Shantell Sans by Stephen Nixon, Anya Danilova, Shantell Martin β€” Script Handwritten Font β€” preview 11 / 3
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

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About Shantell Sans Font

Shantell Sans is a handwritten script font from Arrow Type, designed by Stephen Nixon, Anya Danilova, and Shantell Martin. This Regular-weight typeface features 1,805 glyphs and supports 395+ Latin-based languages, making it accessible for global design projects. Its authentic handwritten character works beautifully for greeting card designs, creative business branding, product packaging labels, and social media graphics where a personal, sketch-like touch adds warmth and immediacy without requiring manual lettering.

With a generous glyph set, you can access a wide range of characters and symbols, giving designers flexibility in their typographic choices across different projects and languages. Whether creating DIY stationery suites, designing visual identity systems for small independent brands, or producing hand-lettered style artwork, Shantell Sans delivers the organic, hand-drawn aesthetic that resonates with contemporary design sensibilities. A casual, approachable quality makes it equally at home on product labels, artist websites, or craft packaging.

Available free for personal and commercial use, this typeface removes licensing barriers while maintaining quality and professional appeal. For best results, pair Shantell Sans with a clean, geometric sans serif for body copy or secondary headings, allowing the handwritten style to shine in display contexts where its organic character becomes the focal point of your design.

Style & Use Cases

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

Shantell Sans Specifications

Font FamilyShantell Sans Bouncy
StyleRegular
Full NameShantell Sans Bouncy Regular
Version1.005
Weight400 (Regular)
Glyph Count1805 glyphs
PostScript NameShantellSansBouncy-Regular
DesignerStephen Nixon, Anya Danilova, Shantell Martin
FormatOTF (CFF)
File Size474.3 KB

OpenType Features

Shantell Sans ships with 9 OpenType features you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).

  • Contextual alternates
  • Case-sensitive forms
  • Fractions
  • Standard ligatures
  • Ordinals
  • Scientific inferiors
  • Superscripts
  • Tabular figures
  • Stylistic sets (4)
  • Variable font Β· axes: ital, wght, IRGL, BNCE, TRAK

Languages Supported

Shantell Sans supports 395 languages.

How to Install Shantell Sans Font

Step-by-step instructions for every platform

  1. 1Download the Shantell Sans 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. 5Shantell Sans is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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What pairs well with Shantell Sans Font?

Shantell Sans 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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Shantell Sans Font

by Stephen Nixon, Anya Danilova, Shantell Martin

Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team Β· Updated October 2026

License: Free for commercial use
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