What font is best for wedding invitations?

Two that work together: a formal script for your names, and a serif for the date, time and place, which guests read small. Tangerine and Parisienne are the most used fancy scripts here, Playfair Display the most used serif. The pointed pen’s thick and thin shows as contrast: the o of Pinyon Script is 5.2 times as thick at its sides as at its top.

Can I use these fonts on invitations I sell?

Yes. Their licences allow commercial use, so printed invitations, place cards and signs for clients are fine: all 21 come under the SIL Open Font License. Only the font files themselves may not be sold on their own.

Which wedding fonts are in Google Docs?

All 21, most likely, as Google Fonts families: choose More fonts in Docs’ font menu and search for the name.

Can I use these wedding fonts in Canva?

We can’t tell you which of them Canva has: it publishes no list of its fonts, so search its font menu for the name. To bring in one it lacks, Canva’s help explains uploading a font.

How do I make a wedding monogram?

With the monogram maker: it sets up to three initials, the shared last name’s larger in the middle, in script, serif and Old English fonts, and saves the monogram as a PNG with a transparent background.

Which wedding script is easiest to read?

Taller lowercase letters read more easily, and scripts differ a lot: Aguafina Script’s x-height is 45.5% of the em, Tangerine’s only 25.5%. Keep any script to names and short lines, and the details in the serif.

Wedding fonts

Set the names in a formal script and the date and place in a serif guests can read. Our lab files 37 scripts and 20 serifs as fancy by the look of their letters: Tangerine, Parisienne and Great Vibes lead the scripts, Playfair Display and Bodoni Moda the serifs.

Pass the rule: 57 of 2,035; of all the fonts we measured
Shown: 21; the most used first, one of a family
Commercial use: 21 of 21; every licence here allows it
In Google Docs: 21 of 21; most likely, under More fonts; Slides too

01 / The picks

21 fonts for a wedding

The scripts and serifs our lab files as fancy, its style for weddings, by the look of their letters.

Scripts for the names

Formal scripts, joined, with flourishes · 37 pass · 12 shown

Set the first 6 in your own words

Serifs for the details

Serifs with hairline thin strokes · 20 pass · 9 shown

Set the first 6 in your own words

02 / Questions

Wedding fonts, answered

What font is best for wedding invitations?: Two that work together: a formal script for your names, and a serif for the date, time and place, which guests read small. Tangerine and Parisienne are the most used fancy scripts here, Playfair Display the most used serif. The pointed pen’s thick and thin shows as contrast: the o of Pinyon Script is 5.2 times as thick at its sides as at its top.
Can I use these fonts on invitations I sell?: Yes. Their licences allow commercial use, so printed invitations, place cards and signs for clients are fine: all 21 come under the SIL Open Font License. Only the font files themselves may not be sold on their own.
Which wedding fonts are in Google Docs?: All 21, most likely, as Google Fonts families: choose More fonts in Docs’ font menu and search for the name.
Can I use these wedding fonts in Canva?: We can’t tell you which of them Canva has: it publishes no list of its fonts, so search its font menu for the name. To bring in one it lacks, Canva’s help explains uploading a font.
How do I make a wedding monogram?: With the monogram maker: it sets up to three initials, the shared last name’s larger in the middle, in script, serif and Old English fonts, and saves the monogram as a PNG with a transparent background.
Which wedding script is easiest to read?: Taller lowercase letters read more easily, and scripts differ a lot: Aguafina Script’s x-height is 45.5% of the em, Tangerine’s only 25.5%. Keep any script to names and short lines, and the details in the serif.