📱 Best Platforms
Teachers Pay Teachers, Creative Market, Etsy
📖 The Hustle
Design a school-friendly font with dotted tracing guides, directional arrows for letter formation, and a solid-line version for progressive handwriting practice. Elementary teachers and homeschooling parents create worksheets constantly and need fonts that show students exactly how to form letters. Educational fonts have a dedicated niche audience on Teachers Pay Teachers that buys fonts repeatedly for different grade levels and handwriting styles.
🚀 First Step
Research the handwriting curriculum standards for your target grade level (K-2), sketch an alphabet with proper stroke direction, then build the dotted-line and arrow versions in FontForge.
🔑 Keys to Success
- Create 3 versions in one package: dotted tracing, arrow-guided, and solid line — teachers use all three in sequence as students progress, and a complete set outsells single versions
- Align with D'Nealian or Zaner-Bloser handwriting standards — teachers search for fonts by curriculum name, and curriculum-aligned fonts dominate TPT search results
- Include a 'teacher's guide' PDF showing the font used in sample worksheets (name tracing, letter practice, sight words) — showing the classroom application sells the font
🛠 Tools & Resources: FontForge (free), Teachers Pay Teachers, Creative Market, Etsy, curriculum reference guides