A vintage font capable of transporting your work and giving it a feeling of nostalgia and timelessness that no other style could emulate.
With a vintage design and an elegant look, a vintage font can be the perfect thing needed to put your client’s business first.
In this collection, we present some of the best vintage fonts you can use to add that vintage elegance to your designs. These fonts are especially suitable for various luxury brand designs, product labels, packaging, logo designs, and more.
To help you decide on the perfect font to convey your brand message successfully, we’ve compiled a list of 50+ retro and vintage fonts. Take a look below and get inspired.
Best Retro and Vintage Fonts
Paralines
Paralines is a free font with a retrofuturistic vibe to it. Inspiration for this came from both modern-day fonts and retro design in the past.
LAZER 84
Lazer 84 is a retro-style brush font inspired in the ’80s. This font includes numbers, symbols and accents.
Ansley Display
Ansley Display is a past and modern retro-inspired display font made. This font free for commercial and personal use.
Akura Popo
Akura Popo is a vintage and classic condensed serif font with bold, tough-looking and robust style. Suits best for logo, headline, letterhead, sports theme designs, etc. Available in both OTF and TTF.
Retro Font
Retro font family was designed as a result of a love for typography, especially in the 20th century. As an experimental design, this font is given to the public for free and for any use.
Nexa Font
Nexa font family is suitable for headings of all sizes and text blocks in maximum and minimum width and height. Nexa font styles are applicable for any graphic design of digital, web, print, hard surfaces, fabrics, posters, logos, and branding.
Bukhari Script
Bukhari Script is a bold monoline cursive font. Very useful for various design projects, web or printing, such as a Logotype, Posters, Badges, Signage, Bussiness Card, T-shirt Design, or it can be anything.
Oldways Font
Oldways is a retro font that combines old western typography with the modern design style. It is highly suitable for posters, branding, logo, etc. You can easily give the feel of a retro design style in a modern way to your project.
Whisholder
Whisholder is a free vintage font and retro typeface is inspired by vintage lettering sign and art. Whisholder is perfect for branding projects, logo, wedding designs, social media posts, advertisements, product packaging, product designs, label, photography, watermark, invitation, stationery, and any projects that need handwriting taste.
Fritch
Fritch is a free vintage typeface with an elongated/condensed body. It is perfect for titles and headings in posters, book covers, magazines and more. Fritch is an uppercase only font and it is free for personal and commercial use.
Stone Board
Stone Board is a modern vintage typeface style with decorative characters and a dancing baseline! The typeface was inspired by lettering. So beautiful on logo like headline, branding materials, business cards, quotes, posters.
Nathan Vintage
Nathan Vintage Script is inspired by modern vintage and retro style. This is a typeface that works perfectly to convey a vintage aesthetic. All characters have a poor shape that gives a natural look to this typeface.
Rousseau Deco
It is a sans serif font that features multilingual characters and also unique stylized O, R & S characters. This font is perfect for any retro design project as a standalone font or paired with others.
Nature Spirit
Nature Spirit is a unique vintage style font from Alex Joganic of 1871 Project. This font has retro stylings and features tons of alternate characters for creating custom types. This is perfect for vintage branding, logo & label design, apparel, lockups and much more!
Cheque
The font is based on geometric shapes and has a very classy vintage look. Cheque looks best when used for headlines or compositions. The Cheque Regular and Cheque Black fonts are both free for personal and commercial use.
Parker
Parker is a handmade vintage-inspired font. It works great for vintage design, t-shirts, logos, posters and more. Free for personal use.
Lovelo
Lovelo free font is remake of the original Lovelo Inline – designed by Renzler Design, Vienna, Austria.
Ailerons
Aircraft models from the 40s inspired ailerons. The typeface was designed for an experimental project of air models and is now available for personal use.
Big John / Slim Joe
Moon
Nocturne
Create extraordinary typography with Nocturne, a vintage typeface that is available in 2 styles – Regular & Rough. It works perfectly for logos, headers, titles, prints & plenty of other creative possibilities.
Obake
Helsinki
The Helsinki free fonts cover the Western and Central European character set and come for desktop and web. To use the fonts, install the TTF files on your system.
Supria Sans
Supria Sans™ is an extended family of 36 fonts designed by Hannes von Döhren. It contains two widths, six weights and three styles, including the curvy, feminine Italic, and the more conventional Oblique.
Cast Iron
NOIR
WT BRADFORD
WT Bradford was designed by Winston Type Co. and is inspired by the old-fashioned display, traditional sign-writing and packaging in the early 1900’s, the ubiquitous letter-heads, trade cards, advertising circulars and bills that were common in everyday life.
ORWELLIAN
Orwellian is a reversed-stress typeface designed for display use.
Swiss Grit
Swiss Grit is a font inspired by my 90s design heroes’ work and a passion for Letraset typographic dry transfers.
Booster Vintage
Booster Vintage is a handcrafted script vintage font. This script typeface gives a feel of vintage, classic, old, handmade looked like because the process of the font itself through the scanning process and carved digitally, the texture itself is well crafted and added carefully in each character.
ARVIL
Arvil has strong lines with rounded, soft terminals to produce a strong yet friendly letterform. Available in all caps with numerals, punctuation, and a wide range of symbols, Arvil is versatile and sure to deliver your next message with style.
Vintage Stylist
Vintage Stylist is a modern vintage serif font loaded with alternates and ligatures that makes for stunning logos, quotes, wedding invites, blog posts, Instagram, and more!
Vintage Dreams
Vintage Dreams is a modern yet groovy bold script is here to help you make a statement in your projects! Comes in Hairline/ brush SVG and a clean, solid version.
Vintage Varsity
Vintage Varsity was inspired by that classic iron-on letterman jacket your “cool” uncle wore in high school.
Milan
Milan is a gorgeous and classic all-caps sans serif that looks stunning in just about every context. Use it for logos, print, collage, body text, and more!
HUSCON
Huscon is a great typeface for achieving an authentic vintage aesthetic as seen in the display images.
Celestial
Celestial Typeface is a handmade Victorian handlettering, which is combining modern and classic typography with some awesome features. Yes we back to early 1800s, bring classic touch on this decade.
Creative Vintage
Creative Vintage is a modern serif with vintage charm, fashion look and retro yet modern style.
Old Pines Vintage
Old Pines Typeface is a sans serif font, it has a modern vintage look design styles. The font have smooth edges to simulate the look of an vintage printing, so it will bring a vintage handmade looked like.
Baroneys
Baroneys is a vintage serif font textured, suitable for your next creative project like suitable for art, modern envelope lettering or book design, poster, craft design, any Branding project, pop vintage designy.
Baheula Vintage
Baheula is a highly detailed vintage handcrafted font inspired from hand-drawn lettering and vintage style, to work together in aesthetic for creating masterful handlettering designs in a flash!
Mogan
Mogan is an upper and lowercase serif font with nicely balanced curves. Its wide range of stylistic alternates allows versatile design options and works perfectly for headlines, logos, posters, packaging, T-shirts, postcards and much more.
Bignord
Bignord is a brand new fonts with vintage look and style inspired from many vintage packaging and from typographic cover lettering.
Blackriver
Blackriver is inspired by vintage packaging and advertising from the early 20th century. It is perfect for vintage logo design, headlines or packaging design.
Reuben
Reuben is a display typeface inspired by vintage fascia signage of New York City’s lower east side. Specifically, these letterforms were designed to mimic the immigrant delicatessens that popped up around the turn of the century.
Andromeda
Andromeda is a vintage, yet modern, soft serif font. This retro looking font was inspired by Oswald Bruce Cooper’s famous font Cooper Black.
ROTHE
ROTHE is a luxury vintage lettering style fonts. Inspired by the branding from the vintage classic era with the full decorative feels and complex design but still get the luxury feels right away.
Sarcastic
Sarcastic is a font display is made by hand, inspired by classic posters.
Summer 0f 76
Summer of 76 is a nostalgic multi-line font inspired by the 70’s aesthetic. Perfect for headers, can be used for text blocks also.
MUARA
Muara is a typeface classic taste ,very suitable as to make a design choice for books, magazines, packaging, branding , signage and more other creative project.
Thistails
Thistails is font duo with modern vintage look design styles, available on script and Display Sans serif typeface.
ROYAL SIGNAGE
Royal Signage is a font inspired by beautiful vintage sign art and lettering. The font comes with special uppercase letters and 38 alternate characters to give your designs an elegant and artistic look.
Charoe
Charoe is a playful and elegant sans serif, perfect for branding projects, headlines, posters and packaging!
Rumble Brave
Rumble Brave Typeface is perfect for beverage label design project. coffee label. logotype design, badges, classic wedding concept. victorian design concept and so on. gig poster, letterhead, droop cap, titles, and any artworks.
Drone Ranger
Drone Ranger is a geometric display family that includes 9 various styles for your designing needs. Drone Ranger lends itself perfectly to sports design, logos, posters, packaging, brochures, t-shirts, and so much more!
American Label
American Label is a typeface vintage font. Its masculine style makes it perfect for logos, typography, and product labels that require a classic and masculine touch. This font is available in 3 styles, namely, clean, rough and striped.
Final Thoughts
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