These are some of my favorite fabulous and FREE chalkboard fonts that work great in digital designs, or with stencils to hand-letter the real thing!
As of this post’s publication, they’re all available for free online (most are available free for personal use only, so please double check their terms of use). You can find a link to each font below the image. Enjoy!
| Ribeye Marrow | Sketch Block | Schalk | DotNess | Janda Stylish Script | Grutch Shaded | Sandbox Melodrama | Beyond Wonderland | Nineteen Oh Five | Urban Class | Quickie | Orange Juice | KG Broken Vessels Sketch | Janda Curlygirl Pop | Return To Sender | Pea Ellie Bellie | KG Ten Thousands Reasons Alt | Chalk Hand Lettering Shaded | Vtks Love Love | Who Needs Consistency | King Cool KC | Pea Bev |
More Awesome Chalkboard Fonts!
Be sure and check out some of my other favorite chalkboard font collections too!
If you ever thought about turning your own handwriting into a font (admit it, you know you have), I’ve got a tutorial showing you how to do just that (it’s super easy and FREE!):
Aaaaaand, now that you’ve got all these awesome fonts downloaded, you’ll probably want a way to preview them all at once!:
I’ve also compiled a list of my favorite sites that offer awesome FREE digital resources! High-quality fonts, SVGs, backgrounds, digital scrapbooking, Photoshop fun….it’s all covered here! And most include commercial rights too!
How to Make a Birthday Chalkboard Poster
I’ve also written a complete, step-by-step tutorial for how to make a birthday chalkboard poster that you may be interested in!
And how to turn your awesome chalkboard design into the cutest little photo prop!
Wanna know how to make a cute little banner for a chalkboard poster? I’ve got ya covered!
If you’d like to know how to create your own chalkboard poster on a Mac without Photoshop, you can check out a tutorial I created here:
Some Projects Using These Chalkboard Fonts
I used some of the above fonts (and dingbats) for my oldest son’s first birthday chalkboard poster:
And for my youngest when he turned one:
And for my niece’s Classic Alice in Wonderland first birthday chalkboard poster:
And here’s one I made for her second birthday….this one is zoo-themed AND with a photo!
I made a quick chalkboard sign to announce the upcoming arrival of our next little one, with the help of our firstborn. :)
Here’s a quick sign I did for Rowan’s first day of pre-school!
Some of these also came in handy when making the invitations for my son’s dinosaur first birthday party:
And here’s a fun and whimsical family portrait Christmas card I created!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Jessie
Thursday 22nd of February 2018
Hello Christine! What a great site you have here!
Could you advise the font you used on the name - BRAYDEN?
Thanks in advance!
Stephanie
Tuesday 22nd of August 2017
Thank you so much for this post! Also, your link to the schalk font does not work.
Christine
Tuesday 22nd of August 2017
Thanks for letting me know about the link! This post is three years old now, so some links are bound to get broken in that time. :)
Karen
Saturday 10th of September 2016
Hope you still check on comments for this article. I was wondering if you have to use a ton of printer ink every time you make a chalk poster? Do you use a special white ink on black paper?
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