30 Free Slab Serif Fonts for Poster Designs
Slab Serif fonts are popular for creating bold and big titles or headlines such as in magazines, newspapers, advertisements, and posters. Technically, slab serif fonts are a type of serif fonts with thick, block-like serifs. Serif terminals may be either blunt and angular or rounded. A good example of this typeface is Rockwell, a popular commercial font loved by a lot of typographers. Because of their bold appearance, these fonts are popular as headlines or titles and rarely as body text, except for monospaced text.
If you need some fonts to go with these heavy slab fonts, then browse our collection of free skinny thin fonts.
FREE SLAB SERIF FONTS TO DOWNLOAD
Below, we listed 30 slab serif fonts that you can download and play with for free. To get the font that you want, just click on the name of the font and it will take you to the page where you can download them. Make sure to check the terms of use or the license before using them, especially if you plan to use these free fonts for commercial projects. I hope you are going to love these free resources as well.
Weekly Font Family
This font aims to provide an alternative–a fresh design without that retro feel typical of slab fonts. As a result, this font looks simpler compared to others of its kind, a feature that gives it its unique personality.
Fat Flamingo 5 Font
Here is a heavy alternative to serif headlines with a touch of pink.
Museo Slab Serif Fonts
This is a robust slab serif with Museo’s friendliness–easy on the eyes and very readable. Using it for texts on your ads or posters will surely make them stand out. It is a perfect match for Museo Sans.
Adelle Slab Serif Fonts
The award-winning Adelle is a dynamic slab serif font. While it is conceived specifically for intensive editorial use, its personality and flexibility make it a real multiple-purpose typeface. The intermediate weights deliver a very legible and neutral look when used in text sizes, providing the usual robustness expected in a newspaper font. The unobtrusive appearance, excellent texture, and slightly dark color allow it to behave flawlessly in continuous text setting, even in the most demanding editorial applications.
Chunk Slab Serif Fonts
This is an ultra-bold slab serif fonts reminiscent of old American Western woodcuts, broadsides, and newspaper headlines. Used mainly for display, the fat block lettering is unreserved yet refined for contemporary use.
Sketch Block Slab Serif Fonts
These slab serif fonts are ideal if you want a big screaming headline with a sketched natural look. They have big thick vertical lines and big thick serifs.
College Slab
Originally produced by Matthew Welch as College Bold, College Slab SC slab serif fonts are the small-capital extended and revised version of the same font.
Bevan Heavy Slab Font
Bold and heavy slab serif fonts designed by Fonthead Design.
Acknowledgement Font
Designed by Reading Type, this heavy slab serif font is perfect for big titles and headlines, especially for posters and announcements.
Arvo Slab Serif
Arvo is a geometric slab-serif typeface family for screen and print. The family includes four cuts: Roman, Italic, Roman Bold, Bold Italic. It is an open font available through the Google Font Directory. The flavor of the font is rather mixed. Its monolinear-ish, but has a tiny bit of contrast (which increases the legibility a little in Mac OS X.)
Klein Slab Serif
A true type font available in four weights.
Ryno Slab
The free download of this font type includes only the capital/upper cases. If you like to get the full version, it is available philatype.com.
Bullpen Heavy
This font is very masculine that even the lightest weights will make words like pantyhose, skirt, and wiener burst forth with brutal manliness. Bullpen includes a Greek alphabet with is twice as strapping as the regular alphabet.
Octin Sports
Octin Sports is not just for sports. This font is also great as headlines for ads and collateral materials for school, construction as well as military themes. This font comes in seven weights.
Tertre Slab
AW Conqueror Slab
This slab serif font is part of the Conqueror free family of fonts from Jean François Porchez. The font family was inspired by the 60-70’s spirit.
Ripe Font
A Geometric Postmodern slab serif font. The serifs feature simplistic rounded terminals and its stroke is uniform. Ripe is a practical typeface, with each character distinct, yet consistent. Its subtle differences are clear enough to be easily read at both high and low resolutions, perfect for print, web and screen media.
SD Grunge Serif Font
This font is a modified version of Serif Black. The glyph set is limited only to the glyphs used in common US English Editorial.
Big Mummy
This is a basic, serif font great for screaming headlines and posters. It is free for both personal and commercial usages.
Weston Free Font
The main purpose is to provide designers with font, suitable for modification in logos and headlines. Combined wisely, Weston will spice up your design adding the “not-your-usual-font-choice” effect. Inspired by the evergreen Grover & Rockwell, this font would love to find his place in your library.
HVD Comic Serif
So many designers hate Comic Sans. They think people who don’t know design are overusing this funny little friendly font, which is nearly every time out of place. Some years ago, type designer Hannes von Döhren created a free alternative to Comic Sans.
Wanted M54 Font
A bolder variation of the classic collegiate style typeface. Great for t-shirts, apparel design and kit numbers. Will also look great on posters.
Kaine Block Font
A bold slab-serif typeface influenced by Spaghetti Western posters of the 1960s.
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Academic M54 Font
A font inspired by some college and university t-shirts. Ideal for creating logos and emblems. The dollar ($) key holds an alternate glyph for the letter ‘s’. The left and right curly brackets hold alternate glyphs for numbers ‘2’ and ‘5’.
Just Old Fashion
Chip Knip Font
The Fontry Normal Extended Font
A sample includes just the normal weight of the font family. If you want the complete set in 8 faces, with open type features, layering effects, drop shadows and an extended version, a commercial license is likewise available.
