Palitoon by Daniel Maciel β€” Script Handwritten Font β€” preview 11 / 3
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

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About Palitoon Font

Thick, hand-drawn strokes with a wobble that never quite settles on the baseline give this one its character; the letters lean and bounce like they were brushed out in a single pass. That energy is Palitoon, a display script from Daniel Maciel that sits somewhere between comic lettering and street graffiti. The shapes stay geometric enough at the core to keep them legible at large sizes, but nothing here feels ruled or measured.

Because the weight is heavy and fairly even, it holds together in places where a thin script would break down: vinyl-cut lettering for kids' bedroom door signs, sticker sheets and enamel pin packaging, cover titles for indie comics and zines, or the top line on a skate shop tee. Short paragraphs of it read fine, so a punchy intro block or a caption under an illustration is fair game, though a full page of body text will wear a reader out. The family ships as a single Regular, which keeps specification simple. Language coverage runs past 215 Latin-based languages, so a Polish, Czech, or Turkish headline sets without hunting around for substitutes.

For pairing, put it against a quiet neutral sans for body copy at a modest size and let the contrast carry the layout. Something plain and low-contrast makes the brushed strokes read as deliberate rather than noisy; a narrow grotesque works too if you want a little more tension in the stack. Palitoon is free under the Open Font License for personal and commercial work, and the files download directly from this page.

Style & Use Cases

Overall Style
Elegant, Flowing, Handdrawn
Use Case
Invitations, Branding
Ideal For
wedding stationery, greeting cards, and signatures
Pairs With
a simple uppercase sans

Palitoon Specifications

Font FamilyPalitoon
StyleRegular
Full NamePalitoon-Regular
Version1.000
Weight400 (Regular)
Glyph Count269 glyphs
PostScript NamePalitoon-Regular
DesignerDaniel Maciel
FormatOTF (CFF)
File Size31.8 KB

OpenType Features

Palitoon ships with 4 OpenType features you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).

  • Small capitals from capitals
  • Discretionary ligatures
  • Standard ligatures
  • Small capitals

Languages Supported

Palitoon supports 215 languages.

How to Install Palitoon Font

Step-by-step instructions for every platform

  1. 1Download the Palitoon font file (.ttf or .otf).
  2. 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
  3. 3Right-click the font file.
  4. 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
  5. 5Palitoon is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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What pairs well with Palitoon Font?

Palitoon Font is a script font that shines as a display or heading face. Pair it with a clean sans-serif or serif font for body text β€” the contrast creates a clear hierarchy while the two styles stay balanced and easy to read.

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Palitoon Font

by Daniel Maciel

Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team Β· Updated September 2026

License: Open Font License (OFL)
Free
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