50 Best 90s Fonts for Retro Nostalgia

Picking the right typeface for your design isn’t easy, and that proves to be true to a great degree for retro styles. Therefore, we have created a list of 30 free and premium fonts, that promise to make you smile by reminding you of all the unique characteristics of the ’90s.

Do you remember the rise of multiculturalism, the popular rave scenes and hip-hop music, and the appearance of advanced (for back then) technologies, such as cable TV and the internet? The 90s fonts on our list contain not only those but many of the 1990s attributes, that will source a powerful feeling of nostalgia to both you and your audience. 

We researched and collected the most astonishing, vintage fonts we could find, to bring in everyone’s mind the colorful 1990s, when we all used to listen to music through cassette players and play games on consoles like GameBoy or Sega Saturn.  

If you enjoy this collection, check out also our previous post with 80s fonts.

The Ultimate 90s Font Pack

This playful and charming, 90s style handwritten font includes uppercase, lowercase letters, and numerals and promises to give a funny look to your relative designs. It is extremely suitable for designs like magazine campaigns and branding projects.

Price: Premium

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Thunderstorm + Extras

Aiyari has created an amazing hand-made brush typeface, inspired by the 90s music and the much-loved pop culture. It contains Upper and Lowercase letters, punctuation, and numbers and it promises to adapt to any project’s needs.

Price: Premium

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Bayshore Font + New Neon Glow Styles

Bayshore is a delightful tubular mono-line script font, inspired by the 90s that contains all characters, numbers, and punctuation. Depending on the decoration of the font, it can be useful for both vintage and playful but also elegant and modern designs.

Price: Premium

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Japanese Font 90s Retro

If you are a fan of the 90s Japanese retro fonts then this font created by Konstantine Studio, is unquestionably the best option for you. It includes 5 different font types, with all characters, punctuation, and numbers, and promises to give a vintage look to your projects.

Price: Premium

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Hot Rush Font Duo

If you have missed the retro style of the duo fonts we use to recommend in our articles, this is one of the most appealing, retro fonts on the list. Sam Parrett is an expert when it comes to contrasting fonts, and the Hot Rush typeface is another verification of that.

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Electric Dreams Font Duo

Nicky Laatz has created a vast typeface package that includes seven different font types for unlimited combinations, and all the required characters and symbols. By using this typeface, you will be able to give an elegant look to your 90s themed designs.

Price: Premium

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Starlit Drive Signature Font

Starlit is a beautiful, stylish signature retro font created by Sam Parret, that will work amazingly with your 90s designs. The package contains two different typefaces, all uppercase, lowercase letters, punctuation, and numbers, and a large number of ligatures.

Price: Premium

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Vintage Dreams Modern Groovy Font

Maryan Kamal co has created an amazing Vintage, Bold Script typeface that will help you make a statement through your projects. It is perfect for almost any kind of 90s projects, from small scale branding and logo designs to large stamps for t-shirts and posters.

Price: Premium

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Alkaria – Vintage Retro Decorative

Alkaria is an appealing, fun, retro decorative font that promises to be the perfect fit for your 90s designs. Konstantine studio has created a 3D looking, bold typeface that brought in our minds the popular signs of that decade, while the package contains all necessary characters and symbols.

Price: Premium

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50% Off Introductory – Gulfs Display

Gulfs typeface is an amazing display font created by Studio Sun. It has a playful cartoonish look and is more than suitable for 90s comic book themes. It comes in twelve different font types, from bold to italic, and promises to give a unique, funny, and retro touch to your designs.

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Grestal Script Font

This is a modern calligraphic font that surprised us when it was combined with retro 90s designs, as it created an amazing contrast. Grestal can be used for both elegant and modern designs but also vintage and playful ones, and it contains all the required symbols and characters.

Price: Free

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Conserta Font

If you were a fan of some discreet 90s packaging designs, then Conserta will be a font that you will certainly fall in love with. Constantine studio has designed a vintage display serif typeface which is packed up with numerous features like Alternates, Ligatures, and retro Numbering.

Price: Free

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Grotes Sans Font

Grotes is one of the most appealing casual sans typefaces on our list. If you want to frame your design with a funny combination of fonts, then Grotes is definitely one of the most interesting choices that will fit perfectly in almost any 90s design.

Price: Free

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Erbos Draco Monospaced NBP Font

Being the definition of a retro font, Erbos Draco is an appealing LED scoreboard- styled typeface that will fit perfectly in this sort of design. It contains more than 300 characters, numbers, and glyphs and two different styles, regular and open NPB.

Price: Free

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Bronxos – Collage Punk Poster Font

As suggested by the title, Bronxos is one of the best fonts for posters as it introduces the classic music poster style of the 90s. The letters look like collages from magazines and newspapers making the font perfect for urban designs, posters, logos, and much more.

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Neon Absolute – Font Duo

Neon Absolute is a classy combination of script and sans font, influenced by the 1980s and 1990s neon lights, that will frame your designs by creating a beautiful retro environment. The package contains three font types with every character and symbol and multilingual support.

Price: Premium

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Vaporfuturism OTF Retrowave Font

This is a vast font package, which contains three different versions of the Vapofuturism font, four handmade backgrounds, and two sample flyers. All font types contain letters and numbers that promise to give a futuristic look to your 80s and 90s projects.

Price: Premium

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Planina Font

Planina is an eye-catching, vintage Sans-Serif font, suitable for almost every kind of retro design. It comes in four different types and contains upper and lowercase letters, punctuation, numbers, and an enormous number of ligatures and supported languages.

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Arcade Machine 80’s Retro Font

Arcade gaming machines appeared in the 80s, but continue to be extremely popular during the 90s as well. If you need to create a design around arcade games, then this font is perfect to source the required “nostalgic” feeling from your audience.

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American Captain

Are you a fan of that one man who saved the world from the threat of tyranny? If you have a relative project, then look nowhere else, because American Captain is the right font for you. It contains six font types, with small and caps letters, fractions, and glyph replacements.

Price: Free

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Haarlem Deco

Twicolabs Fontdation has created Haarlem Deco, a classic vintage, all-caps typeface. The creator was inspired by the 90s signage and advertising letters and combined them with a modern Sans-Serif font, to create one of the most elegant, vintage fonts on our list.

Price: Free

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Avaneonz – Neon Font

Avaneonz is a unique font with a vintage style that promises to give an interesting touch to your 90s designs. It is inspired by the 90s neon light signs and features minimal letters with glowing effects. The package includes two font types, six photoshop actions, glyphs, a web font, and multilingual support.

Price: Premium

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Designer Block Font

Chunky elegant font inspired by retro types. This font is free for personal use, but commercial lisence is paid.

Price: Free

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Palm Canyon Drive

Retro supply co has created Palm Canyon, a typeface inspired by mid-19th century Southern California. The package promises to provide a vintage, retro touch to your projects and contains four different types with upper and lowercase letters, punctuation, numbers, and unique ligatures.

Price: Free

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Sif! Font

Sif, or Say It Fat font, is one of the most beautiful bold retro fonts on the list. It includes an appealing bold font type, which is extremely suitable for quick slogans, logos, branding, and advertising. The package contains all characters, punctuation, and numbers.

Price: Free

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Portico Font 90s

Mehmet Reha has created an enormous pack of thirteen different versions of his Portico typeface, and each one of these versions contains all letters and symbols with multilingual support. Portico is an attractive, bold, vintage font, which proves to be useful for numerous 90s designs.

Price: Free

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Popstone – Groovy Variable Font

By incorporating the real-popular groovy styles and elements from the 90s funky culture, Popstone is one of the most eye-catching fonts on our list. It contains ten different font weights, all letters, punctuation, and numbers, alongside a great number of alternatives and fun ligatures.

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Hell Builder – 90’s Teen Horror Font

For those of you who missed the scary and funny at the same time, 90’s Teen Horror Fiction, Hell builder is a perfect match. The font is handmade, suitable for almost any kind of design project, and contains upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and punctuation.

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Visby Slab CF: geometric slab serif

Visby Slab is a funny, delightfully expressive slab serif font that promises to make your designs look more vibrant and strong. It incorporates eight weights and features italics and extensive multilingual support.

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Vintage Party – Bold Retro Script

Putracetol Studio introduces Vintage Party, one of the best bold, vintage typefaces we could find. The font is suitable for every design around the 90s, and the enormous bundle includes more than 80 typefaces while the creator promises to add four more every month.

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Haglos – Bold Script

Last but not least, the Haglos Script font is an appealing, retro-style font inspired by the 90s and the old American traditional culture. The package contains all letters, numbers, symbols, and an enormous number of ligatures to make your designs unique.

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Rocket Clouds

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Pink Lemonade Vintage Font

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The Moonlight

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Venice | A Beautiful Serif

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Orlando | An 80’s Inspired Font

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Palmdale Script

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LAZER 84 – Free Font

Price: Free

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Hamster Script (Free Font)

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Ansley Display – Free Font 90s

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Canter free fonts

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Jeebz: 8-bit font

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Kaiyaland

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Horsemen – Horror Retrowave Font

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Atomic Dustbin

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Rocket Clouds

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Radens – Vintage Bold Script

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Hello Emma

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Retro kiddo vector alphabet

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Outrunner Retro Script

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Nick graduated with BA in archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has the belief that Bachelor enriched his imagination and helped him to be different than everybody else. MA in Buildings Archaeology in York, U.K, however, provided the technical knowledge for Nick as a graphic designer, but also the full professional proficiency in English. It was the opportunity to write more than 200.000 words in total (assessments and archaeological articles). You can hire Nick here