Christmas is synonymous with tradition, and your holiday designs should reflect this festive spirit. Choosing the right Christmas fonts can instantly transform your designs, adding a cheerful, seasonal touch to your projects. Whether you are creating Christmas cards, invitations, gift tags, or holiday-themed web designs, this carefully curated collection of holiday fonts will provide just the right flair for your projects.
From festive script fonts to playful serifs, and fonts with snowflakes or candy cane stripes, these Christmas typefaces capture the joy of the season. Whether you’re a graphic designer, a DIY enthusiast, or a business owner creating festive promotions, you’ll find plenty of inspiration in this collection of Christmas fonts.
To give you a variety of options, we’ve included both free Christmas fonts and premium ones. It is indicated below if a font is free. Some free fonts, like “Great Vibes” and “Mountain of Christmas,” are also available on Google Fonts from where you can serve them on your websites. Links to Google Fonts are mentioned in the post as well.
For even more festive design resources, don’t miss our posts on free Christmas greeting templates, Christmas icons, Christmas images and Christmas backgrounds and patterns. These resources will help you create a cohesive and beautifully designed holiday project.
How to Use Christmas Fonts in Your Projects
When using Christmas-themed fonts for holiday projects, the possibilities are endless. These fonts work perfectly for:
- Christmas Cards: Create beautiful, personalized Christmas cards that stand out.
- Invitations: Design festive invitations for your holiday parties or corporate events.
- Gift Tags: Add a touch of holiday spirit with unique fonts on your gift tags.
- Social Media Graphics: Make your holiday posts more engaging with festive typography.
- Web Design: Incorporate Christmas fonts into your website to create a festive atmosphere for your visitors.
Best Christmas Fonts to Download (Free & Premium)
Below is a preview of some of the best Christmas fonts available, along with download links. Whether you’re looking for a classic, elegant font or something playful and fun, this list has something for everyone. And remember, if you know of any additional free Christmas fonts, be sure to share them with us in the comments section below!
Christmas Jingle – Modern Calligraphy Font
Christmas Jingle is a beautiful calligraphy font with decorative swashes. The font will look amazing on Christmas greeting cards, thank you cards, holiday website design, social media promotional images and posters. It comes in two styles – Regular and Italic.
Designed by Stefani Letter Studio, the font is available for purchase in TTF, OTF and WOFF formats.
Christmas – Festive Spirit Font (Free)
Christmas, from VPcreativeshop, is a versatile serif font with festive spirit. An all-caps font, Christmas includes a solid uppercase character set, a lowercase outlined version, numerals, symbols, and is multilingual. The font comes with free personal and commercial license and is perfect for your holiday greeting cards, quotes, invitations, and more. Available for free download in OTF format.
Curely (Free)
Curely, by Konstantine Studio, is a handmade an all-caps display face packed with holiday spirit. Uneven letterforms, swashes and inconsistent strokes give it a carefree attitude that’s just perfect for this time of year.
The download includes TTF, OTF files, and a bonus set of badges in AI format. The font is free for both personal and commercial use.
Merry Christmas (Free)
Merry Christmas is a decorative Christmas and New Year’s eve typeface. It comes in two styles – Merry Christmas Flake with snow flakes sprinkled around the characters and Merry Christmas Star with surrounding star shapes.
The glyphs *#+ and the numbers are mapped with stars, flakes and Christmas symbols that can be used to add ornaments to the text. The font comes with free for personal use license and is available for download in TTF format. Font designer: Måns Grebäck.
Winter Wunder – Christmas Serif Font
Winter Wunder by Studio Coasta is an elegant serif font that captures the magic of Christmas. Add a warm and inviting atmosphere to your greeting cards, invitations, and festive branding with this classic serif font.
Its lowercase is a variation of the uppercase letters that you can mix and match to give each word some bounce and character. Font Format: TTF.
Christmas Story Font (Free)
Christmas Story by fikryal is a modern handwritten font featuring beautiful beginning and ending swashes. Available to download and use for free in your personal projects, the font is available in both OTF and TTF font formats.
Mountains of Christmas Font Family (Free)
A casual style playful serif font, Mountains of Christmas includes fonts in two weights – Regular and Bold.
Its bouncy, staggered look gives it a carefree and fun vibe, which is ideal for when you want to give your words a warm personal touch. Made by Crystal Kluge, the font can be downloaded for free in TTF format. Mountain of Christmas is also available on Google Fonts.
Download Mountain of Christmas
Christmas – Bold Script Font
The “Christmas” font is a handwritten script font that exudes warmth and elegance, perfect for holiday cards, invitations, and marketing graphics. With its joyful yet elegant style, this font will add a festive and timeless charm to your designs.
Created by Lunatype, the font is available for download in OTF, TTF and WOFF formats. It includes 100+ alternate glyphs and unique ligatures, making customization simple and versatile for various projects.
Christmas on Crack (Free)
Christmas on Crack is a gothic font created by David C. Lovelace from Parallax. The font includes 80 characters including uppercase, lowercase letters, numbers and symbols. The curls in some of its glyphs such as uppercase C, lowercase s, t and especially the dots above i and j give the font a fun twist. Available for free download in TTF format.
Festival Font (Free)
Released by JoannaVu, Festival Font is a decorative font perfect for adding a festive theme to your Christmas time designs.
A unicase font, its lowercase characters are accented with stars and provide an alternate variation to the uppercase characters, perfect to mix and match for your holiday and new year designs. Available for free download in TTF format.
Coventry Garden Font (Free)
For designing Coventry Garden font, typographer Dieter Steffmann drew inspiration from an old book on letterhead design.
This old English serif font has an art deco vibe and features tall characters, its lowercase letters are a variation of the uppercase letters with their flourish-y strokes as seen in the above image. Ideal for creating an old style holiday graphic. Font format: TTF.
Christmas Script
Christmas Script font is a simple yet unique typeface with a charming, down-to-earth style. Its readability and versatility make it a delightful choice, adding a fun and friendly touch to your Christmas designs.
Designed by Stefaniletter, the font comes in regular and italic styles in TTF, OTF, and WOFF font formats.
Christmas Time Display Font (Free)
Reminiscent of traditional American woodblock typefaces from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the hand-lettered style of Christmas Time is perfect for creating greeting cards this festive season.
You can also check out these retro and vintage fonts if you’re aiming for an old school look in your holiday designs.
The font is all-caps, and provided for download as vector EPS and AI files, and as an OTF file. Designed by Lukasz Kulakowski, it’s free for personal use.
Big Snow Font (Free)
Big Snow by Khurasan is a free modern calligraphic typeface licensed for personal and commercial-use. This bold script font is ideal for your winter themed designs for Christmas and new year. The font is provided in both OTF and TTF formats.
Great Vibes (Free)
Great Vibes is an elegant cursive font with flowing connected letters. Its uppercase characters sport beautiful swashes. Created by TypeSETit, this font makes an excellent choice for designing invitations and greeting cards this holiday season.
You can see this font in action in our freebie: Winter inspired Christmas greeting card.
The font is free for personal as well as commercial use and can be downloaded in TTF format. It also is available on Google Web Fonts directory.
Lovile Type
Lovile by Flavortype, is a hand crafted font family of typefaces in three different styles – Regular (script), Medium (condensed) and Bold. Designed to work well together, these fonts will make perfect choice for your digital lettering projects.
Font Format: OTF.
Candy Christmas Font
A fun, playful font, Candy Christmas features Christmas elements in its design. Perfect for creating holiday inspired Christmas graphics, cards, prints and illustrations.
On purchasing, you’ll get the font in OTF and TTF formats. Font designer: Blankids Studio.
Snowtop Caps Font (Free)
This bold snowcapped font was definitely created for holiday time by typographer Mediengestaltung. An all caps display font, Snowtop is ideal for designing posters and headlines. You can download this free for commercial use font in TTF format.
Kingthings Christmas (Free)
Kingthings Christmas brings together the elegance of calligraphy fonts and the spirit of Christmas in its letterforms. This winter inspired typeface is designed for use at large type sizes. It comes with free commercial use license and can be downloaded in TTF format. Font designed by Kingthings.
Merry Christmas – Retro Christmas Font Duo
Merry Christmas is a retro duo font pairing a display and handwritten style with a playful, groovy vibe. Perfect for hippie-inspired designs, it’s ideal for logos, branding, ads, invitations, greeting cards, and more, adding charm and authenticity to any project.
Designed by graffee_studios, the font can be downloaded in OTF and TTF formats.
Hallelujah
Hallelujah script font is ideal for designing poster, apparel, packaging, etc. It comes in 3 styles – light, regular and brush, all in OTF format. The font has been designed by Tardiex.
Beyond Wonderland (Free)
A medieval era inspired font, Beyond Wonderland blends calligraphy with speckled grungy look. With its decorative curls, you can use this font to maybe add a touch of Tim Burton to your work.
Designed by Chris Hansen, you can download it for free in TTF format.
Maiden Orange Font (Free)
Maiden Orange is a free festive slab serif font inspired by the custom hand lettering found in the 1950’s advertisements. Clean and legible, while also being offbeat and friendly, this font lends itself to a wide variety of uses from children’s stories to the retro inspired designs. Created by Astigmatic, the font is also available on Google Fonts. Font format: TTF.
Natalia Script
Natalia Script by Maghrib is a hand painted typeface designed to help you achieve stunning hand-lettered look for cards, invitations, promotional graphics digitally.
On purchasing, you’ll get OTF font file along with extra ornamental swashes.
Candy Cane (Free)
Michael Bujardet’s Candy Cane is a decorative striped typeface exuding Christmas spirit. This rounded font includes uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and punctuations. You can download it for free as True Type font.
We hope this curated selection of holiday fonts will inspire you to create unique and festive designs this season. Don’t forget to share this post with your network and check out our other Christmas resources, including free Christmas icons and holiday greeting templates for even more design inspiration.
We wish you all have a creative season ahead!
More Font Collections
You might as well want to take a look at more of our collections of fonts in a range of different styles and suited for different occasions:
Thank you. I’m glad that so many of these lovely fonts are available for free download. I will use them with gratitude!