Bad Beans Messy Handwriting Font

The rebellion against all things proper and perfect.

Bad Beans is a messy little throwback to simpler times. Just you, a marker and something to say. No polish, no pressure, no trying too hard.

Inspired by scribbled notes, skatepark doodles, old CDs covered in handwriting and the kind of lettering that accidentally ends up cooler than anything over-designed, Bad Beans leans fully into its imperfections. Uneven lines, wonky shapes and awkward charm are all part of the deal.

Bad Beans includes 484 glyphs and multilingual support for over 100 languages. It also features two sets of contextual alternates that automatically cycle through different letter variations as you type (no obvious repeated characters), creating a super natural handwritten flow.

In a world slowly filling up with polished content and copy-paste perfection, Bad Beans feels comfortably human. Casual, expressive and a little rebellious, like handwriting before handwriting became a “style”.


What’s included:

  • Bad Beans font
  • OTF/WOFF/WOFF2 file formats
  • A total of 484 glyphs
  • 1 additional stylistic sets for characters A-Z, a-z and 0-9
  • Standard English/Latin characters
  • Multi-lingual accented characters (try in the tester!)