40+ of the Best Western Fonts
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Howdy! If you’re a graphic designer, you know that choosing the right font can be critical to the success of a project. So, whether you’re designing a western-themed website or creating a poster for a country concert, you’ll be glad to know you’ve just struck gold with this collection of some of the best western fonts around.
From classic wild west fonts reminiscent of old-school wanted posters to a more modern take on the cowboy vibe, these fonts are perfect for any project that need a western touch.
The Best Western Fonts
So what makes a great western font? In our opinion, it should be something that looks both classic and rugged, with a hint of adventure thrown in for good measure. And of course, it should be easy to read, too. So saddle up! And take a look at some of the best western fonts this side of the river.
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Mogathe
This handcrafted slab serif font was inspired by life in the old west. It’s an ideal choice for a vintage logo design, old-school labels, and western posters.
The download includes four styles — regular, stamp, spurs, and spurs stamp with uppercase letters, numbers, punctuation, alternate characters, multilanguage support, and web fonts.
Western Grit
This 100% handmade, distressed, messy, gritty, grungy hand-drawn serif is the epitome of the western font vibe. It’s the perfect choice for vintage signage, poster designs, and even apparel design that calls for a worn-in aesthetic. It’s a great font to use with quotes.
The zip file includes uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and punctuation.
Modern Cowboys
If you’re looking for a fun, cartoon font with a cowboy vibe, well Giddyup! I think you just found it! Modern Cowboys is a bouncy, western-looking cartoonist display font. Perfect for everything from posters to party invitations.
Your download includes all caps letters, numbers, punctuation, multilingual support, and a web font.
Sweet Antihero
Here’s a western-style font that will make a bold statement on your design project. It’s an excellent choice for posters, country-western signage, headlines, and anywhere you need some cowboy flair.
Font file comes with uppercase letters, numbers, punctuation, alternate characters, ligatures, multilingual support, and a web font.
Durango Western
If you’re out to catch an outlaw, Sheriff, you’re going to need a wanted poster. With its close spacing, eroded appearance, and thick serifs, Durango Western has the feel of an authentic vintage wild west font. Perfect for creating posters, social media graphics, party invitations, and whatever else you can wrangle up!
Zip file includes two styles — regular and eroded, with all-caps lettering, numbers, punctuation, alternate characters, Cyrillic characters for Russian, and web fonts.
Calvous
This all-caps western font is fully loaded with four styles — regular, spurs, stamp, and spurs stamp — so you can create the exact look you’re going for. Not only that, but you’ll feel like you struck gold with the 17 bonus vector Wild West illustrations and six vector logo templates, all in a vintage design style.
The download comes in four styles, with all-capital letters, numbers, punctuation, alternate characters, multilingual support, plus bonus illustrations and logo templates.
West Django
This bold serif has a clear western aesthetic with a playful vibe. It would work for wild west projects, cowboy or country western-themed designs, and even vintage circus designs. Use this bold and eye-catching font wherever you want to add a bit of fun with a country flair.
Your font download includes uppercase letters, small-caps letters, numbers, punctuation, and multilingual support.
Vaquero
What do you get when you cross the vintage wild west with the psychedelic seventies? You get Vaquero! It’s almost like when Michael J. Fox took the Delorian back to 1885 and was wearing cowboy clothes from the 1980s. So weird but I’m here for it! This font would be amazing for branding projects, logo designs, and typography.
Zip file includes all-caps letters, numbers, punctuation, and alternate characters.
Light Trail
Up next is a bold, bouncy, blocky serif with a western font style, but not overtly western. Meaning that it’s a great one to add to your arsenal for use in all kinds of projects — from wild west designs to kids’ party invitations to editorial layouts.
Your download includes uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and a web font.
Masterson
Masterson is a truly authentic-looking cowboy western font. You can’t miss those thick serifs and spurs that practically define the style. Use it when you need to add a vintage western look to your packaging design, business cards, or signage design.
The zip includes three styles — regular, spurs, and college, with all caps and small caps characters, numbers, punctuation, multilingual support, and catchwords.
Esteban
This all-caps western-style font has a more modern, decorative style than some of the other typefaces on our list. It would be a good choice for beverage label design projects, elegant designs, logotype designs, book covers, and menus.
Your download will include uppercase characters, numbers, punctuation, and multilingual support.
Roper
Roper is a great western-style font to add to your stockade. It’s actually two-in-one — you get a serif and a sans serif and each of them comes in regular, press light, and press heavy styles. The press styles are letterpress-style, so you can choose the level of the distressed look. Plus, each style comes in italics, too.
Includes 12 fonts with all caps characters, numbers, punctuation, and multilingual support.
Dafodil
The oversized serifs of the Dafodil font give it an unmistakably western typography style. This is a modern, fun choice that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Try it for movie posters, video games, flyers, book covers, and more.
Font download includes uppercase letters, numbers, punctuation, multilingual support, and bonus vector illustrations.
Westwood
Westwood is an all-caps display font with that classic vintage western vibe. With four different styles available in regular and grunge, it’s an easy way to add a pop of retro country grit to whatever project you’re working on, whether it’s packaging design, movie poster designs, or business cards.
Your zip will include eight font styles — regular & grunge, bold & grunge, shadow & grunge, and inline & grunge, with all-caps character, numbers, and punctuation.
Thistle Creek
This bold display typeface has the distinct vintage western flavor you’re here for, but with a modern aesthetic that makes it unique among all the fonts on this list. It’s a good choice for letterheads, packaging designs, labels, flyers, menus, editorial designs, and more. The typeface includes uppercase letters, numbers, and limited punctuation.
Ripshot Slab
Western font meets mid-century modern — yes, please! This is the mashup I didn’t know I needed. It’s a perfect choice for branding a Wild West-themed motel in Palm Springs, packaging designs, a great choice for logos. Comes with a bonus version of the font so you can make rough, inky letters.
Your download will include three styles — regular, bootcut, and spur cut plus bonus inked versions of each, with uppercase letters, numbers, and limited punctuation.
Brigand
Here’s a western-inspired, rugged, chunky serif font that’s perfect for creating antique wild west designs. Or, use it for western movie titles, social media graphics, editorial layouts, branding materials, or anywhere else you need that vibe.
The zip file includes two styles — rough and regular, with uppercase letters, numbers, and basic punctuation.
Sunday Best
And now for something completely different! Sunday Best is a layering font that can be as fancy or as rustic as you want. Think old west saloon. You’ll get tons of layering options with this font, so you can make it as simple or as fancy as you want. It’s great for vintage-style invitations, signage, labels, and more. You also get over 150 ornaments, frames, and more to help with your designs.
Font download includes a whopping 85 fonts with all caps letters, numbers, catchwords, ornaments, and web fonts.
Albertson
Albertson is a retro-style font with a strong western aesthetic. But, it’s got some cool styling that you don’t see with the other similar fonts. And, with four sets of alternate characters, you can mix and match to make a logo, label, or package design that’s truly your own.
The font download includes two styles — regular and extrude, with uppercase characters, smallcaps characters, numbers, punctuation, stylistic alternates, and multilingual support.
Trailhead
If you’re looking for an adventurous, well-worn, and rugged slab serif, give Trailhead a gander. This hand-drawn typeface comes in two styles and is as bold as the western wilderness that inspired it. Trailhead is a perfect choice for projects based around wildlife, adventuring, and nature.
The file includes uppercase characters, lowercase characters, numbers, and limited punctuation.
Monday Typeface
Here we have another bold, western-themed serif with loads of character. It’s a great choice for labels, cartoon designs, or anything you’re working on that calls for a lighthearted country-western font. No matter what day of the week it is, Monday Typeface will fit the bill.
Download includes uppercase characters, lowercase characters, numbers, and punctuation.
Watson
When your western-themed design calls for more elegant letterforms than the standard slab serifs we’re used to seeing, try something like Watson instead. It still has the styling of a western font, but with a more modern, artistic feel.
Zip includes uppercase letters, small caps letters, numbers, punctuation, ligatures, international characters, and a web font.
Velasco
If you like a lot of bang for your buckaroo, check out the Velasco font family. It comes with three different style fonts that work well together to create western-style cohesive designs. It’s a solid choice for editorial design, packaging design, book cover designs, and even rustic wedding invitations.
Download includes three styles — serif, deco, and super deco with uppercase letters, small caps letters, numbers, punctuation, and multilingual support.
Western Wildler
This slab vintage typeface from Envato Elements is one of my personal favorites on our list. It’s less rugged and more retro than many of the other options here. It would be a perfect choice for birthday invitations and modern country music posters. And, with all the included ligatures and alternate characters, it’s a good choice for unique typographic designs.
Zip file comes with uppercase glyphs, numbers, punctuation, ligatures, alternates, multilingual support, and a web font.
Western Font
Here’s a really cool western-style font for your consideration. Aptly named Western Font, it almost has the look of being carved from wood. There are no lowercase letters or numbers with this all-caps font, so be sure you’re only using this typeface for headlines, logo designs, and the like.
Download includes uppercase letters only. Web font available.
Bratton
Here’s that sans serif western-style modern font with spurs you’ve been searching everywhere for! It’s even got lowercase characters, a rare commodity in these parts. Bratton is a fully-loaded font that’s well-suited for packaging design, logotypes, signage design, and more.
Your zip file will come with uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, alternates, ligatures, multilingual support, and web fonts.
Lawless
Lawless was inspired by the early American wood type of the 19th century. It’s a rugged, hand-drawn, chunky, slab serif with spurs that give it that quintessential western feel. It’s a great choice for t-shirt designs, vintage signage, or editorial layouts. The download comes with 4 styles — regular, grunge, spur, and shadow with upper and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and multilingual support.
Waltham
Here’s another western-themed serif font, but this one is quite unique, especially with some of the many ligatures that are included. A solid choice for logo designs, packaging designs, book covers, album covers, social media graphics, and wherever else you need a pop of country. Yee-haw!
The file comes with uppercase letters, small caps letters, numbers, punctuation, ligatures, and multilingual support.
Clutch Font Family
Clutch is a romance between rockabilly and rodeo. It’s Wild West meets vintage motorcycles. There are so many wonderful aspects of American culture combined into this font, and they all work together wonderfully. This is a great font to have in your arsenal.
The font family includes 4 fonts — solid and inline in rough and clean versions, with uppercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and 14 bonus vector icons.
Gunslinger
Here’s the classic, eye-catching, vintage western movie poster font. It’s also a great choice for restaurant logos and branding, menus, social media graphics, or any other design that calls for a high-quality, rugged western font.
The zip file includes six fonts — regular, spur, sans, and italics versions of each, with uppercase characters, numbers, punctuation, and multilingual support.
UN’CHAINED
Inspired by Leone, Tarantino, and old spaghetti western films, here’s another fantastically grungy and gritty font, fit for the frontier. This one is jam-packed with eleven different font styles from regular to different kinds of vintage and halftone styles.
The zip file includes all the fonts with uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation. Web font available.
Rancho
Here’s a fantastic display font that just screams Yee-haw! It’s got all the western stylings but not in a corny way. It can look elegant or fun, depending on how you use it. A great choice for branding projects, logos, signage, and movie posters.
The download comes with all caps letters, numbers, punctuation, multilingual support, and a web font.
West Yard
Frontier meets far out. Ponderosa meets peace, man. Dadgummit meets disco balls. Buckaroo meets bell-bottoms. (Okay, you get the idea.) West Yard is a cool mashup of a western-inspired font with a groovy retro vibe. Ya dig, cowboy?
Your download includes uppercase, small caps, numbers, punctuation, ligatures, alternates, multilingual support, and web font.
Welcome to Texas
Here’s a great hand-drawn, western-inspired, casual typeface. It’s a great choice for t-shirt designs, tattoo-style lettering, band flyers, social media graphics, children’s books, quotes, and anything that calls for a handmade, hand-lettered aesthetic.
This font includes uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and multilingual support.
The Western Gold
Inspired by antique American wood signs, The Western Gold is a great choice when your design calls for a fancy, vintage western-style font — but not the kind you’d find on a wanted poster. It’s great for branding, signage, window graphics, or editorial design.
The download comes with uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, alternate characters, ligatures, multilingual support, and web fonts.
The Buster
The Buster is a rough and rugged display font with western vibes. It’s a great choice for children’s books, t-shirt designs, home decor quotes, social media graphics, or anywhere you need a bit of adventurous aesthetic with a lot of legibility.
Your download will include uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and ligatures. Web font available.
Wild Justice
Here’s a bold slab serif for your consideration. This one comes with plenty of ligatures and three different font styles so you can customize it to your heart’s content. It’s a great choice for logotype, signage, branding projects, and of course, wanted posters.
The zip includes three styles — outline, regular, and shadow, with all-caps letters, numbers, punctuation, ligatures, multilingual support, and web fonts.
Smoking Typeface
Vintage and stylish with subtle western influences, Smoking Typeface is a unique layered font with a halftone drop shadow that will give your project a great antique look. Use it for logos, signs, invitations, posters, book covers, and anywhere you need an authentic old-school western look but don’t want to use the same-ol’ slab serif. The zip file includes uppercase letters, small caps letters, numbers, and punctuation. Web fonts are available.
Free Western Fonts
If you’re looking for a font that’s a little bit western, a little bit cowboy, and 100% free, then you’ve come to the right rodeo. Here are five free western fonts that are available for immediate download. Just be sure to check the license and make sure you’re using them properly, as some of them are only free for personal use.
Rio Grande
This is a classic western-inspired font that would be perfect for any wild west, cowboy, or circus-themed project you’re working on.
Arbutus
Arbutus is a slab serif that looks like it was carved out of wood. It would fit well into a western or cowboy-themed graphic design project.
Western Bang Bang
Western Bang Bang is tough and rugged, just like the cowboys that inspired it. And, for a free font, it’s got a surprisingly high number of glyphs.
Cowboy Movie
This one has the look of a classic spaghetti western movie poster with added roughness to give it a vintage look. A solid choice for your western-themed designs.
Rye
Inspired by vintage posters, this is a beautiful, fancy font that would work well with your western-themed designs that call for something other than a slab serif.
Putting the Best Western Fonts to Use
There you have it! The best western fonts for your next project. Remember, when it comes to choosing the right font, it’s important to consider the overall tone and feel that you’re trying to convey. Spaghetti western or fancy saloon? No matter what you choose, just make sure it fits with the rest of your design. With the right font, you can get creative and really make your project stand out.
So take a look at our roundup of the best western fonts around. And if you find one you like, be sure to blaze a trail and download it for yourself.
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