Last Updated on March 10, 2024 by Eric Cantu
Asking yourself “Where can I get paid for my handwriting?” and coming up stumped? Don’t worry, in the online world you can get paid for just about anything. But what about a skill like good handwriting? What jobs can you get with good handwriting? Can you get paid to hand write letters?
Where Can I Get Paid For My Handwriting?
You have several options to get paid for your handwriting in the creative, art, and graphic design industries. From freelance handwriters transcribing digital copy, to showcasing calligraphy art, there are a number of ways you can get paid for your passion of handwriting.
Key Takeaways
- Plenty of Opportunities: Handwriting skills can lead to a wide range of creative and rewarding jobs, like freelance handwriting, calligraphy, or even creating your own digital fonts. And don’t sleep on using YouTube to quickly monetize your passion!
- Freelance Handwriting Jobs: Websites like ZipRecruiter and PeoplePerHour list freelance handwriting opportunities, catering to companies that value a personal touch in their communication.
- Handcrafted Invitations & Calligraphy: If you’ve got a flair for elegant penmanship, dive into creating custom invitations for events or set up a calligraphy shop on Etsy.
- Digital Creativity: Love tech too? Designing digital fonts could be your calling. It’s a blend of traditional handwriting skills with a modern twist, letting you reach a global audience.
- Beyond Writing: Your handwriting passion can extend into fields like graphology or occupational therapy, offering more than just writing services, but insights and assistance based on handwriting analysis.
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Let’s take a look at 6 solid options for you if you’re looking to get a job in the handwriting field. From working for others to working for yourself, you have plenty of opportunity!
1. Freelance Handwriter
Adding a personalized touch: In a time where technology is king, many companies are taking it back old school by adding personalized, handwritten letters and mail-outs to their marketing campaigns. You’re way more likely to open that piece of mail with your handwritten name on it than the normal digital printout we’ve seen countless times, right? It’s a personal touch that companies realize will make their mail-outs stand out.
Online opportunities: You can find several freelance handwriter job opportunities like these from websites like ziprecruiter.com and peopleperhour.com. (Click on either link for current job listings.) There’s also postpigeon.ca if you’re in Canada. From Peopleperhour.com, one freelance handwriter job starts at $14/hour and comes requested from a start up wine company looking to add that personal touch to their marketing with personal notes.
Don’t worry about perfection, sloppy might work!: Most companies that are looking to pay you to hand write letters are looking for legibility and the ability to write in multiple styles, transcribing digital copy to handwritten letters. In fact, from Ziprecruiter, one such job in Austin, Texas states, “We get requests for a variety of styles, including – male sloppy, cursive, all caps, business casual, bubbly…the list goes on and on.”
2. Creating Personalized Special Event Invitations
Specials events like weddings, graduations, anniversaries, etc. have many things in common. One of which is their fancy invitations and gift cards.
Survey says: Many of the top answers from a Quora search for “What can a person with excellent handwriting do to earn money?” involved creating a handwriting business online where customers would send in thank you cards, invitations, or full length letters to be transcribed into a beautiful handwritten final result. I agree. If you have the gift of beautiful penmanship with a touch of flare, creating your own handwriting business website could really take off!
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3. Calligraphy Artist
Freelance calligraphy artists can get pretty consistent work creating personalized invitations for special occasions like weddings charging up to $5 per invitation.
Go global: Websites like Fiverr and Etsy allow calligraphy artists to find a global audience. Check out the listings on Fiverr for “calligraphy” and you’ll find calligraphy artists charging anywhere from $10 to $500 for custom calligraphy work. The same goes for Etsy. If you have a love for creating one of a kind art for people, building your own Etsy shop around your passion for calligraphy can earn consistent revenue.
Check out these Etsy shops for some ideas.
YouTube Opportunity: And if you really have that extra touch of flare, building a website or starting a YouTube channel around the art of calligraphy could truly explode for you. Calligraphy is a legit art form. And there is something about watching an artist at work that is truly captivating. This video, for example, will stop you in your tracks. Think about how many YouTube subscribers you could get just watching you write!
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4. Digital Font Creator
Ever wonder where “Brush Script” and all the other millions of fonts came from? If you have a knack for design and a love of handwriting, creating digital fonts could be an option for you.
According to my research, the 6 best sites for creating your own font include:
- ifontmaker – Create you font in 5 minutes on your iPad
- fontstruct – Build. Share. Download fonts. It’s simple and free.
- fontographer – Classic, clutter free font editor
- calligraphr – Transform your handwriting or calligraphy into a font
- yourfonts – Add a personal touch to your computer
- Raster Font Editor – Font editor for the creation of bitmap fonts
Selling options: Once you’ve designed and created your fonts you have options as to how you want to sell them, either through a font foundry or font reseller. Much like when you sell your photos online, the differences between the two options have to do with exclusive and non-exclusive rights to the fonts.
Exclusive or non-exclusive: Examples of font foundries are FontSpring, FontShop, Linotype, Monotype or P22. They require that you sell to them exclusively (higher royalties from 20% – 50%). Font resellers like Fonts.com or MyFonts.com offer smaller royalties, but because of the non-exclusive rights, you can sell to a broader audience by using selling through multiple resellers.
5. Handwriting Recognition and Analyzation (Graphology)
Analyze this: If you’re looking into a job opportunity in handwriting recognition and analyzation, it’s not so much your own penmanship that you’re looking to bank on, it’s your passion for studying handwriting itself.
Interesting and it pays: According to erieri.com, the average pay for a graphologist is $44,071/year in the United States. At the time of this article’s publication, Ziprecruiter again had multiple listings for job opportunities related to graphology. Check out their current listings here. It’s a very interesting science, used not only to determine personality traits (check out scanmyhandwriting.com), but also used in court to determine forgeries and identify suspects.
6. Handwriting Occupational Therapist
Have a passion for helping others?: If you have a passion for handwriting and helping others, what a great fit a job as a handwriting occupational therapist could be. Sometimes the simple ability to write can be taken for granted. Helping both children and adults overcome their struggles with handwriting can be a very rewarding (and lucrative) endeavor.
A good deed that pays well: According to money.usnews.com, occupational Therapists made a median salary of $84,950 in 2019. The best-paid 25 percent made $101,590 that year, while the lowest-paid 25 percent made $69,710. It’s not often you see a rewarding job that pays well.
Several listings related to handwriting occupational therapist were found on Ziprecruiter at the time of this article’s publication. Check out their current listings here.
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Final Thoughts
From font creators to calligraphers the options are many in the handwriting field. Whether you decide to pursue a job in handwriting as a hobby or a full time career, the options listed in this article should give you a great starting off point.
What do you think? Are you someone looking to get paid for your handwriting or to hand write letters? Have you always wanted to share your calligraphy? Ever considered starting your own YouTube channel? Let me know what you think in the comments section below. All comments and/or questions are welcomed and I always reply!
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I have done calligraphy. I hand wrote every wedding invite (yes, it took hours) but it was so worth it. I can understand how people are starting to gain an interest in this once more. The lockdown has encouraged many to start sending handwritten letters again. I feel like this could be such a great niche market and rewarding!
Agreed! Thanks for the comment!
What do you advise a beginner on any site that he can sign up for and start his work? Would you go the YouTube route to establish an audience and following first? Or would you go right into freelance work? I wonder how often the freelance work would come in and how regular it would be.
That all depends on the kind of work you’re doing. But if your skills are in calligraphy, the YouTube route is a great one because you can start immediately finding your audience. And there’s no reason you can’t do freelance on the side at the same time. Thanks for the comment!
I have a super talented daughter whose calligraphy is magical. I think she would love to earn through her artistry, as the entrepreneurial bug has bitten her just a while ago. She’s been toying with the idea of making YouTube videos.
You have a lovely website, Eric. Thank u for all the information that you provide.
Regards,
Aps
Best of luck to her! Thanks for the comment!
I was expected to have nice handwriting when I was in school and still have those skills now. Your list of where I can get work is excellent and all the types of handwriting jobs. I used to love doing calligraphy when I was a kid, I will be looking into it again. I can see that there is a lot of money to be made from this skill, thanks Eric for your information and encouragement.
Best of luck pursuing this! Get started with your own YouTube channel. There’s something about watching calligraphy that’s hypnotizing! Thanks for the comment!
Ciao! I love handwriting most of my themes. And I have been scanning my handwriting and uploading to Instagram. People like it. But I didn’t know I could use this to directly earn money. Thank you for listing all these opportunities to make money with handwriting. I would like to start trying to be a Calligraphy Artist.
Very glad this helped! Best of luck! Thanks for the comment!
I like the idea of introducing our calligraphy creativity through Youtube as this is one of the platforms where we don’t need to wait for customers to start doing calligraphy. We may get nothing from the early stage of our involvement as compared to working with customer, but if we consistently making calligraphy videos through Youtube or TikTok, they will always be people who are interested in our work. Plus, we could improve our skills from time to time and more people will appreciate it. All of our hard work will be paid later on as long as we don’t give up.
By growing a following, you can start earning a substantial amount of money through YouTube. Showcasing your artistic talent is just one way to get paid from your handwriting. Thanks for the comment!
Do you think one needs to do a special training course in calligraphy before you can be classed as a calligraphy artist? And if so, do you have suggestions of where one can do an online calligraphy course? I’ve always loved calligraphy but didn’t think I could actually use it to make money. Bookmarking this! Thanks so much! Well written.
If you’re good at sketching do you have to take some class before your work is considered good? Of course not. 🙂 Same goes for basically any art. If you create a YouTube channel, for example, to showcase your work, you’ll know whether you’re good or not by seeing the number of views and subscribers grow over time. The proof is in the pudding. 🙂 Thanks for the comment!
This is a great idea and great post!. Getting paid as a freelance writer would be pretty awesome. I think it would be easy, would not require a lot of time, and I would enjoy it. I will check out some of the links you have listed in your post. Thanks!
Good luck! And thanks for the comment!
I’ve been looking at online options for earning income from proof reading and stumbled across this post. I wasn’t aware of the freelance handwriting angle though so will definitely explore further. Thanks for suggesting.
Cheers – Jason.
Glad to help! Thanks for the comment!
Hi Eric, thank you for sharing this with us. I really love it. To be honest I have been tried before to do some business with Fiverr but because nothing comes up, I just give up. I think and the masters told me that on Fiver it is a great competition so, I supposed cos of that I haven’t have any success. My handwriting is pretty nice, just yesterday someone congrats me, but I have no time or space to get in the competition again. I will want to give it a go in Etsy, thank you for this.
I think the key is to offer something that not everyone else is. Take a look at the types of jobs that are popular on Fiverr and find a way to add something so it’s unique to you. Thanks for the comment!
This is an interesting article. When thinking about ideas to make money with, no one thinks “I know I’ll try handwriting”. Maybe this is something I could look into. I will definitely let you know and if I need any help with it then I will get in touch.
Thank you for sharing and keep up the great work.
All the best,
Tom
Thanks so much for the comment!
Which one would you suggest for a beginner?
Obviously if you’ve never had any background as a graphologist you’re not going to jump into a handwriting analyzation job, but if you have a passion for handwriting and enjoy showcasing it, why not create a YouTube channel and see what kind of response you get? Thanks for the comment!
My handwriting is messy but I can make it look good when I make an effort and write slowly. So, even if my handwriting is a little sloppy I could still try out for some of these opportunities?
Which one is better for freelanding your handwritten services, Fiver or Etsy? I’ve never tried Etsy but I see it advertised everywhere by sellers. In other words, which site would be more effective for a freelance handwriter?
Why not try both? You’re not restricted to just one. Fiver allows you to do custom jobs for people while Etsy is more about selling stuff you’ve made. Thanks for the comment!