Typography

40 Amazingly Hot Free Retro Fonts You Must Have

by Sonny M. Day on February 5, 2012

free retro fonts

Fonts are very important resources for web designers and graphic artists. If you are one of them, it is necessary that you have a sizable collection of fonts, so that when the need arises, you can easily pullout a nice typography to give a distinctive style to your designs. For today, we have come up with samples of some of the hottest retro fonts out there in the web now. For the sake of illustration, we downloaded all the fonts and placed them on old paper texture to see how they look like when implemented on a design.

To say the least, these fonts are gorgeous in their own typographic flavor which is obviously reminiscent of the 60s, the 70s, the 80s and other bygone eras. Having downloaded all these fonts for presentation purposes, it thus confirmed that all of these work in actual designing environment.

By the way, these fonts are all free for personal use and some even for commercial purposes. If you intend to use them for commercial purposes we urge you to take an extra step to read the restrictions set forth by their authors. If you have doubts, you can contact them directly on their respective websites.

If you have any comment, or addition to these retro font collection, we are inviting you to please write them down below. We hope that you will find this article useful and if it does, please help us spread it by sharing it to your friends and foes alike.Enjoy! Smile

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