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The neon mania won’t let us go, have you noticed that? The marketplaces groan under the abundance of effects, typography, and whatever to help you join the movement.
After two issues of neon wallpapers I’ve realized, we can deliver even more of the trending as well as to show how different neon resources can be. Therefore, find featured an entire variety of retro and modern design tools: neon fonts, neon sign constructors, sets of neon letters and even more of neon from the key freebie platforms and product creators.
All of these are a great visual solution to attract attention without producing the ‘too much’ effect. The flashing colors, pre-made compositions do the work for you mostly — you just need to pick the words to sound as vibrant as they look with neon. Somewhat fast and simple, check how it works for yourself!
Our Team’s Top Pick
Neon Type
Do you want to recreate neon lights in your artwork? Here comes a tool for you. Discover neon lettering in all its glory with a professionally crafted Photoshop template. It will help you create realistic signages in the popping style, and we’re sure there is no other glow font to compete with this toolbox. For your convenience, there are layered shadows and reflections for customization of each character, and the neon letters are provided in both light on and off modes — you can play with the neon lights and see what fits you more.
Neonblitz — Retro Neon
Introducing Neonblitz, a sign font with a unique retro style that can make your logotype more interesting. The font is inspired by real-world neon lights and neon club music, it features minimal letter forms with smooth rounded corners and true-to-real neon tubes. This font is perfect for adding your neon lights and glowing effects. Or it can be used to actually design a realistic neon sign.
Mexcellent Font Family
Stacko Neon Font
What can be better for signage design than shiny, sparkly neon fonts reminiscent of neon lights and their perfect lines? Its eye-pleasing colors will surely catch everyone’s attention to your brand name, company slogan or any message you want to share with the world. And with this font for neon sign, those projects of yours will be in the limelight for a long time! In the download you’ll find all the elements you need for creating an outstanding product, including the whole character set. Nothing to worry about with such a useful tool in hand, so let your creative ideas shine just like a neon sign!
Neonisans Monoline with Neon Effect
Fuse — Realistic Neon Typeface
Fuse includes a decorative neon font Photoshop file. inspired by real-world neon lights. It features geometric letterforms with smooth rounded corners, true to real neon tubes. This realistic neon typeface is perfect for music promotion, film titles, Youtube tutorials, gig posters, editorial use, signs, logos, or bold headlines for your design projects. Create your own neon sign with this tool!
Codeca One — Techno Sans
Neon Ballroom
If you are attracted to vivid neon lights as much as we are, this font is the perfect one for you. It was inspired by the old shop front lettering. Speaking of the OpenType features, the font has a 203 character set and it looks great in a real neon sign or logos, labels, product packaging, party invitations, vintage wall paint advertisements and any other project you want to add some brightness. A nice bonus is that you can easily share your ideas in any language you want as multilingual support is also included.
Lasenter Font
Hastron Neon Monoline Script
If you find inspiration in neon lights, I got a tool for you! Hastron is a neon script font with a calligraphic style that’ll look beautiful on party invitations, greeting cards, branding materials, business cards, icons, quotes, gig posters, and more! It includes upper and lowercase letters. The alternative characters of the monoline neon font were divided into several features such as stylistic and contextual OpenType alternates, extensive collection of glyphs, swashes, and ligatures. Also, this realistic neon text font with classic retro vibe has given PUA Unicode so that all the special characters can be easily accessed in full.
Beon Font
Stacker Neon Sci-Fi Futuristic
Introducing a neon font that can make your logotype more memorable and eye-catching. The typeface features uppercase and lowercase letterforms with smooth rounded corners and, just like the real tubes, strictly uses lines with open start and endpoints. All those little details make the font perfect for adding to your toolbox of glowing light effects so you can actually design contemporary neon signs. You can use it to add bright light to your creative projects such as headlines, film titles, icons, posters, logos, signs, badges, and many more.
Neon Bines Font
Neomarket Retro Neon Sign Font
Plunge into the nostalgia of the late 80s with this font! Whether you are working on labels, web design, logo designs or you just want to showcase your text in a unique way, the typeface will make all your clients focus on your project. It provides you with the whole character set and will help you get the aesthetic result you were dreaming of in a minute. Play around with different textures, styles, add bright drawings — do everything you want to achieve your creative goals and leave big impression.
Neoncity Signature Neon Font
Rocket Clouds Neon Font
Introducing a font that was inspired by starry nights, 1980’s music style and neon lights. As a contemporary take on retro stylings, this font duo will bring your designs to life with an infusion of boisterous nostalgia. Rocket Clouds comes in two styles, Rocket Clouds Regular and Rocket Clouds Alt, that you can play with for the most shiny final look.
Neon Display Font
Free Neon Font
The font will make you wonder why you haven’t come across it earlier. Its smooth neon letters with blended colors will make you want to work with the typeface over and over again! Plus, it suits any project you are working on: headlines for your blog, web design, signages, cards and much more. The file you download includes the whole letter set, numbers and symbols, so you won’t rack your brain over finding all the needed elements for your artwork. Let your creations glow with such an incredible neon font!
Neon God Font
Robinson Outline Font
Robinson is a neon sign cursive font inspired by vintage newspaper titles. It’s great for having a bold and attractive signage followed by a smaller text. Robinson was made specifically with magazines and posters in mind. This neon retro font works really well in the classic-style palette and includes a gorgeously-looking oblique version.
NEONEON Free Font
Newon Modern Neon Light Font
Enjoy your creative ideas turn into actual designs with this realistic neon sign lettering font. It is a perfect typeface for nightclub or bar signages, but you can also use it in any project you want to add some shining to: website designs, social media layouts, print cards and many more. The download provides you with uppercase and lowercase letters and ligatures, so you can recreate the picture you see in your head on the screen of your device with ease. Add some unique touch to your designs with this neon writing font!
Astario
Gods Own Junkyard Neon Type
Designers found the inspiration for this retro font came from Chris “The Neon Man” Bracey, a British artist who owned one of the biggest collections of neon signs and sculpture. Gods Own Junkyard comprises 92 glyphs in total: uppercase and lowercase characters, numbers, and the basic punctuation marks. This decorative neon font also includes a Photoshop action to make your text glow.
Neon Glow Font
Neonbox — Display Neon Style Font
Introducing a new futuristic display typeface called Neonbox. This decorative neon font inspired by modern style and technologies will suit logos, covers, banners, posters, branding, UI, titles, and many more. Neonbox provides you with multilingual support. To access the alternate glyphs, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign and Corel Draw. Don’t miss this realistic neon light font!
SRFM — Neon Font
Retro Neon — OpenType SVG Color Font
Retro Neon font is a vibrant and colorful display monoline. It uses the OpenType SVG font technology to capture all color gradients. The playful and striking nature of the type makes it perfect for adding fun personality to branding projects, retro games, posters, magazines and editorial layouts and so much more. Retro Neon signage font comprises 172 characters including alternates glyphs.
Neon Font
Svaya
Welcome a treasure for designers who are looking for new neon sign fonts! Very simple, bold, and modern in design, this neon font is suitable for both personal and commercial works. It fits headlines, movie titles or posters, as it looks better used in big sizes, but you can play around with it and get a desirable result. The typeface comes in TTF, WOFF and WOFF2. This aesthetic neon font includes uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers.
Hikou Outline
Hitcky Super Powered Display Font
Hitcky Super Powered has nothing to do with the ordinary neon fonts you are used to. This type looks so modern, fresh, and cyberpunk — so there isn’t a single thought of retro-style signages and all the stuff as you look at it. This glow font comes in 4 styles, regular, italic, bold, and bold italic, so there is plenty of room for your creative search. Try Hitcky Super Powered for movie posters, music, album covers, game design concepts, and everywhere you think you’d need neon typography. To sum it up, this is the best font for neon sign and other projects!
Neon Lettering Text Effect
Axeon — Futuristic Typeface DR
Axeon is a modern font with a futuristic style and neon letters. Imagine a nightclub on Mars! This is the perfect font choice for powerful projects: from quotes and signages to social media posts, packaging, branding, and much more. No special software is needed, so Axeon can be opened in any program that can read standard fonts, even MS Word.
Klaxons — Free Neon Font
ThirtyNine Stencil
If your typeface toolbox is in need of something fresh and new, TypeFaith neon tubes font is for you — this stylish, elegant, geometric typeface with neon letters will help you create outstanding, memorable signages. It is suitable for making neon lights and adding brightness to your artwork. ThirtyNine Stencil is a unique and creative font perfect for strong branding from signatures to logos, posters flyers and book covers. Let it help you to shake off the old feel and to create something new that will leave your clients in awe!
Neon Magic — Retro Sans Serif Font
Square Neon — 3D Color SVG Font
Has anyone been asking for an SVG neon font? Your queries have been heard and accomplished! The font is a 3D SVG font that works in Photoshop CC 2017+, Adobe Illustrator CC 2018, and a few Mac apps and is an absolute perfection! This glowing neon font is an irreplaceable pick for futuristic projects, web design, posters, book covers, and apparel that you seek to obtain sharp and glowy style for.
Neon Sans Font
Bayshore Neon Glow Font
Perm your hair, squeeze into your lycra, and retro-fy your text with Bayshore! A totally tubular monoline script font with neon letters straight out of the 80’s. This cursive neon font is perfect for creating slick & stylish lettering. Whether you choose it for logos, product packaging or merchandise, Bayshore is guaranteed to give your text an unmistakeable retro quality. There is no way you want to miss this neon cursive font!
Neon Sign Photoshop Effect
Neon Absolute — Font Duo
Neon Absolute is a classy, contemporary pair of script and sans neon fonts, inspired by 1980’s visual style and old-school neon typography. These neon letters offer beautiful visual harmony for a diversity of design projects, including logos & branding, social media posts, advertisements & product designs. Your download will receive 3 neon fonts, designed to work as perfect companions or simply as strong standalone typefaces.
Futuristic Neon 3D Letteringe
Neon Alphabet Kit
Create your own neon-style retro signs with this pack of vintage signage scripts! It includes the best neon fonts with an uppercase alphabet, numbers, and a few punctuation marks. You will get two versions for each character: “on” version (with neon glow), and “off”/broken version. Just drag & drop the different elements to create custom scenes and compositions. We’re sure you’ll love playing with these neon fonts and using it for creating banners, titles, quotes.
NIMA — Modern Display Typeface
Neon Underground PS Effect
Feel the vibes of a big city with its buzzing streets and back-street bars where jazz meets the image and finally transforms into delicate designs! You can change colors to your liking, try the included background and move from pre-installed pink, cyan, and green to totally personalized ones. Add braces for more realism if you feel like it or refuse them and make your neon sign airy. Any experiments are allowed for perfect a neon-style signage, so add some bright light you your works!
Condensed Neon 3D Lettering
Freebie Animated Neon Font
You’ve already received all kinds of neon typography: from regular to SVG neon fonts. So, how about an animated neon sign typeface in a distinctive modern style? We’re convinced you’ll love this one, as it’s got a perfect appearance and a lot of technical perks for creating a perfect image. Inside the pack, there are 36 neon symbols, decorative elements, background textures, HD & 4K scenes, Photoshop actions, and even 6 sound effects for 10-second animations. Yep, this neon font is a freebie, no pitfalls.
Neon Planet Font Duo
Lumaneon
Lumaneon is a retro display font that screams the 80s style and looks like one of those shiny Las Vegas signages. This font for neon signs can be also used for posters, gaming, headers, social media memes, quotes, home decor, and so much more. Clean lines, with or without the glow, multilingual support, and a massive dose of inspiration as a handy bonus! So, if you were looking for new dope fonts, this one will go straight to your toolbox.
Library 3 am Free Typeface
The Complete Night Light Neon Font Collection
Introducing the font bundle, featuring modern and edgy types. This bundle includes 7 sister neon fonts, all with their own unique style properties: outline, inline, script, compressed and even square. These neon fonts are perfect for editorial use, logo designs or bold headings on your website or printed materials. All the provided types come with a lowercase and uppercase alphabet, numerals 0-9, punctuation and multilingual support.
The Neonica Toolbox
7even SVG – Urban Neon Font Pack
7even is inspired by amazingly unique and creative neon typography style and glowing signs that are all around us these days, from bars, night clubs to chic clothing stores, barber salons, and stylish furniture boutiques. In this pack, you will find 5 neon fonts. 2 of them are SVG neon fonts that have the true and fully realistic neon effect you can see on the provided screenshots. The other three are standard versions of the SVG neon fonts that can be used on any computer, in any browser, and in any app.
Rubber Font
Steampunk Neon 3D Lettering
A neon font isn’t always a glowy one — and it doesn’t have to be so in order to pop in your designs. Meet the Steampunk display font, made as a vintage homage to the glorious Victorian age with its powerful and grim industrial vibe. This neon type font comes with uppercase letters, numbers and punctuation marks you can play with and create engaging designs for music promotion, games, and posters.
Luminous Neon Text Effect
The Neon Toolbox
Introducing The Neon Toolbox, a neon letters font designed to create custom signs in Photoshop! Simply type your text or place your design, and apply the layer style of your choice for an instant neon sign typeface effect. You can then customize your scenes in various styles further by adding a wall backdrop and a choose from a variety of elements such as supports, bars, grids, wall hooks, etc. Simply saying, do everything you need with this neon signs font for a great image!
Neonclipper Modular Font
Sidecar
Double neon-style power in this pack! Sidecar Script and Sans are designed to play together, but they also work great on their own. While Sidecar Sans is quite of a regular neon letter font, Sidecar Script is a completely different story! It is packed with OpenType alternates: keep Contextual Alternates on for a smooth flow and try Swash or Titling Alternates for more flashy neon letters. Sidecar is a great display family for any project from logo to packaging or actual neon sign design and from print to online!
Monoton Free Font
Colorful Neon 3D Lettering
If you are looking for some realistic neon letters & graphic elements, then you are at the right place. Here you will get a great set of 3D-style lettering, neon lights fonts & bonus graphic elements for your new artistic projects. Here, you’ll find 3 view types lettering sets & color neon fonts + bonus graphic elements great to create your own neon typography scenes in different styles. These graphics are in hi-res transparent PNG format, so the neon lettering font is great for your new web design or any print design projects.
Marquee Moon Font
The Ultimate Neon Kit
Whether you’ve never used Photoshop before and want to create a Facebook event banner that stands out for your next party, or you’re one of the pro graphic designers who needs a top-notch sale flyer for a last-minute client, The Ultimate Neon light lettering kit is the solution for you. There is no need to shop around for multiple neon fonts and neon-style resources and then spend a lot of time figuring out how to make them look good together. This neon lights font is a rounded and monoline font that has everything you’ll need to create personalized scenes.
Neon Future Font
Frequently Asked Questions
There are tons of fonts that can be used for neon signs, so you can choose one that suits your purpose, concept and style easily. Here are some versatile types, that can be used in almost any project and showcase your brand’s name in a gorgeous way: The Ultimate Neon Kit, Monoton Free Font, Neon Toolbox and Luminous Neon Text Effect.
There are many premium and free neon light fonts you can use for your design projects. While choosing from this wide range, consider the style you want the artwork to be kept in, as your neon outline font should suit it. Here are the striking examples of neon fonts that are versatile enough to pull off any concept: Robinson Outline, Neon God, Newon Modern Neon Light and Neoncity Signature Neon Font.
There are two ways of making your letters look like neon lights. The first one is a pretty long process in Photoshop, where you create your own neon tube font or text effect and adjust it. The second one is much easier and less time-consuming — just pick a neon font! I can recommend you some in case you don’t have much time till the deadline: Neon Bines, Stacker Neon Sci-Fi Futuristic, Lasenter and Hastron Neon Monoline Script.
There are no pre-installed neon fonts in Adobe Photoshop, but you can make your own one or find it! If you are starting your neon typography collection, check out the basic options, which are also the most versatile ones. Here are some examples of such types: Mexcellent Font Family, Neon Type, Neon Ballroom and Sidecar. I would recommend you download the fonts that come in families, as this way you will get not just one font that looks like neon sign but a whole pack of them!
