117 Free Christmas fonts to use for holiday projects

Bogdan Sandu

6 years ago

So, unless we’re around Christmas, nobody is seeing this article. Why is that? Well, there’s no need for Christmas fonts unless you have some Christmas related design projects in the queue.

Yeah, that time of the year when you have to design a Christmas themed project. All you’re thinking about is hanging around the Christmas tree and not doing anything work related. You’ll get there.

Until that wonderful time when you spend time with your family or friends, let’s finish that Christmas themed design project that is waiting for its delivery.

In this article you have a lot of Christmas fonts that you can download for free and use in your project.

Awesome Christmas fonts (an overview)

- Beyond Wonderland
- One Starry Night
- Santa’s Sleigh
- Metro Retro NF
- Rothenburg Decorative
- Christmas On Crack
- Christmas/Flakes Font
- Channel
- Candy Cane
- Sentinel
- Holly Nites
- ChopinScript
- The Gingerbread House
- Mountains of Christmas
- St. Nicholas
- Harrington
- Hand Stockyard Font
- Nickelodeon
- Holleigh Caps
- Antrokas
- Herr Von Muellerhoff
- Alex Brush
- Harbell
- and a lot more

Beyond Wonderland

This awesome free Christmas font comes to use from font hobbyist Chris Hanson. Beyond Wonderland is a quirky, Gothic-style typeface. The creator states that he made it on a whim.

This font does not support accented vowels, but it has dark and decorative flourishes to add a bit of Dickens or Burton to your Christmas projects. It is free for both commercial and personal use as long as you give credit to Chris Hanson as its maker. It looks especially great if you’re using it on designer-made Christmas Cards Templates.

One Starry Night

This fun and festive Christmas font come to use from Brittany Murphy Designs. It is a swirly handwritten font that is sure to add some sparkle to your Christmastime designs. It is free for personal and non-profit use, while commercial use costs $5.

Santa’s Sleigh

From HypoTypo, this Christmas font has a great retro feel. It comes in three weights: regular, bold, and deluxe, which you don’t find everywhere.

Metro Retro NF

This is not your average Christmas font. It is dramatic sans serif font made and published by Nick’s Fonts. It should only be used sparingly, for headlines in large sizes, because it is simply so striking and dramatic that it loses its effect if used too often.

The free version of this holiday font is only available in uppercase. The commercial version, title, Metro Retro Redux, comes with lowercase letters and a complete Adobe character set. It was inspired by Wadsworth A. Parker’s 1927 typeface, Modernistic.

Rothenburg Decorative

This calligraphic blackletter style of script comes to us from Dieter Steffman also known as Typographer Mediengestaltung.

It brings with it a splash of Gothic class. It has 194 elaborate and well-designed characters. This, like all Dieter Steffman’s fonts, are free for commercial and personal use.

Christmas On Crack

For a less heavy holiday font, try Christmas on Crack. This winter font was made by David Lovelace, also known as Parallax. It has a Gothic twist but also a nice dash of fun. It is available for use on both Mac and PC.

Christmas/Flakes Font

This is one of the most Christmas-y of the Christmas fonts. It comes from the Florida- based designer Randy Ford. It’s a highly ornamental typeface and works best when used as a headline font. It is free for both commercial and personal use. You can get this font for both PC and Mac.

Channel

This font was designed by the Swedish designer Måns Grebäck and published through the Aring Typeface foundry. This is a classy cursive Christmas font that has a handwritten feel to it.

It is a fully realized holiday font, with 367 glyphs in its commercial version. To use Channel for commercial use, you’ll have to pay $589, but the free demo version is free for personal use.

Candy Cane

This festive holiday font was created by Michel Bujardet. It is a highly decorative and is just dripping with Christmas cheer. The Candy Cane Christmas font comes with both uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as numeral and punctuation. It is free for personal use.

Sentinel

Sentinel is another font that comes from Dieter Steffman (also known as Typographer Mediengestaltung). It is a striking font.

All of its letters are uppercase and it includes 52 ornamental characters. It is free for non-commercial use and will look great for your party invitation and family newsletters.

Holly Nites

This is a blocky and 3D decorated Christmas font. It comes to sue from Jester Font Studio. It looks really good for Christmas cards. The Holly Nites holiday font is available for free for personal and non-commercial use.

ChopinScript

This free commercial cursive script is based on Phil Martin’s Polonaise. It was originally released as True Type font all the way back in 1999.

As an OpenType font, like it is now, it has been embellished with assorted ornaments and accented characters. It is a truly elegant script holiday font. It is free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial use.

The Gingerbread House

This is another wonderful Christmas Font from type designer Chris Hanson. It hits a very unique holiday feel, being a gloriously creepy sans serif. It makes you think of Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas.

Weirdly enough, this holiday font does not contain the number 4, which can make it difficult to use it for some Christmas project. However, it is still useful in many other situations.

Like all of Chris Hanson’s fonts, it is free for personal, non-commercial, and commercial use provided you give him credit.

Mountains of Christmas

This font is a really unique Christmas font. It has a one-of-a-kind staggered look that creates a playful and delighted scene.

It used subtle serifs in a structured way with soft curves that help soften the look. It works very well with holiday-themed illustrations and as a headline for a playful invitation of Christmas card.

St. Nicholas

This winter font uses subtle textures to make it perfect for the Christmas season. The letters of this Christmas font are structured but have been softened thanks to snow-like cutouts. The effect creates a nice contrast that is also offset by accent swirls on the font’s capital letters.

Harrington

This is a classic Christmas font. It has a great sense of fun, thanks to its clean lines and decorative accents with slight curves and slants. It works well as a headline font but does not get lost in the midst of a busy holiday atmosphere.

Hand Stockyard Font

This is a brush-like holiday font. It uses subtle texture and quick strokes to give it an elegant yet handmade feel. It feels classy but not too refined. This handmade quality makes it great for many holiday design and projects.

Nickelodeon

This holiday font is thin, pleasant, and simple. It has simple serifs and quick letter curves that give it a nice personality and a bit of ornamentation. It is a wonderfully understated Christmas font that can work well on its own or used with other typefaces.

Holleigh Caps

Here was have another Christmas font that plays with the idea of holly decorations and accents. It has a more elegant and feminine approach than many others, however. It only has capital letters, but the letters still work well together thanks to their thin and delicate shapes.

Antrokas

This winter font is a nice cross between a script font and a brush font. It blends thickness and thin, ribbon-like accents to create a unique and elegant effect. It works well for holiday designs where you want a polished and elegant look.

Herr Von Muellerhoff

This font is largely very traditional and elegant but has a few loops and twists added to make it playful. It works well for old-fashioned Christmas greetings, especially if you want to make them just a bit more fun than usual.

Alex Brush

This script brush holiday font uses broad letters and thick lines make it very easy to read, working well as headline font as well as short body text.

Harbell

The Harbell Christmas font works well for headlines. It is a bold brush script font that makes a lot of impact where it is used. You’ll want to pair it with a simpler sans-serif to make your design more balanced.

Shipped Goods

This holiday font sues quivering liens to make it unconventional and charming. It has drawn out ascenders and descenders that can fill up any unwanted white space in your design very nicely. It will give your project a quirky and whimsical look.

Learning Curve

This winter font looks very much like traditional cursive handwriting, though it is more legible than real cursive handwriting. It makes use of clean, crisp lines to update its traditional old school look. Use this font for a contemporary take on a classic aesthetic.

Sofia

This is a Christmas font with simple decorative flourishes that has an upright stance. It looks great and is highly legible at the same time.

Landliebe

This is a charming holiday font that is still down to earth. It is a nice compliment to both traditional and quirky Christmas fonts alike.

Grand Hotel

This holiday font is a good fit for its name. It has clean lines but still retains some tasteful decorative accents as well as some slight slants and curves. It can work as a headline font or even used for minimal subheadings.

Hultog Snowdrift

This winter font was created for the holiday season and has a great snowy theme. It will add a touch of playfulness to your Christmas design project.

Janda Cheerful Script

This holiday font’s will remind you of a child’s Christmas wish list for Santa thanks to its youthful loops and flourishes. It’s great for adding a sense of childlike playfulness and nostalgia.

Xiomara

This Christmas font has a unique piped-on-a-cake look. It is incredibly festive and easy to read. It looks great with cute designs and pastel colors.

Things We Said

If you want a Tim Burton look in your design, this Christmas font hit the perfect note.

Kingthings Willow

This is a fun, ornate font. It looks great as a headline or used for a drop cap for a long Christmas message.

Eccentric

This holiday font makes use of subtle serifs paired with the soft curving to give it a unique character. It works very nicely with holiday-themed illustrations.

Thirsty Script

Use this Christmas font if you want a cool and retro look. It will add a touch of vintage cool to your holiday design projects.

Pacifico

Pacifico is a font that works or all seasons thanks to its bold look and simple curves. Its handwritten quality, however, makes it particularly fitting for a warm Christmas greeting.

League Script

This is a very friendly script font that works well with any Christmas greeting. It is beautifully understated and can work well either on its own or with other typefaces.

Sevillana

Use this holiday font for a cute Christmas greeting. It uses round letters and perfectly spiral flourishes to create an ornamental but not overwhelming appearance.

Foglighten No. 07

This font uses unpredictable serifs and has a great turn-of-the-century look. These traits make it great for any classic holiday design.

Snowhouse

Snowhouse somehow manages to use its branchy letters and a snow motif very well together, making it a great fit for the season.

Batter Up

This font is neither script nor ornamental, making it great if you’re looking for something very different from normal Christmas fonts. It looks great when used with both holiday icons and illustrations.

Bold and Blue

This holiday font has a friendly, down-to-earth look, which makes it a nice touch for any Christmas design. Use it for headlines and feel free to pair it with any lightweight font.

Bodoni

This is a classic serif font that looks great as a part of holiday designs. It has a nice and even flow of thick and thin lines that add a well-balanced look to your holiday design projects.

Sailor’s Delight

Use this font to add a touch of whimsy to your holiday design. It has simple serifs and quick curves that combine to give it a nice personality. It is beautifully understated and works well on its own or when used with other typefaces.

Elsie

This holiday font makes use of the solid look of Bodoni and combines it with soft curves to give it a more cheerful look. Offer your season’s greetings with this font as a headline or in your body text.

Cursive Sans

This Christmas font’s simple serifs and quick curves lend it an understated personality. This lovely font is straight and curvy in all the right places. It will work well on its own or with other typefaces.

Capriola Regular

This font has round edges that lend it a sense of fun. It is clean but still has decorative accents with slightly exaggerated lines and curves. It holds up well as a headline font but has a unique character.

Magnolia

This holiday font is elegantly calligraphic. Its thin letters are paired with the subtle accent lines that create a truly elegant typeface. This makes it work with a number of holiday designs.

Catalina Clemente

This holiday font is a set of hand-drawn Christmas fonts inspired by the kind of chalkboards that you see at boutique coffee shops and bakeries. It is a font that comes in both capital and lowercase letters. It can be used for both headlines and body text and looks quite nice

Catalina Anacapa

This is a tall and thin with a vintage and hand-drawn look. It includes both sans and slab serif styles. It is a useful Christmas font that has small caps as well as stylistic alternatives for certain letters.

Baheula Vintage + Clean Typeface

This font as inspired by hand-drawn lettering. It is a vintage handcrafted font that is well suited for lettering, quotes, Christmas cards, and other holiday design projects.

This Christmas font set includes stylistic alternatives, international language support, as well as a bonus icon and badges template.

Rude Cookie

This is a hand-drawn holiday font that has a number of alternative characters. Rude Cookie comes in both serif and script fonts. This fun font pack also includes a bonus typographic quote poster and ornament vector image, making it a great tool for your holiday projects.

Cookies and Milk Font Family

The Cookies and Milk font will remind you of the hand-lettered Christmas cards of childhood. It comes in seven weights and also includes instructions for its alternate styles.

Carnica

Carnic combined elements of comic and script fonts. It is a good font for headlines, invitations, and cover designs. This font includes both upper and lowercase forms, as well as providing multilingual support and special characters.

Hello Sweets + Swashes

Hello, Sweets was created with pen and brush, It is a modern calligraphy script font that is useful for invitations, logos posters, and other design projects. It includes a separate set of swashes, ligatures, and alternative character styles.

Charcuterie Cursive

This holiday font is an upright script font with artistically placed small imperfections that creates a rough and hand-lettered feel. It has 275 swash and alternate forms. This delightful font set is inspired by the styling of early 1900s café signs and menus.

Malisia Script

This font is a soft script font that has the loose feel of handwriting. This font set includes several ligatures and alternative style sets that can be easily edited in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

FIESTALOGY!

This is a very playful font set that is useful invitations, brand and store names, and anything festive, It has a look reminiscent of the look of crayon lines and balloons. It includes a bonus vector pack of celebration icons, swashes, and special characters.

Fantasia Monoline Calligraphy and Bonus

This is a highly stylized modern calligraphy font. Use it for invitations, posters, logos, and much more. The font set also includes three bonus T-shirt designs, a set of alternative swashes, ligatures, and decorative elements.

Lullabies Font Family

This is a set of brush fonts that has both regular and heavy scripts as well as a set of all-cap sans serifs. All the weights include multiple-letter options. The set also includes a pack of 95 festive icons.

Merry Melody

Merry Melody is a rounded script font meant to recall vintage cartoons. It includes both upper and lower case letterforms and has three styles: Piano, Forte, and Mezzoforte.

Merry Xmas Font

The Merry Xmas Christmas-themed font set is made from a set of 50 different illustrated ornaments and every letter appears within an ornament. It also comes with a character legend to help you out.

Christopher Font

This hand-drawn upright script font is great for posters, invitations, and cards. It also includes a set of free watercolor elements in PNG format that can be used in both Illustrator and Photoshop.

Thankful Script

This vintage-inspired script font includes hundreds of alternative styles, swashes, and ligatures. It makes use of a blend of elements of early 20th-century typefaces and hand lettering. You can customize all of its elements with OpenType support.

ItsHoliday Font

This holiday font is a stylized calligraphy font that is based on natural handwriting. It works well for cards, art quotes, invitations, and even “handwritten” signatures. It includes alternatives and a bonus ornament image.

AlaNice Modern Calligraphy Font

This is a modern holiday font based on natural handwriting. It includes upper and lower case and font alternatives.

Four Seasons Pro Family

This font was inspired by nature’s seasonal changes and is a handwritten display typeface. It includes an extensive set of ornaments and dingbats based on the look of a forest during the four seasons.

Chiko Cookies

This font was inspired by gingerbread, cookies and ice cream. Its set includes upper and lower case, as well as a pack of holiday-themed vector images.

Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara was designed specifically for wedding projects and was made by hand with a calligraphy nib. It is an upright script font set that includes all characters in both capital and lowercase forms.

Font With Snow and Snowflakes

This font has fat uppercase characters capped with snow.

Fox in the Snow

This holiday font is a handwritten script that comes in both upper and lower case. It also includes Western and Eastern European language accents.

Snow Cone Pro

Snow Cone is a playful, hand-drawn font family. The look of the font can be changed with OpenType features. This font set includes a free pack of drawings that complement the fonts very nicely.

Antarctic

As you can tell from the name, this font was inspired by the cold expanses of Antarctica. It has thin, embellished capitals that come in three weights.

Woolen

Woolen has italicized characters that were inspired by a typeface published in 1641.

Ice Cartoon Font

Ice Cartoon is a casual, all-caps font that draws inspiration from Saturday morning cartoons. It also comes with special Christmas characters and Speech Bubbles sets.

Nevica — Winter Icons

Nevica is a holiday-themed clip art set that includes 103 hand-drawn wintery letters.

Some older Christmas fonts that I previously featured

Winter is on our doorstep and Christmas approaching rapidly now. It’s time to get started on any Christmas design projects, whether it is your own Christmas cards, gift tags, party invitations or giving your website a festive overhaul.

To give you a helping hand creating extraordinary Christmas designs we have compiled a list of 40 fun and festive Christmas fonts to spruce up your text with some seasonal style.

I’m not usually a fan of fonts like these, but I’ll make an exception because everyone is excited about the winter holidays and Christmas most importantly.