80+ Best Free and Premium 80s Fonts

The most exciting thing about graphic design is that nothing, not even time itself, can draw any lines for it. Quite the opposite, you can play with the timeline and even go back if you have to. And what better motivation to do that than creating a striking typography masterpiece? That’s when the 80’s fonts enter the game, and lucky for you, we’ve got a whole collection of them.

Even with such an obvious retro feel, these 80’s fonts so eloquently lend themselves to most high-tech designs. The cheerful style makes a great choice for movie posters, watermarks, websites, or else, and sure enough, a tickling sense of nostalgia follows.

Best 80s Fonts

Prepare to be amazed by some of the most dazzling free and premium 80’s fonts there have ever been. There’s also a Vaporwave fonts collection that once coupled with these, can put your lettering in a whole new light. Enjoy!

The Sonnyfive Typeface

The Sonnyfive Typeface made by thesonnyfive is a brush font. This font that is from the eighties includes upper/lower case letters, numbers, and punctuation. This font is a great choice for horror 80s movie posters.

Price: Premium

Popincourt 1981

Popincourt 1981 has a very high style. There are three different types in this font, the first type is the horizontal line of letters at the top, the second type is in the middle, and the third type is at the bottom, and you can use any of these three types in your design.

Price: Free

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Revive 80 – Retro 1980’s Font Pack

Revive 80 designed by Tom Chalky is an amazing font family including eight cohesive fonts. This super versatile font family is perfect for your creative designs and can create a vintage look. This Sans Serif collection fits different heights and widths. Give it a try!

Price: Premium

Power Lord

Power Lord Font created by Iconian Fonts is an action font family and it includes 17 styles. This versatile font family is free for non-commercial designs.

Price: Free

TURBO SYSTEM Complete Design Kit

The TURBO SYSTEM Complete Design Kit is for those graphic designers who need a nostalgic design from the eighties. This font is diagonal and pixelated and has four different types.

Price: Premium

Heatwave

The awesomeness of 80’s is what this font got inspired by. Uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation are included in the font. Turgcu Design Co is the creator of this font. This all-caps font will provide you limited multilingual support.

Price: Premium

Thunderstorm

This brush typeface font was inspired by the music of the 1980s such as pop, disco, and grunge. Thunderstorm was handcrafted and presents the 80’s pop culture. In those days people were carefree and also experimental in their designs which are in contrast to today’s minimalism. With this font, our design will definitely stand out. Thunderstorm can be used for advertising, beautiful album covers, clothing, labels, movie posters, game logos, books and etc.

Price: Premium

Hauser

This simple angular typeface font has a military feel. Title logo of Hasbro’s classic GI Joe franchise is what Hauser got inspired by. Full alphabet and punctuation are included in this font. Different versions such as regular, italic, condensed, and condensed-italic are included in Hauser. Hauser is created b Pixel Sagas. Hauser is free for personal use and with it, you can make logos with different colors and many text effects.

Price: Free

Coubra

Coubra is a font for people who like to stand out in the nostalgic world of the ’80s. This font is suitable for designing many retro themes, old-fashion greeting cards, packaging.

Price: Premium

Outrunner Retro Script

This font is reminiscent of disco. Outrunner is bright and also filled with character and is vibrant. The moment people catch a glimpse of this font, they will feel nostalgic. This classic retro font is one of the 80’s great fonts. Outrunner includes lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and diacritics. Vibrant colors of the 80’s inspired this font. if you remember in the 80’s people wore vibrant colors and liked science fiction movies with their colorful posters. In case you have a retro, classic or modern design this font is perfect for you.  

Price: Premium

Arcade Machine 80’s Retro

Video games console, knight riders, and gaming machines are very nostalgic and memorable things for those who are born in the 80’s. These are the things that the designer of this font got inspired by. You can use this nostalgic font for your different projects such as logo, game logo, flyer, poster, movie posters, advertising and T-shirts and any other project that you imagine.

Arcade Machine 80’s comes with both uppercase and lowercase and also ligature. This Lightning Bolt 80s font which has a 90’s feel to it is what we make for nostalgic and is a font combined with the feel of Synthwave.

Price: Premium

Commando

Commando by defaulterror is free for commercial use. This font is a tribute to Snake-Eyes. This octagon shape font can be used for comic designs. It is good to know that this font belongs to the following category: high-tech, industrial.

Price: Free

Default Typeface

This modern san serif font will present 80’s style like in video games. Adhreza got inspired by video games and also motion graphics and created this font.  Default Typeface can be used for body text and will be displayed with Regular or Alternates to make a perfect title. Default Typeface comes in four typefaces and a few extras like colors and element shapes are also included. This font includes A-Z uppercase and lowercase and also numbers and symbols.

Price: Premium

Last Dance Retro Brush Script

Last Dance Retro Brush Script font is a nostalgic design of the eighties. You can use this font for music covers, nightclubs, VHS cover, and many other designs.

Price: Premium

Cyberspace Raceway

The font manufacturer is Chequered Ink. if you want to use this font for commercial use you need to purchase a license but it is free for personal use. Cyberspace belongs to the sci-fi, techno category.

Price: Free

HYPERWAVE Marker

HYPERWAVE is one of energetic best 80’s typefaces with a harsh attitude that will crank up the intensity for you. This font has three sets of each letter. By using this font you will be able to make a statement on your designs and projects. HYPERWAVE can be used for logos, social media posts, game logos, movie posters, labels, album covers, handwritten quotes, packaging and also advertising.

As mentioned above this font includes three sets of each letter; HYPERWAVE one contains uppercase characters, numerals, and punctuation. HYPERWAVE two is a completely new set of uppercase characters and is a good choice in case you want to try a different word shape. And finally, HYPERWAVE three will give you more layout options to use them for our text. You need no special software to use this font. This font comes with multilingual support.

Price: Premium

Imogen Agnes

Those who are looking to create personal and also stylish lettering easily and very quickly can use the handmade Imogen Agnes which is designed by Sam Parrett and named after his daughter. It’s good to know that Imogen Agnes comes with lower and upper case letters. Several languages, punctuation and also numerals are supported by this font.

This typeface is one of dramatic 80’s fonts that will give you a nostalgic feel. Imogen Agnes is not about elegance and has a personal feel to it. By using this font you will be able to connect with your audience more effectively. This font is perfect for personal logos and will definitely add an extra touch of fitness to your text as it comes with a bonus of 15 swashes.

Price: Premium

Vipnagorgialla

Many consider this font to be one of the most elegant fonts ever designed. Vipnagorgialla which is by Typodermic Fonts is free for commercial use. You can easily install the font on your PC and start designing posters, T-shirts, game or web graphics, logos and videos with it. Vipnagorgialla is a sans-serif font and is also rounded and modern.

Price: Free

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Coubra

This 80’s typeface comes with alphabet vector with chrome’s text effects and also includes alphabet vector with gold outline and logo vector. Coubra which is a representation of 80’s style is introduced by Studio.

Price: Premium

OTTANTA

This bold font is loud and overwhelming. If you want to immediately grab your audience’s attention in your designs then OTTANTA should be your choice. This font is designed by Unio which is a creative studio. This font has a nostalgic quality and recalls the style of those past days. OTTANTA goes well with the aesthetics of the movie and magazines from the 80’s. OTTANTA is inspired by the typography on glitchy commercials of the 80’s. with OTTANTA 80’s will be still alive!

Price: Premium

Starlit Drive Signature

Starlit drive is a fast-paced and stylish font that has retro edges. This charismatic font is suitable for a wide range of designing projects in which you want to create 80’s and also 90’s feel.  This handwritten script font contains both upper and lower case characters and also numerals and punctuation. Starlit drive has 20 swashes and the fast strokes are perfect to underline your starlit drive text and also to add fitness to our lettering.

This font comes with ligatures which are available for lower-class characters To make a stylistic end swash you can add these characters to the end of your words. Starlit drive is a multilingual font which supports French, Spanish, English, German, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch and etc.  let’s just hit the road with Starlit Drive! 

Price: Premium

Brat

This Brush font is only free for personal use. Khurasan is the designer of this high-quality font. Brat Brush typeface is a fun marker pen font. It is stylish and quirky. Brat contains uppercase and lowercase characters and also supports international languages. It is ideal for title designs, magazines, packing designs, T-shirt, stationery design, logos, posters, album covers of 90’s and more.

Price: Free

The Moonlight

This font which is designed by Ricky Rinaldi has two styles and was published by Aiyari. With this font, you can create a perfect design as it supports the PUA encoding and comes with typical features like stylistic sets and alternates and also ligatures. This font can be used for headings, invitations, game logos, labels, movie posters, greeting cards, book covers, quotes, album covers, etc.

This is one of 1980s fonts with vaporwave design which is combined with retro nuance. The Moonlight contains family package options. This font is an informal and retro 80’s design which can carry the feel of Synthwave.

Price: Premium

Reglisse

Reglisse designed by Youssef Habchi includes three font files and is free for personal use only. This all caps font has a fancy groovy style. Give it a try and enjoy it!

Price: Free

Orlando

Orlando is one of san serif 80’s fonts which is perfect to grab the attention toward your projects and also create a feel of Synthwave. This font comes with two different weights naming Pop and Regular. You will have a perfect set up to pair these fonts and make something stunning. Orlando includes capital letters, numerals, and basic punctuation.

Jen Wanger has designed this retro geometric font. Orlando embraces everything that the 80’s promotes such as fun and movement. If you are looking for 80’s feel to your design Orlando is a great choice. Once again remember that this hip look font is an all-caps font.

Price: Premium

Mermaid

This basic serif font is designed by Scott Simpson with two font files. This font comes with round smooth curves. Mermaid contains swash caps and also some special characters. You can use this font for personal use. Mermaid is perfect for any project. Mermaid is similar to the Poster serial stranger font and the difference is that Mermaid is free but Poster Serial Stranger is not.

Price: Free

Novanta

This font is proudly introduced by Unio. This retro font will remind everyone of the awesomeness of the 80’s. Different sets of files such as Novanta Font, Novanta Vector, Novanta Pattern, Novanta Style are included.  With this font, you can make your design presentation stand out.

Price: Premium

Copper

Copper is a versatile font and you can see that movie poster from the 90’s mostly inspired this font. Copper which is by Drizy in Fonts is one of the best examples for outrageous designs back in 80’s. Copper is an edgy font which may not be suitable for text but is perfect for titles and headers. This font will fit for your brand logo, game logo, album covers, labels, poster, quote things and advertising related projects.

Price: Premium

Stereofunk

This font is by alanbrowndesign and is 100% free. It is packed with letters, numbers, and punctuation. to get more weights and glyphs a donation is needed.

Price: Free

Bayshore

Bayhore is one of the dramatic 80s fonts which has a vaporwave style and feel and is designed by Sam Parrett. Bayshore can remind you of neon signs. The perfect thing about the fonts from 80’s is that even today they can bring life to modern projects and bring the Synthwave feeling to your designs.

You can use Bayshore which is a monoline script font to create stylish lettering. This font can be used for logos and products packaging and will give retro quality to your text. Upper and lower sets are included in this font and also a large range of punctuation.

Price: Premium

Sega Logo

Sega logo is in Techno > Sci-fi category and is only available in capital letters. This font is very stylish and attractive. With this font, you can design posters, titles, printing objects, and emblems. This fancy font can be used for both personal and commercial use.  

Price: Free

Ultra System Sans & Script

Ultra System Sans & Script designed by Sam Parrett is a modern collection of 8 fonts. This collection is carefully crafted and is ideal for any modern designs. check out this versatile font collection!

Price: Premium

Radical Brush

Radical Brush is a bold script font created by Hanoded. This brush font comes with kerning and glyphs and it includes only capital letters. Radical Brush is a personal use only font!

Price: Free

Lazarus

Lazarus is a handmade typeface made by Burntilldead. This font has a signature style and is perfect for creating stylish lettering. Upper and lower case characters are available for this 80s font and it also includes stylistic alternates. Designing will be quick and easy!

Price: Premium

Streamster

This font is designed by Youssef Habchi and can be freely used for personal purposes.  If you are interested in retro style typeface then Streamster is the best choice for you. With this cool font, you can make amazing posters and headlines.

Price: Free

Lazer 84

Lazer 84 by Sunrise Digital is a retro style and brush font and is inspired by 80’s. Lazer 84 contains symbols, numbers, and accents. Lazer 84 is free for personal and commercial use and is one of those that you will definitely like.

Price: Free

Road Rage

This rough brush font was created by Youssef Habchi. Road rage which is a clean san serif font is free for personal use. The modern Road Rage is perfect for creative designs. You will love this cool font!

Price: Free

Jarvish Blurry Brush

The Jarvish Blurry Brush font is for those who welcome creative designs. This design with brush style can invite any graphic designer to an interesting display of brush letters.

Price: Premium

Indelible

Youssef Habchi is the creator of this brushy font. This graffiti oblique font is free for personal use.

Price: Free

Rocket Rinder

This font is created by Chequered Ink and will make our design pop! You can use Rocket Rinder for non-commercial use. Rocket Rinder falls in Techno-Sci Fi category.

Price: Free

Universal Serif

Universal Serif by Khiam Mincey is manufactured with High-Logic FontCreator. This Sans-serif font is Based on Copperplate Gothic. Universal serif is free for commercial use.

Price: Free

Las Enter

Las Enter by Måns Grebäck is mostly used in neon designs. This font should be used for personal use only. This font contains 1 style.

Price: Free

Jane Austen

Jane Austen by Pia Frauss is free for personal use. You can use this font for calligraphy. This handmade signature style font has stunning characters. This old font is very good for handwriting. The font is natural and authentic. Jane Austen can be used for logos, product packaging, handwritten quotes, eye-catching album covers, etc. Jane Austen comes with a full set of lower and upper case letters and also a large range of punctuation.

Price: Free

Painted Lady

This font is created by Jonathan S. Harris. Painted lady falls into the Brush category. you can freely use it for personal use.

Price: Free

Vampire Raves

This cool font is created using High Logic FontCreator by Darrell Flood. It is free for personal use. This Sans serif font is ideal for headlines. Vampire Raves has 2 styles.

Price: Free

Slant

This Techno various font comes with 108 glyphs / 111 characters. Slant has characters from various Unicode character ranges such as Basic Latin (89), Latin-1 Supplement (6), Greek and Coptic (3), Letterlike Symbols (1), Mathematical Operators (10), Geometric Shapes (1) and etc.

Price: Free

Dead Stock

BLKBK Fonts is the designer of this font. Dead Stuck is a Script > Brush font that contains both upper and lower characters and has 1 style.

Price: Free

Superstar M54

Superstar M54 by justme54s is a Old School font. This serif font is suitable for apparel design and numbering sports jerseys. Some upper and lower letters are different and the lower letters are more traditional. For personal use, you won’t need to consider a donation.

Price: Free

Back to the Future

This Techno Sci-fi font is created by Cyril Bourreau. The font is inspired by the movie Back to the Future which was the biggest movie of 1985. If you are planning an 80’s themed party you can use this font on invitation cards. This awesome font rocks!

Price: Free

Flash Back

Flash Back created by BLKBK is only a Demo Font. This font belongs to in Script > Handwritten category. Upper and lowercase letters and also numbers are included in Flash Back. This font will transport all the designers back to ’80s. This cool typeface is perfect for any retro-style design. This font comes with 1 style.

Price: Free

Prisma

This font is 100% free and comes with2 font files. Dieter Steffmannis the creator of this font which falls into Retro, Various, Groovy category. Prisma is a geometric and modern font.

Price: Free

Pepsi

The Techno various Pepsi is created by Jakub Degórski and the manufacturer is High-Logic. Pepsi is a San Serif font. This all caps font is based on the Pepsi logo.

Price: Free

Rubber

This fancy groovy font is created by Levi Szekeres. Rubber is free for personal use. This headline display font is ideal to be used in Neon designs.

Price: Free

Retro Mono/Stereo Wide

Retro Mono/Stereo Wide is created by Gus Thessalos and includes 2 font files. This decorative font is labeled as Techno Sci-fi font. This font is free for commercial use.

Price: Free

Kimberley

This San Serif font is created by Typodermic Fonts. Kimberely was inspired by industrial logotypes. The font comes with the desktop license so you can have it on our PC and make posters, game graphics, T-shirts, logos and signs with it. Kimberely comes in 7 weights and can convey a neoteric, machine-made aesthetic.

Price: Free

GoGo Poster Punch

This San Serif font is designed by Darrell Flood and you can freely use it for personal use. GoGo Poster is in the italic style. This all caps font has 4 font files.

Price: Free

Geomancy

Geomancy is a fancy Retro font created by Natasha Fernandez-Fountain. This extra bold font has 163 Glyphs. This chunk geometric font contains all upper case letters and also ligatures.  

Price: Free

Battlestar

This Techno Sci-fi font is only available in capital letters. This futuristic font is designed by Mark F. Heiman.  

Price: Free

Beastform

Youssef Habchi has designed this Brush font. Beastform is only free for personal use.   

Price: Free

Neon 80s

The groovy Neon 80s is nostalgic of the neon lettering one saw in the 1980s in various places. His Fancy font is designed by Essqué Productions. It is an ideal option to be used in neon designs.  This font comes with two font styles.

Price: Free

Last Feast

Last Feast by Jonathan S. Harris is a Brush font. For personal use Last Feast is free. This calligraphy-style font contains one style.

Price: Free

Quartzo

The basic San Serif Quartzo is designed by Herofonts. This bold font is free for personal use. Quartzo which is a rock-solid typeface comes with beautiful ligatures perfectly designed for display and headlines.  Both Regular and Light styles are available with this font in the commercial version. This powerful typeface is geometric in the proportion which makes the font really unique. This font is classified as all caps and it has high legibility and readability.

Price: Free

Thunderstrike

Thunderstrike by Iconian Fonts is a Techno Sci-fi font which includes 8 font files. For commercial use, you need to buy the license. Thunderstrike is a fancy futuristic font.

Price: Free

Scorpion

The Techno scorpion is manufactured by Geronimo Font Studios and is a modern bold all caps font. Scorpion is free for personal use but for commercial use.  

Price: Free

Stiff Staff

This typeface is designed by Borislav Petrov. Stiff Staff is a decorative free font.

Price: Free

Ethnocentric

This Techno font is available in six weights and italics. Ethnocentric is 100% free and has two font files. This accelerated font is ideal for videos, logos, magazines, T-shirts, signs, posters, etc. Ethnocentric is an ultra-modern typeface. This font is designed by Typodermic and is an all caps Techno font.

Price: Free

Blade Runner Movie

This typeface by Phil Steinschneider is a Techno font. This font is free for personal and commercial use. This Techno Sci-fi font is inspired by the Blade Runner movie.

Price: Free

SF Distant Galaxy

This font by ShyFonts contains lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and accented characters. SF Distant Galaxy is free for both personal and commercial use. This package contains different fonts such as SF Distant Galaxy Italic, SF Distant Galaxy Alternate Italic, SF Distant Galaxy AltOutline and etc. Derek Vogelpohl is the designer of this Techno Sci-fi font.

Price: Free

Play Pretend

Play Pretend is manufactured by Chequered Ink. You can use this font for personal non-profit purposes. This square Techno font will make our creation pop.

Price: Free

Nulshock

This Techno font is a wide industrial headliner. You will get mechanical and precise curves with Nulshock. This font can be used in high tech environments. This font won’t be a good choice for the paragraphs of our texts but would be ideal for, magazines, logos, headlines, names, and title. Nulshock had seven weights and contains math symbols, monetary signs, fractions, and numeric ordinals. This font is 100% free so feel free to use it for commercial purposes like logos, book covers, and posters.

Price: Free

Guardians

Guardians by Geronimo Font Studios is free for personal purposes. This font is inspired by the film, Guardians of the Galaxy. This Techno Sci-fi font falls into the futuristic category.

Price: Free

Paladins

Paladins by Iconian Fonts has eleven font files. You are allowed to just use this Sci-Fi font only for personal purposes, commercial use requires donation.

Price: Free

Jersey Sharp

Another one of 80’s fonts that it is going to be on our list is Jersey Sharp by Jayde Garrow. This typeface comes only with one font file; Jersey Sharp.ttf. This typeface is free for our personal use. Different characters are included in this Sci-fi Techno font.

Price: Free

Neon machine

Neon machine is one of amazing 80s fonts which is created by Darrell Flood. You can freely use Neon Machine for personal purposes but to use this Techno font for commercial purposes you will need to purchase a license. This modern futuristic font has an energetic style. It is a good choice for science fiction themes.

Price: Free

Octuple Max

Octuple Max by deFharo is a typographic experiment. In this font proportions and also measures of the characters and metrics are all multiples of the number eight. No donation is needed to use this font for your personal purposes. Octuple Max has two fonts. This font contains the symbol of Bitcoin and currency symbols.

Price: Free

Maiden Crimes

This Techno Square font by Chequered Ink is one of free 80’s fonts for our personal use. This font’s subfamily identification is Regular.

Price: Free

Sofachrome

Sofachrome is 100% free and comes with two font files; sofachrome rg.ttf and sofachrome rg it.ttf. This font is a Techno headline buster. Sofachromeis created by Typodermic Fonts. This futuristic wide font would be great to make signs, web graphics and T-shirts with. Sofachrome is from category Sci-Fi.

Price: Free

Equalize

Equalize is one of the cool 80’s fonts from the Italic category which is created by Chequered Ink. This square-shaped typeface is free for your personal use.

Price: Free

Soloist

Soloist is one of the 80s fonts that is created by Iconian Fonts and has 18 different font files. This fancy futuristic font will provide you different characters. Soloist is from Sci-Fi category.  

Price: Free

Lovelo

Lovelo is a classic geometric San Serif font which has two lined version. This font is designed by Renzler Design. Lovelo has different faces such as Light, Bold, and Black. This font is suitable to be used in Neon designs.

Price: Free

Razor

This font will take you back to Miami in the 80’s. The thin multi-lined characters of this font will be perfect when printed in bigger sizes. Razor has two different price formats for commercial and personal use. Jeff Schreiber is the designer of this font. Uppercase letters and numbers are included in Razor.  This font will look perfect in large sizes and in posters.

Price: Free

Conclusion

As you can see and these fonts reveal the 80’s were quite something! It is so great that even now in 2019 these fonts can still be used in modern designs.

In the end, we hope you liked our list of 80s fonts. If you have any other 80’s fonts in mind that you think we should add to our lists leave a comment for us and in case you enjoyed why not sharing this post with your friends and let them know about the awesomeness of the 80s fonts?