The force is with these free Star Wars fonts and typefaces.
Star Wars fonts hit the screen before anything else in the Star Wars universe – before we see lightsaber or even a spaceship comes that epic typography accompanied by the invigorating intro score. This means that many Star Wars fans want to emulate the look of that Star Wars font in their own designs.
Happily, we've tracked down the best free Star Wars fonts and typefaces, including the closest Star Wars logo fonts, and we've listed them below so you don't have to go searching to the edge of the galaxy (or the web). Just check the conditions in each case because some may be free for personal user only.
We're starting off strong with this great font from Iconian fonts. Inspired by the logo for "Solo: a Star Wars story", this fantastic font is bold and striking whilst being instantly recognisable by any Star Wars fan. It has a multitude of various styles so you can customise it to your heart's content.
02. Battle Star
(Image credit: Joe Dawson via Font Space)
Battle Star by Joe Dawson is another great font if you're a Star Wars fan. We love it for its simplicity – the letters are bold, striking and recognisable as something instantly sci-fi. We love the subtle texture at the bottom of the letters to make them have a bit of a pop.
You know you're in safe hands when a designer called Boba Fonts is taking care of your free Star Wars fonts. With Star Jedi, Boba Fonts has recreated the logo perfectly, with solid and hollow variants ready to meet all your needs. This tilting, capitals-only font has a lot of variations and connections.
According to the author, this Mandalorian font is a movie-accurate version of the Mandalorian font, as seen in the Episode II Visual Dictionary and the 2004 Star Wars DVD release. It's especially timely given the release of the new TV series, and would be particularly handy for video makers looking to make their YouTube reviews looks extra on-brand with the series.
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And speaking of the Mandalorian, here's a picture of Baby Yoda – because it's always a good time for that.
05. SF Distant Galaxy
The symbols pack includes ready made film-inspired logos
Inspired by an adventure in a distant galaxy, this Star Wars font from ShyFoundry comes in 10 different styles, from bold and italics to thick strokes, all free. It has a symbol pack too, packed with what look like symbols from a distant civilization as well as logos from the films.
We can't introduce this font better than its creator, sharkshock, so we'll just let them explain:
"In a distant galaxy far, far away, fans of this epic series had limited options when looking for the right font to use for their projects. Patience you must have young Jedi and thank me later you will. Enter Death Star : A grotesque display font featuring all caps that resembles the classic '80s style."
With tight kerning, this font is best displayed at large sizes. The regular version is available for free, with an outlined alternative available for a $25 donation.
07. Star Jedi Outline
Star Jedi Outline is compatible with other Boba Fonts
Good old Boba Fonts has done it again with this Star Jedi Outline font. As before, this is a tilting all-capitals font, only this time, as the name suggests, the lettering is framed with a thin outline. Font fans and Star Wars nuts can download it for free for both personal and professional use.
Following on from the Star Jedi line of fonts again, Boba Fonts has created this variation that allows for single or double lines of text that perfectly capture that Star Wars logo style. These decorative frames call to mind some of the aesthetic choices used in promotional material for the original Star Wars trilogy, which sometimes saw the title of a film wrapped in a thin outline.
09. Droidobesh depot font
This Star Wars font convincingly recreates an alien language (Image credit: AurekFonts)
This Star Wars font is something very different, and wasn't inspired by the movies. Created by AurekFonts, it was inspired by the language used in the droid depot on the planet Batuu in the augmented reality video game Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge.
Perhaps one for the most serious hard Star Wars fans only, you might think. It's more decorative than practical since whatever you write in it will be illegible, but we love the way it convincingly mimics the glyphs from a fictional language. It could serve to add an alien look to sci-fi inspired design pieces. It includes 50 glyphs and 75 characters.
10. Shadow of Xizor Font
This narrow serif would be great for pulpy book covers (Image credit: Boba Fonts)
Another offering from Boba Fonts, this steampunky font is based on the lettering for the logo of the Star Wars Shadows of the Empire video game, novel, and comic. the narrow serif font comes with the underline logo ornament, top Star Wars logo ornament and a "of the" mini letter group, plus dingbats reproducing the whole Star Wars logo letter group.
11. Star Jedi Special Edition
This typeface is from a celebration of the original trilogy
With it's chunky letter shapes, this final design from Boba Fonts is based on the official Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition logo typeface. Remember when there was just one Star Wars trilogy? Aah... simpler times.
"Star Jedi Special Edition is a bold font derived from the original Star Jedi," says Boba Fonts. "The lowercase are all capitals, while the capitals are serif variants of the lowercase. A few simple link-lines allow you to create complex letter groups."
What are Star Wars fonts?
Essentially, Star Wars fonts are any font that has been used in the Star Wars franchise. There are lots of them because there are so many Star Wars films, games, books and more. In our roundup above we've included free fonts inspired by typography from the Star Wars films as well as other media.
What is the official Star Wars font?
This question isn't a simple as you might think. Over the years, the styles have been tweaked, sometimes to the indignation of fans. Every Star Wars film opens with the familiar line 'A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...' written in a cool blue typeface. (Or purple or turquoise – your nostalgia mileage may vary.)
The lettering for this outer space 'once upon a time' was originally created by hand, so short of tracing a screenshot, you're not going to get a 100 per cent match. However, the latest Star Wars films – from The Force Awakens onwards – have used a digitised version of the font, with Franklin Demi singled out as the closest match.
Once this line fades away, we're deafened by John WIlliams' epic opening fanfare and left in awe as the Star Wars logo dominates the screen before gradually drifting off into the distance. Shortly afterwards, the opening crawl appears and fills us in on the story so far.
The opening crawl is a hive of font intrigue. The new Star Wars films use a version of News Gothic for the title of each film and for the crawl text itself. This flies in the face of previous films which used Univers for the title to establish a sense of importance and gravity, while using News Gothic for the crawl text.
As for the Star Wars logo font, this was custom-designed by Suzy Rice and later modified by Joe Johnson. It's been adjusted plenty of times as the creators tried to settle on a style. One experiment saw the Star Wars: The Last Jedi logo turn red, sending the internet into meltdown as fans tried to figure out what it could mean. The closest free Star Wars logo font that we've found that emulates the design is Boba Fonts' Star Jedi.
Dom Carter is a freelance writer who specialises in art and design. Formerly a staff writer for Creative Bloq, his work has also appeared on Creative Boom and in the pages of ImagineFX, Computer Arts, 3D World, and .net. He has been a D&AD New Blood judge, and has a particular interest in picture books.
