Is there a free Cooper Black?

Cooper Black itself, drawn by Oswald Cooper in 1922, is not free, though Microsoft 365 subscribers have it as a cloud font. Caprasimo is a free font in its manner, licensed under the OFL.

What font says the seventies?

Heavy, round and swashy: a fat italic like Shrikhand for the headline, or a soft heavy serif like Caprasimo, set tight, in brown, orange and mustard.

Retro font generator

Seventies swash, soft heavy serifs and eighties neon. Type your words and see them in the fonts you pick, up to six at a time: Shrikhand, Monoton, Caprasimo and Righteous. Download any of them as a PNG for Canva or a poster, or as an SVG that cuts on a Cricut, or open a font’s page to get the font itself.

4 free retro fonts · PNG at 2× or 3× · SVG to cut · free for commercial use

Your text – it follows you round the site

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Each PNG is cut to the letters with a margin. Transparent keeps only the letters. Each SVG is the letters welded, to cut on a Cricut.

Colour, background, PNG size

Colour

Background

PNG size

Each PNG is cut to the letters with a margin. Transparent keeps only the letters. Each SVG is the letters welded, to cut on a Cricut.

Your picks, 3 of 6 picked

The fonts you pick set your text: up to six, from the list below.

Retro · Seventies italic

Shrikhand

Free for commercial use · OFL

Retro · Eighties neon

Monoton

Free for commercial use · OFL

Retro · Soft, heavy serif

Caprasimo

Free for commercial use · OFL

Pick up to 3 more from the list below to see your text in it.

All 4 free retro fonts

Pick a font to set your text in it at the top, up to six.

Retro · Seventies italic
Shrikhand
Free for commercial use · OFL
Retro · Eighties neon
Monoton
Free for commercial use · OFL
Retro · Soft, heavy serif
Caprasimo
Free for commercial use · OFL
Retro · Retro rounded
Righteous
Free for commercial use · OFL

Retro lettering

What it is

Retro lettering borrows from the 1960s, 70s and 80s: fat swashy italics from record sleeves, soft heavy serifs from shop fronts, and the parallel lines of neon tubes.

When to use it

Shirts, gig posters, café menus, playlists and logos that should feel like a decade ago or several.

The fonts here

Shrikhand is the seventies italic, heavy and full of contrast, and it covers Gujarati as well. Monoton is drawn in parallel lines like neon tubing; Caprasimo, from 2023, is a soft heavy serif in the manner of Cooper Black; Righteous is a rounded geometric sans.

In Canva

Monoton’s lines run together at small sizes: use it for a word or two, large, and Righteous for anything smaller.

In Cricut Design Space

Shrikhand, Caprasimo and Righteous are solid shapes that cut cleanly. Monoton cuts into dozens of thin strips; print it instead.

In Word and Docs

Word’s Text Effects, Transform bends a line in a text box into an arch or a wave, the curved title of a seventies record sleeve; it suits Shrikhand and Righteous.

The steps for any style, the PNG and the SVG into each app, what the licences allow and what happens to your words, are on the font generator.

Retro fonts, answered

Is there a free Cooper Black?: Cooper Black itself, drawn by Oswald Cooper in 1922, is not free, though Microsoft 365 subscribers have it as a cloud font. Caprasimo is a free font in its manner, licensed under the OFL.
What font says the seventies?: Heavy, round and swashy: a fat italic like Shrikhand for the headline, or a soft heavy serif like Caprasimo, set tight, in brown, orange and mustard.

More styles

The same words in 17 other styles, each with fonts of its own. See every style on one page.