Thick Fonts: Creating Powerful Visual Statements

Nothing makes a bolder statement on a design than a thick font.

Whether you need a strong, bold display font to be the main focus of your design, or you’re searching for fonts to use in smaller, supplementary details of a design,  the right thick font will command the right amount of attention to your project without being too overwhelming or harsh for the viewer’s eye.

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Most Popular Thick Fonts

The fonts featured below cover a variety of styles and uses, so you’ll have plenty of typefaces to choose from for whatever your project needs.

Whether you need a versatile font family to keep in your font collection for everyday use or you’re looking for a specific style (like retro fonts), chances are you’ll find whatever you’re looking for right here in this list.

Read through our roundup of fonts below and get inspired for your next design!

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Brugty – Thick Display Font

Brugty is a stylish, bold font with over 100 alternative characters to let designers put their own unique spin on it. It has a bit of a groovy vintage aesthetic and would look great on magazine or newspaper headlines, book covers, logos, merchandise, print quotes, greeting cards, and more.

Fulco

Looking for something a little more edgy? Fulco is a bold and powerful font that keeps audiences interested and engaged in any design. Use it on graphics for social media posts, packaging, t-shirt and apparel designs, or even logo designs.

Visby

Visby is a versatile font that’s perfect for a variety of projects. The sharp edges of the typeface give it a clean overall look. Pair it with more decorative title fonts, like script or handwritten fonts, to dress it up.

Blackheat – Thick and Bold

Blackheat is a thick, bold font that’s inspired by sports headlines. It comes in four styles (italic, line, line italic, and regular) and includes glyphs and ligatures for a more stylized look. Heavy fonts like this are suitable for headlines, posters, magazine layouts, and more.

Artis – Thick Display Font

Artis is a unique display font that has a simple yet eye-catching style all its own. Create outstanding logos, packaging product designs, promotional content, or anything else that needs a bold professional touch.

Charmist – Thick and Unique Serif

If you’re creating professional designs that need a little character, consider using Charmist. The bold letters give it a business-like feel, and the alternates offer just enough creativity to make the font tastefully stand out.

Ultra

The clean, bold uppercase letters of Ultra make this font ideal for designs that need to make a bold, clear statement. 

Moderno Sans Font

Modern is a chunky italic font that’s another good choice for making bold statements in your design. From business cards to web graphics, it can give a punch of impact to any project you use it for.

Soulmaze – Thick Headline Font

A total of five fonts come in the Soulmaze font family, including a brush font and an outline font. Mix and match each typeface to create a cohesive look on branding projects, marketing designs, and more.

JUST Sans

JUST Sans has a clean, simple, and minimalistic overall look that added a touch of class to whatever design it’s used in. It comes in seven styles. Each style is versatile and can be used in various designs, from artistic projects to document designs.

Columbo Sans Font

For designers needing a sans font with a more lighthearted look, consider using Colombo. Chunky fonts like this are perfect for headings and titles. Pair it with a supplementary font to dress it up!

Tumbled – Decorative Serif Font

Tumbled is a whimsical, decorative, and eye-catching font. It’s perfect for party invitations, greeting cards, book covers, typography-focused designs, or any project that needs a beautiful touch.

Rubric – Modern Sans Serif

Rubric has a strong minimalist style. It’s made of all capital letters, making it a perfect option for headlines, book cover designs, and more.

Glamour Absolute

This versatile font is perfect for designers looking for either a retro vibe or a modern look. The font family includes a vintage version with ligatures and alternate letters that give it a fancier look. For those who need a more contemporary design, simply use the font as is for a modern look.

The thicker, larger letters that this font has makes it ideal for any modern or vintage design that needs to catch the eye.

Creative Vintage

Creative Vintage is another good choice for those needing a retro-inspired font. This entire font family is made up of solid letters, textured letters, and even script letters. Mix and match to give your project a unique and cohesive style.

Thicker

Thicker comes from a font family of over 46 different fonts (all available for purchase separately). This version alone is ideal for any design with a sporty or energetic aesthetic. If you need a display typeface perfect for magazine spreads, headlines, or book titles, Thicker is an excellent option. 

Brixton

This versatile display typeface is inspired by letterpress styles. It comes in two versions: wood and lead. Both versions are textured with incredible detail to give designs an authentic look. 

Isidora Sans – Geometric Font Family

Isidora Sans is inspired by the bestselling font, Isidora. It includes over 25 versions in varying weights ranging from thin to black. This font is a great choice for posters, documents, and other print designs, but it will look just as good on digital designs too.

Nortune

Nortune is another great option for poster projects, book covers, and other printed designs. It perfectly combines a retro-inspired style with modern characteristics and is available in 10 different thicknesses. Put your own unique spin on this font when you use its ligatures and alternate characters!

Thugolatz – Ligature Extended Sans

Thugolatz is a fun, sporty font inspired by sports poster styles. The extended ligatures on this font look awesome on text-heavy designs like printable quote cards or wall posters. But you can use it on any type of design and it will look great!

Vanguard

This font includes both uppercase and lowercase characters. The simple, clean appearance of the letters makes it a very versatile font. Keep it in your collection of typefaces for everyday use!

Dhonver

Dhonver is a trendy font that has a bit of a vintage feel. The uppercase characters have more of a stylistic flair that gives any project, from graphic designs to apparel and product designs, an appealing look.

Reikna – Classy Thick Serif

Need a thick font that’s suitable for more elegant projects? Consider using Reikna, a bold and beautiful font perfect for chic wedding invitations, printed quotes, product packing, branding initiatives (like logos and marketing materials), and much more.

Triumph

Triumph is a wide font that will make a statement on any design. Use it to make impactful designs for advertising, marketing, or branding efforts, or get creative by using it in personal projects.

This font is also great to pair with more decorative fonts like brush or script fonts. The bold lettering and strong lines will perfectly balance out fonts with soft, rounded letters.

Sunday – Bold & Beautiful

Sunday is a great font option for designers wanting a more fun, playful font. It would look fantastic on apparel designs and product designs (like t-shirts, mugs, and tote bags) but is also suitable for digital and print designs too.

Integral

Here’s another stellar option for designs that rely heavily on headlines or titles. It comes in six different versions with varying weights and obliques.

Larken – Thick Display Serif

Larkin comes in four styles, including a regular version, a bold version, a regular italics version, and a bold italics version. This font has a bold personality that’s both functional and stylish, allowing for easy read on any type of project that also looks aesthetically pleasing. This is another great option to keep on hand for various uses.

Neretto Sans

Neretto, an appropriately named font after an Italian word that means thick and black type, is a beautiful bold textured font that perfectly supplements body text or smaller typefaces used in designs. It also includes extra glyphs and stylistic alternates so you can truly make it your own.

The Mezirane – Bold Sans Ligature

The elaborate lines created from the ligatures in this font give any design a unique and energetic look. Use The Mezirane as a title font for magazines, posters, book covers, and more.

Bison – Thick and Powerful

Bison is a strong and powerful font, much like the animal it’s named after. It comes in a variety of styles, including an outline style, making it perfect for a variety of projects, including social media graphics, posters, brand and packaging labels, and more. Pair it with stylized fonts like script or handwritten fonts to create a balanced design.

Stink – Bold Serif Font

With its bold letterform, Stink is a great addition to any collection of bold fonts. It pairs beautifully with various styles of supplemental text, so you know you can use it on a wide range of graphic design projects and it will look good.

Golden Dragon – Thick Serif Font

Golden Dragon is a hand-drawn vintage-style font that adds a touch of organic style to any design. Heavy fonts can often be overbearing for some projects, so the loose, handmade quality of this font gives it a much lighter feel compared to other fonts we’ve seen in this list.

Monocle Typeface

From greeting cards to t-shirt prints, Monocle Typeface is a cute vintage-inspired font that will add a fun personality to lighthearted designs. It comes in an outlined version and a regular version, and both versions come in lowercase letters and uppercase letters.

Wide Press

Wide Press is a bold display font that comes in a textured version and a solid version. This font was inspired by airline industry branding. It’s suitable for any instructional or informational type of projects like infographics, posters, or instruction sheets.

Black Bolder

Make a strong impression with any design when you use Black Bolder. The strong personality of this font makes it perfect for branding, logos, title, and labels.

Free Thick Fonts

All the fonts listed below are free. Check the licensing agreement for free fonts before downloading them to ensure you use them for their intended purpose. Many are free only for personal use.

Elevate Sans

Elevate Sans is our own free font that we designed for use with titles and headlines. It features thick sans serif characters and is perfect when you need a font that makes a statement. It comes with uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and punctuation.

Thick Deco

Add Thick Deco to your collection of thick sans-serif typefaces if you need a font that has a more casual, playful aesthetic. The unique shapes of each letter give it almost a cartoonish look. This font’s a perfect choice for youthful designs like children’s birthday cards, party invitations, or any lighthearted project.

Bevan

Bevan is a bold serif font perfect for any graphic design project. It includes both uppercase and lowercase letters and is a versatile font that can be used in various ways. Definitely keep this one on hand!

Gravitas One

Gravitas One is inspired by “UK Fat Face,” a font style used during the industrial revolution in England. Use this font to create bold designs for a wide range of projects.

Abril Fatface

Abril Fatface is a much more feminine font with rounded letters and thin serifs. Use it to make bold statement designs by using in titles, headings, and text-heavy projects.

Start Using These Thick Fonts Today

As you can see, thick fonts come in various shapes, sizes, and styles. Any fonts listed above will add a bold personality to your design and help your work stand out from the rest.

Choose your favorites and start working with them to give your project the voice it needs to make a statement.

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