40 of the Best ’60s Fonts for Your Retro Designs

The 1960s gave rise to a new sense of style that included everything from bell bottoms and psychedelic tie-dyes to peace signs and Woodstock posters.

Music, art, films, fashion, politics—everything in this era had its own unique look. And one thing that many people associate with this time is typography. So if you’re looking for the best ’60s fonts reminiscent of those bygone days, we’ve done the legwork for you.

If you’re a fan of the 1960s or just looking for fonts with that vintage style, this post is for you. We’ve rounded up 40 of the best fonts with a retro or vintage 1960s style. All you need to do is pick out your favorite from this collection of typefaces and get designing!

For other posts in this series, please see 2000s fonts, ’90s fonts, ’80s fonts, ’70s fonts, 1950s fonts, 1940s fonts, 1930s fonts, and 1920s fonts.

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The Best ’60s Fonts

Here are our favorite fonts and typefaces that make it easy to create beautiful ’60s-inspired designs that feel genuine and authentic to the era.

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Peace and Love

When you need a font that has a fun look with plenty of ’60s character, Peace and Love is a great option.

This font includes a regular version and an outline version. You can use either individually or together, as shown in the preview image below. The regular and outline fonts can be used together in a few different ways (aligned or offset) to create the look you want.

Quechely

Quechely was created specifically with vintage signs in mind, but it could be used for a wide variety of projects. It’s a really useful font family because it comes with a few variations (regular, outline, and extruded) that can be used together to easily create something special.

The bold script font combined with the outline and shadow is perfect for your ’60s-themed designs. The download includes stylistic alternatives, ligatures, swashes, multilingual support, and a web font.

Mind Explorer

The psychedelic style goes hand-in-hand with 1960s designs. Mind Explorer is an excellent choice for posters, book covers, movie covers, album covers, t-shirts, and merchandise.

You’ll love the OpenType features like ligatures and alternates. It comes in OpenType, TrueType, and WOFF (webfont) formats.

Padlock

Padlock is a beautiful vintage script font ideal for nostalgic designs. It’s great for logos, labels, magazines, wedding invitations, product packaging, and more.

It includes uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, ligatures, alternates, and swashes.

The Beardy

The Beardy is a decorative typeface that has an undeniable vintage character. The stylistic alternates make creating unique and stylish typographic designs a breeze.

It also comes with numbers, ligatures, and glyphs. The Beardy is best for large text where the decorative elements can be clearly seen.

Blowing Vesicle

You’ll love creating ’60s-themed designs with the help of this fun, playful font. It’s perfect for book covers, movie posters, t-shirts, labels, branding, and more.

The huge selection of ligatures and alternates makes Blowing Vesicle truly special. You can create text with a customized look thanks to virtually endless options. (You’ll need a program like Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop that supports OpenType features to get the full benefit.)

Sixties Flashback

Sixties Flashback features a lettering style that’s truly authentic to the era. Use it to design music posters, album covers, book covers, vintage advertisements, and much more.

This retro font comes in a single weight with uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals, punctuation, and multilingual support. A web font is available as well.

In short, it’s a perfect typeface for your ’60s designs.

Euphoria Party

Euphoria is another psychedelic 60’s font that epitomizes the decade. It’s perfect for gig posters, party flyers, invitations, packaging, labels, t-shirts, etc.

The package includes uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, ligatures, and a webfont. It comes in OTF, TTF, and WOFF formats.

Hangier

Hangier is a bold serif font with unmistakable vintage charm. It includes ligatures and multilingual support. It’s a perfect font for logos, product packaging, t-shirts and other merchandise, headlines, invitations, and more.

Deadhead Classic

Deadhead Classic was inspired by advertising typography from the 1960s. It’s a serif font with alternate characters, stylistic sets, titling characters, and more than 300 glyphs for decorating your designs.

There are two variations: regular and slanted. Due to the decorative elements, Deadhead Classic is ideal with large text where the details can be easily seen.

Garmouth Display

Garmouth Display is a beautiful vintage font inspired by signage from the ’60s. It’s perfect for labels, invitations, books, cards, and other vintage projects.

The download includes uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and multilingual support.

Changing

Changing is an entertaining font with unique features like interlocking pairs and letter combinations. You’ll need to use an application that supports OpenType to get the most out of Changing, but Photoshop and Illustrator users will love it. It comes in one weight, and a web font is available.

Flying Soul

Flying Soul is a fun retro font with bubble letters and a wonderful ’60s vibe. It’s perfect for t-shirts, posters, flyers, album covers, product packaging, branding, and more.

The package includes uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, accented characters, ligatures, alternate characters, and a web font.

Psych Handlettering Font

Psych was inspired by the typography and lettering from psychedelic rock albums and pop culture of the era, giving it a genuine 1960s feel. It offers plenty of character while still maintaining readability.

It’s an all-caps font that comes with three variations and the capability of layering. A web font is also available for this eccentric 1960s-style font.

Tropika Island

Tropika Island is a fun Hawaiian font with a distinctly retro look. It comes with two different fonts, including a script font. You’ll also get a massive collection of extras like ligatures and stylistic alternates.

This one is perfect for logos, apparel, posters and flyers, packing, and more. A web font version is available.

Wimp Stars

Wimp Stars is a nostalgic typeface perfect for your ’60s-inspired designs. It’s great for poster design, flyers, advertisements, apparel, and more.

You’ll get uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, alternates, ligatures, and multilingual support.

Aprila

Aprila is a stylish vintage font with five different weights, from light to bold. Inspired by the hippie movement, you’ll love using Aprila for ’60s designs. A web font is available.

Summer of Love

Summer of Love is an all-caps retro font that comes in a single weight. A web font is also available.

You’ll love using the psychedelic font for album design, t-shirt designs, other merchandise, posters, flyers, and more.

Pure Psychedelia

Pure Psychedelia is another retro psychedelic typeface that’s very true to the era. There is one weight with numbers and punctuation included, as well as both uppercase and lowercase letters. A web font is also available.

Tropical Punch

Tropical Punch is a fun and dynamic typeface for your ’60s-era designs. It comes in two variations: regular and outline. You can also use the regular and outline text together for creative effects.

The package includes almost 200 multi-letter ligatures perfect for creating a beautiful custom look. Multilingual support, dingbats, and uppercase Greek letters are also included.

Tropical Fruit is perfect for designing advertisements, t-shirts and other apparel, posters, flyers, product package design, and more.

The Cardila

The Cardila is ideal for designing a logo or sign that needs a vintage feel. You can also use it for t-shirts, other apparel, merchandise, product packaging, and more.

You’ll get regular and shadow font versions, which can be stacked to create the look you see in the preview image. It comes in OTF and TTF formats.

Related reading: OTF vs. TTF: Which Font Format is Better?

Swung Note

Swung Note is an impressive vintage font, thanks partly to a collection of hundreds of smart interlocking pairs of letters to provide you with plenty of options (you’ll need a program that supports OpenType).

This playful font offers a lot of room for experimenting, thanks to the interlocking pairs and alternates. Get your own custom look very easily! A web font version is available.

Bearmen Vintage Typeface

Bearmen is a beautiful serif font with inspiration from hand-drawn lettering. It’s all-caps and comes in one weight. Bearmen is best for use with large text, like most all-caps fonts. Use it for headlines, branding, badges, album covers, and more.

Lucidity

Lucidity is a groovy, trippy 60s-inspired typeface that’s fun to play with. There are six varieties: regular, condensed, outline, expanded, dingbats 1, and dingbats 2. It includes uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and alternate glyphs.

Billanta

Billanta is a retro bold script font perfect for signage, logos, labels, apparel, social media images, and other 1960s-themed designs.

This impressive package has lowercase and uppercase characters, numbers, punctuation, alternates, ligatures, and swashes. You’ll need to use software that supports OpenType to get the full benefit.

Far Out

Far Out was inspired by the flower children of the 1960s. This groovy font has an authentic look that’s easy to spot.

The blast-from-the-past typeface includes uppercase and lowercase letters, a web font, plus more than 20 hand-drawn graphics to use with your designs (you can see a few examples in the preview image below).

Hardela

Hardela is a retro script font ready for signage, advertisements, t-shirts and other apparel, and even branding.

It comes with uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, multilingual support, and a web font.

Ramdone

Ramdone is another retro script font. It stands out because it includes a regular version and an extruded version, making it easy to create beautifully layered type.

The ligatures, stylistic alternates, and swashes make it easy to decorate your font and give it a custom look. The package includes uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and multilingual support.

Boho

Boho is a font duo that includes lined and filled versions. The pair is perfect for use together to create your own retro designs.

You can also use the lined and filled versions to create the look you see in the large “Boho” text from the preview image. The lined font is best with large text for bold design.

Blood Orange

Blood Orange is a rounded serif with ’60s influence, but it’s also versatile enough to work for modern designs.

The single-weight font works well for titles, headlines, or other places where you need standout text.

Sundowners

Sundowners gives you a lot to play around with by including initial and terminal forms and interlocking glyphs.

It’s an all-caps font and is best when used with large text. You’ll love Sundowners for designing posters, branding, packaging, album covers, apparel, and more.

Jealousy

Jealousy is a beautiful bold script font with a fabulous retro feel. Use it for branding, magazines, album covers, posters, flyers, and advertisements.

It has many ligatures, alternates, and glyphs for customizing your designs. You’ll also get a web font version.

Swiss Interlock

This sans serif uses interlocking characters to create a retro feel. Use this 1960s font for magazines, posters, signs, and more.

Swiss Interlock is a single-weight font with uppercase letters, small caps, ligatures, alternates, and a web font version.

Tuesnight

Tuesnight is a quirky typeface inspired by movie posters from the ’60s. You’ll love what you’re able to do with this happy typeface.

The package includes a wide selection of alternates and interlocking pairs, making it easy to give your text a custom look. It’s all-caps and comes in a single weight.

Clarinet

Clarinet is a ’60s-inspired font that works well for logos, branding, merchandise, apparel, flyers, and other retro designs.

It’s a single-weight font with letters, numbers, punctuation, alternates, and ligatures.

Free ’60s Fonts

So far, we’ve looked at more than 30 of the best 1960s fonts available. Now, let’s look at some of the free ’60s fonts you can download. Keep in mind that many freebies are licensed only for personal use. Check the details before using a free download for a commercial project.

Gecko Lunch

Gecko Lunch is a nice slanted font with uppercase and lowercase letters. It’s a heavy font ideal for headlines and other large text.

Chocoladine

Chocoladine uses curved capital letters to add style and character. It’s free for personal use only.

Hip Pocket

Hip Pocket is a fun font that comes in 14 different variations. There are several weights, as well as outline and italic variations. It is free for personal use.

Chicle

Chicle is a fun font with a vintage feel. It’s somewhat bold, with both uppercase and lowercase letters included.

Hippie Movement

Hippie Movement was clearly inspired by the ’60s, and it’s free only for personal use.

Final Thoughts

If you’re looking to create a vintage graphic design with a look that’s genuine to the 1960’s, the best way to do it is to use a ’60s font or retro typeface with an authentic look. This selection of fonts provides plenty of possibilities to represent this innovative decade.

For the best results, be sure to use a program that supports OpenType technologies, like Photoshop or Illustrator. That way you’ll have access to the full range of features and your designs and files will be easy to create.

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