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Australian School Handwriting Fonts

The FREE Australian School Handwriting Fonts are a Google Fonts Project, in collaboration with Google (Workspace) for Education and The Font Bureau Inc.

Get them here!

How to

The Australian School Handwriting Fonts are an English language, OpenType, variable typeface family designed specifically to meet Australian Education standards.

Choose a State

In lower primary school some Australian States teach different handwriting styles, while some States share the same style. Included in the downloads are “documentation” folders which contain PDF’s for each State’s style requirements.

To download, choose your state of residence:

State	Year 1 to 2/3		Year 3/4+	Alts	SMC
NSW	Foundation Manuscript	Download	Foundation Precursive	✅	✅
ACT	Foundation Print	Download	Foundation Precursive	✅	✅
QLD	QBeginners Print	Download	QBeginners Precursive	❌	✅
SA	Beginner Print	Download	Precursive Print	❌	❌
TAS	Beginner Print	Download	Precursive Print	❌	❌
VIC	Label Print	Download	Infant Cursive	❌	❌
WA	Label Print	Download	Infant Cursive	❌	❌
NT	Label Print	Download	Infant Cursive	❌	❌

Alts: Denotes whether ✅ or not ❌ the precursive alternate glyphs are currently included.
SMC: Denotes whether ✅ or not ❌ small caps glyphs are currently included.

Ongoing & Future Development

Although the design phase has been completed, some transitional precursive glyph-sets (and small caps) are still under development, along with some small caps (marked with ❌ above). Check the individual font page for updates.

The full cursive counterparts (for years 4-5 onward) will be developed in due course, using a different software package designed specifically for fully joined cursive fonts in school/teaching environments. Advanced math symbols will also come along with future development.

OpenType Features

OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts developed jointly by Microsoft and Adobe as an extension of Apple’s TrueType font format.

AU School Handwriting Fonts can also be used in software that supports OTF (such as Microsoft Word, Adobe products or Mac’s native Pages application) to make full use of alternate glyphs for precursive variations (as shown below).

Australian School Handwriting Fonts Pages App Demo

Watermarks

watermarks Download

Also provided here is watermarks.zip containing dotted-thirds, plain-thirds and regular-rule images that may be used in any word processor that supports watermarks (example below is Mac’s Pages app using Image Fill or Advanced Image Fill).

Australian School Handwriting Fonts
Watermarks Demo — By adjusting the scaling of the watermark image, the document’s top margin and line spacing as well as the font size, almost any type of ruled page can be produced.

Font Installation

Download the font’s .zip file (either by choosing a State from the table above or from the Home Page), unpack the archive and navigate to the folders font > ttf then:

On Windows

Open the Windows Control Panel
Select Appearance and Personalization
At the bottom, select Fonts
To add a font, simply drag the .ttf file into the font window
Click Click Yes when prompted

On Mac

Double-click the .ttf file
Click Install Font in the font preview window
After validation, it will open in the Font Book app

More information about the .zip files and their contents can be [read here].

Issue Tracker

For educators and/or tech savvy users, please head over to GitHub and create a “New issue”. This will ensure the appropriate engineers are notified and the issue is attended to promptly.

GitHub

For everyone else, please use the reply form associated with the downloaded font and, if it turns out to be an engineering issue, a team member will transfer it to the GitHub issue tracker on your behalf.