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Type a title or a name and watch it turn into heavy, bouncy letters in Cat in the Hat red on white. Save it as a picture, or take the free font behind it.
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by Sean Trowbridge, 2010
Doctor Soos Bold, by Sean Trowbridge, is a heavy, bouncy font inspired by Dr. Seuss book covers. Dafont lists it as free for personal use only, with nothing from its author on more, so its license does not let it be passed on and it is got from its author’s page there. Free for posters, invites and your edits; to sell what you make with it, buy its author’s licence.
Free to download
by Neapolitan
Skranji has heavy, uneven letters with hand-cut ends, a little rougher than Doctor Soos, and it comes with capitals and small letters. Use it for anything, even things you sell.
TTF in a ZIP, with its licence · 96 KB
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What the font has, before you download it.
Open the file in a font app from the App Store and install it. Then pick it in Pages, Keynote or Procreate.
Unzip the file, right-click the .ttf and choose Install. It shows up in Word, Photoshop and Cricut Design Space.
Unzip the file, double-click the .ttf and press Install.
In Brand Kit, choose Upload a font and pick the .ttf. Uploading fonts needs Canva Pro.
Install the font on your computer first, then restart Design Space: it is under System fonts.
They take no fonts. Save your words as a picture at the top of this page and add it as a sticker.
There is no Dr. Seuss font to install. The lettering on his books was drawn by hand, by Theodor Geisel, who wrote as Dr. Seuss, or by the designers who laid out his pages. The font people are sent to is Doctor Soos, made by Sean Trowbridge after covers such as Oh, the Places You’ll Go! It was posted on dafont in 2010, has had more than 945,000 downloads and comes in Light and Bold.
Dafont labels Doctor Soos Free for personal use and adds no terms from its author, so using it for work would need Sean Trowbridge’s permission, and it stays out of the download. Skranji, by Neapolitan, is the one offered here: its letters are heavy, uneven and bouncy in the same way, and it is released under the SIL Open Font License.
Seuss lettering is chunky and bouncy: round, heavy letters that wobble a little off the line, as if they were drawn by hand and never measured. Doctor Soos keeps that wobble, its letters sitting at slightly different heights. Dr. Seuss has no single logo color, so this page takes the red of the Cat in the Hat’s striped hat, set on white.
Solid on the Logo background draws your words in Cat in the Hat red on white, like a title on a storybook page. Outline suits a Seuss poster to color in, and Clear keeps just the red letters, ready to sit on a photo from your party.
People also look for a Dr. Seuss font to copy and paste. Those are our copy and paste fonts, which suit a bio or a caption but are not Seuss lettering.
Dr. Seuss’s own lettering has no name, because it was drawn by hand for each book. Doctor Soos is the font most people mean, and Skranji is the free one given here.
Dafont labels Doctor Soos Free for personal use. Skranji, the font you download here, has an open license: use it in any project, at home or for sale. Seuss’s own lettering is not a font, so there is nothing of it to download.
Fonts of your own can go into Canva Pro, so add Skranji from this page, or Doctor Soos for a project that stays personal. On a free account, use the tool at the top of this page, save the picture and upload it to Canva as an image.
Yes: this page is one. Your words appear in heavy red Seuss-style letters, ready to save as a PNG on the Logo background, on paper or on a clear one.
You may put words set in Skranji on things you sell, since its open license permits it. Doctor Soos is for personal use, so selling with it needs Sean Trowbridge’s permission. Dr. Seuss Enterprises owns the Dr. Seuss name, the Cat in the Hat and his other characters, so leave them out of what you make to sell.
Not affiliated with Dr. Seuss Enterprises. Names and logos belong to their owners.
