7 Fresh Font Trends for 2024: The Best 2024 Fonts to Know Now
2024’s font trends are a typographic feast of ornate Gothic typefaces and elegant serif font styles. For seekers of beauty and romance, the 2024 font trends certainly won’t disappoint—delicate condensed serif fonts sit aside mixed weight typography to create stunningly beautiful layouts for websites, social posts and print designs.
As more brands swivel towards the commercial power of quiet luxury, the ‘stealth wealth’ trend emerging in fashion is filtering down to trending fonts, resulting in a wave of elegant, subtle font styles that look luxurious and aspirational.
For quirkier font choices, there’s also gently experimental fonts, grunge brush fonts and 70s flared fonts, to give your projects a point of difference.
Read on to discover 7 fresh 2024 font trends to make the year ahead your most typographically stylish yet! For 2024, we expect these new font trends to make their mark in branding, print design and web design:
- Modern Gothic
- 70s Flared Fonts
- Gently Experimental Fonts
- Art Deco Condensed Fonts
- Mixed Weight Typography
- Casual Brush Fonts
- Fluid Fonts
1. Modern Gothic
Go to the Gothic side with these modern Blackletter fonts, which provide the perfect blend of clean lines and Medieval edge.
We’ve seen Modern Gothic fonts already make their mark in branding and fashion (see the slickly Gothic brand identity for The Vampire’s Wife by Hingston Studio), and the font trend looks only set to continue in 2024. These blackletter font styles make for beautiful, ornate typography on website designs and packaging.
Zeogari Font Envato Elements
A modern Gothic font with clean lines and a folkloric mood, Zeogari is at its most striking set in high-contrast black and white.
Reanimation Font Envato Elements
Reanimation is an experimental display font that combines blackletter calligraphy with a clean sans serif font. The perfect combination of historic and modern!
Moxy Rush Font Envato Elements
A true blackletter typeface with fluid letterforms, Moxy Rush is a contemporary gothic typeface with plenty of moody character.
Dark Ones Font Envato Elements
Looking for a romantic gothic font? Dark Ones combines a blackletter typeface with an organic Art Nouveau style.
Realitas Display Font Envato Elements
Chunky, dynamic and experimental, Realitas is an attention-grabbing display font made for website designs.
Bazelle Font Envato Elements
A hand-stamped typeface with blackletter forms, Bazelle is surprisingly modern when teamed with neon colors and stripped-back layouts.
2. 70s Flared Fonts
1970s fonts have been big news in branding over the past year, but designers’ obsession with the Seventies seems set to only grow in 2024. This year we’ll start to see cleaner retro fonts appearing in editorial design, magazine layouts and website designs. Flared serif fonts are great for bringing a hint of nostalgia to print designs, while still maintaining an overall clean and minimal style.
Maltiner Display Font Envato Elements
A flared and condensed weird font, Maltiner Display has a distinctive ‘wedge’ style that keeps this font looking dynamic and impactful for headlines.
Jaoren Font Envato Elements
Rounded and retro, Jaoren is inspired by the movie fonts used in retro credits from the 1970s. Team with hazy photography and faded vintage textures.
Migae Font Envato Elements
Migae has a compact style that makes this flared serif font feel particularly sturdy and solid. A strong, highly legible font for display type.
3. Gently Experimental
Experimental fonts often get a bad press, due to illegibility and general, well, weirdness. In 2024, we’ll see gently experimental fonts take over from their hard-to-read cousins, offering just a subtle point of difference for brand identities. Look for a simple quirk or unusual letterform to tap into this unique trend.
Glasset Font Envato Elements
Glasset is an experimental font with a distorted effect, making this cool font a stylish choice for movie credits, movie poster fonts or show credits.
Maggies Font Envato Elements
You wouldn’t necessarily frame Maggies as an experimental font, but its quirky conjoined ligatures mark it out as a font that makes a serious style statement.
Karviet Font Envato Elements
A kooky sans serif font that borrows from Mid-Century typefaces, Karviet is a gently experimental font that will bring quirky character to social media designs or email campaigns.
Aviak Font Envato Elements
A modern experimental typeface with a subtle Art Nouveau style, Aviak has notable quirky notches on some of the uppercase characters.
Akrapovic Display Font Envato Elements
A bendy, twisted font with a retro feel, Akrapovic Display makes a nod to the psychedelic fonts of the 1960s. Groovy, baby!
4. Art Deco Condensed Fonts
Revisit the decade of flappers, jazz and Egyptomania with these condensed Art Deco fonts. Fitting that we are now a century on from the Roaring Twenties, this vintage 2024 font trend is supremely stylish, bringing a touch of glamor to brand identities and website pages. Look for heightened, condensed font styles for 2024, which bring a lofty elegance to designs.
Coreta Font Envato Elements
Tall, rounded and loftily delicate, Coreta is an ultra-feminine take on early Art Deco font styles.
Hatficeld Font Envato Elements
Italic and sophisticated, Hatficeld is a subtly Art Deco typeface which would bring a luxurious mood to typography.
Orlanda Font Envato Elements
A geometric condensed font with Art Deco style, Orlanda has flowing ligatures and a formal mood.
Firon Font Envato Elements
Channel Egyptomania vibes with Firon, which pays tribute to the obsession with Ancient Egypt and archaeology in the 1920s.
Pilated Font Envato Elements
A modern serif font which makes a low-key nod to Art Deco, Pilated is rounded and condensed, making it highly legible.
5. Mixed Weight Typography
Mix up your italic fonts with bold weights to create an off-kilter style in your 2024 typography. This 2024 font trend retains an elegant spirit with serif type styles or calligraphy fonts. Perfect for bringing a high-end look to website designs or luxury packaging designs.
Humble Nostalgia Font Envato Elements
Tapping into 2024’s Seventies type trends, Humble Nostalgia is the perfect retro font for mixing weights. Combine a slanted serif with a regular weight and overlay on photography for an elegant effect.
Going Golden Font Family Envato Elements
The Going Golden font family has a huge selection of different weights, styles and alternates to create a unique mixed typography style in your designs.
Gretha Font Family Envato Elements
For a classical mixed typography look, try out the Gretha font family, which features a variety of serif styles to create playful typography.
Armany Font Family Envato Elements
Fluid and groovy, Armany is a display typeface made for high-impact mixed typography. Combine the four different weights included in the font family to create a stylish mixed type layout.
6. Casual Brush Fonts
Grunge typography is the 2024 type trend to turn to when ‘quiet luxury’ serifs feel a little too put-together and polished. For a cooler, more undone style, look to casual brush fonts. Hand-drawn, arty and eclectic, these grunge brush fonts look fantastic paired with moody backgrounds, gritty textures or black and white photography. Use for editorial designs, casual social media templates or alternative website designs.
Lord Brush Font Envato Elements
Take your brush fonts to the dark side with grunge brush typeface Lord. Chunky and anarchic, this is a great font for alternative branding or website design.
Megumi Brush Font Envato Elements
Striking and energetic, Megumi is a casual brush font with hand-crafted texture and a breezy style.
Dashbird Font Envato Elements
Dashbird is a modern brush font with a chunky, easygoing type style. Use to give character to headlines or pull quotes on magazine layouts or social media posts.
Holigan Brush Font Envato Elements
A rough brush font with a slight italic slant, Holigan feels dynamic and urgent. Use for sports branding, or to bring energy to print or online designs.
7. Fluid Fonts
Making a nod to Art Nouveau and the psychedelia font styles of the 1960s, these groovy fluid fonts feel almost liquid to look at. Tapping into the quiet luxury design trend, thse fluid fonts also bring a slightly more quirky character to this luxurious style of typography. Use to bring retro, languid style to lifestyle branding or fashion websites.
Broone Font Envato Elements
A fluid display font with a psychedelic spirit, Broone combines the Art Nouveau revival of the 1960s with a contemporary, clean form. Use to bring groovy interest to social media designs or website landing pages.
Blue Bridge Font Envato Elements
Loop your ligatures in free abandon with Blue Bridge, a beautiful display font with an ultra-fluid Nouveau style.
Nayuki Font Envato Elements
A Japanese-inspired display font, Nayuki combines fluid features with sharp serifs, creating the perfect balance between formal and easy-going.
Meconte Font Envato Elements
Ultra-fluid and liquid, Meconte is a trippy display font with a distorted liquid type style. If you’re looking for a quirky font on just the right side of experimental, try Meconte for that project you’ve been unable to find the perfect typeface for.
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