Last Updated on February 26, 2024
Besides warm sentiment, heartfelt feelings and good tidings, your holiday cards need one other element: great typography. With Christmas cards on their way to many homes and Hanukkah recently in your mind, it’s time to put together a beautiful card that shows friends and family how much you care for them and wish them a wonderful new year.
Holiday fonts typically are highly decorative, with oversized swoops and swirls, but they still have to be legible. Here are 30 of the best holiday fonts that will dress up your seasonal cards no matter what the message is inside.
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Beautiful Holiday Fonts
1. Winterante – Christmas Script Font
Elegant, festive, and personal, this handwritten font is perfect for posters, Christmas cards, headers, and elegant subtext. A sterling option.
2. Miracle Shine – Christmas Font
This decorative display font comes in OTF and TTF styles and is a breath of fresh air when it comes to promotion. Making you and your designs stand out, the decorative font is versatile, can be easily edited, and looks beautifully festive.
3. Winter Bells Christmas Font
A cool, modern, and slick Christmas display serif that is easy to read and even easier to enjoy.
4. Christmas – Modern Calligraphy Font
Say hello to Christmas with this stunning modern cursive script font. We love this font because it is well organized, attractive, easy to read, and perfectly wholesome. Ideal for this holiday season and any projects relating to it.
5. Another Christmas Script Font
The font might be called ‘Another Christmas’ but we promise that once you use this font to promote your work, it will definitely not be like any other Christmas. A signature script font, it is designed with you, the user in mind.
6. Christmas Nordic Font
Not only is this font unique, but it comes with a host of gorgeous sketches within the letters themselves. With a host of alternates, ligatures, and stylistic icons to avail of, there is no reason why you shouldn’t consider the Christmas Nordic font.
Download Christmas Nordic Font here
7. Rosiana – Modern Serif
Rosiana is a modern decorative serif font. Inspired by classic typography, it is a joy to use and can be applied to a range of different designs and projects. Easy to edit using OpenType programs and even easier to read with its stunning curved design, Rosiana is a joy to use.
8. Gafler – Classy Vintage Font
A classic and vintage style of serif that we think would look good in any Christmas-themed poster or design. Enjoy decorating designs of all sorts with its 15+ alternates and various styles to match.
9. Shad
Good vibes only by name and by nature. This font is big, bold, and perfect if you are looking to find a font that will stand out from others. Not the most Christmassy mind you, but a great option nonetheless.
10. Snowy – Decorative Christmas Font
An ideal decorative Christmas font for any style of design or project, Snowy is a beautifully crafted font with stunning curves, alternates, and ligatures.
Download this Stunning Christmas font here
11. Wintha Typeface
A sleek and modern premium typeface, we think that Wintha is a perfect font for anyone l0oking to add a touch of class to a Christmas-themed project or design.
12. Alika Misely
An elegant cursive serif that is a little fantastical in its design, Alika is a perfect font for anyone looking to create something memorable with their print or media projects.
13. The Christmas Fonts
The name of the font says it all. This font is ideal for Christmas time and is a stunning festive-themed font design for any project that you are considering.
Download the Christmas Fonts package here
14. Playtoon
Playful, fun and a little whimsical too, Playtoon is a quality font package that comes with a range of different alternates and ligatures. Its curves, edges, and sides are all unique and offer the user plenty of flexibility when it comes to creating a fun design that is easy to edit. Well worth a try if you want to create a fun Christmas design.
15. Nekolina – Beauty Vintage Serif Font
Nekolina is a gorgeous retro serif that you can use to create beautiful designs with ease. With alternates, ligatures, and italics available, you are spoiled for choice with this versatile and modern design.
16. Holiday Travel Font Duo
With a straight-lined sans font and a stylish Script font included in this package, it is clear that Holiday travel font is versatile, easy to use, and perfect for a host of different design concepts and projects.
Download the Holiday Travels Font here
17. Winter – Holiday Display Font
A fun and powerful display font, Winter Holiday display is a great option for anyone looking to create something festive and fun this Christmas season.
Download Winter Holiday Display Font here
18. Happy Holiday
The Happy Holiday package is a fantastic 19 font collection that is hand written and hand crafted to create awesome typographic designs. Suited to a variety of design types, the font comes with so many features and is well priced for what it provides.
19. Christmas Holiday
A festive and fun handwritten font, Christmas Holiday is the perfect option for anyone looking to create a little festive spirit in a poster, a flyer, a media design or an invitation. Easy to edit, read and use.
Download Christmas Holiday here
20. Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays is a unique and highly elegant and luxurious display font. Trendy and stylish, this font will elevate each of your creations. You can combine uppercase and lowercase letters to get different characters. Better yet, you can use the font on both PC and Mac to generate incredible designs quickly and easily.
21. Aleka
Ornamental in a vintage way, Aleka is simple, beautiful and hardworking. The swoops and flourishes add elegance to any missive, but they’re never overwhelming or haughty. It’s the perfect font choice for an invitation to a part or dinner where black tie isn’t required, but neither is an ugly sweater.
22. Barracuda
This fat, decorative font is first and foremost entertaining. It has all the swoops and swirls the holidays call for, but it also has a quirky style attached. Heavy, thick and bold, Barracuda skips frilly flourishes in favor of something more pronounced. It definitely demands attention, but in a more masculine and easy-going way. Plus, it has a ‘50s vibe that vintage lovers will adore.
23. Homi Script
Very modern and very decorative, the Homi Script is all swirls, swoops, grand curlicues and dramatic flairs, so it’s perfect for a highly elegant seasonal party or splashed out affair. Use it for headings and greetings or a poster, since it can be difficult to read in large blocks of text. It will certainly get your friends and family in the spirit of the holidays.
24. Hummingbird Regular
Similar to handwriting, Hummingbird Regular feels personal and familiar. It works well for letters and party information on an invitation. It feels both warm and elegant, while encouraging intimacy, but it uses the flourishes effectively so it still feels special, an ideal option for the season.
Whatever your plans for the holidays, whether it’s relaxing at home and sending holiday cards, or hosting an enormous blow-out end of season holiday bash, these fonts are guaranteed to help your letters, invitations and posters get noticed by all those who love you.
25. Charcuterie Engraved
There are several fonts in the Charcuterie family, but the engraved style is one of the best for holiday uses. The bold look and timeless style have a hint of vintage design and plenty of modern mojo. Both humble and stylish, it perfectly serves the purposes of the upcoming holiday to give rather than receive.
26. Desire
Despite the stirring name, this font package has that Christmas movie quality that’s instantly recognizable. The swooping letters of Desire immediately add a formal impact to any heading, greeting or signature on a page, and can be used for a wide variety of uses even after the holidays have ended.
27. Al Fresco
Fresh, fun and festive, the Al Fresco collection of fonts has plenty of flourishes to make the season bright, and it’s a bit looser in style for those occasions that call for more informality and a personal touch. Youthful and expressive, this is the perfect font style for young couples or families that don’t want to be pigeon holed into old-fashioned Christmas cards.
28. Mercury Script
Another fanciful type, Mercury Script splits the difference between classic and contemporary. It’s got a steady hand but the flourishes are decidedly playful, so it works as well for formal occasions as light-hearted last minute bashes. The additional ornaments help emphasize your message and give a special feel to your holiday correspondences.
29. Hubertus Dings
Not all fonts are created for reading; some fonts are instead symbols for the season that enhance stationary or posters. Hubertus Dings are perfect for adding a fun, festive element to any holiday card, invitation or name card. Including animals like owls, stags and bears, as well as snowflakes and compasses, the overall feeling is of a wintry scene in a forest cabin.
30. Gentil
Casual, feminine and playful, the Gentil font family is a world away from the overwrought swirls found on department store windows. It has a delicate grace that works in any season, but is particularly refreshing at the end of the year. Humble and sweet, the collection also includes doodles of food products, and what is Christmas without a feast?