14 Free Retro Fonts for Vintage Designs
Do you feel vintagey today? Well, vintage or retro is one of our most favorite design themes. And since any design involves the use of fonts, we think that it would be useful to start collecting retro font types that could go seamlessly with other vintage design elements such as textures, patterns and old photos.
Retro designs can arouse nostalgic feelings that is why the use of vintage elements in designs is something that is here to stay. You can see them in movie posters. websites, fliers, brochures, ads, promotional materials, among other things. Furthermore, retro or vintage style can look cool and offer people something they do not expect at all. Today, when you say retro, it no longer refers to being outdated, looking old, unattractive and dull.
Thus, if you are looking at designing something retro-ish, here is a collection of retro font types that you can download and use for free. However, if you are looking for modern looking fonts, then you should check out our roundup of free modern fonts. Have a nice day!
14 FREE RETRO FONT TYPES TO DOWNLOAD
This collection includes retro font types that you can use for headlines while some are suited as body text. To download the font that you like, simply look for the download link below each preview image. We hope you will find something useful from this set.
Airstream Retro Font
Here is a fancy decorative retro font designed by Nick’s Fonts. Use it to make your artwork look like those from the 1950s. This is ideal to use as a headline or title because it is thick and highly readable.
Riesling Retro Font
Designed by Bright Ideas, Riesling font is perfect for infusing elegance to your hotel or restaurant themed websites. The elegant typeface includes a full set of upper and lowercase letters, numbers 0-9 and special characters.
BP Script
This is a nice retro font for creating those designs with a personal touch. This is ideal for greeting cards, or body text for a letter since it looks like handwritten.
Day Poster Black
In case you need a heavy and thick headline for vintage themed design, then this font is for you. Using this will surely make your headlines hard to miss.
Limelight Retro Font
Limelight reminds us of old movie posters. Since the letters are not legible in smaller sizes, this retro font is perfect for titles or headlines only.
Seaside Resort Free Font
A 1933 poster by Italy’s Bertarelli Studios provided the inspiration for this unusual headline font. The perspective shadows were originally rendered with what appears to be litho crayon on coquille board. Although the effect was pleasing, the lines were cleaned up to keep the font file a manageable size.
Hamburger Heaven Retro Font
Here is a stylish retro script font from Nick Curtis that reminds of diner lettering from the 1930s and 1940s. This font is perfect for restaurants such as for logos, signage or menu designs.
Madison Square Font
Here is another decorative font from Nick’s Fonts that you can use to infuse some vintage feel to your design. This font family has 1 variant.
Diner Skinny Font
This font is ultra narrow and light, thus the name. Use this to make elegant headlines for your fliers and brochures.
Handshoe Typography C30
As the name suggests, these are fonts that have a hand-made or hand-typography feel reminiscent of shop signboards from the past.
Font Leroy Brown Font
Here is another decorative retro font designed by Nick’s Fonts. Fontleroy Brown font family has 1 variant.
Metro Retro
And yet, another decorative display font reminiscent of vintage signage, this time, from the 1950s.
Retro Hand Denim Font
The letters in this free retro font look like they were made out of old denim. These are ideal to use for headlines or signage.
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My Girl is Retro
My Girl Is Retro is a beautiful font style that allows you to quickly give a vintage, outlined look to any text string.
