Over time I have collected a number of fonts for my laser cutting projects. In this post, I want to share my favorite connected and script fonts with you.
By connected fonts I mean fonts where the letters are linked together so that after cutting a word is just one piece. They work great for things like signs, custom gifts, wedding decorations, cake toppers, etc.
There are not many completely connected free fonts available but often even starting with a partly connected font can save a lot of time and missing connections can be added by hand.
I only included fonts that are free to use for personal and commercial projects from credible sources. Most of the fonts listed here are released under the SIL Open Font License (OFL). Put simply, the OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used (e.g. to create logos or manufacture objects based on their outlines), modified, and redistributed freely as long as the fonts are not sold by themselves.
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Artiston is an elegant font where all of the lowercase and also many of the uppercase letters connect. For small text sizes, I recommend adding a stroke to give the thin connection lines more stability.
Download: Artiston
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: QualiType
Atlantico is a lower case only sans-serif font with a very edgy look. It will work well for small cut-outs.
Download: atlantico
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Julien Canals
Autery is a handwriting font with a beautiful flow. Therefore, I can see this font working very well for laser cut nursery signs or wedding decorations.
Download: Autery
License: Free for private and commercial use (no license specified)
Designed by: MasAnis
Ballet is a reinterpretation of the classic Spencerian script style with a few whimsical twists in two different versions: Ballet aligned and crooked. However, with its ornate thin swashes, it will mainly work for larger laser-cut words.
Download: Ballet
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Omnibus Type
Big Spender is a free Signature font. Except for the uppercase letters I, O, P and V all letters are connected.
Download: Big Spender
License: Free for private and commercial use (no license specified)
Designed by: Design a lot
Its name describes the Brush Stroke font pretty perfectly – a dynamic handwriting with a thick brush.
Download: Brush Stroke
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: QualiType
Compagnon is a typeface family composed of five distinctive styles. In the “Bold” style all lowercase letters are connected and also many of the uppercase letters.
Download: Compagnon
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Velvetyne Type Foundry
Cookie is a script typeface, based on brush calligraphy. It has a little bit of the 1950s look, that makes you think about all the ads and pin-up girls from that time. Besides the standard Latin alphabet, it also includes Polish letters.
Download: Cookie
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Ania Kruk
Digory Doodles is a playful handwritten font. All letters connect to each other so it works great for laser cut words. For smaller text sizes I would recommend adding a stroke to give the thin connection lines more stability.
Download: Digory Doodles
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Holds Worth Design
Earcy Day is a font with a casual and playful character.
Download: Earcy Day
License: Free for private and commercial use (no license specified)
Designed by: Masanis Studio
EuroScript, an OpenType font based on the Latin teaching script, which also supports Greek and Cyrillic.
Download: Euro Script
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Peter Wiegel
Galberik is a graceful font that is completely connected. The connecting lines are relatively thin. Adding an outside stroke to increase the line thickness might be a good idea before using it for laser cut words.
Download: Galberik
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Gluk Fonts
Great Vibes is a beautifully flowing connecting script. It has cleanly looping ascenders and descenders as well as elegant uppercase forms.
Download: Great Vibes
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: TypeSETit
Hardman is a retro font that somehow reminds me of 70s science fiction movies.
Download: Hardman
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Peter Wiegel
“Havana” font is inspired by Warsaw neon signs from before 1989. Just like the lettering of that period, the “Havana” design is detail-oriented, coherent, and sophisticated.
Download: Havana
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Joanna Angulska
Honeycomb Script is a font family derived from nature’s splendor and based on the organic and geometric wonders of the honeycomb.
Download: Honeycomb Script
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Katrina Sutton
Imrans School is a font developed for Indian schoolbooks. I like its simple but still a bit playful design.
Download: Imrans School OT
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Peter Wiegel
With its thick font-weight, Leckerli One works great to cut out small text. Except for the “s” all lowercase letters are connected and also many of the uppercase letters connect.
Download: Leckerli One
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Gesine Todt
Lily Script is a sturdy display script with a playful, bold texture. With its relatively thick connecting lines it will also work well for smaller cut-out texts.
Download: Lily Script One
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Julia Petretta
Linotype is an elegant script font inspired by French handwritings of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Download: QT Linostroke
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: QualiType
Little Lara is a monowidth font inspired by the handwriting of a little girl. All lower case letters are connected and also most of the upper case letters.
Download: Little Lara
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: IdeasAndApps
Lombard is a combination of an expressive script inspired by traditional Warsaw’s neon lettering and block letters typical for local craftsmen signage.
Download: Lombard
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Ania Wielunska
Meddon is a handwriting font created from the handwritten script of an Eighteenth-century legal document.
Download: Meddon
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Vernon Adams
Molle is a partly connected brush-script font. The heavy bottoms give it a very distinctive look.
Download: Molle
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Elena Albertoni
Nautilus Pompilus is a modern script font. With its thicker line weight and clear letter it also works well in smaller font sizes.
Download: Nautilus Pompilus
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Punk You Brands
Nickainley is described by the designer to be a “monoline script handwriting font with a touch of classic and vintage”.
Download: Nicklainley
License: Free for private and commercial use
Designed by: Seniors Studio
Norican’s design is based on the merging of a number of old script fonts.
Download: Norican
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Vernon Adams
The odstemplik font comes with an italic and a bold version. A nice little extra are ornaments that you can access by adding square brackets [ ] at the beginning or end of words. It is one of the few free completely connected fonts for laser cutting.
Download: odstemplik
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Gluk Fonts
Rochester is a font inspired by elegant calligraphic forms from the early age of Victorian and Art Deco.
Download: Rochester
License: Apache License, Version 2.0 (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Sideshow
Rotters is a modern monowidth font. Its sweeping lines give it a dynamic character.
Download: Rotters
License: Free for private and commercial use (no license specified)
Designed by: monocotype
Sebasta is a vintage style script font. None of the uppercase but all of the lowercase letters connect to each other.
Download: Sebasta
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Choho Mocha
All lowercase letters in the Skibo font are connected and also some of the uppercase letters connect.
Download: Skibo
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Jason Reed
Teatarick is one of the few completely connected free fonts. When using it for laser cutting only the letters “i” or “j” might need some manual modification to connect the dot.
Download: Teatarick
License: Free for private and commercial use (no license specified)
Designed by: Em Nazar
WolgastRand is a beautiful script font. It is elegant but still with the personal touch of a handwritten font. Therefore it will look good in many laser cut projects.
Download: WolgastRand
License: OFL (free for private and commercial use)
Designed by: Peter Wiegel
I hope you find this collection of connected fonts for laser cutting useful. In case you know any additional fonts that you think should be included, let me know in the comments below!
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Thanks you for the help those fonts are amazing
Many many thanks for sharing these fonts. I am making some key fobs for my family and they will be ideal
ottimo molto belli
Unfortunately, many of these won’t work for laser cutting. Norican, for instance. Right in the name of the font is a curl on the ‘o’. If you are cutting this out, how will that ‘island’ of material attach to anything? Certainly not for laser cutting steel.
The fonts here are meant for cases where you want to use the cut-out letters as the final product. If you want to cut out the text you need to use a stencil font. In stencil fonts bridging lines will connect the inner portion of a character to the outer material.
Many thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge.
The “Leckerli One” font is perfect for my project.
This has saved me a lot of time!
Thanks! Great to hear that 🙂
Hi! Are we allowed to use the Leckerli One to laser engrave for items to sale online? I couldn’t find anything about it or where to purchase the license if it works.
Leckerli One is released under the OFL license. You can use it for laser engraved items that you sell. The license file itself is included in the ZIP if you download the font. For more details on the allowed usage, you can also look at the FAQ for the OFL.
Wow amazing, thank you!! I’ve been searching for days looking for the fonts that will work for me! Thank you for sharing!!
Wow, what a great service. This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thank you!
Thank you for posting these for us to download, it’s highly appreciated. I have downlaoded the fonts I like, how do I get them to open in Lightburn. I downloaded the fonts.
You need to install the fonts. On Windows just double-click the font file (.otf or .ttf) and select to install the font. The restart Lightburn.
Very Useful, you saved me a lot’s of time on research plus, You uploaded them for a quick and safe download.
I appreciated it!
Thank you very much!
Hi,
I can’t find the fond you used in your example at top.
Is it avaiable also? I like how the dots on the “i” are also conneted.