Edu NSW ACT Hand Pre
Designed By
Tina and Corey Anderson, Eben Sorkin, Mirko Velimirovic
4 Styles Handwriting
A little note,
before you go.
Edu NSW ACT Hand Pre · Regular
Try a short note, a name or a line of your own to compare the strokes and spacing.
4 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Edu NSW ACT Hand Pre ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
Our class planted a vegetable garden
A Note On The Page
Edu NSW ACT Hand Pre · Regular
A short letter, set in the family.
Thursday afternoon
Dear Alex,
I left the book by the window. There is a note on page twenty-three that I thought you would like. Bring it along on Thursday; we can finish the conversation over coffee.
See you there.
4 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
Our class planted a vegetable garden
Medium500
Our class planted a vegetable garden
Semi Bold600
Our class planted a vegetable garden
Bold700
Our class planted a vegetable garden
Tina Anderson is a software engineer who turned to educational apps when her grandchildren reached school age, and Corey Anderson is a graphic artist and calligrapher. Between them they drew the letters that children in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory are taught to write.
The 2 systems start in different places. In NSW pupils begin with Foundation Manuscript, in the ACT with Foundation Print, and around Year 3 or 4 both move on to Foundation Precursive. This font is that precursive stage, which is what “Pre” stands for: it is built from the Edu NSW ACT Hand source with a stylistic set locked in.
It belongs to the AU School Handwriting Fonts, an English-language project drawn to follow Australian school standards, led by Eben Sorkin of Sorkin Type, David Berlow of Font Bureau, Dave Crossland of Google Fonts and Chris Betcher of Google for Education. Some of the thinking shows in small decisions. The Regular weight is meant to match the line a real pencil makes, and overshoots at the cap height, x-height, baseline and descender are kept to a minimum so that letters sit neatly on ruled guides.
There are 4 weights, Regular to Bold, and 6 stylistic sets. The same source also produces Outline, Cursive, Starters, Outline Arrows and Dotted versions for other classroom jobs. It joined Google Fonts on 28 May 2025.
Characters & Figures
393 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 375 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
View The Recorded Character Selection
The Font Files
Download
Edu NSW ACT Hand Pre
4 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 643 KB ↓- Version
- 2.000
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/edu-nsw-act-hand-pre/edu-nsw-act-hand-pre.css">
body {
font-family: 'Edu NSW ACT Hand Pre', cursive;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Edu NSW ACT Hand Pre Heading · Inter Body
Thursday, Half Past Four
I left the book by the window. There is a note on page twenty-three that I thought you would like. Bring it along on Thursday; we can finish the conversation over coffee.