About Edu QLD Beginner

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About Edu QLD Beginner.

The Foundation Fonts for Australian Schools collection is a set of handwriting fonts designed specifically to meet Australian Education standards. While weights, widths and optical sizes were carefully crafted to work well in an Australian classroom environment, they are just as comfortable to read and work with in the home environment.

Each Australian state teaches different handwriting styles in lower primary school (although some states do share the same style). There are essentially three stages involved with each state's styles:

The foundational stage involves learning basic letter formation.
The transitional stage adds joining ligatures to some letters.
The cursive stage joins almost all letters (with some exceptions).

The QLD School Fonts include both:

Queensland Beginners Alphabet - a simple sloped print for early primary school.
Queensland Beginners Cursive - transitional joining letter alternates (pre-cursive stage).

Students in Queensland learn QBeginners from years 1 to 3 and QCursive from year 4.

Google Workspace users are provided standard versions online, however they may download or build the complete OpenType versions from GitHub for local installations. To download the full version, or to contribute, see github.com/MezMerrit/AU-School-Handwriting-Fonts.

Designer: Tina Anderson, Corey Anderson
Classification: Handwriting
Coverage: 187 languages
Package release: v5
Updated: Apr 24, 2026
Monthly usage: npm734 downloads last month
jsDelivr2,206 requests last month
License: OFL-1.1

Style and character

Visual characteristics associated with this family.

Childlike
Learn To Write
Handwritten
Informal

The story

The handwriting fonts that help Australian students learn how to read and write are now available in Google Workspace

Google for Education Australia and Google Fonts partnered to make Foundation Fonts for Australian Schools available on Google Workspace, including Google Workspace for Education. The fonts are also available for download from the Google Fonts website.

Australian teachers are required to use state-mandated handwriting styles to teach reading and writing to school children from ages four to nine. Designed by Tina and Corey Anderson, the five Foundation Fonts exemplify proper handwriting for English and other languages using the Latin writing system, and include common math symbols. The regular weight of each font imitates the pencil thickness of handwriting, making the fonts easy for students to recognize as they learn how to write letter shapes.

The availability of these fonts on Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides is also important for the adoption of Chromebooks and Google Workspace for Education in Australian schools.

Characters and features

What this family includes and how its files are structured.

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Language and character coverage

187 languages are listed for this family.

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Styles and axes

4 weights in normal style.

Variable axes let you fine-tune the design between the values shown.

WeightAdjust the style from lighter to bolder in typographic color, by varying stroke weights, spacing and kerning, and other aspects of the type.wght · 400–700 · default 400

OpenType features

Typographic behaviors that adjust character forms, spacing, and positioning. Availability can vary between files.

Access all alternatesMakes every alternate form in the font available for selection.aalt
Small capitals from capitalsReplaces capital letters with forms designed to match small capitals.c2sc
KerningFine-tunes the space between specific pairs of characters.kern
Small capitalsReplaces lowercase letters with small capitals.smcp

License

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Provenance

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Provider: Google Fonts
Source files: 1
Formats: TTF
Revision: e16ffe220b

EduQLDBeginner[wght].ttf Variable · Normal · 400–700 weight · Version 1.003 · 46 KB