33 Best Music Fonts for (Album Art, Merch, Posters, & More)

The right music fonts will help your designs look professional and polished, from album art to fan merchandise to event tickets.

When looking for fonts for your project, it’s important to make sure that the font style fits the aesthetic of the type of music your project is for. For example, if you need a music video font for a rock music video project you’re working on, choose a font that fits the rock aesthetic. This could be a grunge font or a gothic-style font, depending on the specific subgenre of the song that the music video is for.

On the other hand, if the music video was for a pop song, you’ll probably choose a font that’s more light and fun.

Be sure to keep the style of music your project is promoting in mind when choosing a font for your design!

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Best Music Fonts

Before you start on your next music project, take a moment to read through this list to find the perfect font and inspiration you need to bring your design to life. Whether you need pop music fonts, heavy metal fonts, country music fonts, or a font for another type of music genre, you’ll find the best music fonts listed below!

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Glaive Typeface

Glaive Typeface is inspired by rock and metal music. It’s perfect for any design that has a dark and edgy look. It’s an all-caps font but has both a regular version and a version with alternate characters. (To activate the alternate characters, simply toggle between lowercase and uppercase letters.)

This download also comes with line ornaments to use as an embellishment around the text.

Boneless

For designers needing a font with an edgy punk rock aesthetic, Boneless is the perfect option. The sans-serif letters have a sharp, handwritten look and are all-caps. Alternate letters can be activated by toggling between lowercase and uppercase letters.

As a bonus, this font also includes a texture pack to create an even more realistic grunge vibe.

California Sunshine

California Sunshine is a much lighter psychedelic-looking font that’s inspired by the surf and skate scene of the 1960s.

It comes in three versions: California Sunshine, California Sunshine Alternate, and California Sunshine Basic. Use all three styles together to create a perfectly balanced text design.

Noiseware

This font is a great option for designers creating music merchandise, logos, and advertisements for a variety of music events.

Whether you’re promoting a band or musician or promoting a music venue, keep this one on hand for any music-themed designs that need a rustic, tough, or street-inspired look.

Technica

As the name suggests, Technica is a font perfect for techno music designs! The geometric shape of the letters gives this font a futuristic look that will stand out to the crowd.

Whether you incorporate it into graphics for stage design, use it on promo posters and social media graphics, an event website, or any other EDM-themed project, this font will bring your vision to life.

Surfnik

Surfnik is a handmade font inspired by vintage surf and beatnik culture. It comes in six different styles that can be used together to create a unique and authentic design. From merchandise and apparel to music artwork, the options are endless with this font.

Hendrix Groove

This font is all about disco, soul, and funk! It comes in four styles, two of which have a gradient effect. Keep this groovy font on hand for projects that need a funky vintage design aesthetic.

Death Crow

Death Crow is a font that has a gothic metal style with bold, edgy, and ornate letters. This all-caps font has alternates that can be activated by toggling between lowercase and uppercase letters.

Use it on all your graphic design projects that need a dark and heavy gothic-inspired font.

Electro Soul

This handwritten font is perfect for any grunge or graffiti-style designs you create, whether music-related or not. Keep it on hand so you’ll have it when you need it!

Black Stones

Black Stones is another great option for street-style designs. This handwritten brush font has a slight rocker vibe and is especially suitable for logos, product packaging, magazine spreads, and apparel design.

Broman

Broman is a sophisticated serif font perfect for a variety of projects. Use it as a music video font, for text on album art, and more.

Sleeve Notes

Need an authentic handwritten script font? Opt for Sleeve Notes, a music font inspired by handwritten song lyrics and album covers! It comes in six different styles, the three major different styles being a scrawling script font, an all-caps sans-serif, and a decorative sans-serif.

Whether you’re working on a music video project, product design for fan merchandise, or another project, Sleeve Notes will give your design the authentic handwritten touch it needs to create a personalized look.

Musician Crush

Musician Crush is a brush-style font perfect for punk rock, classic rock, and alternative rock music designs. It’s best for titles, headlines, and short phrases and can be paired with a modern sans-serif font for text-heavy designs that require a supplemental font.

NightCrow

NightCrow is a death metal font inspired by the underground metal music aesthetic. Although this font is very decorative (each letter features spiked letters), it’s still readable and won’t distract from the text on your design.

Prestige Hunter

This logotype font is full of flair and will look fantastic on digital and print advertisements, apparel, album covers, and more. This is another great option to keep on hand for when you need it.

Ishimura

Ishimura is a futuristic font that has a sci-fi theme to it. It comes in three versions: a regular version (a solid font) and a rough and demolished version (both textured fonts). Use this font for any futuristic-themed designs (perhaps for an EDM music project) or grunge and rock-themed designs.

The Music Font

This is a cute font with a groovy retro style. It comes in with both uppercase and lowercase letters and has several alternate letters that can add an extra level of style to the text. It’s perfect for shirts, posters, or any other design that needs a fun, bubbly, and vintage-inspired look.

Moon Pickers

Moon Pickers is another brush font that gives off an authentic street vibe. From album covers to t-shirt designs to digital advertisements and posters, this font will bring your project to life and give it a cool urban look.

Hyperwave

Hyperwave is a handwritten marker font that comes with three different alternate styles. Mix and match them together to give your text an authentic handwritten look. It’s sure to give your design plenty of energy!

Mars Attack

Add Mars Attack to the list of grunge fonts you keep on hand for any rock or street-style designs. Use it for album art, apparel designs, promotional materials, and more.

Big Fish DD

Big Fish DD is a handwritten font that’s sharper in appearance than some of the other handwritten fonts on this list. It will look awesome on any grunge, rock and roll, or punk-style projects! 

Vogatron

This futuristic font comes in 15 weights ranging from extra light to black. The bold, easy-to-read letters make this font ideal for everything from posters and tickets to backstage pass badges and even venue or event signage.

Save Vogatron and add it to the rotation of fonts you use in your music designs.

Anemouth

Anemouth is a blackletter font that will look amazing on punk, metal, and heavy rock designs. This download also includes a bonus illustration that fits the dark and rugged theme of the font.

Shockwave

Shockwave is a handwritten music font drawn up in a graffiti style. The crude design of each letter captures a carefree, edgy, and rebellious spirit and will give any of your designs an energetic, urban feel.

Kilimanjaro

If you’re looking for a bold font that’s easy to read and suitable for a variety of music styles, Kilimanjaro is the versatile font you need. With 36 different variations, you’ll never run out of options for your design.

The slightly vintage style of this font gives it a fun and nostalgic personality, but it’s still modern enough to fit in with the aesthetic of today’s design styles.

The Lord Music

The Lord Music is an ornate decorative font ideal for rock and heavy metal designs. Still, it’s elegant enough to also be used in designs for more sophisticated styles of music like classical music.

It includes plenty of alternates to add a bit of flair to the text, so every project you create will have a well-put-together look.

Think Music

Think Music is a stylish thick brush font with an authentic personality and fun, uplifting feel. Use it as a pop music font, a rock music font, or a font for any musical design that needs an urban street-style font.

Heartless

Heartless is a heavy death metal font with a lot of detail in the shape of the lettering. It’s best for designs with headings, titles, initials, and short phrases. Pair it with a grunge-style serif font to create a perfect font duo if your project requires supplemental text.

Free Music Fonts

All of the fonts listed above are commercial music fonts, meaning they’re available for purchase and can be used in commercial projects.

However, the fonts in this section are free and only intended for personal use. Be sure to check the license of the fonts below to ensure your project is in line with their rules of use. If you’d like to use any of the below fonts for commercial projects, please check to see if an additional commercial license is available for purchase. (Sometimes, the creator of the font has that option available.)

Chopin Script Regular

Chopin Script Regular is an elegant script font that can be used for a wide variety of music genres and projects. Whether you’re designing DIY invitations for a piano recital, creating fan art for a famous music artist, or working on another beautiful design that needs a scrawling script, this font is great!

Beatstreet

This graffiti street-style font is perfect for DIY grunge, rock, and urban-style projects. The textured detail in this font gives it an authentic spray-painted look.

Posters Italic

Posters Italic is a bold display font with a weathered look. It almost has a Western style to it, making it a great choice for country music projects. But it can be used on any project that fits its bold and worn-out aesthetic.

The Kiss Font

This font is for all you ’80s music fans, especially those of you who jammed out to fist-pumping hard rock tunes! This fun-themed font features KISS-themed dingbats and can be used to accentuate an assortment of projects.

Distracted Musician

Distracted Musician is a decorative music font that looks like each letter has been printed into music sheets. Since this font is a display font, it’s best to use it for titles and headings. Pair it with a simple sans-serif font for designs with a lot of text.

Start Using These Music Fonts Today

As you can see, there are endless music fonts to choose from. The fonts in this list come in a variety of styles that will fit the genre of any music projects you may be working on.

Whether you need music video fonts, a font for venue advertisements and promotional materials, or even a font for a DIY music-themed project, you have plenty of options right here at your fingertips. Simply download your favorites and start designing today!