma’s help
- Canva
- Not verified. Search its font menu for Erratic Cursive, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
- Cricut
- Once installed. Design Space lists Erratic Cursive under System. Fonts for Cricut →
From each app’s own font list or help pages.
05 / Measurements
Erratic Cursive, measured
Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style
- x-height
- 33.2% of the emlowercase x
- Cap height
- 64.9% of the emcapitals
- x / cap
- 0.51lowercase against capitals
- Width
- 39.5% of the emaverage lowercase
- Ink
- 35%letter box filled
Where it stands among handwriting faces
Ranked against all 331 handwriting faces on FontKind
x-heightSmaller than 80% of handwriting faces
WidthNear the middle of handwriting faces
InkLighter than 83% of handwriting faces
06 / Similar fonts
Fonts similar to Erratic Cursive
Matched letter by letter · its own family apart
- La Belle Aurore81x-height 34% taller · 17% heavier · 9% wider
- Imrans School80x-height 25% shorter · 24% narrower · 9% heavier
- Homemade Apple80x-height 76% taller · 53% wider · 29% heavier
- Cedarville Cursive79x-height 25% taller · 23% wider · 12% heavier
- Butterfly Kids7618% narrower · x-height 4% shorter
- Zeyada75x-height 16% taller · 13% narrower
All 100 fonts similar to Erratic Cursive →Compare side by side →Get Erratic Cursive on GitHub
07 / Swap
Swap Erratic Cursive without a jump
Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%
Fallback while it loads
Until Erratic Cursive loads, this sets Arial in its place at 83.1% of its size, so running text keeps Erratic Cursive’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.
@font-face {
font-family: 'Erratic Cursive Fallback';
src: local('Arial');
size-adjust: 83.14%;
ascent-override: 106.48%;
descent-override: 30.48%;
line-gap-override: 1.41%;
}
font-family: 'Erratic Cursive', 'Erratic Cursive Fallback', sans-serif;08 / Questions
Questions about Erratic Cursive
Answered from its licence, GitHub and each app’s own font list
Is Erratic Cursive free for commercial use?
Yes, with no conditions at all: Erratic Cursive is in the public domain, under CC0 1.0 . Use it, change it and pass it on, commercially too, without even a credit.
How do I download and install Erratic Cursive?
Erratic Cursive comes free from its maker’s repository on GitHub . On its repository there, choose Code, then Download ZIP, and unzip the file: the fonts are in its Erratic Cursive/TrueType (.ttf) folder. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each TTF or OTF file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open. The web fonts this page uses load from its repository, through jsDelivr, as does its licence file .
Is Erratic Cursive in Google Docs?
Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and Erratic Cursive comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Docs can’t add a font of your own, so set it in an app on your computer, such as Word, instead.
How many weights does Erratic Cursive have?
Erratic Cursive comes in one weight, Regular (400), with an italic. Ask for bold and most apps thicken the letters themselves: a faux bold, not a drawn one.
Who designed Erratic Cursive?
Erratic Cursive was designed by GGBotNet. GGBotNet also made Alpha Prota, Blaec, Crayon Libre and 16 more on FontKind.
What fonts are similar to Erratic Cursive?
The closest in our letter-by-letter match are La Belle Aurore (81), Imrans School (80) and Homemade Apple (80), out of 100. Next to Erratic Cursive, La Belle Aurore is 17% heavier and 9% wider, with an x-height 34% taller. See all 100 fonts like Erratic Cursive.