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Weekly Freebies: 10 Rocking Retro Fonts

by Joshua Johnson on 18th January 2011 with 12 Comments

When you’re working on a retro design, one of the key elements that you have to nail is the typography. Each typeface has an implicit suggestion of a decade and having a full arsenal of fonts helps you prepare for all kinds of design scenarios.

Below we’ve compiled ten of our favorite free retro fonts from around the web. They’re all really beautiful and definitely worth a download.

Airstream

Betty Noir

Riesling

Andes

Hamburger Heaven

Buenos Aires

Bellerose

Delarge

Louisianne

Geomancy

What Are Your Favorites?

If you liked the post, leave a comment below and let us know which font is your favorite. Also include any links to retro fonts that you use frequently that aren’t shown above.

Comments & Discussion

12 Comments

http://hectorvector.posterous.com Heeectooor

All of this fonts looks amazing! The kind of stuff it’s getting very trendy because of Mad Men.
http://maxlabs.de Maximilian

Yeah they are really great. Love them all!
http://www.vertstudios.com/blog/ Vert Studios

If PacMan had a favorite font, it would be Delarge.
http://@amadeu Amadeu

in reply to Vert;
Lol you are right!

Nice fonts by the way…
thanks for sharing!
http://www.musings.it Federica Sibella

I love Riesling! I used it for this project http://www.ebea2011.org and it was a success!
http://designi1.com designi1

Really nice retro fonts and nice design on them.
http://jlofstedt.com Joachim

Unique and elegant, I like them all! :)
ev149

No Lobster? Seems that would be a pretty obvious choice. Still, nice collection.
http://www.matthewduerksen.com/ matthew duerksen

I love retro fonts! This is a great list!

Thanks!
http://trevorkyler.com Trevor

The Riesling one makes me thing of the Great Gatsby! that and a couple of terrible hangovers… good job!
http://www.imagemedia.com Olivia | Design

Really good fonts. Thanks for the grat article.
http://www.pockymob.tumblr.com Geos

Reisling is wonderful! I was looking for a font to match a specific style I’ve picked for a project, I was having trouble but it’s perfect! You’re a life saver.

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