Dancing script font free download: the ZIP below holds a single font file with a variable weight axis and 643 glyphs, plus the OFL licence.
Yes — Dancing Script is free for commercial use, including on stationery and merchandise you sell
Dancing Script is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (OFL). You can use it in client work, logos, products you sell, apps and print, without paying and without asking permission.
Dancing Script by Impallari Type is a lively casual script where letters bounce and shift size slightly. The caps are large and drop below the baseline. It references 1950s script types deliberately — the weight distribution relates to Murray Hill (Emil Klumpp, 1956) and the bouncing effect to Mistral (Roger Excoffon, 1953). A weight axis was added in November 2019.
We read the license state from the font file itself rather than from a listing. The embedding permission flag (fsType) is 0 — Installable, the least restrictive value in the OpenType specification.
Quick facts
| Designer | Impallari Type |
| Added to Google Fonts | May 2011 |
| Version | Version 2.001 |
| License | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
| Commercial use | Yes, no attribution required |
Embedding (fsType) | 0 — Installable, unrestricted |
| Variable font | Yes — 1 axis (Weight) |
| Weights | 4 named (400 Regular → 700 Bold) |
| Glyphs | 643 |
| Characters covered | 559 |
| OpenType features | 14 |
| Vietnamese support | Yes, full |
| Download size | 74 KB — 1 font file + OFL.txt |
Download Dancing Script
What’s in the download
The download is a single ZIP containing 1 font file plus the licence:
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
| DancingScript[wght].ttf | Variable upright — 1 axis: Weight |
OFL.txt travels with the files — keep it in the folder if you pass the font on to anyone else. Total download 74 KB.
The download includes the OFL license file. Keep it in the package if you redistribute the font.
Pairing suggestion. Rose Orchard Garden on The Asset Crate — a premium script with full alternates for a more formal wedding voice.
Dancing Script as an accent above a bold headline: see pairing 6 in our Oswald font pairing guide for Canva.
Internal link to our own coverage, not an external ad.
What the OFL license actually lets you do
You can:
- Use Dancing Script in commercial projects, including client work you bill for
- Use Dancing Script in a logo or brand identity, and trademark that logo
- Sell products that use Dancing Script — merchandise, packaging, book covers
- Embed Dancing Script in websites, apps, games, PDFs and ebooks
- Modify Dancing Script and redistribute your modified version
You cannot:
- Sell the font file on its own, outside a larger bundled product
- Distribute it without the OFL license file
- Release a modified version under a Reserved Font Name
No attribution is required in your design. The OFL only asks that the license file travels with the font files.
Inside the file: 643 glyphs and 559 characters
Dancing Script ships 643 glyphs covering 559 Unicode codepoints.
Vietnamese, and 12 other languages in full
Tested against the full alphabets of a reference set of languages, Dancing Script fully covers 13:
Vietnamese · Spanish · French · German · Portuguese · Italian · Polish · Czech · Turkish · Romanian · Hungarian · Dutch · Nordic (da/no/sv)
Vietnamese is fully supported, including stacked diacritics such as ế, ộ, ữ and ỹ — worth checking before you commit, because many free families stop at Latin Extended-A and silently drop them.
Which Unicode blocks those 559 characters cover
| Block | Covered |
|---|---|
| Basic Latin | 95 / 96 |
| Latin-1 Supplement | 96 / 96 |
| Latin Extended-A | 127 / 128 |
| Latin Extended-B | 62 / 208 |
| IPA Extensions | 1 / 96 |
| Latin Extended Additional | 97 / 256 |
| General Punctuation | 16 / 112 |
OpenType features: 14 in the file
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
aalt | All alternates |
case | Case-sensitive forms |
ccmp | Glyph composition |
dlig | Discretionary ligatures |
frac | Fractions |
kern | Kerning |
liga | Standard ligatures |
locl | Localized letterforms |
mark | Diacritic positioning |
ordn | Ordinals |
salt | Stylistic alternates |
sups | Superscript |
Plus 2 further feature tags in the file, mostly stylistic-set and script-specific tables.
Variable axes: 1
- Weight (
wght): 400 to 700, continuous
Because this is a single variable file, every intermediate value is available. One file replaces the whole static weight set, which usually means a smaller total download than shipping three or four static cuts.
A low x-height (0.332) — drawn for display and long reading
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Units per em | 1,000 |
| Ascender | 920 |
| Descender | -280 |
| Cap height ratio | 0.720 |
| x-height ratio | 0.332 |
An x-height ratio of 0.332 is on the low side, typical of a face drawn for display or for long reading passages, where oversized lowercase letters would make text feel cramped.
Right for invitations, wrong for body text
Good fit: Friendly, informal, spontaneous settings — cafe menus, greeting cards, casual logos, social graphics.
Poor fit: Formal invitations and luxury branding, where its casualness undercuts the tone; long text of any kind.
Need something a free family cannot give you? Licensed families usually ship more weights, more alternates and a matched companion face:
Browse font families on Creative Market
Affiliate link — commission at no extra cost to you.
More free script coverage
- Rose Orchard Garden — a premium script with full alternates for a more formal wedding voice
The license state and every technical figure on this page were read directly from the Dancing Script font binary — fsType embedding bits, glyph counts, character coverage, OpenType feature tables, variable-axis ranges and vertical metrics — not copied from a third-party listing. Last verified 23 August 2026 against version Version 2.001.
Leave a Reply