15 Free Retro Fonts

Nov 5, 2008 by Jennifer Farley    7 Comments    Posted under: Design Resources, Typography

ret·ro [ réttrō ]
adjective

Definition:
Modeled on something from past: modeled on something from the past such as a style of fashion or music.

Smashing magazine recently had a nice review of websites designed in a retro style. Below you’ll find examples of 15 retro fonts I’ve got in my own font bag that you might be interested in for your web or graphic design projects, along with links to the websites you can dowload the fonts from.

Fontdiner is a terrific site with free and paid for fonts available.

Girls Who Wear Glasses have a large number of free fonts available, here’s a few of their retro styles that I liked.

Fontoville have some lovely paid for Retro fonts but also generously give away these:

Typographica host the Hitchcock font by Matt Terich as an homage to the iconic lettering by Saul Bass.

Rotodesign also offer some free retro fonts to download.

Tags: Dublin, fonts, Graphic Design, Ireland, laughing lion design, retro fonts, web design

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  Chocolate Heaven November 5, 2008 at 11:01 am

  Oooh I love some of these fonts! I will definately be downloading them to add to my font collection.
  Thanks
  Nicola
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  Jennifer Farley November 5, 2008 at 11:05 am

  Hi Nicola
  Glad you like the fonts! Did you get your plugin working ok?
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  Nicola November 5, 2008 at 2:11 pm

  Hi!
  No – I didnt get the plugin to work – we dont have WordPress downloaded onto our computer to be able to add widgets etc. I dont think that I can do it online?
  Nicola
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  Devlin November 5, 2008 at 10:19 pm

  Great post, Jennifer! I am so happy to see fontdiner.com get out there, I am a huge fan of their typefaces. I bought my first font collection from them, their fantastic Casino Buffet Collection. I love the 50′s & 60′s design & typography.
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  Jennifer Farley November 6, 2008 at 9:50 am

  Hi Devlin, I love fontdiner too – tons of cool stuff on their site.
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