Your Handwriting Font Now Speaks Spanish (and French): Accents Are Here

If your handwriting font has ever typed "Jose" when you meant José, this update is for you. Every font you make here can now carry the full set of accented letters and international characters: á é í ó ú ü ñ ç è ê ë î ï ô û ù ÿ, their capitals, ¿ ¡ « », the œ and æ ligatures, ß, and the accent marks themselves. They work in both weights, the normal font and the single-line version your Cricut or plotter writes.

The short version:

• Draw a handful of tiny accent marks once and we build every accented letter for you automatically. The Spanish set costs five small drawings; French costs about eleven.
• Any letter we compose for you can be redrawn by hand whenever you want it to look different. Your ink always wins.
• The font to single line converter now reads every character your font actually contains, so a font with accents keeps them all the way through the preview, the typed test, and the downloaded OTF.
• All of our free single line fonts now include the full accent set too. Type "Feliz cumpleaños" into the test box and watch it just work.

Why this matters for real projects

Accents are not an edge case in craft work. They are names, and names are the whole point of personalized making:

• Wedding envelopes and place cards for guests named José, Chloë, René, Zoë, or Muñoz.
• Cards and gifts in Spanish or French: Feliz cumpleaños, ¡Felicidades!, Joyeux Noël, fiancée.
• Menus and labels that need jalapeño, crème brûlée, or café to look right.
• Teacher gifts, mugs, and tumblers for the Señora Ramírez in your kid's life.

Until now a handwriting font made here simply could not write those. Now it can, without you drawing thirty extra letters.

How it works: draw the mark once

When you make a font in the guided font maker, the intro screen now has an Add accents? option with Spanish and French packs. Pick one and the flow adds a short section at the end: a few small prompts like "draw the little tick over é" or "draw the squiggle over ñ", plus the upside-down ¿ and ¡ for Spanish.

That is all we need. From your ordinary letters plus those marks, we compose every accented character automatically: your a plus your ´ becomes your á, in your handwriting, with the same ink behavior as everything else. Dots on the letter i get out of the way when an accent takes their place, and accents over capital letters flatten a little to fit, exactly the way real typefaces handle it.

In the advanced Draw Studio, the character grid now has an Accents & international section. Composed letters show up with a small "auto" badge; tap any of them to draw your own version instead, and yours replaces the automatic one. Delete your version and the automatic one comes back.

The converter now reads your whole font

The font to single line converter used to convert the basic English set. Now it converts everything your uploaded font contains that a pen can draw: accented letters, international punctuation, the works. The preview groups them so the wall of letters stays readable, the type-your-words strip renders them, and the downloaded single-line OTF carries them.

If you saved a converted font to My Fonts, editing it keeps every character too, including ones outside the standard set.

The free fonts got the upgrade too

All the fonts on our free single line fonts page now include the accent set in both weights, built from each font's own drawn strokes so nothing looks pasted on. They are still free to download with no account, still licensed for commercial craft use.

The fine print

• Accents currently apply to print-style fonts. In cursive mode accented letters render but do not join to their neighbors yet.
• Composed accents inherit your marks, so if your ´ looks like a lightning bolt, your á will too. That is the charm of it, but the redraw option is always there.