There's something to be said for the varsity sweatshirt, the sports teams t-shirts and the banners that show-off the college name for all to see.
A strong collegiate font really does create meaning; a sense of belonging. As a student, you wear your college logo with pride; it's like a badge of honour showing the rest of the world where you belong. With the importance of university branding as strong as ever, the choice of font is one not to be taken lightly.
So, we've rounded up some of our best collegiate block fonts, collegiate letter fonts and all round strong fonts that can help create a true bond...
In this article you will find 21 of the best collegiate fonts in our marketplace:
1. Courage Union
2. Havard
3. Goliad
4. The Ruby Duo
5. Chicago Shift
6. Bandbox
7. Argon
8. Bison
9. The Legend Font Trio
10. Laguna Vintage Collection
and many more.
1. Courage Union
Get the pom poms ready for this one, perfect for the college sports team this slab style font makes us want to cheer. It's a traditional style collegiate font and there's a reason it's a classic!
There are six varieties: regular, rough, halftone, outline, outline rough, and outline halftone.
This font can be used for anything from college logos and social media content to cheering for the favorite sports team.
2. Havard
Havard is a strong and sturdy set of display fonts with an industrial, vintage feel perfect for use for a college sports or athletics team. This font started with a base of geometric shapes so has real interest.
These fonts are ideal for headlines, displays, logotypes and clothing. Havard includes 12 Style versions: regular, regular with inline, shadow and bevel. All of the styles also have a rough version too.
3. Goliad – A Vintage Texas Style Font
Perfect for a college that wants a Texan flare! This typeface collection features 5 distinct styles.
It’s the perfect type for colleges that want to impart hard working southern grit within their brand.
Included in this set are: a clean, worn, rough, inline and inline solid version.
4. The Ruby Duo
The ultimate versatile collegiate font with a retro feel. This font provides a wide range of sans and script styles; 50 in total! Rugged and simple sans with a cool pair of mono line script; providing the possibility of various combinations to create the perfect brand for any college use.
Within this pack you'll find five graphic fonts with 130 elements total! Including badge shapes and more than 100 vector vintage mood icons to use it in college logos and more.
5. Chicago Shift
Chicago Shift is a font made for a sports theme; college football anyone?!. It's a font that is very suitable for apparel, branding and anything you may need as a college. With an old school / vintage feel with a modern twist it's a great choice for a collegiate font.
The font comes in uppercase, lowercase, punctuations, symbols & numerals, with stylistic set alternate and ligatures. It is multilingual and already PUA encoded.
6. Bandbox | Athletic Script Typeface
Yet another awesome sports based font, Bandbox delivers with its heavy, streaming cursive letterforms. Bandbox’s wide, gently-sloped script comes bundled with a collection of ligatures and 18 athletic swash banners, perfect for varsity!
Athletic swashes, ligatures and alternate characters are also included as separate OTF files for those that use software unable to utilize Open Type features.
7. Argon
Argon is a unique typeface with a sporty, modern, adventurous edge - who doesn't want that for a college?!
This font will give any brand an extra punch. Argon has a full set of capitals, numbers and punctuation.
Each letter is a solved three line thick puzzle for you to enjoy. And features include uppercase, numerals & punctuation.
8. Bison
Bison is a strong font family and sophisticated sans serif. Inspired by the animal, it’s sturdy uncompromising style is felt through the controlled letterforms and modern touches. A balance of hard lines and smooth curves.
Each font in the family can stand on its own, dynamic and authoritative in their own right. The perfect font for a college we think.
Bison includes twelve all-caps fonts in .TTF: Four weights, two outlines, six italics.
9. The Legend Font Trio
Crafted by hand this collection includes Script, Sans and Serif, which work well together and enable you to create a powerful collegiate logo and lettering which can be used on t-shirts, varsity jackets, invitations, advertising and any key text in any design.
The Legend Script has beautiful alternates for uppercase and numbers, 12 lengths end-swashes and a special short version for lowercase characters with protruding elements like b, d, f, g, h, etc. (it helps to arrange words in two lines more compactly).
10. Laguna Vintage Collection
Introducing Laguna Vintage Font Collection. Inspired from American motor inn signs and vintage restaurant signs in 50s-70s it's the perfect throwback for a strong, memorable college font.
Laguna comes with open type features such stylistic alternates, stylistic sets, contextual alternates & ligatures. Also available in variable font format.
Continue browsing to discover more of the best collegiate fonts on the market:
11. Willomac
12. Stoner Sport
13. Redoura Script
14. Summer of '76
15. Oxevima Typeface
16. Sinday College
17. Burford Rustic
18. Harland Vintage Script
19. Drone Ranger Pro
20. Whiskey Joint
21. Hallway Vintage Script
and many more.
11. Willomac
Willomac is a font family consisting of three distinct & contrasting fonts. The family includes a mono-line script, sans, and a bold display face; all of which would make standout collegiate fonts.
Each font has been carefully designed to be as versatile as possible, ensuring compatibility with one other and legibility. You can use all three together for bold compositions, use them on their own, or mix them with other type favourites to create a college design style like no other.
12. Stoner Sport
The Stoner Sport Typeface is inspired by a retro display font that is dynamic and unique. This font also has a sporty classic theme; great for college football or athletics. This font can be used for logo design, branding, sports teams and more.
This font is very easy to use in both design and non-design programs because all alternates and glyphs are supported by Unicode (PUA).
13. Redoura Script
Redoura Font Duo is reminiscent of a 70’s collegiate sports font style and Script font style which is absolutely awesome for logotype/wordmark, especially for sports theme logos.
The script font comes with a serif font as a perfect pairing font. Redoura Script font includes upper & lowercase characters, punctuation, numerals, and multilingual support. It also has many open type alternates and ligatures. Create an incredible college font to be held in history.
14. Summer Of 76
Introducing Summer Of 76, a sophisticated multi-line font inspired by the nostalgic 70’s aesthetic.
Perfect for big headers, it also can be used for medium and small text blocks. This font could be the perfect solution if you want to give a lovely retro touch to your collegiate designs.
This font goes in two font styles, multiline and solid, and contains numbers and glyphs.
15. Oxvemia Typeface
This strong vintage font arrives with a college-style texture.
Its bold characteristics that make this font feel strong and sturdy, it will be very suitable for brands that are formal, stiff and large.
With this texture, this font feels even more classic and cool for designs other than formal ones; in particular the sort of design that students would get behind.
16. Sinday College
Sinday College is classic calligraphy font. This is a classic thin font with an italic style.
This font is has a modern swirl that can make your design look elegant and perfect; great for a classical use in college, such as an invitation.
You can use this font easily because there are many features in it – it contains the complete set of lower and uppercase letters, punctuation, numbers, web fonts and multilingual support. This font also includes several ligatures and alternative style stylistic set.
17. Burford Rustic
Burford Rustic is a weathered and textured font; it is a layer-based font family, but with some style variations and new layering options. It includes 20 font files, starting with four texture variations from Black, Bold, Light to Ultralight. It also includes an Outline and two Inline Weights.
For users that have Opentype savvy programs: each font also comes with a set of stylistic alternatives for letters A, C, E, F, G, H, P, Q, R. There are also two versions of each letter, and by using contextual alternatives, no two letters next to each other will be the same.
18. Harland Vintage Script
A striking option for a collegiate font.
Inspired from vintage baseball sport, sign painting and labelling, this is a font that is more than suitable for college logos, apparel, sports team branding and anything else you want to create for your college designs.
Included in this set are alternates, ligatures, swash & dingbats, as well as a vector bonus pack.
19. Drone Ranger Pro
The Drone Ranger Pro carries the feeling of a dystopian, futurist design movement with its bold letterform structure and chiseled corners. It rests somewhere between old & new and would be a strong college font.
Features include a full uppercase alphabet with alternate glyphs, varying stroke weights for better legibility, improved glyphs & numerals, fractions and a full set of Adobe Latin 4 diacritics & basic Cyrillic.
20. Whiskey Joint
Probably the most apt student driven font on this list, Whiskey Joint is a vintage font inspired by the aesthetic of some of the most common vices, whiskey and weed.That aside, this font is a bold font that can stand alone in a college.
Coming in four styles: regular, outline, worn and worn outline, Whiskey Joint works best as a display face, but does also work as smaller body copy. This display font works great for logotypes, headlines, titles, callouts and other short lines of text.
21. Hallway Vintage Script
Hallway inspired from vintage script combined with modern style, it's a suite for adventure or classic collegiate sports.
It's a suitable font for logo, product packages, labels and any other college application.
This set includes Hallway Script, Hallway ornaments. regular stylistic alternates, ligatures & swash and multi-language support, uppercase numerals & punctuation.
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