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Whether you’re a fan of retro-style fonts or just considering using them, you will find this compilation useful. Including vintage typefaces in your projects will appeal to clients of any age: the older audience will take a trip down memory lane while younger generations will simply consider it fun. Though, finding a high-quality retro font might be a bit of a hassle. We searched high and low to save you time and effort, and here it is — the carefully-curated collection of the best vintage fonts.
We know it is hard to choose between the elegant fonts of the ’60s and the comics-inspired graphics of the ’90s. That’s why in the collection below, we have compiled all possible kinds of vintage typefaces — now you can look and decide which one suits your project the most. What’s more, they are split into different categories according to the decade they’re inspired by, so you are guaranteed to find exactly what you’re looking for.
Our Team’s Top Pick
Vintage Bridge
Broad Commercial License
Vintage Bridge will add just the right amount of retro touch to your designs. Inspired by vintage signs, this font is carefully created in elegant hand-written shapes. This is an all-in-one package perfect for book covers, posters, t-shirts, letterhead, branding projects, and advertisem*nt needs. The font has uppercase and lowercase characters, numbers, and punctuation.
Five Decades of Vintage & Retro Fonts
- Roaring 50s Retro Fonts
- Lovely 60s Retro Fonts
- Groovy 70s Retro Fonts
- Charming 80s Retro Fonts
- Nostalgic 90s Retro Fonts
Roaring 50s Retro Fonts
Back in the 1950s, people all around the world lived in hope of a better tomorrow and looked for happiness in everything. Those times also brought progress and change: the space race, new technologies, and, of course, rock ‘n’ roll. All these things found their way into design trends, too. Below, explore the beauty and functionality of the ’50s vintage fonts.
Norzek Retro Vintage Reverse Slab Serif Font
Broad Commercial License
Do you want to add an unmatchable vibe of the ’50s to your artwork? Norzek is a perfect choice for that. It is a retro slab serif font that will make your work stand out. Logos, ads, labels, or branding projects — there is nothing Norzek can’t pull off. This display font includes a complete character set as well as numbers and punctuation marks.
Anelka Fambuya Monoline Retro Font
Broad Commercial License
Introducing Anelka Fambuya, a retro script font designed in a monoline style. It is as functional as it is charming: this display font includes uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation marks, ligatures, alternates, various weights, and multilingual support. Anelka Fambuya is a must for every designer as it is a perfect choice for wedding and invitation cards, branding designs, ads, and social media.
Carosello Free Font
Free For Commercial Use
Carosello Vintage is one of the free fonts designed to deliver a hand-written impression. Its unique, vintage style makes time-traveling possible bringing you back to the ’50s and simply pouring retro vibes over you. Apart from the upper- and lowercase alphabet, it’s sprinkled with various kinds of glyphs to complement your creations with intricate details.
Philipmorris Bold Retro Font
Broad Commercial License
Philipmorris is a bold and elegant serif font filled with the ’50s vibes. Its classic retro style will be perfect for branding projects, logo design, and any kind of display use. To help your ideas come to life, the creators designed a complete character set, numerals, punctuation, and ligatures.
Vendeur Vintage Font Family Extras
Paid Commercial Use
Presenting Vendeur Vintage font family with its eight retro styles perfect for print materials. They’re designed in line with a classic retro style, offer serif shapes, and come in five perfectly geometric styles — regular, outline, rough, stamp, and italic — so you can fully customize your design.
Fifties Typeface
Broad Commercial License
Fifties is a serif font that was inspired by vintage book covers and magazines of the 1950s. It includes a complete character set, numerals, and punctuation marks. Its retro yet classic style will be a perfect match for any kind of project like print materials, logos, ads, as well as greeting and wedding cards.
Ropstone Typeface
Broad Commercial License
Ropstone is a display font inspired by retro poster typography. It’s created to bring life to your designs and add just a hint of a retro feel. Lowercase and uppercase letters, punctuation marks, and numerals are all there for you to use. Use this serif font in your modern logos, ads, social media posts, greeting and wedding cards, and much more.
Lovely 60s Retro Fonts
When I say tie-dyes, peace signs, and the Beatles, what comes to mind? Yes, definitely the ’60s! Everything about that era is iconic — so are the design trends of that time. The ’60s fonts come in different variations: from classic and clean to bold and hyper-psychedelic. What unites them is a unique nostalgic feel that makes them well-suited for tons of designs.
Waston Retro Display Font
Broad Commercial License
Waston is a clean and easy retro font that’ll add a modern, luxury touch to whatever you design. It comes with a lot of alternative characters to give you creative freedom. It will be perfect for a variety of applications like social media posts, logos, headlines, signs, merchandise, wedding invitations, and much more thanks to its elegance.
Carlo Monaco Sans Serif
Free For Commercial Use
Carlo Monaco is a free retro font with serif geometry and beautiful lettering. It was inspired by Art Deco and designed for hospitality-themed projects. It’s created to deliver many options of alternates and ligatures, perfectly suitable for creating elegant lifestyle designs such as logos, titles, and book covers.
Groovy Retro Font
Broad Commercial License
Groovy is a bold font based on hand lettering. It was inspired by the famous retro typography designs from the late ’60s and early ’70s. Groovy comes with an extra extruded font version to save you effort and provides stylistic alternates, swashes, and ligatures, as well as a contextual and stylistic set.
Vintage the Vegals
Broad Commercial License
Vintage the Vegals is one of those classic vintage typefaces that provide a clean, modern take on retro typography, so it’ll spruce up whatever you create. It’ll be perfect for branding signage, letterhead, labels, product packaging, and more.
The Rickey Vintage Script Font
Broad Commercial License
Looking for a classic retro-style font with fun vibes? All you need is Rickey. This is a clean display font with a funky feel that will bring you back to the ’60s era filled with groovy posters, ads, and labels. This bold font adds contrast to any work and is perfect for eye-catching logos, signage, modern badges, stickers, or even Hollywood film posters.
Budge
Paid Commercial Use
Introducing Budge, a bold italic font with three layers created with a love for retro. It was mostly inspired by dessert and beverage packaging. Add this clean, versatile font to modern food-related designs or adjust it for other purposes.
Groovy 70s Retro Fonts
In search of vintage fonts with a groovy, funky vibe? The 1970s is a perfect place for you! Fonts of this era absorbed the essence of the hippie culture and will spice up your designs in no time. Discover a collection of the best ’70s fonts below — and don’t stop at just one!
Retro Thunders — Fancy Vintage Font
Broad Commercial License
Welcome Retro Thunders — the sans-serif font with a strong, statement look inspired by the retro style. It is perfect for any vintage design projects such as posters, logos, labels, clothing, and more. It comes with a solid and extruded style, so there’s room for experimentation. It provides basic Latin language support and includes swashes, ligatures, and stylistic alternates.
Dubbo Retro Serif Font
Broad Commercial License
Presenting Dubbo, a serif font that’s both retro and bold. Its chunky curves give it the ’70s groovy vibe, while the bold serif geometry brings it back to traditional. Dubbo fits right in with those retro mood boards and vintage logos. It includes lower- and uppercase letters with alternates, as well as numbers, punctuation, and multilingual characters.
Rambors Retro Font
Broad Commercial License
Rambors is a multiline display font inspired by the ’70s trends. Giving nostalgic and futuristic vibes, Rambors will work in headlines, flyers, motion graphics, and stickers. This is an all-caps font with endless creative possibilities to explore.
Lovadelic
Paid Commercial Use
Lovadelic is a retro font inspired by the ’70s lettering combined with psychedelic balloon typography. The typeface comes with OpenType features such as stylistic alternates, stylistic sets, contextual alternates, and ligatures. The package also provides you with a collection of extra graphics to help you make stunning designs.
Your Groovy Font — Retro Psychedelic 70s Font
Broad Commercial License
Your Groovy Font is a great example of psychedelic ’70s typography. It is the perfect fit for vintage apparel, movie titles, restaurant menus, magazines, and much more. It offers 593 glyphs as well as some OpenType features including two weights.
Giovany Retro Font
Paid Commercial Use
Giovany is a stylish font inspired by the ’70s vintage fashion posters and mixed with a modern touch. It comes with multilingual support and includes the whole character set, numerals, and punctuation marks. Giovany is made mainly for eye-catching headlines, titles, and other short texts.
Charming 80s Retro Fonts
Neon colors, sci-fi, the Nintendo, rock’n’roll, and pop icons — all these things are imprinted in the design trends forever. The typography of that time varies from elegant hand-written cursives to vivid neons. Below, discover a collection of the ’80s fonts that’ll make your creations just a little bit extra.
Jazzbury Retro Script
Broad Commercial License
The smooth curves of this retro font make you think of luxury packaging and vintage T-shirts. Jazzbury will look perfect in anything from apparel to signage and social media headlines. It comes with standard characters, punctuation, numerals, and various stylistic variations you’ll find useful.
Outrunner 80s Retro Script
Broad Commercial License
All you need to revert back to the ’80s when people wore vibrant colors, went to the disco, and watched science fiction movies is Outrunner. It is a script retro font that looks as if it just came off of an ”80s movie poster!
Luminaire Script Font
Free For Commercial Use
Luminaire Script is a casual script font that blends classic cursive writing, pop culture, and urban vibes together. It is perfect for headings, invitations, stickers, web use, and more. It comes with uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals, punctuations, and multilingual support given — all in one package that’ll let you customize your designs.
Greatly Font Duo Logo Templates
Broad Commercial License
Greatly Font Duo is crafted with a combination of script and sans-serif geometry that recreates the mood of the ’80s. Its classic style and elegance are perfect for eye-catching vintage labels, logo design, invitations, branding, packaging, display advertising, etc. The duo includes two weights, a whole character set, punctuation marks, and numbers.
Bayshore
Paid Commercial Use
Bayshore is a monoline retro font reminiscent of the ’80s. Whether it’s a logo or apparel design, Bayshore won’t fail to deliver a perfect retro-style look. It includes a large glyph set, upper- and lowercase characters, a range of punctuation marks, and multilingual support.
Routen Lightning Monoline
Broad Commercial License
Routen is a vintage monoline font with lightning swashes. It was created with various useful features such as ligatures, a stylistic set, etc. with a total of over 350 glyphs! Routen supports multilingual characters and comes in both OTF and TTF. It also includes four styles: Routen Regular, Routen Stamp (textured version), Routen Inky, and Routen Swash.
Nostalgic 90s Retro Fonts
Hipster, grunge, handwritten lettering, and pixelated images — that’s what you’ll find in the ’90s font section. If you long for the era of video games and comic books and can’t wait to indulge in nostalgia, use ’90s vintage fonts in your work. Thanks to their diversity, you’ll definitely find something that suits your project.
Neonblitz Retro Neon
Broad Commercial License
Introducing Neonblitz, one of those vintage fonts that’ll make your design stand out. The typeface includes numbers, punctuation, and a complete letter set with rounded corners — just like the real neon tubes. Use it to create a glowing light effect in your ads, social media, and other projects.
Shutter Speed a Retro Comic Font
Broad Commercial License
Shutter Speed is a clean and easy all-caps font with a retro style that includes uppercase and lowercase letters, special characters, punctuation, ligatures, and alternates. It’s inspired by comics and offers a classic sans-serif geometry. It provides you with multilingual support so you can deliver your message to the whole world. This typography will look perfect for anything that needs a retro feel: logos, cards, etc.
Thunderstorm Extras
Paid Commercial Use
Introducing Thunderstorm, the hand-made typeface that looks as if it was painted with brushes. This amazing font was inspired by the ’80s–90s disco and grunge. You can use it for headings, clothing, books, invitations, and so much more! The download includes Regular and Monoline font weights in OTF and TTF.
NT Wagner Soft Retro Serif Font
Free For Personal Use
NT Wagner is a retro serif font that captures the spirit of the 1990s. It is a must for designers as it’ll be perfect for any kind of design project: invitations, posters, books, ads, blog headers, branding, etc. NT Wagner supports over 200 Latin-based languages and provides you with a complete character set, numbers, and punctuation.
Strippy
Broad Commercial License
Inspired by the bold and loud visual statements of the ’90s poster and graphic design, Strippy can’t hold itself to be born in this universe. Clean square shapes make a statement and simply demand your attention. This retro font help designers make anything from branding projects to social media posts unique and cool.
Frequently Asked Questions
Good retro fonts have a clean, versatile look that’s modern and vintage at the same time. Depending on the project, you can choose from different eras they’re inspired by. Classic examples of fonts with a retro vibe are Mamenchisa, Blowing Vesicle, Helmud, and Gruvilicious Font Family.
The vintage design calls for bold, geometric shapes that’ll make your work stand out. Typefaces with a strong, retro vibe suitable for a vintage-style project are Philipmorris, Waston, Vintage Bridge, Vendeur Vintage Font Family, and Vintage the Vegals.
Retro typography is inspired by the lettering of the past and can deliver a different feel depending on the decade, from psychedelic ’60s to futuristic ’90s. Retro typography works great in branding projects, product packaging, logos, signs, posters, and anything in between.
The names of ’70s retro fonts often include the words psychedelic, groovy, vintage, or funky. Check out Hello Omens, Your Groovy Font, JMH Psychedelic CAPS, Giovany, Lovadelic, and Rambors for inspiration.
To recreate the vibe of the ’80s, go for script-based fonts. Luminaire, Outrunner 80s, Jazzbury, Greatly Font Duo, Bayshore, and Conture Script perfectly reflect the atmosphere of that time and will give your work a nostalgic, vintage feel.
To add a bit of the ’90s feel to your project, you need futuristic, grunge, or comics-inspired fonts. Amongst them are Neonblitz, Shutter Speed, Thunderstorm, Miami Beat, NT Wagner, Remarcle, The Hills, and Strippy Bold Futuristic Fonts.
