Sketch Style: Ten Fonts and Ten Design Elements

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sketch1Yesterday, we had a look at a few of the many fine Sketchy or Hand-drawing style sites on the web. Today, I’ve put together some resources that you might find useful if you are interested in applying that style to your own designs.

Here’s a compilation of fonts, photoshop brushes and vectors that have been sketched, hand-drawn and doodled.  All of the following design elements are free for personal use. For commercial use, please check the licence.

Les oeufs de Cassowary, Normal by Albertine Nerevan
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Tiza by Pablo Caro

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Tusj (Indian Ink) by Magnus Cederholm (formfett.net)

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Sketch Block by Lukas Bischoff

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Sketchy Times by !Exclamachine Type Foundry

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Green Pillow by Billy Argel

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Denne Threedee by Denise Bentulan
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Pee Pants Script by Kirk Shelton http://www.dafont.com/pee-pants-script.font Check out his website too http://www.kirkshelton.com/ , for lots of cool sketchy illustration and inspiration.

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Atman Dingbat by Eyesaw

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Che Viva Banana by Font Environment . There’s lots more sketchy style dingbats on their site too.

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There are of course, plenty more sketchy fonts available. Here’s the sketchy and hand-drawn styles on dafont.

Design Elements

Urban Scrawl Photoshop brushes from Invisible Snow

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Scribbles and Doodles Photoshop brushes from my favourite brush “artiste” Osidian Dawn

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Doodles and Sketches Vectors from Spoon Graphics

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Hand-drawn arrows, RSS logos and social marketing icons from Think Design. –

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Another from the Think Design blog, is this set of Vector Marker Scribbles.

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Hand-drawn vector icons from Blog Theme Machine

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Hand-drawn social networking icons from Charfish Design

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Heart Doodle Photoshop Brushes by Susan Libertiny

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Squishy Sketches by Squishy Paws

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Andantonius’ Pencil Brush combined with paper action

This is a brush AND a photoshop action which used together will allow you to create natural looking pencil sketches.

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So that should keep you busy for a while! Have you got some hand-drawn resources you’d like to share?

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Jennifer Farley

Jennifer Farley is a designer, illustrator and design instructor based in Ireland. She writes about design and illustration on her blog at Laughing Lion Design.

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{ 6 comments }

glenngould July 14, 2009 at 11:53 am

I agree some nice fonts and stuff here in the list.

If you need hand drawn sketchy bookmark icons though, I advise the most unique ones that you could have: your own ;)

TomBradshaw July 13, 2009 at 10:26 pm

Some really nice fonts and inspiring set of illustrations. I’m trying to do something similar for my portfolio site

leisureforte July 13, 2009 at 2:35 pm

These are all very RAD! Great job, thanx Leisureforte

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brandaggio July 11, 2009 at 2:53 am

A really inspiring list and article…appreciated!

Black Max July 11, 2009 at 1:19 am

Nice compilation! You put some time and effort into this. Thanks.

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