20 Summer Fonts to Use in Seasonal Designs

If you need playful summer fonts and typefaces to spruce up your social media posts or visual ads, here’s a list of 20 free fonts that will bring a summer breeze to your design.

Summertime is a season we associate with playfulness, relaxation, beaches, and fun. It’s a season when everything has more color and zest and feels like all the chaos slows down for a while. And you probably want the typography in your social media posts, designs, and printables to reflect that summer state of mind.

We’ve done the search for you and found 20 free summer fonts for you to use. Bear in mind that some of them will require you to purchase a license for commercial use.

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Handwritten

Handmade fonts have a genuine light and unassuming quality. They are often free-flowing and light, just as the summer vibes you’ll want to translate with your graphic design.

1.Summer Vibes (free)

This font is 100% free for both personal and commercial use. It is characterized by thin lines and gentle strokes. You could use the Summer Vibes font on its own, or combined with a stronger, bold one for a heading.

2.Original Surfer (free)

This free summer font is definitely worth bookmarking. It’s quite simple and versatile, so it fits well with almost any design. Whether you need YouTube thumbnails, stickers, or a promotional landing page, this is a great font to get.

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3.Rock Salt (free)

Another handwritten script font created with felt-tip markers. It’s not as free-flowing as the previous examples, but really has an original quality and feels almost as if it belongs only on paper.

4.Tomatoes (free)

Tomatoes is the definition of thin line and cursive. It has a beautiful, light appearance. But be wary about its use—it might not be the best choice for a display font since it’s a bit hard to read. It’s free for personal use, but you can contact the author for a commercial use license.

Decorative

Fonts with hearts, extra strokes, and scribbles in them? Yes, it sounds risky and you might overdo it if the design is already colorful and noisy. But, when well balanced, retro design can help create the perfect summer vibes font.

5.Palm Beach (free)

This bold, wide-lettered font has a palm leaf pattern all over it. Palm Beach is very unique and perfect for your summer projects. Just imagine it on a monochrome t-shirt.

6.Hawaiian Punk (free)

Travel bloggers, assemble. This serif font would be perfect for a featured image. The Hawaii-inspired typeface with cartoonish characteristics is a fun and appealing one.

7.Tiki Tropic (free)

This summer font family is here to brighten up any design. Tiki Tropic had multiple graphics to discover: jumping dolphins, palm trees, flowers, and Tiki masks. It also supports more alphabets, not just the basic Latin characters.

8.Summer Light (free)

This font family is a rare combination: sans serif and elegant, yet fun and decorative. Typography is a hell of a creative market, folks. It is also a completed typeface with multilingual support.

9.KG Summer Sunshine (free)

KG Summer Sunshine is another fun and playful font family. The three-dimensional letters have a retro quality, and it reminds of the DIY “graffiti” names kids used to draw in their notebooks.

10.Wishful Waves (free)

The clue is in the name: it’s wavy. This font is perfect for a go-with-the-flow, surfer vibe. If that doesn’t scream summer, what does?

Elegant

If a font is sleek and elegant, it doesn’t mean it has to also be professional and dull. Here are some beautiful summer vibes fonts that merge the summer vibes with standard and clean design well.

11.Esencia (free)

This original font by CastleType is inspired by a Spanish stock certificate from 1941 with 11 beautiful Art Deco style letters. It has elegance and flair but is still dynamic and summery. Esencia supports most European languages, even Greek and Cyrillic.

12. Pana Summer (free)

This font is very light and elegant and comes in two variations, regular and outline. It would fit very well with a minimalist Instagram theme and breezy pastel colors.

13.Vibes (free)

This font was originally designed for Arabic. According to the description the creator provided on Google Fonts, Vibes was designed to be a mixture that radiates energy, flexibility, and cuteness.

14.Camar Vintage (free)

The author was inspired by art deco when he originally designed this font for a set of postcards. Still, he sensed that Camar Vintage has a calm rhythm and a modern feel, so he decided to publish it. This beautiful free summer font is available for both personal and commercial use.

Textured letters

Some fonts are created with brushes or have a watercolor-like texture. They bring some extra uniqueness and color to the table, so you might consider using them if you want an impressive design.

15.Summeron (free)

This font has a pure vintage Californian vibe, so you can’t go wrong with it even though its heavy and bolded.

16.Tropical Asian (free)

This font by Konstantine Studio radiates relaxation and being carefree. It’s created with a brush and ink on paper. The demo version of Tropical Asian is free, but the complete pack has to be bought.

17.Maltese Watercolor (free)

This beautiful font has both an SVG and a solid variant. The creator described it beautifully: “Embraсing lightness and maritime grace, this watercolor font will steal your heart once and for good. You'll barely tell it's digital, that's how authentic it looks with its texture”.

Bold and Cool

Lastly, we have a selection of bold and fun, flowy fonts that will easily attract attention and still look light.

18.Pineapple Slice (free)

This font is like digital calligraphy: lots of circular finishes and gorgeous swashes and ligatures. It is perfect for a personal DIY project or social media post.

19.Beachday (free)

Beachday is a fun and playful display font: it’s well defined and easy to read, but still has summer joy in it.

20.Reborn (free)

Urban and stylish, with a youthful character, Reborn is very easy to imagine on a tote bag or as the centerpiece of a headline.

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‍We hope you’ve found the perfect summer font to bring some beachy vibes to your designs. If you want to browse further font lists, be sure to check out these cool retro fonts and the most popular fonts YouTubers use.