What is a good 50s style font?

marianbowen4 December 2012 · 08:03

Three weeks to Christmas:)

marianbowen4 December 2012 · 08:03

CAn anyone advice me on a free 1950's font to be used on packaging?
Thank you!

HVB4 December 2012 · 08:19

Google for
. 50's fonts
. retro fonts
You'll find more than enough!
- Herb

marianbowen4 December 2012 · 08:38

Thank you - I thought there might be some obvious ones as there are a lot of crap ones out there

James Michaels4 December 2012 · 09:42

You also might want to do a search at MyFonts.com for "1950s" or "retro"; some of the professional fonts there are available at a fairly low cost.

HVB4 December 2012 · 13:27

"some obvious ones", "a lot of crap"

What's obvious to me wouldn't be what's obvious to you! It all depends on the use to which the font will be put, the nature of the "packaging" and its contents, and of course personal tastes.

You also didn't say whether this was to be used as a large attention-getting logo/display or for small text details such as the ingredients list on a food product.

Do you need fonts that include accented characters, or support for any languages other than English? Do you need variants such as bold, italic, small caps, outlines, etc. ?

I won't dare go into a discussion of "crap"! As they say, one person's crap is another's pot of gold.

- Herb