Chicken Scratch V1

Chicken Scratch V1 font by Benjamin Hall is a free handwritten font that looks like it’s been scrawled with a fat, inky marker. The letters are chunky, loose, and a bit wild, with uneven curves that feel spontaneous rather than polished. That rough edge gives your text a warm, human energy—more like a quick note on a whiteboard than a tidy notebook line.

Using Chicken Scratch V1, you can bring that scrappy charm to kids’ book covers, classroom posters, casual logos, comics, zines, and playful social posts. This free font holds up well at larger sizes, where the thick strokes really show, and it pairs nicely with a clean sans serif for small supporting text or captions.