13 great free Christmas fonts
Christmas fonts are ideal for adding a bit of festive, typographic cheer to your seasonal designs. And the good news is you don’t always have to pay for them, either: we’ve searched high and low to bring you the best free Christmas fonts to spruce up your creative projects this December.
Add some Christmas presence (pun intended) to your designs with these free festive fonts. Just make sure you check the terms of use, and throw some money to the designers if that option is available.
For more font inspiration, see our best free fonts and best free handwriting fonts roundups.
01. Christmas
This Christmas font, aptly named, Christmas, lends a handwriting feel to your projects. It has multilingual support and the characters join up beautifully. Christmas is free for personal use or you can buy a commercial licence.
02. Beyond Wonderland
Font hobbyist Chris Hanson kicks off our best free Christmas fonts list with his quirky, Gothic-style calligraphy font, Beyond Wonderland. Created on a whim, the font is free for both personal and, says the author, commercial use – with donations to a koala hospital appreciated.
Sadly it doesn’t support accented vowels, but its dark, decorative flourishes will add more than a touch of Burton to your designs.
03. One Starry Night
One Starry Night is a fun, festive font created by Brittney Murphy Designs. Free for personal and non-profit use, it’s a swirly, handwritten font that’s guaranteed to add some sparkle to your Christmas projects. Commercial use will set you back a mere $5.
04. Santa’s Sleigh
Add a vintage feel to your Christmas designs with HypoTypo’s Santa’s Sleigh. It comes in three weights: regular, bold and – our favourite – deluxe, and is available for non-commercial use only.
05. Metro Retro NF
Tired of traditional Christmas fonts? Make an impact with Metro Retro, a dramatic sans serif published by Nick’s Fonts. Used sparingly, it’s perfect for festive headlines in large point sizes.
The free version is uppercase only, but the commercial version, Metro Retro Redux (which was inspired by Wadsworth A. Parker’s 1927 typeface, Modernistic) comes with lowercase letters and a complete Adobe character set.
06. Rothenburg Decorative
For a more blackletter style of script, Dieter Steffmann’s calligraphic font Rothenburg Decorative will add a splash of Gothic class to your projects. With 194 elaborate characters, it’s free for commercial use – like all Steffmann’s fonts.
07. Christmas On Crack
After something a little less heavy than Rothenburg Decorative? Christmas On Crack by David Lovelace, aka Parallax, has a similar Gothic twist but with a dash of fun thrown in. It’s available for Mac and PC. Commercial licences are available if you make a donation.
08. Christmas/Flakes Font
No entry into our top free Christmas fonts list, so far, says ‘Christmas’ quite so well as Florida-based creative Randy Ford’s ornamental typeface Christmas/Flakes. Best used as a headline font, it’s free for commercial use and suitable for both Mac and PC.
09. Candy Cane
Matching Christmas/Flakes in the festive stakes, Michel Bujardet’s Candy Cane is a decorative font dripping in Christmas spirit. It’s free for personal use, and comes complete with upper and lowercase lettering, numerals and punctuation.
10. Sentinel
Another entry from Dieter Steffmann – who also goes by the name Typographer Mediengestaltung – is Sentinel, a striking uppercase display font with 52 ornamental characters. Again, it’s free for non-commercial use and perfect for those Christmas designs.
11. Holly Nites
Jester Font Studio’s charming Holly Nites Font is a blocky, 3D font decorated with a holly leaf pattern. Perfect for Christmas cards, it’s free for personal and non-commercial use.
12. ChopinScript
One more free cursive font for luck: ChopinScript. Based on Phil Martin’s Polonaise, this face was originally released as a True Type font in 1999. The new OpenType font has been embellished with ornaments and accented characters, and it’s free for both commercial and non-commercial use.
13. The Gingerbread House
The second entry from one-time type designer Chris Hanson is The Gingerbread House, a gloriously creepy decorative serif, again with an air of Burton to it. Be warned: there isn’t a ‘4’. But that aside, it’s a font with Christmas character.
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