In football it’s not just about the touchdown or the points, the whole game is a performance. With that in mind, we wanted to inspire you to create the best merchandising and branding for all your sporting needs. Make your designs the main event with the help of these bold and cool football fonts.
Don’t fumble around searching for a way to create the perfect team jersey or advertising for the next game, check out our selection of the best sporty fonts to beat the competition.
In this article you will find the best Football Fonts:
1. The Legend Font Trio: American Typography
2. The Pretender Collection
3. The Bartender Collection
4. Milestone Typeface
5. Montana Font Family
6. Bronzier Font Family
7. Bandbox | Athletic Script Typeface
8. Belyard Layered Script Font
9. Drone Ranger Display Font
10. Courage Union – Athletic Slab
1. The Legend Font Trio: American Typography
This font trio was crafted by hand under the inspiration of traditional American typography and lifestyle. In particular, the style of football fonts you typically see on jerseys and flags at the game.
The collection includes Script, Sans and Serif, which perfectly cooperating for creating a vintage mood. I have designed some examples below, so you can see how they work together. It can be used for different purposes: lettering and logotype, labels, t-shirts, product packaging, invitations, advertising and any key text in the design.
The Legend Font Trio: American Typography
Included in this set:
- 3 fonts in .OTF & .TTF format.
- 8 textures (what were used in design examples of this presentation).
- Small instruction about Legend Script using.
2. The Pretender Collection
Proudly Introducing you my new font collection – The Pretender. A cool mix of sports fonts from football to baseball.
This collection was born and inspired by American sign painting typography and vintage package design. Wide range of styles for a wide range of use. This collection gives you awesome vintage look effect, which one will add the hand-touch feeling for your project. Light, regular, medium and bold widths goes as sans and serifs and normal or expanded! And, of course, vintage candy script! But that’s not all – every font comes as a clear and pressed style! So, you get a 34 authentic typefaces!
Included in this set:
- Wide range of styles – sans, serif, script
- Normal or pressed
- Four widths
- 34 typefaces total
3. The Bartender Collection
The Bartender Collection is a 14 font family – including multiple fonts that could work together seamlessly. Six different typefaces come with clear and pressed styles. In the bold style of sporting fonts to add a striking effect to any logo or design.
The Bartender Collection gives you many variations to hit the target in your design projects, and it will make a great choice as a football jersey font, from varsity teams all the way to the NFL.
You can also create vintage looks graphics with pressed style and serif fonts, or you can use sans and be more modern. Perfectly for branding, prints, t-shirts or posters.
Included in this set:
- The Bartender Collection
4. Milestone Typeface
Introducing Milestone Typeface, inspired by Vintage baseball and football lettering, making it perfect for sign painting and posters.
This strong and classic all American style football font will be suitable for jerseys, logo, product names packages, labels, old fashioned coffee shops, bars and everything with specific characteristics.
Included in this set:
- Milestone script
5. Montana Font Family
Presenting the new sans-serif font family – Montana. A very simple typeface with roughen and pressed effects. This font family will work great for all of your projects – print, logos, cards, business cards, interiors and many more.
The inspiration for this strong font came from the mountains, therefore the name Montana felt appropriate. There are also undertones of bold sports lettering, like you see in football jerseys and memorabilia. Enjoy using it as a strong display football font. And also as a bonus for you: four vector mountain peaks!
Included in this set:
- 3 .OTF Fonts (regular, roughen, press)
- 1 .EPS with 4 vector mountain peaks
- 4 .PNG files of mountain peaks with transparent background
6. Bronzier Font Family
Bronzier is designed with a strong and sharp serif that gives more manly looks. Sporty, vintage and modern taste at the same time that’s mean you can use this font family for many design styles. Inspired by old-school typography, but with a modern style.
This sporty foot will be impactful on any of your designs, lending itself perfectly as a football number font, but can also be used on a variety of other projects cluding; logos, logotype, apparel, tags, labels, posters, stickers, branding and more.
Included in this set:
- Bronzier Medium
- Bronzier Medium Italic
- Bronzier Bold
- Bronzier Rusty
- Bronzier Outline
- Bronzier Embossed
- Bronzier Shadow
- Bronzier Stencil
7. Bandbox | Athletic Script Typeface
Inspired by classic sport logo lockups, 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.
The athletic script will be a strong addition to any project from football team logos, posters and t-shirt designs.
Bandbox | Athletic Script Typeface
Included in this set:
- Upper (A-Z) and lower case (a-z) characters
- Numbers (0-9)
- Standard punctuation and glyphs
- Alternates, Ligatures and Swashes
- Multilingual support
- OTF file format
- Free updates and feature additions
8. Belyard Layered Script Font
Introducing a new layered bold script font called Belyard. This font is inspired by bold script logotype and retro sport fonts.
Belyard has a vintage feel but a bold impact, and is ideal for sporting branding ranging from logotype, posters, badges, and it will look great especially as a football jersey font.
Included in this set:
- Belyard. OTF, .TTF
- Belyard Extured. OTF, .TTF
- Uppercase
- Lowercase
- Number
- Punctuation
- Multilingual
- PUA Encode
- Opentype
9. Drone Ranger Display Font
Drone Ranger is a geometric display family that includes 9 various styles for your design needs. Included in the family is a Sans version, a Serif version, and a Special Decorative version, and each of these have their own clean, oblique, and inked styles.
Drone Ranger lends itself perfectly to sports design, logos, posters, packaging, brochures, t-shirts, and so much more. Make an impact with this football font on your varsity team’s new kit and merch!
Included in this set:
- Drone Ranger Sans (01) Regular (.TTF + .OTF)
- Drone Ranger Sans (01) Oblique (.TTF + .OTF)
- Drone Ranger Sans (01) Inked (.TTF + .OTF)
- Drone Ranger Serif (02) Regular (.TTF + .OTF)
- Drone Ranger Serif (02) Oblique (.TTF + .OTF)
- Drone Ranger Serif (02) Inked (.TTF + .OTF)
- Drone Ranger Special (03) Regular (.TTF + .OTF)
- Drone Ranger Special (03) Oblique (.TTF + .OTF)
- Drone Ranger Special (03) Inked (.TTF + .OTF)
10. Courage Union – Athletic Slab
Inspired by vintage sportswear, The Courage Union font is designed in slab serif style with a vintage athletic feel. There are six varieties: regular, rough, halftone, outline, outline rough, and outline halftone.
Ensuring carefully crafted styles result from the use of this font. This font can be used for anything from logos to social media content to cheering for your favorite sports team as a football number font on your team’s jerseys.
Courage Union – Athletic Slab
Included in this set:
- Courage Union Regular (OTF, TTF, WOFF)
- Courage Union Rough (OTF, TTF, WOFF)
- Courage Union Halftone (OTF, TTF, WOFF)
- Courage Union Outline (OTF, TTF, WOFF)
- Courage Union Outline Rough (OTF, TTF, WOFF)
- Courage Union Outline Halftone (OTF, TTF, WOFF)
11. Leophard Font Family
Presenting Leophard font family – the modern slab serif which is inspired by sporty design and vintage styles. This font is made with tenacious basic shapes, the visuality of strength, old school movement, and a modern minimalist style.
This modern bold font can work great for any branding of sports teams, adding the font to your designs will ensure a knock out impact.
Included in this set:
- Leophard Bold Inline (.OTF, .TTF)
- Leophard Bold (.OTF, .TTF)
- Leophard Outline (.OTF, .TTF)
- Leophard Regular (.OTF, .TTF)
- Leophard Shadow (.OTF, .TTF)
- Leophard Stencil (.OTF, .TTF)
12. Flanders Script
Introducing Flanders, a bold and modern script that takes inspiration from vintage sporting merchandise and sports strips. In particular the American football and baseball style that is known worldwide.
Flanders script will fulfil your design needs for sporty themes, logotype, quotes, wordmark, etc. Give your team’s branding a fresh new life with this font.
Included in this set:
- Flanders Script Flanders
- Regular OTF & TTF Flanders Shadow OTF & TTF
- The Flanders Shadow is a complementary font that allows you to create extrude / shadow effect in a snap without needing any graphic software tool!
13. Uni North Font
UNI North Font is a handcrafted vintage and slab serif. Inspired by university sports, retro posters, and magazines, postcards, and ads from the 70’s to the ’90s.
Just as the name suggests, Uni North font will be a perfect addition to your favourite team’s sport kit, and will look great especially as a football jersey font.
The font comes in 9 styles. From Regular to Italic, College variation, and many others. and stays in your memory once you see it. It’s also ideal for display text, print, and also for user interfaces, mobile devices, web design, and posters, with a set of optimal characters for your design in any layout. It looks especially great on a large scale, although it still carries it at smaller point sizes.
Included in this set:
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The font comes in 9 styles. From Regular to Italic, College variation, and many others.
14. Ferguson Slab Font Family
Ferguson is a geometric slab serif which is made with a mono-line concept and versatile style. Inspired by old western and magazine designs, vintage sports merch and college football jerseys. Ferguson has a straight and consistent line to give neat looks.
Ferguson is made for editorial and formal purposes, but still flexible to use it in other typographic projects. This font family has 6 weights and 2 widths that gives you many options on your designs projects.
Included in this set:
- Ferguson Light .TTF & .OTF
- Ferguson Light Italic .TTF & .OTF
- Ferguson Normal .TTF & .OTF
- Ferguson Italic .TTF & .OTF
- Ferguson Medium .TTF & .OTF
- Ferguson Medium Italic .TTF & .OTF
- Ferguson Bold .TTF & .OTF
- Ferguson Bold Italic .TTF & .OTF
- Ferguson Black .TTF & .OTF
- Ferguson Black Italic .TTF & .OTF
- Ferguson Ultra Black .TTF & .OTF
15. Redoura Script
Introducing Redoura, a script typeface inspired by 70s and script sports font styles, making it an amazing font for logotype/wordmark, especially for sports theme logos.
The script font pairs perfectly with a serif font, creating a dynamic look for your branding or advertising for college football or baseball teams branding.
Included in this set:
- Redoura Regular
- Redoura Bold
16. Mudhead Family | Sports Display Font
Presenting Mudhead, a condensed sport inspired upper and lowercase typeface. Mudhead has five weights, twenty types including: slab serif, sans serif and matching italics. This typeface has a clean and athletic look, all twenty fonts have 336 glyphs and extensive Latin script support.
Mudhead is bold, vibrant with sharp slab serifs and competitive appearance, therefore excellent to use for headers, logos, captions and posters, especially for the sports branding industry as a bold football font, but just as good for any other projects.
Mudhead Family | Sports Display Font
Included in this set:
- Mudhead Sans Thin / Italic
- Mudhead Sans Light / Italic
- Mudhead Sans Regular / Italic (REGULAR FREE)
- Mudhead Sans Bold / Italic
- Mudhead Sans Black / Italic
- Mudhead Slab Thin / Italic
- Mudhead Slab Light / Italic
- Mudhead Slab Regular / Italic
- Mudhead Slab Bold / Italic
- Mudhead Slab Black / Italic
- OTF file format
- Long term support
- Free features for the next updates
- Extensive Latin script language support
- Upper and lowercase font
17. Oxvemia Typeface
OXVEMIA is a vintage font with a college-style texture. With 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 you can use the strong font as a college football font to create cool logos and jersey designs.
Included in this set:
- Oxvemia.otf
- Oxvemia.ttf
- Oxvemia.woff
- Oxvemia.woff2
18. Barlock – Strong Display
Introducing Barlock a strong display font, inspired by sports design and old school typography. Carefully designed with the curviness of letterforms but not cubistic, and with a bold weight that is suitable for an elegant-strong design.
Barlock is an all-caps font equipped with a bunch of alternate characters that you can mix and match to your design concept. A perfect choice for logo, posters, apparel, labels, football jersey font, headline, quotes, books, packaging, and many more!
Included in this set:
- Barlock.ttf
- Barlock.otf
- Uppercase
- Smallcaps
- Numbers
- Symbols & punctuation
- Multilingual
- PUA Encoded Stylistic set 01-03
19. Blockhead Nova Sports Font
Happy to introduce to you the new upgrade of Blockhead, named Blockhead Nova. This robust, sporty font was improved, now having a lowercase alphabet. This strong font was designed to draw attention and highlight any project that requires a bold feel.
Design-wise Blockhead Nova is a powerful font, created to add a vibrant touch to your sport-inspired designs, making it a perfect football font for your team’s branding.
This typeface has three weights, geometric thick strokes with a thin, sharp slab serif in the upper part of the letterform. It is perfect for industrial or sports logo designs, bold posters, headers even for small and block text. Highlight your work with the vibrant Blockhead Nova!
Included in this set:
- Blockhead Nova Light / FREE (personal use only)
- Blockhead Nova Regular
- Blockhead Nova Bold
- OTF file format
- Long term support
- Free features for the next updates
- Extensive Latin script language support
- Upper and lowercase font
20. Knucklehead Deco | Sport Font
Stand out from the crowd and spread your message across with a creative font family! The source of inspiration for this special font family was the American sport culture. This font offers the opportunity to communicate in a unique manner by wrapping up the messages in this one of a kind font family. Traditional, yet modern, the Knucklehead font family has that vintage touch that can really draw attention. It is suited for out of the box, modern communication, packaged with a vintage touch.
The Knucklehead font family can become an important asset in various projects that can benefit from that vintage sport touch. It is suited for design professionals who are looking for a change in their vision, who want to experiment and discover new alternatives to make their designs stand out and create that strong impression for the audience. From logo designs, to posters this font family can bring that special vibe, that only small details treated right can.
Included in this set:
Knucklehead Sans
- Light
- Regular – FREE
- Bold
- Black
- Ultra Black
Knucklehead Slab
- Light
- Regular
- Bold
- Black
- Ultra Black
Best American Football Fonts
We hope the adrenaline is pumping and you’re ready to tackle any project with this dynamic selection of cool football fonts! Your designs will be sure to stand out from the crowd if you choose any of these great fonts. If you are looking for more inspiration then see some related articles below.
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