22 Steampunk Fonts for a Cool Vintage Design

‍Steampunk fonts mainly drive inspiration from the 19^th-century steam-powered machinery and feature unique character styles.

You can use them on vintage and steampunk designs to create a truly authentic look. Or create a unique twist on modern minimalistic designs. 

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Without further ado - here’s our pick of the best steampunk fonts!

1. Fabulous Steampunk (free)

Fabulous Steampunk is a free steampunk font, with bulky and masculine lettering. It’s extremely eye-catching, so would make a great font for construction logos and signage.

2. Steampunk (free for personal use/donationware).

Steampunk, created by Marta van Eck, is a fantastic option for its unique character design. The circular characters come with a spikey design on the edges, perfect for retro designs. 

This font has both uppercase and lowercase letters, so it’s a bit more versatile (e.g. it could also make a perfect business card font). Still, it’s quite decorative, so you should avoid using if for larger blocks of text.     

3. Shadow of Xizor (free)

Based on the Shadow of the Empire video game and comic, Shadow of Xizor is a futuristic narrow serif font. The font has a nostalgic 90s feel as it was a popular font choice for video games and MS Word WordArt designs.

4. Gear Crank (free)

Designed by Andrew Babb, Gear Crank is another free steampunk font font that you need to bookmark.

Gear Crank includes uppercase, lowercase, and various symbols and signs. The font’s character style is heavily inspired by spinning wheels, so it can be a great choice for car companies and tech business cards. 

5. Starship (free)

This lovely antique typeface comes in various stylistic alternates, including one with a texture, a 3D version, and several ligatures. It’s a TTF and OTF collection with decorative features that will give you plenty of opportunities to try new things.

6. Basica Industrial (free for personal use)

Basica Industrial is an all uppercase font free for personal use.

This is a slightly different take on the steampunk font style, with letters resembling road signs. However, it has a similar powerful, industrial quality to it.

7. HerrFoch (free for personal use)

HerrFoch comes in two different variants: trash and gradient. This beautiful textured typeface would look great on all types of print designs.

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8. Steamwreck (free for personal use)

Created by Pixel Sagas, Steamwreck is another excellent font for vintage designs. It is a condensed, ‘western-style’ typeface with tall alphabets; this unique design evokes this font’s ‘steampunk’ feel.

The font comes in four different styles: regular, bold, italic, and bold-italic. It also features stylish punctuation marks and other symbols. 

9. Timepiece (free for personal use)

Another fantastic all-caps font designed by Pixel Sagas, Timepiece, is a bold, near-gothic design with heavy gear and needle elements.

10. Veinline (free for personal use)

Veinline is a highly decorative typeface, inspired by letterhead prints, beer labels, lithographic design, and shop signs from the late 1800s and early 1900s. 

It would make a perfect font for steampunk labels for trendy beers, and would go equally well on an illustrated book cover!

11. Hemera II (free for personal use)

If you’re designing labels for a whiskey bottle, Hemera II might just be the perfect font to pick. It allows you to experiment with your designs as it comes in 3D style and 27 additional glyphs.

12. Victorian Fonts Collection (purchase only)

Steampunk style fonts are inspired by the Victorian aesthetic, with the addition of industrial elements. So, a vintage-looking Victorian typeface is a great way to go for your steampunk designs. 

This high-quality font package comes with two font styles: King Edward and Queen Victoria. Both the styles ooze the Victorian-era feel because of their classical, ornamental, and decorative character design.

13. Classic Heritage (purchase only)

Classic Heritage is another Victorian font design, but a bit less orwith a distinctly retro look and is ornamental. English and German characters, 13 style variant letters, and a vector design in .eps and .ai files are included in the bundle.

14. Fisherman’s Knot (purchase only)

As the name implies, Fisherman’s Knot is an exciting typeface inspired by the knots found in fishermen’s nets. It is based on the classic Victorian style, although it has its distinct character. This font is an excellent buy if you need a label because it has an editable label template in vector format.

15. Atlantis (purchase only)

JumboDesign’s Atlantis is one of their antique-style steampunk fonts. This typeface comes in six different variations, and its unique retro style works well with various types of vintage styles.

16. Stay Alive (purchase only)

The designer of Stay Alive sought to combine modern and vintage fonts with features with solid shapes.

It’s perfect for logos, t-shirts, posters, labels, letterheads, book covers, and other retro and steampunk projects.

17. Victorian Letterhead (purchase only)

Another Victorian-era-inspired typeface, Victorian Letterhead, is a versatile font that comes in three alternate styles: regular, alternate, and serif.

If you’re looking for a font to use for barbershop branding, this font can set you up for success!

18. Black Spot (purchase only)

Black Spot is a vintage, decorative font that features elegant curves and stylish serifs. This font style is a layered font and comes with two layers: the font itself and the shadow layer. It also contains multiple stylistic alternatives for capital letters.

19. The Crow (purchase only)

The Crow is one of the best spooky fonts out there, and it definitely adds a touch of horror and mystery to your designs. 

If you want to think outside the box though, you could even use it for a classy fashion logo design, or a perfect packaging font.

20. Arlington (purchase only)

Arlington is a wonderful steampunk font, inspired by vintage lettering and sign art. Using this display font for signage is an obvious choice, but it would also make a great beer logo font.

21. Andimia Layered (purchase only)

Andhimia is another layered font family in seven different styles. As an added bonus, you’ll get a wedding invitation and wine label template, as well as an ornament pack. All you need is a beginner-friendly design software and you can start designing projects right away!

22. Steampunk Font

Let’s end this list with something a little on the nose: a font that’s literally called Steampunk Font.

Despite its name, this font is anything but ordinary. It’s a modern take on conventional steampunk font styles, with interesting flowy lettering you don’t see very often. You can choose between the regular and rough style, which have a slight difference in texture.

The Final Word

We hope this list has sparked your imagination. While there are many awesome free steampunk fonts, professional graphic design usually costs quite a bit.

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