Color fonts represent an evolutionary step in digital typography. Most fonts we’re familiar with are monochrome, displaying vector shapes as black text by default. In contrast, colorful fonts, also known as chromatic fonts or multicolor fonts, contain both color and shape information.
This technology has enabled designers to incorporate rich graphic features such as colors, gradients, and textures into a single font file. Inspired by the possibilities of color fonts, we’ve compiled over 15+ stunning real-color fonts for your design projects. Enjoy and have a nice time!
Abelone
Inspired by the iridescent marine mollusk shells, the Abelone features wide characters with a smooth blend of turquoise and purple transitions. Created by graphic designer Maria Grønlund, Abelone was released for free as part of #ColorFontWeek by Adobe and Fontself in October 2017. The font is still available for free download and comes with a license – for personal and commercial use.
Playbox
Matt Lyon’s Playbox is another font released as part of #ColorFontWeek by Adobe and Fontself. The variety of colors, letter shapes and all the textures that make up each character give Playbox a sense of fun and playfulness. The font is available for free download and comes with a free commercial use license.
ColorTube
Ivan Filipov created Colortube from Neogrey with the help of the great Adobe Illustrator extension Fontself. It requires Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 or Adobe Illustrator CC 2018! If used in lower version of both programs the font will default to black.
Bixa Color
Color fonts often have large file sizes, which is a major concern when using them on websites. While building Bixa Color, a wooden color font for Novo Typo, Roel Nieskens kept this in mind and optimized the font for web use, resulting in a respectable 50kB WOFF font file.
LetterBoard
LetterBoard is another free color font from Fonts.lol style foundry. It’s inspired by the interchangeable alphabet character and features tall, condensed characters with bevelled edges.
Macbeth
Macbeth is a free hand-drawn OpenType SVG font from Oghi Novianto. Using the latest OpenType-SVG technology, the font preserves the high-resolution brush detail of the original handwriting.
Gilbert
Gilbert is a family of free fonts created in honour of Gilbert Baker, the iconic Rainbow Flag designer. Gilbert has both color font (OpenType SVG) and standard vector font (OTF).
LiebeHeide
LiebeHeide, designed by Ulrike Rausch, is based on high-res digitized ballpoint pen letterings, combined with OpenType features such as ligatures and alternate letters. Typical handwriting attributes like symbols and doodles, up to underlines (single and double) and lots of strikethroughs give this typeface its charm.
GRL PWR
GRL PWR is a cool, bright, colourful little display typeface, hand-drawn to make the letters look like they are 3D or extruded. This font is also an OpenType-SVG colour vector font.
Quotable
Quotable is a new collection of display sans serif typeface with illustrations. Perfect for branding, social media templates, stories, cards, posters and other designs.
Magic
Magic – Colour SVG Font. All the letters are raster bitmap font – each letter has been painted a dozen of times.
Yeah
Yeah is a gold mylar foil balloon typeface. It’s big, It’s shiny, and it’s high-energy pop kitsch at it’s ironic best.
Color Block
Color Block is super fun, modern and most importantly colorful!! This jazzy display font is sure to give life to all sorts of projects!
FoilBalloon
Making Foil Balloon types never been easy like this! It is OpenType SVG font that you can directly type as Foil Balloon. It is a complete font family with Script and Sans characters.
Be My Candy
It is OpenType SVG font that you can directly type as Candy Cane striped letters. Classic red and white twisted stripes. Each symbol has shadows and glossy highlights for realistic candy texture this font is indispensable for christmas design.
Stripe Adelic
This vintage-styled SVG color font fits squarely between the end of the sixties and the beginning of the seventies. Stylistically, it was an era of wondrous and colorful creativity, with the popularity of animated psychedelic art films, Pop Art and Peter Max.