A statement style that will never go out of fashion is vibrant retro designs, from rainbow hippy patterns from the 1970s to striking geometric elements of the 1980s. We have chosen a wide variety of colorful retro designs in a range of styles, whether you are creating unique t-shirt designs or vibrant branding for your business.

This article will feature a range of fonts, graphics, backgrounds, brushes and much more to inspire you to bring a new 2023 energy to the classic retro look.

In this article you will find the best Colorful Retro Designs:

1. The Beardy
2. Wicked Hearts Retro Serif
3. 1971 – Retro Graphic Collection
4. Halau Serif Font Family
5. 1980s Retro Fashion Patterns
6. Thunderstorm + Extras
7. Peaceful Collection
8. Halau – A Fancy Font Family
9. Saturday Night Font Family
10. 10. Retro Set Effects Brushes Gradients

1. The Beardy

Introducing a new elegant retro serif display typeface called The Beardy. Inspired from serif didone combined with flourish typography and 60s-70s pop culture.

The Beardy typeface can be used for logo, headings, branding, magazine, cover album, book cover, movie, apparel design, quotes, invitations, flyer, poster, greeting cards, product packaging etc.

The Beardy
The Beardy

The Beardy

Included in this set:

  • 1 .OTF File (The Beardy Display Pro)
  • 1 .TTF File (The Beardy Display Pro)

2. Wicked Hearts Retro Serif

Wicked Hearts is a chunky serif font with an edge – it’s a cool modern take on a retro classic.

Wicked Hearts is packed with plenty of alternates and ligatures to really bring it to life, and give you a wide range of customisation options. The font looks great on retro T-shirt designs, art prints and posters or even for giving your edgy business stationary a cool modern look.

Wicked Hearts Retro Serif
Wicked Hearts Retro Serif

Wicked Hearts Retro Serif

Included in this set:

  • Wicked Hearts – a chunky retro serif font containing upper & lowercase characters, numerals, a large range of punctuation & special characters.
  • Wicked Hearts Italic – a second, italicised version of the Wicked Hearts Serif font.
  • Alternate Characters – many letters of this font have multiple alternate versions (see image). In order to access each one, simply make sure ‘Standard Ligatures’ are enabled, and follow your letter with a number. For example, typing ‘A1, A2, A3, A4’ will generate the 4 alternate versions for capital A.
  • Ligatures – there are 12 lowercase ligatures (double letters) included. In order to access these, simply make sure ‘Standard Ligatures’ are enabled, and the ligatures will automatically generate as you type.

3. 1971 – Retro Graphic Collection

Introducing the new colorful graphic collection for everyone who loves the 70’s style. With Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On?” and John Lennon’s “Imagine” songs in the ears and this incredible era’s posters style. Sunshine and riot, for an absolutely lovely and peaceful mood. Immerse yourself in these wonderful feelings.

More than 170 graphic objects, 41 seamless patterns, 3 premade PSD posters, 16 ready-to-use compositions and 70’s style typographic objects. Use it for your interior designs such as wall art prints or t-shirt and stickers design.s.

All of the collection is drawn by hand.

1971 – Retro Graphic Collection
1971 – Retro Graphic Collection

1971 – Retro Graphic Collection

Included in this set:

  • More than 170 graphic objects
  • 41 seamless patterns
  • 3 pre-made PSD posters
  • 16 ready-to-use compositions
  • 70’s style typographic objects (Peace & Love words)

4. Halau Serif Font Family

Introducing a wonderful mid-century modern font family with five widths – Halau Serif. A bright and striking font family, to give your designs a playful cinematic feel. The design is inspired by the old style of gameshows and TV of the 80s, giving a fun, nostalgic feel.

Classic mid-century serif with a characteristic cartoon look. Perfect for your summer projects. More fun, more sun, and more retro-modern! Play with it and get a really cool retro-lettering style.

Halau Serif Font Family
Halau Serif Font Family

Halau Serif Font Family

Included in this set:

  • Halau Serif – five widths: Thin, Light, Regular, Medium and Bold

5. 1980s Retro Fashion Patterns

Awesome eighties patterns and prints for use on your own fabrics and products. Take your design work to an 80s extreme with this collection of retro themed seamless patterns. With colors so wild they should come with a heath warning, these designs perfectly capture the 1980s aesthetic for a brand new synth-wave generation!

In addition to the 16 standard designs, you’ll also get a further 12 patterns that are great for use as simple backgrounds or for adding even more detail and variation.

Taking inspiration from the classic movies, music, advertising and culture of the era, these patterns have been developed with authenticity in mind from the very start. Made with hand-drawn brush strokes, textures and ink effects, and boasting professionally illustrated elements, you’ll not find a more kick-ass collection of patterns on the market!

1980s Retro Fashion Patterns
1980s Retro Fashion Patterns

1980s Retro Fashion Patterns

Included in this set:

  • 16 1980s Fashion Patterns – Vector AICC & CS1, Photoshop .PAT Library File and .JPG Swatches
  • 12 Bonus Patterns – Vector AICC & CS1, Photoshop .PAT Library File and .JPG Swatches
  • Installation instructions for Photoshop .PAT file included.

6. Thunderstorm + Extras

Introducing Thunderstorm, the hand-made brush typeface for all your retro needs. This amazing font was inspired by 80s-90s music, retro, disco, grunge, and pop culture, the most vibrant era of fashion and advertising.

Along with this striking retro font, you get extra funky retro illustrations to enhance your designs. You can use the font and extras together to create fun and colorful posters, logos, clothing, books, invitations and so much more!

Thunderstorm + Extras
Thunderstorm + Extras

Thunderstorm + Extras

Included in this set:

  • Regular and Monoline font files in .OTF and .TTF
  • Cool retro graphics to add to your designs (.AI)

7. Peaceful Collection

Introducing the Peaceful and Positive collection! A huge retro design pack of ready-made graphics: patterns and prints.

Also you will receive a big variety of individual elements: illustrations, compositions and floral elements. This is a great addition to create wedding branding, stationery, greetings cards, photo frames and other beautiful things. The graphics are ideal for creating a brand identity of your shop or your small store. Or if you suddenly need to decorate your room or create a wedding invitation. Add the beautiful hand painted elements and florals to any project!

Peaceful Collection
Peaceful Collection

Peaceful Collection

Included in this set:

  • 98 Color Elements and 103 Line Elements (Black&White) – .AI, .EPS and .PNG with transparent background
  • 13 Gradient Backgrounds – .JPG
  • 8 Sky Backgrounds – .JPG
  • 6 Colorful Backgrounds – .AI, .EPS and .JPG
  • 16 Seamless Patterns – .AI, .EPS, .JPG and .PNG with transparent background
  • 10 Mandala (Color & Line) – .AI, .EPS and .PNG with transparent background
  • 8 Sun (Color & Line) – .AI, .EPS and .PNG with transparent background
  • 32 Ready to Use Prints – .JPG
  • 3 Compositions – .AI, .EPS and .PNG with transparent background

8. Halau – A Fancy Font Family

This fancy font family is perfect for spring and summer designs! With a vibrant, vintage feel and bold lettering, the Halau font will bring warmth and sunshine to any project.

The retro, cartoon style of the 60s or 70s advertising and Hawaii style posters has inspired this vivid font. Combine different width styles for outstanding typography design, great for wall art, clothing designs and festival or event advertising.

Halau – A Fancy Font Family
Halau – A Fancy Font Family

Halau – A Fancy Font Family

Included in this set:

  • Full set alphabet with symbols, numerals and punctuation
  • Alternates
  • 36 Tiki style graphic objects

9. Saturday Night Font Family

Introducing a new retro font family called Saturday Night. Embracing the 70 and 80s disco music. Saturday Night comes with 7 fonts with special features such as stylistic alternates, swashes, and ligatures.

The contracting chunky and slick fonts will make for eye-catching designs, such as packaging and posters or even art prints to decorate your home or office. The uplifting colors and style are typical of this era and help recreate the glitzy lights of the disco ball.

Saturday Night Font Family
Saturday Night Font Family

Saturday Night Font Family

Included in this set:

  • Saturday Night Interlock Expand
  • Saturday Night Interlock Extrude
  • Saturday Night Interlock Hollow
  • Saturday Night Script Expand
  • Saturday Night Script Hollow
  • Saturday Night Script Regular

10. Retro Set Effects Brushes Gradients

The big retro set gives you an extensive collection of vibrant elements and graphics for your creative designs. Included is a retro color palette of textures and gradients from the style of the 50s through to the 70s, halftone and noise effect brushes and holographic backgrounds.

A huge package of objects in a retro style with preservation of texture, a great addition to collage making or to add a funky twist to packaging and advertising.

Retro Set Effects Brushes Gradients
Retro Set Effects Brushes Gradients

Retro Set Effects Brushes Gradients

Included in this set:

  • 40 Gradients in retro style
  • 22 Holography and retro backgrounds
  • More than 40 objects (people, houses, cars, interiors, etc.)
  • 23 abstract brusheswith halftone effect and noise,
  • Palette for quick color matching

11. Retro Vibes Abstract Paper

Retro Vibes Abstract Paper – a collection of retro designs including abstract landscapes, sunrises and rainbows with a retro groovy hippie style. Leopard/zebra skin and grunge scanned paper in terracotta, bright yellow, orange, earthy, deep blue, pale green and yellow lemon colors.

You will find 25 hand-painted pre-made posters and 34 craft sheets of paper, a total of 59 handmade and carefully scanned paper textures at all. Retro decor elements is such a fun trend and will no doubt give your designs a striking look.

Retro Vibes Abstract Paper
Retro Vibes Abstract Paper

Retro Vibes Abstract Paper

Included in this set:

  • 25 Pre-made Retro Paper (JPG: 6000×4000 px, 300 dpi)
  • 34 Paper Textures (JPG: 6000×4000 px, 300 dpi)

12. 126 Posters & Elements Memphis Set

Introducing the bold 126 Posters & Elements Memphis Set! A vivid set of graphics with a retro geometric feel.

This big trendy mega pack is a unique bright collection of 34 vector posters and backgrounds and 92 original vector elements for your design. It’s a colorful collection with simple geometric shapes in an 80s and 90s Memphis style and is perfectly suited for greeting cards, stickers, banners, posters, web, social media, brand-book, business card, email, print and more! The pack is designed to help you create fresh concepts really fast!

126 Posters & Elements Memphis Set
126 Posters & Elements Memphis Set

126 Posters & Elements Memphis Set

Included in this set:

  • .EPS10 files (34 posters, 92 design elements), RGB
  • .AI files (34 posters, 92 design elements), RGB
  • 34 .JPG posters (various size with high dimension, 300 ppi), RGB
  • 92 .PNG design elements (various size with high dimension, 300 ppi), RGB

13. 1980’s Retro Design Templates

Create awesome retro posters inspired by the colorful 1980s style. Editable poster templates and illustrations inspired by 1980s style.

Packed with illustrations, patterns and ready-made designs, this new graphics pack will have you up and running in minutes with your own epic creations. Everything is supplied in fully editable vector format allowing you to customise any colour, line, shape or layout however you like. Check out our visuals for ideas to get you started. We’ve got birthday cards, gig posters, movie nights, 80s gym flyers and more!

1980’s Retro Design Templates
1980’s Retro Design Templates

1980’s Retro Design Templates

Included in this set:

  • 8 Fully Editable Retro Design Templates
  • Includes a varied selection of seamless patterns and textures
  • Individual Vector Illustrations including a Walkman, BMX, VHS Tape and Retro Phone
  • Help file with link to download all fonts used in visuals (free from Google Fonts)

14. Stay Retro – Script Font

Look no further for a script font with a touch of retro style. A perfect font for creating headings that stand out and inspire creativity, imagination, and endless fun.

This bubble script font can be used for a host of different content needs and projects. An excellent choice to add the right amount of street vibe and playfulness. Create gorgeous printed quotes, standout packaging, or beautiful t-shirts! You can even use it to create amazing headings, logos, menus, and social media graphics.

Stay Retro – Script Font
Stay Retro – Script Font

Stay Retro – Script Font

Included in this set:

  • Standard Ligatures
  • Stylistic Sets
  • Swashes
  • Multilingual Support
  • PUA Encoded
  • Numerals and Punctuation

15. A Joyful Retro Graphic Collection

It’s time to embrace summer with full color, creativity and fun. Contrasting elements are combined in fun and spontaneous ways. Graphics and patterns carry a maximalist vibe with clashing patterns, summer icons, retro florals and colors that are light-hearted and upbeat.

This vibrant carefree collection comprises of beautiful groovy seamless patterns, beach and botanical icons, quotes that prioritize wellbeing, euphoric posters and background in bright colors to induce a feel good factor.

Make your own collection or use these premade graphics and prints for a variety of creative project like party decorations, greeting cards, invitation cards, cupcake toppers, favor tags, label stickers, scrapbooking, stationary, gift wrap, wedding invites etc.

A Joyful Retro Graphic Collection
A Joyful Retro Graphic Collection

A Joyful Retro Graphic Collection

Included in this set:

  • 92 Clipart Elements – Format – Ai, EPS, PNG
  • 5 Pre-made Graphic Illustration- Format – Ai, EPS, PNG
  • 21 Summer Quotes- Format- Ai, EPS, PNG
  • 18 Seamless Pattern – Format- AI, EPS, JPG – 12″ x 12″-3600 x 3600 px , 300 dpi RGB
  • 06 Wall Art- Ai, EPS, JPG, PNG
  • 10 Background- Format- Ai, EPS, JPG, PNG – A2 Size- 16.4″ x 23.5″, 300 dpi RGB

16. Groovy 1970s Inspired Retro Patterns

These Groovy 1970s Inspired Retro pattern tiles were inspired by memories of the 1970s. Using a classic 1960s – 1970s colour palette of orange, lime green, tan, pink and brown to create a set of fun pattern tiles.

Each tile is seamless and can be used individually or mix and match them to create your own unique patterns. There are also 36 individual PNGs of motifs of flowers and geometric shapes for you to make your own elements or patterns. They would be perfect to use for themed wedding stationery, soft furnishings, poster design, branding and stationery sets.

Groovy 1970s Inspired Retro Patterns
Groovy 1970s Inspired Retro Patterns

Groovy 1970s Inspired Retro Patterns

Included in this set:

  • 29 seamless pattern tiles .JPG, 600 x 600 px, 300dpi
  • Adobe Photoshop Pattern (.PAT) of all 29 pattern tiles
  • Adobe Illustrator .AI file with all 29 pattern tiles
  • Vector .eps file 29 seamless pattern tiles
  • 36 geometric and floral motifs .PNG
  • Adobe Illustrator .AI file 36 geometric and floral motifs
  • Vector .eps file 36 geometric and floral motifs

17. Psyche Lover – Layered Retro Font

Psyche lover is a retro font serif based that contains stylish alternates! You can make a unique branding retro and psychedelic designs with this fonts.

These stylish bold fonts also include extrude and outline style that compliment the regular style for more retro looks! These fonts are suitable to use for poster, branding, merchandise, and any retro style! The “Love” shape also included in this font as an alternates for character “o”. You can see all the alternates from preview above!!

Psyche Lover – Layered Retro Font
Psyche Lover – Layered Retro Font

Psyche Lover – Layered Retro Font

Included in this set:

  • Psyche lover Regular (.OTF/.TTF)
  • Psyche lover Outline (.OTF/.TTF)
  • Psyche lover Extrude (.OTF/.TTF)

18. Pasta – Retro Serif Font

Say hi to “Pasta” retro serif typeface. Inspired by 70’s design styles, a good decade where we saw many calm colors with groovy, bold, Stylish & 3 Dimensional logo displays.

The font really brings a good statement to your logo design and can be the image of a design. Pasta is very unique and easy to apply to any media; t-shirts, posters, sign boards, and social media needs.

Pasta – Retro Serif Font
Pasta – Retro Serif Font

Pasta – Retro Serif Font

Included in this set:

  • Pasta Regular OTF
  • Pasta Regular TTF
  • Pasta Regular WOFF
  • Pasta Regular WOFF2
  • Pasta 3D OTF
  • Pasta 3D TTF
  • Pasta 3D WOFF
  • Pasta 3D WOFF2

19. Neo Retro Font Plus Extras

Bring some loud, bright, and nostalgic fun to your designs with the Neo Retro font pack! It’s packed full of high energy design goodies including fonts, icons, text styles & patterns.

Create bold, vibrant, 90s-inspired designs in just a few clicks—giving you more time to hang out at the mall, go to a drive-in, kick-ass at the arcade or go make the perfect mix-tape (you get the idea).

Neo Retro Font Plus Extras
Neo Retro Font Plus Extras

Neo Retro Font Plus Extras

Included in this set:

  • Neo Retro Font • A high energy font with clean edges and sharp ends. An all caps font, but with a larger and smaller variation included as upper and lowercase sets.
  • Neo Retro Alt Font • This is a second version of the Neo Retro Font, with a completely new set of upper & lowercase characters drawn in the same style. If you wanted to avoid letters looking the same each time to recreate a custom-made style, or try a different word shape, simply switch to this font for an additional layout option.
  • Neo Retro Icons Font • A set of 36 fun, hand-drawn icons designed to match with the Neo Retro font. Includes doodles, shapes, zig-zags, underline swashes & more. Simply install as a separate font and type any A-Z or a-j letter to generate an icon.
  • 6 Text Styles (Requires Photoshop) • A bonus set of 6 Neo-Retro text effects. Simply double click the ‘Neo Retro Text Styles.asl’ file to install the styles to Photoshop. Apply them to your text layer with a single click by selecting each one from the Styles panel.
  • 4 Patterns (Requires Photoshop) • Yes, even more stuff! 4 Seamless patterns are included to use as background elements for your designs – these have been created using the Icons font. Simply double click the ‘Neo Retro Patterns.pat’ file to install the patterns to Photoshop. Apply the patterns to a new layer by selecting one in the Patterns panel.

20. Bayside Font

This condensed sans-serif font made by Indieground Team inspired by the summer retro atmospheres of the 80s and 90s. It can be used in elegant contexts reminiscent of Miami Deco Art of the 80s but, at the same time, it looks amazing with the neon color gradients of the 90s.

You can also use it for your modern artworks to optimize space and is perfect for your heavy titles. It highlights at best and gives boldness to the typography of your artworks. This regular version includes the 3 different condensed font-weights with their full characters set shown in the previews.

Bayside Font
Bayside Font

Bayside Font

Included in this set:

  • BaysideRegular.otf
  • BaysideRegular.ttf
  • BaysideCondensed.otf
  • BaysideCondensed.ttf
  • BaysideUltraCondensed.otf
  • BaysideUltraCondensed.ttf

21. Colour Pop Abstract Backgrounds

Get creative with this collection of vibrant, fun, hand-painted abstract backgrounds. A bright and colorful series of retro inspired, unique textures will add a POP of colour to your branding, packaging design, cards & invitations, social media posts, website backgrounds and much more.

High quality, perfect for any print or digital use. Elevate your creativity with COLOUR POP!

Colour Pop Abstract Backgrounds
Colour Pop Abstract Backgrounds

Colour Pop Abstract Backgrounds

Included in this set:

  • 10x Abstract Backgrounds 10×20 inch (6000x4800px) JPG at 300dpi
  • 12 x Mini crops backgrounds 8×10 inch (2400x3000px) JPG at 300dpi
  • 10x Instagram Post Square Size (1080x1080px) JPG at 300dpi
  • 10x Instagram Story Size (1080x1920px) JPG at 300dpi

22. 1980s Retro Logos Design Kit

Create your own awesome logo designs inspired by the colorful styles of the 1980s. A collection of fully customisable logo designs inspired by the feel good themes of the eighties.

Bright and colourful designs perfect for spreading positive messages across social media, custom merchandise, posters, branding projects and much, much more! Inside this pack you’ll find 10 editable logos with a simple, easy to use layer structure and useful illustrated elements and seamless patterns that you’ll use again and again.

In minutes you can create feel good messages for your Instagram followers, or even start selling your own range of old school t-shirts, notebooks, cards and prints. Maybe you need some quick branding for that 80s style gym?

1980s Retro Logos Design Kit
1980s Retro Logos Design Kit

1980s Retro Logos Design Kit

Included in this set:

  • 10 Fully editable 1980s logo designs
  • Includes a varied selection of seamless patterns, textures and illustrations
  • Adobe Illustrator .AI CC (native) and CS1
  • Adobe Photoshop .PSD (layered)
  • High resolution .JPGs (without text- suitable for most editing software)
  • Transparent .PNGs (without text)

23. Funkydori 70s Typeface Family

Funkydori is a typographic homage to that groovy decade, updated for 21st century designs. With the rich, retro color palette and extravagant features, this font will be a lively addition to your designs, creating a unique brand identity to your independent business or quirky prints to add nostalgia to the home.

Funkydori’s bodacious letterforms can be further enhanced with extravagant swash capitals, alternates, and endings. Ornaments and tile-able patterns are also included.

Funkydori 70s Typeface Family
Funkydori 70s Typeface Family

Funkydori 70s Typeface Family

Included in this set:

  • Funkydori .OTF/ .TTF
  • Funkydori Bold .OTF/ .TTF
  • PDF Guide

24. 80s Retro Geometry And Gradients Vector Collection

This retro geometric and gradients collection brings an abstract element to any project. This collection includes abstract geometric compositions, pre-made prints, gradient background with grainy texture and without texture and also isolated geometric shapes.

The vibrant pastel tones can add a playful look to a variety of designs, the graphics are sure to make your business branding stand out or add a funky style to your workspace.

80s Retro Geometry And Gradients Vector Collection
80s Retro Geometry And Gradients Vector Collection

80s Retro Geometry And Gradients Vector Collection

Included in this set:

  • 16 abstract compositions with grainy texture – AI, PNG formats, transparent background, 300 dpi;
  • 16 abstract compositions without texture – AI, PNG formats, transparent background, 300 dpi;
  • 8 pre-made prints with grainy texture – AI, JPG, PDF formats, A4 raster files size, 300 dpi;
  • 8 pre-made prints with without texture – AI, JPG, PDF formats, A4 raster files size, 300 dpi;
  • 16 gradient backgrounds with grainy texture – AI, JPG, PDF formats, A4 raster files size, 300 dpi;
  • 16 gradient backgrounds without texture – AI, JPG, PDF formats, A4 raster files size, 300 dpi;
  • 133 isolated geometric elements – AI, PNG formats, transparent background, 300 dpi.

25. Retro Vibes Art 70s 90s

Introducing Retro Vibes Art 70s 90s – in this set you will find; retro smiles, flowers, positive quotes, retro patterns, rainbows in retro groovy hippie style, hippie camp emblems, retro lettering, mushroom clipart, butterflies, hearts, vintage textures and much more.

You will find 85 retro icons, 20 pre-made posters, 6 vintage retro patterns, 12 retro digital papers, rainbows and retro decor elements. Psychedelic hippie retro groovy style is a fun, fresh trend, perfect to create exclusive art prints, packaging, greetings cards and stickers.

Retro Vibes Art 70s 90s
Retro Vibes Art 70s 90s

Retro Vibes Art 70s 90s

Included in this set:

  • 85 Retro Icons (.eps; .ai; .PNG: 3000×3000 px, 300 dpi)
  • 20 Pre-Made Posters (.eps; JPG: 14,8x21cm A5 format, 300 dpi)
  • 12 Retro Textures (JPG: 6000×4000 px, 300 dpi)
  • 6 Seamless Patterns (.pat for photoshop; .ai; png; JPG: 6000×4000 px, 300 dpi)

Best Colorful Retro Designs for 2023

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