Stranger Things font
The title is set in ITC Benguiat, a typeface of 1977 loosely based on Art Nouveau lettering. It is a commercial font: you can buy a licence, but it isn’t free. These free fonts have the same chunky, curvy serifs of seventies and eighties book covers.
ITC Benguiat, a paid typeface · 6 free fonts with its feel
01 / Free fonts with the same feel
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Pick a font to set your words in it at the top, up to six.
01picked by eye
Soft seventies serif
02picked by eye
Narrow, heavy and flared
03picked by eye
Heavy old-style serif
04picked by eye
Art Nouveau curves
05picked by eye
Tall x-height, sturdy
Also close, by our data
Each of these is among the twelve fonts our similarity data finds closest to at least two of the fonts above, measured letter by letter.
80match with Merriweather
x-height 10% shorter
FontKind isn’t affiliated with Stranger Things or its owners. The name is a trademark of its owner, used here only to say which lettering this page is about. The fonts shown are free fonts with a similar feel, not the original lettering.
02 / The lettering, and your questions
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What font does Stranger Things use?
The main title is set in ITC Benguiat, the cast names in ITC Avant Garde Gothic Bold. Source: Fonts In Use
ITC released the typeface in 1977; it is loosely based on typefaces of the Art Nouveau period, and it was on the covers of horror paperbacks of the eighties that the show wanted to recall. Source: Wikipedia: ITC Benguiat , TIME
02
Is the Stranger Things font free?
No. ITC Benguiat is a commercial typeface, licensed by font shops. The fonts on this page are free, free for commercial use too, under open licences.
03
How do I use these fonts in Canva?
Search Canva’s font menu for the font’s name: Canva publishes no list of its fonts, so the menu is the only way to know. If it isn’t there, Canva Pro and Teams can upload a font file: get it from the font’s page here.
On the free plan, make a PNG of your words in the retro font generator and upload it as an image.
04
And in Cricut Design Space?
Install the font on your computer from its page here: Design Space lists the fonts on your computer as system fonts. Or type your words in the retro font generator and download the SVG: its letters come welded, to cut in one piece. More in Cricut fonts.
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Can I use them on things I sell?
The fonts, yes: every font on this page is under an open licence that allows commercial use, on shirts, signs, cards and logos. But Stranger Things and its logo are someone else’s trademarks: a design that copies the logo or uses the name can still need the owner’s permission. This is a plain answer, not legal advice.
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