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Typefaces remain the most popular and wanted design tool within the creative toolbox. So we find it a great idea to deliver some western fonts of the kind. Today they are desperate and daring, as all good country fonts should be.
Our Team’s Top Pick
Okie Doko Western Slab
Okie Doko is a western style font full of distinct personalities. It was inspired by retro western slab serifs taken into a modern realm with subtly rounded corners. Its quirky personality is perfect for cartoons and a laid-back designed aesthetic. With a variable width of the font letters, its versatility helps it fit and fill any space of your design. Use Okie Doko for stickers, merch, Instagram posts, printed materials and posters.Â
Dafodil & Extra
Inspired by cowboy-style originally from Texas, Dafodil brings the best of the Western typography style. You’ll be fully armed once you download this strong, bold and gentle typeface that is accompanied by a set of bonus items: signs and badges, which you can use to create creative stylized prints of digital designs. It includes all the basic characters so you’ll be able to give all your texts a western vibe with Dafodil!Â
El Capitan Hand-Drawn Font
Do you like collecting different font styles? Then you should definitely add some western fonts! El Capitan is an adventurous handcrafted typeface that will give your project a proper vintage look. This decorative western style font is brought in OTF format along with a hand-drawn vector illustration kit as a nice appendix to the kit. Grab it and all aboard to the adventure for more creative projects!Â
Mogathe — Western Font
Are you crafting a western style design or just want to have fun playing with typography? It doesn’t matter which option you go with, this typeface is a must for you. Mogathe font was inspired by the wild west life era. It is a slab serif font with a vintage look and feel with four different styles available: regular, stamp, spurs, and spurs stamp. This font is ideal for art projects or packaging that need a vintage western feel.Â
Western Bang Bang
Shoot your competitors with eye-popping typography. Western Bang Bang is a great choice for your next creative project! It comes with extended multilingual support, so you can use it for various projects: thematic headings, custom logos, t-shirt designs, vintage letterpress printing, posters, badges and a lot more. It also includes lowercase and uppercase characters, and numbers, so it’s fully packed to embody all your design ideas!Â
Wild Django – Bouncy Outline Serif
Let western fonts inspire you! Introducing Wild Django bouncy outline serif, a western style font with multilingual support and distinctive style. Wild Django will be a perfect pick for tattoos, posters, flyers, children’s books, cartoons, comics, and another hundred of creative projects. The wester font includes a whole character set, and numbers. When you download the typeface, you’ll get OTF and TTF files.Â
Realist Typeface
Another day, another amazing font — that is an unspoken rule of any passionate designer. Especially if we both mean the one from classic posters. Hand-written, possessing a huge variety of symbols, this western-style font may turn into a fine addition to your typeface library as well as a central element of the composition to catch and delight the eye. With its help, you can easily recreate one of those classic film posters.Â
Velasco
Velasco is a family of western fonts with a mono weight and different decorations. Inspired by American culture and tattoos of the 19th century, it’s perfect for use in vintage-themed designs. Velasco is suitable for any project that requires an old western feel as the core design elements, such as logo, wedding invitation, book cover, greeting card, poster, etc. Add a western font to your repertoire!Â
Docktrin
Show your artwork through the prism of retro photography accompanied by bold inky letters. Docktrin font will perfectly go with headlines, posters, logotypes, branding, signs, events, or all the vintage-related creative projects. Two font styles provide you the opportunity to choose a perfect option for your project. Plus, you will be able to use the western font in your next works, too!Â
Unchained Font Family
Attention, the western fonts are wanted! The Unchained font family is forged in the prairies of the Wild West and brings a genuine vintage feel to your design projects with a cowboy mood. The best thing about it, that it comes with seven typeface styles for the main font and four styles for the support one. You will be surprised by how various western fonts can be: from the well-known saloon-themed to a subtle touch of the vintage American style.Â
Western Grit
Typography that looks just like an old wanted poster or western sign sounds inspiring, right? Then check out this typeface! Western Grit is a hand-drawn western font. It’s distressed, messed up, and has oodles of character — perfect to add a personal touch to your artworks. It includes a basic character set, number digits, punctuation marks and multilingual support. Nothing will stop you from bringing your ideas to life with Western Grit!Â
Dust West Font
Find yourself in a retro movie and your Colt out — we’ve got an engaging type, that knows no equals. Dust West provides multilingual support (Slavic languages included) and a powerful look, so the only thing that you’ve to carry about is what to use it for. The western font includes uppercase letters as well as the lowercase ones, numbers, and ligatures to make your design shine.Â
Brigand
No more wasting time searching for western fonts, the ideal one is already here! Brigand is a typeface inspired by western films. It includes English uppercase characters, numbers and basic punctuation and comes in rough and regular styles, so it has everything to suit your art project. Will it be on a backpack, on a greeting card or on a paper bag of an antique shop? It’s up to you only.Â
Cowboy Movie
This one is literally soaked in a western spirit! Such cowboy font will transfer the true Wild West setting with a precious vintage impression. It includes all the basic letters, symbol and number sets to provide you with everything you may need. Your thematic printouts, posters, design identities now are provided with one of the most powerful free western fonts! The typeface is free for personal use.Â
Madrid Font
A bold western font will take its niche in your toolbox and your designs once you download it. And if you still don’t have your favorite one, choose this typeface! Madrid font comes in two styles, enabling you to choose an ideal one for your exact project. It includes the whole basic character set and will save you much time you can waste on achieving a perfect result — with the right tool in hand it won’t take any effort!Â
RioGrande Bold Font
RioGrande is made to offer quality and variety of the high-end free font as a result. Its classic look right from the late 18th century brings the best of the well-known saloon-themed prints. So you can adopt the style and use it freely, like a cowboy! You can use it for western-themed party or wedding invitations, posters, flyers, cards or web design. The font provides you with a character set, and numerals.Â
Fusty Saddle Font
Do you think that all western fonts look the same? Check out this one and you’ll see how wrong you are then! The fantastic spirit of the American frontier in each glyph can be easily added to your project with no need to spend a dime. Have it on your t-shirts, hoodies, stationery, public publishing projects to preserve the western typography style, as reckless as it ought to be. Let your design fantasies come to life!Â
Fusty Saddle Font
Western fonts have their own charm that makes every artwork unique and memorable. And this typography will prove you the point. Thistle Creek is a western font that allows you to give your design a vintage vibe while being trendy! This slab serif includes a whole letter set, and numbers. You can use it for posters, flyers, cards, book or magazine covers or the invitation to a western-themed party.Â
Gunslinger Font
Refresh your designer’s toolbox with western fonts! These resources will add a unique charm to your artworks and spice up your designs. And Gunslinger font is a great choice for these purposes. This all-caps display font is defined by its close spacing and recognizable appearance. Use it for any graphics like movie posters, social media, or team logo — anywhere you have it applied, all eyes will be on the grunge wiped letters.Â
The Dead Saloon
Howdy font fans! Searching for an authentic-looking Western font? I can’t leave you alone looking for high-quality resources, so here is one of my favorite western fonts! The Dead Saloon is a mixture of regular western font traits with modern design ideas used in many industries. Fonts of the kind are perfect for printouts, posters, invitations — and, of course, signboards will be an excellent purpose for this font to shine!Â
Durango Western
Durango Western is the new sheriff in town. This all-caps display font is defined by its close spacing and thick serifs for a recognizable appearance. Use it for a movie poster, social media, or team logo. Basic / extended Latin, European accents, punctuation, diacritics, kerning, and Cyrillic characters for Russian are included. The eroded version features 2 levels of distress between the lowercase and uppercase letters and contains a few alternates.Â
Ultra
Ultra is an ultra bold slab typeface with nods to wood-type styles. This western font has strong and dramatic letterforms for serious yet friendly titling, and easily legible typestyle you can use for flyers, invitations, posters and any design project you want to add some western feel to. The font includes uppercase and lowercase characters, and numbers , so you won’t need to worry about looking for matching elements.Â
Psychedelic Cowboy Free Display Font
Introducing Psychedelic Cowboy — the free display typeface that was inspired by cowboys, westerns and the style of the 70s. The result of working with the western font are striking and eye-catching headlines, social media posts, posters, invitations, flyers and many more projects that your clients will remember for a long time. Psychedelic Cowboy includes a basic letter set and numbers. Get creative with this font!Â
Holtwood One SC
Get your inspiration from western fonts! Holtwood is a bold display font developed for use with modern web browsers. It has a lot from the look of some traditional woodblock poster typefaces of the 19th century but updated for the 21st. Holtwood was envisioned to be used in big and bold text sizes, but it still works well when running as smaller headlines too. The western font includes a whole character set, and numbers.Â
Band Wagon
Every one of us needs a few outrageous western fonts for thematic projects — or simply for fun. Band Wagon is right one of them, a handcrafted cowboy font that will be a great addition to any of your design projects. It comes with curly slabs, spurs and an old outlaw spirit that you’ll surely enjoy on a tee or poster. This western font includes a whole letter set, numerals and symbols, so once you download it you can start crafting your artwork!Â
Boots and Spurs
If you’re up to conquer a new wildland or create a western-inspired retro design, you should not miss out on this free western font giveaway. Bold and daring, it will go as a great addition to your professional collection — just be attentive, it’s a heavy one! It is the price to pay for such a stunning font: it includes alphabetical characters, symbols and ligatures to make your creative projects stand out.Â
Medium Rare
Looking strong with parallel stripes, transferring a powerful message with the suitable undertones, Medium Rare would look great as a headline or banner. Or you can always add it to your printouts, posters, invitations, and signboards. No matter what design you will apply this western font to, it will add a reckless spirit to it. The typeface provides a character set, numbers and symbols including currency.Â
Westwood – Funny Western Font
Unique western style display for your new funny projects. It’s great for retro & vintage projects, from signages to prints and decor. The pack includes 8 font files (OTF & TTF): regular and grunge, inline and inline grunge, bold and bold grunge, shadow and shadow grunge. Such a wide range of versatile fonts gives you an opportunity to pick an ideal option for each of your projects. No doubt, you’ll be back to use Westwood again and again!Â
Strongbox
Introducing Strongbox, an uppercase slab inspired by the western American culture and trenchant retro fonts. It is traditional yet modern, still having a strong, vintage touch. A perfect pick for logos, headers, branding materials, posters and engaging product packaging designs. Its whole character set and symbols included in the download enable you to breathe a new life into your artworks and embody all your design ideas, even the most reckless ones!Â
Hells Rider Western Font
This typeface is here to prove you that a western font can be both edgy and soft. Presenting Hells Ride Decay Font, looking robust with parallel stripes and transferring a powerful message with the suitable undertones; such font would look great as a headline or banner. Take advantage of multilingual support and alternatives for your next creative endeavor. This western font helps you create memorable presentations for your clients and customers.Â
Traveler Typeface
Introducing a west-style typeface named “Traveler”. It has wide and narrow characters and lots of ligatures (automatically replaceable with the OpenType feature) to provide you with the opportunity to find a perfect option for your design: logo, poster, flyers, invitation, card or anything you want to add a western vibe to. The trendy extruded effect is made in a separate font file, for easy editing and coloring.Â
Carnivalee Freakshow Font
Why should you have Carnivalee Freakshow? In addition to providing unique characters, it reminds of good old times when typography was as meaningful as a gun. Actually, it looks just like a classic example of the typeface you imagine once you hear “western font”, so if that’s what you were looking for, you may stop your searching. You can use this font for your prints, signs and decor, allowing every letter to feast the eyes of your users.Â
Portage: Adventurous Slab Font
Curious fact: the typeface was built from a land & forest journal from the mid-50s. Portage is a slab serif that carries its own weight. Adventurous and rugged, this old western font evokes the wild western spirit and makes your posters, flyers, headlines and social media posts stand out. Once you download it, you will get a basic character set, numbers, symbols and ligatures. Such an all-pack font is a real treasure, so don’t miss it out!Â
El Sancho Rancho
This free western font of a high-quality will take over your list of grunge typefaces. Pick up its minimalist letter to fit your design. The old-school font is good for vintage designs, t-shirts, logos, labels, posters and etc. Plus, the working process won’t take long — the western font is easy to use and includes a letter set with symbols and ligatures. Let El Sancho Rancho typeface inspire you on crafting a new masterpiece and watch your client’s jaw drop in awe!Â
Watson – Vintage Western Font
Are you looking for a bold vintage decorative font that has an old western feeling? Introducing Watson! The type is suitable to create many vintage art projects such as product, branding, invitation, banner, movie title, brand, event, and many more. The old western font includes uppercase and lowercase characters, numbers, punctuation marks, ligatures and multilingual support. The download comes with 3 file formats: OTF, TTF and WOFF.Â
Captain Howdy Font
Captain Howdy is based on old slab fonts from the late 1800s. It’s perfect for beverage label design projects, logotype designs, badges, classic wedding decor, letterheads, drop caps, titles, and so many more other artworks. Due to its retro look combined with somehow bubbly lettering, it gives your artwork a fresh look that will catch your audience’s attention. The western font includes basic characters, symbols and numbers so working with it is a pure pleasure!Â
Jason Caps
Jason Caps is an old western typeface from the early 20th century, yet slightly redesigned. Its lovely ornaments look astounding with the rough font lines. By the way, it has two forms: normal and distressed, so you surely have a vast space for experiments. Jason Caps is an all-caps font with some lovely ornaments you can use the glyph pallet to select. A whole basic letter set, symbols and numerals are included in this western font so nothing will stop you from creating your dream design!Â
RNS Underwood
RNS Underwood was inspired by vintage denim labels, old jeans ads, the old west and the apothecary elements. This typeface is new and old, with a distinctive personality. This western font’s lettering combines thin and thick elements catching the reader’s attention and making the text memorable. It’s ideal for use in logos, flyers, invitations, labels, clothes and more. The typeface has everything you need from a font: character set, symbols, and numerals. Check it out!Â
Shadow Stripes Vintage Typeface
Try out the time-tested vintage western font, originated from good old postcard designs of previous centuries. Handcrafted with love for details and commitment to beloved typographic traditions — so even the Man with No Name will appreciate. This font is a mixture of regular font family types with modern design ideas used in many industries. Looking strong with parallel stripes, transferring a powerful message with suitable undertones, such font would look great as a headline or banner. Of course, printouts, posters, invitations, and signboards will be a great purpose for this font to shine!Â
Hothead Western Font
Introducing Hothead, a serif font inspired by old American culture. This western font is traditional yet modern, still having a strong vintage touch. Hothead has 258 glyphs, extensive Latin script language support, characters set A-Z (uppercase and lowercase), numerals and punctuation marks, all carefully designed. The typeface allows versatile design options, being the perfect tool for creating bold logos, headers, posters and stand-out packaging designs.Â
Western Lake – Brewski Typeface
Brewski is a display serif font with a hand-drawn vintage style, and a touch of ornament which makes this font look charming. It was inspired by vintage brewery packaging and beer advertising from the early 20th century. This western font is perfect for retro logo design, headline or party invitations. Brewski is designed with stylistic alternates and contextual alternate in some characters that allow you to mix and match pairs of letters to fit your design.Â