The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Kaushan Script
A free alternative to Jenna Sue.
About Kaushan Script
Kaushan Script is a brush-drawn casual script from Pablo Impallari, distributed through Google Fonts, with the energetic forward lean of a marker moving quickly across a page. The strokes are shaped by a broad brush rather than a pointed pen, so weight shifts follow the pressure and speed of the hand instead of the tidy thick-thin logic of formal calligraphy. Letters join loosely, and a lively baseline keeps the rhythm informal throughout.
That looseness is what makes it a workable free stand-in for Monotype Corsiva. Corsiva is the calmer, pen-drawn relative, and Kaushan Script doesn't imitate it directly — but the two share an italic motion and a handwritten register, and a great deal of Corsiva's use was habit rather than deliberate choice. Where that's the case, Kaushan Script reads as the more contemporary option: better suited to invitations, packaging, and headline flourishes than to running text.
- Designer
- Pablo Impallari
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
Kaushan Script is also a free alternative to…
- Jenna Sue → A brush-style casual script with a forward slant and energetic joins, suited to the same headline, signage and packaging jobs Jenna Sue fills. Its strokes are thicker and more textured, trading Jenna Sue's delicate thin-pen look for a bolder hand-painted presence.
- Monotype Corsiva → A looser, contemporary take — brush-drawn rather than pen-drawn, but its energetic italic motion suits many places Corsiva was used out of habit.
- Wisdom Script → A bold brush script with the same sign-painter energy and heavy, slanting strokes that made Wisdom Script a branding favourite. The letters are rougher and less consistently connected, so it reads more hand-dashed than lettered, but at logo and headline sizes the weight and vintage flavour sit closest.
- Rage Italic → A brush script with the same hard right lean and dry, textured stroke edges, built as a display face for signs and headlines. The closest match for Rage Italic's painted energy, though its letters stay unconnected and the texture is more regular and less ragged.
- Actonia → A slanted brush script with energetic, hand-lettered strokes and a casual, punchy rhythm, made for exactly the logo and slogan work Actonia targets. Its brush texture is rougher and its joins are looser, so it reads a little more rugged and less smooth.
- Beyond the Mountains → A deliberately rough brush script: its stroke angles vary and its letters bounce along the baseline, giving the same quick, hand-painted energy. Its edges are cleaner than true dry brush, and it was tuned to stay legible down to 16px, so it suits longer headlines and web text better.
Display + body that work together
A grammar of empty space
Crisp, even strokes give the display its punch. Quiet serifs underneath stay readable across thousands of words — used together by editors at the kind of paper that still prints corrections.
Display · Body Kaushan Script + Lora
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 Playfair Display + Kaushan Script