Author's note

Handsom from Carini Type Foundry is a free human hand dingbat font built from lively black-and-white line drawings. The figures use quick, uneven contours, pointed fingertips, and compact overlaps to capture bent fingers and physical gestures with the immediacy of an ink sketch.

Editorial design can use these hand symbols as spot illustrations for advice columns, comics, and features about gesture or communication. They also suit posters and merchandise. Because each symbol reads as a small drawing rather than conventional lettering, its loose contours can connect cartoon figures, diagrammatic arrows, or instructional imagery and become part of a continuous illustrated scene.

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Handsom font character map

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Handsom font character map: Basic Latin, page 1

Glyphs in the Handsom font — Basic Latin, page 1

Basic font information

Copyright notice
© 1997 by Carini Type Foundry, www.mediadesign.ch/carini/
Font family
Handsom
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.5 Handsom
Full font name
Handsom
Name table version
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.5 28.9.1997
Postscript font name
Handsom

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created1997-09-28
Revision1
Glyph count23
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsLicensed font (protected)
Family classSymbolic
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureOutlined
PitchNot monospaced