When the weather becomes chilly, the designs that radiate the warmth of a summer day spent on the beach are the best cure for melancholy. Make your clients feel the heat of Hawaii by adding these fonts to your artworks! Here you will find over 30 options for different creative purposes, but all of them will guarantee a heart-warming result.Â
Whether you are looking for a handcrafted display font, the sans serif with wooden texture or the type that will add a retro feeling to your design, in this list you will find them all. Although the Hawaiian fonts look absolutely distinct, the one thing they have in common is the refreshing tropical feelings you get by just looking at them. Let these types take you to a Hawaiian cafe from your room in seconds and get ready to enjoy the atmosphere of summer vacation without leaving your home!Â
Our Team’s Top Pick
Long Beach
Long Beach is a modern, bold stamp retro font reminding of Hawaii. You will get two versions of this type in one package: clean and textured. Plus, the web font includes extra ligatures and awesome alternate characters to make your bold design projects even more attractive. Equipped with all complete characters ranging from uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation marks and multilingual support including European accents, this font is ready to be used in any project you want to fill with the warmth of Hawaiian summer days. And if you want to make it stand out even more, mix Long Beach with a script or sans serif!Â
Hawainas — Tropical Display Font
If you need an instant boost of inspiration, check out this type! Hawainas is a bold and quirky display font that brings fresh Hawaiian beach vibes to the design project and makes you feel refreshed. It will suit perfectly bloggers who make videos about vacations, vintage signage and fashion designers who work on new clothes. The web font includes uppercase and lowercase characters, punctuation marks, tropical symbols and numbers and is fully compatible with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.Â
São Torpes Free Display Font
São Torpes is the exact font that comes to your mind when you think of the small cozy cafes on the Hawaiian beaches, where everyone takes a rest and has fun. Bring this carefree vibe to your artworks just by adding this type! The Hawaii font features lower and uppercase letters, tropical symbols, numbers and multilingual characters so you can easily use it to make your creative dreams come true. São Torpes is a great choice for t-shirts, posters, wedding invitations and many other tropical designs. The good news is that the beautiful font is free for personal and commercial use and is compatible with Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign!Â
Hawaiin Punk
Hawaiian Punk is a wacky sans serif font inspired by Tiki culture that makes you feel like you’re lying under palm trees. This typeface is ideal for summer designs that require Hawaiian theme. With its simple letter shapes and tropical vibe, Hawaiian Punk will work best in projects that call for extreme styling. Due to the jagged nature of the spacing, some glyphs will overlap, giving your text a unique look. Basic Latin, punctuation, and numbers are included. You can use the font in a movie title, children’s book, or toy, only the sky is the limit!Â
Jungle Bird
There are so many things you should consider in order to create an eye-catching, memorable design. And choosing the right font is one of the most important steps! Jungle Bird is a fun, vibrantly colored unique display font, inspired by the blocky, vintage type of the 1970s. It is a perfect choice to bring some joyful feelings to your projects. Due to its quirky look, Jungle Bird typeface will suit children’s designs the most. The font also includes 18 free vector tropical leaves you can use to elevate your awesome art! Â
Aloha Font
Just like the majority of the best Hawaiian fonts, the Aloha script makes you feel warm when you see it. Share this feeling with your audience and let them enjoy your amazing creative projects! The fancy font has a somehow handwriting feeling, so if your design craves a personal touch and needs to create a deep connection with clients. The typeface will look great as a part of children’s cartoon or poster designs, artistic greeting cards, party invitations, cafe menus and vintage maps. Wait no more and bring your ideas to life with this handmade font.Â
Surfnik: a Handmade Vintage Surf and Beatnik Font
Surfnik is a hand-drawn font inspired by the beatnik and surfing culture of the 1950s and 60s. A fun, loose, beautiful design that’s typical of pulpy fanzines and advertising of the era. From promoting the local surf shop or drive-in, it’s a handmade font that evokes a nostalgic feel. The Hawaii font features six styles that mix up weights and outlines that look great when creatively combined in titles and headlines. Surfnik is an all-caps script font with punctuation, language support and numerals included. No need to look for any other fonts!Â
Patahola Font
Patahola is a font that will make you and your audience pack your luggage and book a flight to Hawaii to spend vacations under palm trees. The carefree look of the typeface, unique letterforms, and vivid colors will surely complement your Hawaiian designs, no matter what you are working on: signages, logo designs, magazines or some digital works. Its looks like it went out of the cartoon, which makes the type great for children’s designs, such as books, movies, games and so on. Patahola Hawaiian font features uppercase and lowercase characters, numbers, punctuation and stylistic alternates.Â
Haloha — Monoline Script Typeface
Haloha is an elegant script font that will bring beauty and harmony to your Hawaiian designs, giving them a sophisticated look. It is inspired by summer-themed typography and it looks casual and natural, so it will surely fit your artworks and create a wholesome image. Haloha is perfect for branding materials such as logos, labels, titles, headlines, social media posts, greeting cards, quotes, and others, there is no limit! The Hawaiian typeface comes in OTF, TTF, WOFF, and WOFF2.Â
Tribeca Font
Authentic Hawaiian fonts bring your design to a whole new level! Let Tribeca type prove it and add the lettering to your posters, logos, greeting cards, party invitations, book covers and any other projects you want to look more lively. The font provides you with a whole standard character set, numbers and symbols, so you will easily type any text you need. To get a more unique result, you can combine this type with a serif or script. Charge your artworks with a tropical feeling using Tribeca!Â
Magic Land
Toast with glasses of the tastiest cocktails, here comes a treasure of the best Hawaiian fonts! Magic Land is a beautiful all-caps hand-made typeface, that will look great in large and small sizes. This font is an ideal choice for both print and digital projects: movie titles, flyers, badges, ads or social media posts. It includes the full letter set and comes in TTF, OTF, SVG and WOFF, so the typeface will be compatible with any editing app you’re using. Stand out with this unique, playful script font!Â
Bamboo Gothic Font
Finding a perfectly legible yet attractive font with normal spacing may be quite hard and take time. And I’m here to help you! Bamboo is a Hawaiian font that will suit perfectly huge headlines as well as small body texts, still being readable. The typeface includes uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation marks, symbols, and multilingual characters, so typing will be easy and enjoyable. Moreover, this font is free for personal and commercial use!Â
Stone Ocean — Bouncy Square Font
Creating playful designs is a fun process when you have all the needed tools in hand. In case you don’t have a perfect font for such kind of project, check out Stone Ocean! Bouncy square letterforms of this lettering will be a perfect fit for children’s books and movies, or eye-catching signages and ads. Stone Ocean typeface has upper and lowercase characters, numbers, punctuation and multilingual support. The font is PUA encoded and includes OpenType features to give you artistic freedom.Â
Tropical Taste Demo Font
Aesthetically pleasing designs are destined to get you new clients, so invest in professional tools that will help you to create a real masterpiece! Tropical Taste is the font that will suit any of your upcoming projects due to its versatility: the smoothly-curved letterforms mixed with fluid shapes of numbers and symbols will create a perfect combo. Posters, flyers, ads, magazines — there is no such design and concept Tropical Taste typeface won’t pull off. Enjoy the power of this type!Â
Aloha Dance — Quirky and Playful Font
There is no way you will deny the power of the Hawaiian fonts after getting to know Aloha Dance! Just like its name, the letters of the type are so quirky and bouncy, making it looks like they are dancing. Such a playful font will be perfect to grab the attention of your clients and make them focus on your awesome designs: ads, headlines, social media posts and much more. You will find lower and uppercase characters, numerals, and multilingual support in this font. Â
North Shore + Mavericks
North Shore + Mavericks are the ultimate Hawaiian font duo, both groovy and mid-century inspired. It is a great pack for those who like mixing different types of typography that complement each other: an elegant script and bold font will be a perfect combo for your projects. The type will add a personal touch to your ads, branding materials, packaging and any other artwork. North Shore typeface consists of uppercase letters only, while Mavericks includes lowercase characters as well.Â
Tropical Leaves — Personal Use Font
What about adding elegant Hawaiian fonts to the wedding cards and invitations? If you like this idea, Tropical Leaves is the exact type you need. Its curvy, floral lines will give your artworks a posh, exquisite vibe and that’s ideal for wedding designs! Don’t get me wrong, this type isn’t limited in use: t-shirt designs, packaging, inspirational quote — it will suit everything. Tropical Leaves includes uppercase and lowercase letters, custom ligatures, titling, and numbers.Â
The Archies — Summer Type
Set a summer mood with beach fonts! And don’t stress out about searching for tools, the ideal font is already here. The Archies is a typeface that has a vintage and playful style and holiday vibes that can’t leave anyone indifferent. This font is perfect for holiday postcards, summer camp posters, book and movie titles, beach & tropical designs, and so much more. It comes in TTF and OTF and is compatible with Adobe Creative Cloud apps. Get wild and creative!Â
South Montana
Welcome South Montana — a bold slab serif inspired by Tiki masks that comes in 2 styles: regular and rough. You can mix both styles to create something truly unique and eye-catching or keep a more classical vibe by choosing just one that suits your concept the most. Whatever you choose, you’ll get a perfect result so be sure your poster, ad, branding design or packaging won’t let anyone pass by. The font provides you with multilingual support, so feel free to type in any language you want!Â
Akalai Font
Akalai is a Hawaiian font that will conquer your heart with its simplicity. Nothing too artsy, just minimalistic, laconic letterforms that won’t steal the focus of your clients from the design, but will add some highlight to your artwork. It includes both upper and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols, so you can be sure that the text will look nice and all the characters will match each other. Create a beautiful poster, eye-catching flyer or book cover with Akalai!Â
Tropical Beauty Font
Introducing Tropical Beauty, a font that is ready to become the spotlight of your work. The type comes with lower and uppercase letters and symbols, that look absolutely stunning combined. Tropical Beauty is especially attractive used in minimalistic designs, as its quirky characters are enough to attract everyone’s attention, but it can also become a part of more vivid artworks. This font guarantees a wonderful result you will be proud to put in your portfolio.Â
Long Beach — Handwriting Font
Handwriting Hawaiin fonts are a must for artists! If that’s what you were looking for, I have already found it for you. Long Beach is a unique typeface that provides you not only with stunning letters (both Latin and Cyrillic), numbers and stylistic alternates, but also some interesting symbols that look like little doodles. You can use them as details of your design to add some personal touch to it and make it more lively. The handwritten font comes in OTF and TTF. Enjoy the tool!Â
Surfer Bay Font
Shout out to all the graphic designers who are madly in love with brush fonts, I have something special for you! Surfer Bay will be a perfect addition to your font collection, mixing the charm of a brush typeface with carefree Hawaiian vibes. It will come in handy for those working on badges, ads, logos, and packaging designs. Surfer Bay includes lower and uppercase characters, numbers and punctuation marks, so you’ll be able to type both short and long texts.Â
Tropika Island Font Family
When it gets hard to choose what lettering you want to use in the project, the time for font packs comes. That’s why I want to introduce you Tropika Island. It is a whole font family, consisting of 3 type styles, so everyone can pick at least one that will suit the artwork’s concept. But the real magic happens when you mix them in one piece of art! These types match each other creating a whole picture. You can use it for apparel designs, invitations and so on.Â
Summer Beach Font
It doesn’t matter what the weather is like outside, with Summer Beach font your creative design projects will radiate warmth and coziness! The type has it all: lower and uppercase letters, numerals and symbols to facilitate your work process. The smooth rounded shapes of the characters make it looks great for a cartoon, so the font will be perfect for quirky designs: clothes, packaging, signages, ads, cafe menus and posters. Create an outstanding work of art with Summer Beach.Â
Delrosa Holiday Quirky Font
If the celebration of some holiday is right around the corner and you can’t come up with any design ideas for its decoration, Delrosa is here to give you a helping hand. Not only it is a great tool for crafting artwork, this font is such an inspiration! You can create a postcard, quirky poster, or a game for children to keep them entertained — all your designs will look vivid. The type comes in OTF, TTF and WOFF, so you can work with it in any editing app you like.Â
Tropic Sign Font
Immerse yourself into the atmosphere of warm tropical nights spent dancing on the beach with Hawaiian fonts! As it is clear from the name Tropic Sign, the type will be a great choice for signs, as its bold letterforms will catch the passerbys’ eyes and get you new clients. But actually it will suit any work that needs a heading, or a quote. With the full letter set and numbers included, this type will make your work easier, so don’t miss out on such a wonderful tool!Â
Papaya Sunrise Font
It’s time to get some new Hawaiian fonts! Papaya Sunrise is an all-caps display font loosely based on childlike handwriting. Although unrefined in nature it is highly legible and perfect for instances that call for a little informality. Papaya Sunrise handwritten font would work great in advertising, decorative borders, or in a children’s book. Extended Latin, diacritics, Cyrillic, punctuation, and kerning are all included in the full version. The demo features basic Latin, Cyrillic, and limited punctuation, but it’s free for personal use.Â
Naluka — Ethnic Font with Extras
Searching for the best Hawaiian fonts? Introducing an ethnic font Naluka. It is funny, joyful, and unique, so the design projects you will add it to are destined for success! The new exploration of the ancient-style fonts and inspiration from the geometric tribal ornaments and wood texture applied to this type. The edgy letters make Naluka look more fun and friendly, so you can add it to eye-catching ads, logos, flyers, merch or magazines. The type has upper and lowercase letters, ligatures and stylistic alternates.Â
Palm Volta — Display Typeface
Whether it reminds you of the time you spent in the islands last summer looking at jumping dolphins or your dad’s favorite 60s psychedelic record sleeve, one thing is certain — Hawaiian fonts came to throw a party. Like a volcano spewing liquid hot death metal, Palm Volta is guaranteed to spice up headlines and melt the face of any onlooker who dares gaze upon its blocky curviness. Its flat letters and blocky construction make the fun font great for flyers, tiki-inspired custom designs & more. Mix the font with sans serif, script or any other type to create a unique work.Â
Forbidden Isle Tropical Font
Forbidden Isle plays on the retro Hawaiian fonts of the 70s, brought into the modern times with a cleaner, bold look and wood texture. Images are conjured up of bamboo bars, grass skirts, and eclectic mugs. This hand-drawn, sans serif font was created to express the love for all tropical things. Forbidden Isle pairs well with both serif and sans serif fonts and is perfectly suited to add life to your next illustration, invitation, product, and more. It includes a letter set, numbers and symbols.Â
Histories: Faitytale Display Font
Histories has been inspired by the shape of the letters displayed on the cover of fairy tale books or animated film covers. The stylistic combination of this fun font is reflected in the lowercase set which allows to open up a spectrum of possible uses. Basic calligraphy represents a solid basis for the development of lowercase glyphs, ensuring proper interaction with uppercase letters made in calligraphy style. Histories features ligatures and glyphs that combine the playful structure with a more attractive feel accessed via OpenType features.Â
Lanai Typeface | Island Font
Getting Hawaiian fonts will help you out in many creative design projects. They look attractive on posters, flyers, t-shirts, greeting cards and as an element of the clothes designs. If you don’t want to spend much time looking for a versatile font, download Lanai! It’s a whole type family, that includes 6 styles: sharp, oblique, regular, bold, bold sharp and bold oblique. As a nice bonus, you will get 2 brushes and illustration assets in the pack that make a perfect combination. Enjoy your creative process!
