The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Dancing Script
A free alternative to Monotype Corsiva.
About Dancing Script
Dancing Script is a bouncy casual script by Pablo Impallari with a 1950s flavor, available from Google Fonts as a variable font running from Regular through Bold. Its baseline rocks rather than sits, the letters connect loosely, and the hand reads informal throughout — signwriting warmth instead of penmanship discipline, with enough slope to keep the line moving.
As a substitute it keeps Monotype Corsiva's warmth while dropping the formality, making it the friendlier option whenever a Corsiva setting reads stiffer than intended. The same logic carries over to ITC Zapf Chancery, where Dancing Script is the stand-in for moments when that formality can loosen up, and the weight range gives it more presence than either original offers. Good for greetings, menus, packaging, and headlines meant to sound spoken rather than printed.
- Designer
- Pablo Impallari
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 2 paid font pages
Dancing Script is also a free alternative to…
- Monotype Corsiva → Keeps Corsiva's warmth but drops the formality — a bouncy 1950s-flavored casual script, available as a variable font from Regular to Bold.
- ITC Zapf Chancery → A lively, bouncing casual script with a full weight range — the friendliest stand-in when Zapf Chancery's formality can loosen up.
Display + body that work together
Letters that hold their nerve
The display sets the register; the body follows through. When both halves of a pair pull in the same direction, the design disappears and the words come forward.
Display · Body Dancing Script + Source Serif 4
Quiet type that does the work
Body type does the heavy lifting. Get it right and the reader never thinks about it; get it wrong and they feel it before they can name what is off.
Display · Body Fraunces + Dancing Script