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The 1970s was a pretty versatile decade of change and growth. It was like everything bagel: woman’s liberation, psychedelic rock, social justice movement, search for new religions, minimalist modernism in interior design, bell-bottoms, and late-night disco. All that mixed together in a unique funky way made the decade so quintessential. Also at this time, fashion-forward typography emerged in the form of groovy lettering styles of 70s fonts that are still iconic today.
The era remains to be one of the most definitive moments in all pop culture and, as a result, many creative professionals still find tons of inspiration in it. If you’re looking for a nice font that will add some groove to your graphic design projects, we’ve picked quite a collection for you. There are fantastic 70s fonts showcased in this article, they all have a strong retro vibe with various flairs from psychedelic rock to iconic Godfather.
Our Team’s Top Pick
Cardila Font
It’s a bold script font with a strong 70s vibe. This font is perfect to be applied in a logo, but it will also work well for invitations, labels, magazine headers, greeting/wedding cards, packaging design, or any type of advertising. The set includes uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals, punctuation as well as multilingual support. There are also a wide variety of alternates and ligatures to help you create a flawless design.
Beardy Font
Meet an elegant retro display typeface called The Beardy. Inspired by serif Didone combined with flourish typography and a bit of 70s pop culture. This quirky and playful font came with OpenType features and contains lots of stylistic alternates and ligatures. This font is mainly intent for logos, headings, branding, apparel design, quotes, invitations, posters, product packaging, etc.
It’s Kind of Magic Retro Font
The 70s were all about the explosion of colors, patterns, and groovy designs, enjoy all these features in the display typeface from Lucia Zanotti. Its uppercase and lowercase letters hold distinguishable endings and features so that even the shortest of statements look unique. This font got 3 variations: regular, bold, and outlined, which can be used in layers, highlighting the retro style.
Popsmile Font
The 70s were all about the explosion of colors, patterns, and groovy designs, enjoy all these features in the display typeface from Lucia Zanotti. Its uppercase and lowercase letters hold distinguishable endings and features so that even the shortest of statements look unique. This font got 3 variations: regular, bold, and outlined, which can be used in layers, highlighting the retro style.
Scripto Font
Scripto is a bold script font inspired by vintage designs and combined with a hand-lettering flare. Whatever the topic, this font will be a wonderful asset to your font library, as it has the potential to enhance any creation. Fall in love with its ravishing style and use it to create beautiful vintage designs. This font is PUA encoded which means you can access all glyphs and swashes with ease!
Naskle Font
Hop up! We’re going to the 1970s! Naskle is the essence of psychedelic groovy 70s fonts. It’s funky and versatile. Will be a great choice for logos, stickers, headlines, ads, posters and so much more. Although it may not be suitable for big chunks of text, due to its low readability. It looks like lerrets are swaying in the dance. After reading ten words in this style you’ll get dizzy.
Euphoria Party Font
Euphoria Party is a psychedelic font. It is inspired by vintage albums and posters. The classic, fun, and groovy impression is very visible. In this font, aside from the basic set of characters, you’ll find really nice ligatures, which make this font even more unique and different. Euphoria Party is great for any kind of display purpose from the album cover to apparel design. It also supports multi-language.
Tonight Show NT Font Family
NT Tonight Show is a display font family inspired by the 70’s talk show. A complete pack, from light to extra black, with a slant option. There are 12 fonts along with swashes and alternates in each one to embellish your design creations even further. It’ll be perfect for logos, magazines, album and book covers, posters, as well as branding purposes. Start designing now!
Recording Magazine Font
Recording Magazine is a retro script style of the 70s fonts. It comes with multilingual support as well as OpenType features like style sets, stylistic alternates, contextual alternates & binder. Its groovy lettering styles will help you create stunning designs such as logotypes, headlines, posters, covers, and many more. It offers beautiful typographic harmony for a diversity of design projects.
Marietta Font
This trendy, groovy, and at the same time modern-style display serif will adorn any of your fancy creations. Among other 70s fonts, Marietta will be especially good for branding projects due to its outstanding character. Lots of alternate characters and ligatures will help you to create a unique and original logo design or website header. Just give it a try!
Modak Font
Modak is a free and open-source plump display typeface with nice curves and thin counters. It got really cute characters whose curves merged into each other, forming distinct counter shapes. Surprisingly, it’s perfectly legibly, despite of font’s structural complexity. This typeface got the standard set of glyphs, plus multilanguage support for more than 200 languages.
Gathrima Font
Let me introduce the Gathrima. One of the nicest 70s fonts which will bring funky vibes into any of your works. It feels playfully nostalgic and delivers an incredible groovy aesthetic. Use this fun display typeface to add that special touch to any design idea you can think of! And the extended set of characters with alternates and ligatures will help you to make your work one of a kind.
Monoton Font
Monoton is a contemporary take on metal press fonts. Monoton is a pure display multi-line font. Its legibility is good at sizes above 30 points, so be aware of this notion. This font like many others 70s fonts is licensed under the Open Font License, so you can freely use them in your products & projects. Good news isn’t it?
Manuscribe Font
This high-contrast serif features a mixed modern-classic design. It can be used to create almost all types of graphic designs. Its groovy lettering styles will make your project shine in all its glory. Feel free to play with this typeface! It’s equally good for web and printed projects, so you can easily create a greeting card or a package design, or even a brand identity and your design project will look pretty and trendy.
Vantage Font
Vantage is a retro funk typeface with a modern twist. This quirky hand-drawn font is perfect for plenty of retro or vintage designs. It’s a pleasure to work with. This font is inspired by the psychedelic movement, making it a great choice for your large projects. Such as logostypes, headings, book or album covers, etc. The set of characters includes uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals, and punctuation. Take a look!
Retro Cool Font
This is a modern, bold and playful display font with retro groovy lettering styles. Inspired by 70s fonts and aesthetics, it makes it perfect for many design purposes. It offers beautiful typographic harmony for a diversity of designs, including branding, social media posts, advertisements, and product designs. This font comes in OTF, TTF, and WOFF file formats for your convenience.
Mumbai Curry Font
Mumbai Curry is the retro script that is inspired by late 60s – early 70s fonts and aesthetics. It feels both playful and nostalgic. Use this display font to add tons of iconic 70s look and feel to any creative design you’re working on. Fall in love with its incredibly stylish look and use it for logos, quotes, invitations, business cards, powerpoint presentations, and many more!
Laguna Vintage Collection
Introducing Laguna Vintage font collection which is inspired by American motor inn and vintage restaurant signs from the 50s-70s. The font includes OpenType features such as stylistic alternates, stylistic sets, contextual alternates, and ligatures. It is also available in variable font format. This 70s fonts collection is best for headings, logos, quotes, T-shirt and apparel design, flyers, etc.
Hulberk Font
Meet the Hulberk, a slab serif typeface with a nostalgic look and feel, inspired by 70s signages, labels, and ads. This bold font includes a standard character set, got multilingual support, and comes both in TTF and OTF formats. Perfect for creative greeting cards, invitations, labels, posters, branding, and packaging designs.
Trinstam Font
This is a thick curved serif typeface that features the perfect ratio of modern and 70s fonts vibes. It works well in any size. Perfect for editorial projects, logostypes, product packaging, magazine headers, and layouts, or simply as a stylish overlay to any image. This font is PUA encoded and has more than 120 unique alternative symbols and ligatures that will give your creative project a chic and classy look.
Gunydrops Font
Happy to present the Gunydrops — a bold and playful typeface with unique letterforms. This font will tie together your design to give it that retro feel. Embrace the psychedelia era combined with groovy lettering styles. The font comes in TTF, OTF, SVG, and WOFF formants and contains some vector extras and stylistic alternates. It is well-suited for headers, quotes, labels, text overlays, and many other.
The Meshroom Font
The Meshroom is a psychedelic display typeface with a groovy look and feel. It got a strong 70s vibe that brings the magic of that era to life! This font will be a perfect fit for your logo designs, event posters, music magazines & social media posts, branding, and product packaging. Try it out and see how deep may be the rabbit hole.
Biscotti Font
Biscotti is a layered vintage typeface. It is based on Victorian typography that has been rediscovered and widely re-studied during the 70s. It expresses a passionate and nostalgic homage to a vintage fonts, seen from the perspective of a technical inspiration. Biscotti includes two styles: the “default” and the alternative one. Its characters consist of 4 sources that can be combined with layers to form different ways of reading.
JMH Psychedelic CAPS Font
The name of this font pretty much says all by itself. It is a psychedelic all-caps typeface that will contribute a lot to any 70s aesthetic design. The legibility of this font is quite low, so we advise it mainly for decorative display purposes. It will look good as a logo, heading, decorative text overlay, and t-shirt print or music album cover.
Spellbound Fontf
Spellbound is a fun and bold display font. If you miss the late 70s in your design – this one is for you. Smooth, groovy, and playful – exactly for your vintage projects. This typeface will suit the display texts such as package labels, headers, stickers, t-shirts, or stationery branding. A lot of alternates will give you a really wide range of results.
Rockabye Font
Rockabye is a stylish vintage font with a modern twist. It looks amazing at display sizes and is surprisingly legible on smaller scales as text. This font comes with OpenType features such as alternate glyphs and ligatures. Rockabye supports 162 languages, so you will not run out of characters ever. It will work especially good as headlines, titles, and other short texts for advertising, or packaging designs.
Blufy Font Family
Meet a new retro font family. Blufy is heavy influence by 70s fonts, that’s why it looks so soft and fun. Blufy font family contains 2 styles: regular version and oblique one. It comes with lots of stylistic alternates, ligatures, and swashes. Use it for headings, logotypes, quotes, stickers, labels, T-shirts, and posters. And you won’t regret it!
Ropers Font
Here comes a Ropers! A bold serif typeface, inspired by the classic serifs from the first half of the 20th century with a touch of crazy shapes from the 60s. Make your typography truly eccentric with a wide set of ligatures and alternates, while maintaining ease of pairing with other fonts. Best for advertisement, greeting cards, product covers, brands logo, etc.
Your Groovy Font
Your Groovy Font is a retro typeface that will make your design stand out of a crowd. It exudes the funky vibes of the 70s era, therefore will be suitable to emphasize the 70s vibe in everything that you write. Will be good for retro posters, merchandise, movie titles, beach restaurant menu, labels, stickers, flyers, and so on.
Funkies Font
Funkies is a bold retro script font, that is inspired by posters and album covers from the 70s. Mix well funk, disco, and rockabilly, and you’ll get the Funkie font as a result. It comes with OpenType features, such as stylistic alternates, stylistic sets, swashes, and ligatures. So this font is the best choice for funky logotypes, branding and identity design, labels, t-shirt prints, and many more.
Retrofunk Script Font
Retrofunk was inspired by the retro design of 70s fonts. The set includes script and serif that will form a great combination for creating logostypes, signboards, or advertisements. It is PUA-encoded and contains lots of alternate characters. With such a toolbox you’ll be able to create almost any design you need, from web banners to book covers.
