Dancing Script
Dancing Script is a handwriting font in 4 weights, also available as a variable font. Its lowercase letters are 29% narrower than the typical handwriting font. Last updated 8 September 2025.
Editing a PDF that uses Dancing Script
Most PDFs embed only the letters they already use. Type a new letter and many editors either refuse or swap in a different font. MythosPDF recognises Dancing Script from the widths stored in your PDF, loads the complete open font, and sets your new text in Dancing Script itself. The rest of the page is carried over untouched.
Measured metrics
| Average lowercase letter width | 388.8 units per 1000 em |
|---|---|
| Average capital letter width | 600.8 units per 1000 em |
| Word space | 260 units per 1000 em |
| Digits | proportional (digit widths differ) |
| Spacing | proportional |
| Width of i compared with m | 37% |
| Printable ASCII characters covered | 94 of 94 |
| Category | Handwriting |
Weights and styles
Languages beyond basic Latin
Open fonts closest to Dancing Script
Measured on every printable character both fonts contain. A smaller difference means the same words take the same space, so lines break in the same places.
- Redressed Regularloosely similar widths (51.2 units)
- Manufacturing Consent Regularloosely similar widths (53.4 units)
- Lobster Two Regularloosely similar widths (54.2 units)
- Kreon Regularloosely similar widths (54.4 units)
- Cabin Condensed Regularloosely similar widths (59.3 units)
- Stylish Regularloosely similar widths (59.4 units)
- Suranna Regularloosely similar widths (59.5 units)
- Libre Caslon Display Regularloosely similar widths (59.7 units)
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Questions people ask
+Can I edit a PDF that uses Dancing Script?
Yes. Drop the PDF into MythosPDF and click the text. New letters are set in Dancing Script itself, loaded from the open font, so the edit matches the rest of the page.
+Is Dancing Script free to use?
Dancing Script is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, an open licence that allows free use in documents, including commercial ones. Check the licence text for your exact use.
+Which font is closest to Dancing Script?
By measured letter widths, Redressed is the closest match among open fonts (a mean difference of 51.2 units per 1000 em). Text set in one takes almost the same space in the other.
+Which languages does Dancing Script support?
It includes these character sets: Latin, Central European, Vietnamese.
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