Handwriting Fonts

Are there any common ones, and if so what are they?

[MatthewHSE]

I've been tossing around the idea of judiciously and sparingly using "handwritten" fonts in a few carefully-chosen, small areas of my site. Compatibility doesn't bother me since I can always specify more fonts to be used, right down to the nearly universally-safe Arial and Verdana. But, if I'm going to go to that trouble, I'd like to use fonts that I can count on at least the majority of my users actually seeing. Here are a few I've been considering:

Bradley Hand ITC
Freestyle Script
Harrington
Kristen ITC
Lucida Handwriting
Lucida Calligraphy
Monotype Corsiva
Script MS Bold

I don't intend to use these fonts for entire paragraphs or anything; just headings here and there where it can be done tastefully. And of course I'll specify alternate fonts so those without the fancy fonts installed still get a pretty nice display.

Does anyone know approximate (or even ballpark) stats for any of those fonts?

Thanks,

Matthew

[korkus2000]

Monotype Corsiva is the only one of those I have on my machine. I have over 1000 fonts on my PC. I am a graphic designer and need a lot of fonts for designs. I believe I do have Lucida Handwriting at home on either my mac or PC. As long as you leave a font to default to you may want to go for it. Script fonts though are not that common.

[HyperGeek]

A fantastic group of fonts are available at BLAMBOT.com.

They are mostly used for comic books, but man are they sweet fonts.

You should really check them out if you're interested in realistic lettering sytles...

...and they're priced to sell: $0.00.

:)

[Span]

Code Style has very interesting survey results on fonts.
[codestyle.org ]

[choster]

Comic Sans MS is the only common one I know of; it was introduced with Windows 95 Plus (and IE 3.0) and later bundled with Win98 and some distributions of MS Office. If you specify font-family:cursive on my machine the text will display in Comic Sans MS, perhaps inaccurately-- it is a handwritten typeface but not technically cursive.

[MatthewHSE]

That codestyle link pretty much says it all. I can get perhaps 40% of my visitors to see a fancy font; the rest will just have to be content with arial,verdana,sans-serif. Hadn't thought of using font-type:cursive though; haven't ever used it before so it kind of slipped my mind. Thanks for the reminder!