Choosing the best font is one of the most important parts of any t-shirt design. For custom printing, the text you choose to feature in your logo or design conveys important information about your business, brand, group, or event making the font selection just as important! If you don’t believe us, imagine making a shirt for a professional organization but using Comic Sans as the font. The best fonts for t-shirt designs are typically bold, distinctive, easy to read, and help communicate your message both with and without the exact verbiage!
Also Read: How to Choose the Best Font for Your Custom Design
To help you choose the best font for your design, we’ve compiled a list of the top 30 best fonts to use when it comes to custom designs!
Thirsty Rough is a great font for all types of custom printing and doubles as the font for our official logo! This font looks great both solid and distressed and is a great choice if you’re looking for a clean cursive font. It also adds an almost vintage feel to the design!
2. Oswald
Oswald is a great basic font. It’s clean, not too thick or thin, and is very easy to read! This font is great if you want your design to be simple and legible while looking sleek. Oswald and similar fonts are great for businesses and designs that want a more professional look!
Abstract Groovy is a great font to give your design a retro feel! This decorative font is great for large designs or small designs with short words. It’s fun, unique, and perfect for anyone looking to get that 70s disco vibe for their design! NOTE: This font is only available in capital letters and numbers.
4. Varsity
Varsity is a staple for collegiate designs. This style font has been used for decades and could even be considered “vintage” or “nostalgic” to some! This font has an array of uses but the most popular use by far is colleges and universities. This font could also be a great fit for teams and sports!
5. Western
The “Western Theme” has been trending everywhere recently and this Western font is great for fitting designs! It feels like the font you’d see on the sign of an old saloon while being clean and legible. This font style is great for western-themed businesses, country music festivals, and more!
6. Longreach
While Longreach isn’t the iconic video game, Donkey Kong’s, official font, it’s pretty close to it! This font is both easy to read and fun, but not necessarily in a decorative way. While this font is clean, it’s not necessarily professional, making it great for unique shops, kids camps, family-friendly events, and more! NOTE: This font is only available in capital letters.
7. Macaroni
Macaroni is a fun cursive font that gives a handwritten feel to designs. This font makes your design feel like you had that girl with the best handwriting from high school or college draw it for you! Macaroni is more of a “cutesy” font making it great for boutiques, bakeries, and more.
8. Farmhouse
Farmhouse is a great font for capturing a handwritten feel without cursive! This font is great for local businesses and events but may not be the best fit for a big corporation. Regardless, it’s great for custom printing due to the thickness and legibility of the font! NOTE: This font is only available in capital letters and numbers.
9. Futura
If you’re looking for a futuristic font, Futura is for you! Futura is clean and sleek making it a great font for professional designs and corporate logos. It also makes for a great font for more professional organizations and clubs like robotics or business clubs!
10. Garamond
Garamond is a font that gives a sleek and elegant look to designs! This font is great if you’re looking to give your design a “high-end” feel that’s still easy to read. While this may not be the best font for everything, it’s a great contender for private schools, “fancy” restaurants, and any business looking for a vintage yet sleek design.
11. Army Rust
Army Rust is most common for designs relating to the military, ROTC, veterans, etc. but can also be great for other designs depending on the theme! For example, this font could be great for a fitness boot camp and even a school field day. NOTE: This font is only available in capital letters and numbers.
12. Mainstay
Mainstay is the epitome of a retro beach font. This decorative font is unique and adds a groovy touch to your design! It also gives a bit of a coastal feel making it great for waterfront restaurants and shops, beach vacations, and more!
13. Bebas Neue
Bebas Neue is the perfect combination of sleek but fun. It’s not quite professional but isn’t necessarily unprofessional either. It’s very legible making it perfect for almost any size logo! Bebas Neue is a great font for those looking for something on the professional side but not quite to the point of feeling “corporate.” NOTE: This font is only available in capital letters and numbers.
14. Candy Balloon
Candy Balloon is a great font if you’re looking for something cute but clean. This decorative font is perfect if you want your design to have a nostalgic, retro feel while being legible and unique! This font is great for fun designs and would make for a great logo font for shops and restaurants trying to capture that 50s diner vibe. NOTE: This font is only available in capital and lowercase letters.
15. Komika Axis
Komika Axis is thick and very easy to read. This font is perfect for hobby conventions, video game streamers, and fun events! While it may not be the best for your company, it’s a great font for clubs and niche events like comic conventions, hacking events, and more. NOTE: This font is only available in capital letters and numbers.
16. Vanilla Whale
If you like the Western font from number 5 but it’s just “not enough,” try Vanilla Whale! This font features lines above and below “lower case” letters adding a little something extra to a western-themed font. This font is perfect for Nashville trips, western-themed restaurants, and of course, country music festivals!
17. Horizon
Horizon is one of the cleanest and most legible fonts out there. When using this font, all letters will be perfectly in line making it a great font for those looking to keep everything together on one line! Fonts that keep all words in line also make adding additional elements easy as you won’t have to worry about certain letters like Y dipping down into the elements below. NOTE: This font is only available in capital letters and numbers.
18. Cream Cake
Cream Cake is a great cursive font that gives more of a professional look rather than a handwriting look. This font is perfect for designs relating to coffee shops, bakeries, and weekend events due to its sleek yet cozy style! Cream Cake also looks great in a smaller size making it more versatile than other fonts.
19. Sports Jersey
Sports Jersey is another well-known style of font, most commonly used by athletic departments and sports teams. This font is great for t-shirts commemorating your group’s fantasy draft, your school’s field day, your social sports teams, and more! This sporty font truly adds an athletic touch without being big and “blocky” like the Varsity font from number 4.
20. Bubblegum
Bubblegum is likely the font you think of when your child asks for help with a poster and wants “Bubble Letters.” This decorative font is definitely more on the fun side making it great for fun runs, clubs, day camps, and more! Overall, this font is great for capturing a fun, lighthearted feeling without being cursive or too retro. NOTE: This font is only available in capital letters and numbers.
21. Aesthetic
The aesthetic is a great font when used correctly. Due to the style of this decorative font, it can be hard to read when it isn’t used properly! This font looks great when it’s used for businesses specializing in unique, odd, or “aesthetic” goods and/or services. This font also looks better on a large scale than it would on a small scale like a t-shirt sleeve. This font can look good in other variations or in a smaller size, it might just take a little longer to find the perfect dimensions, location, and verbiage!
22. Open Sans
Open Sans is one of the most basic fonts you can find but it’s still great for custom printing! In the majority of cases, this font is clear and extremely easy to read. This font may not be the best font if you want your design to pop and be exciting to those wearing and seeing it, but it is great for businesses and professional designs!
23. Retrock
Retrock is another great font to capture that retro feel through your design. This cursive font is great for vacations, retro-themed restaurants and shops, light-hearted fundraisers, and more! Retro fonts like this are very trendy and can make for great designs. NOTE: This font is only available in capital and lowercase letters.
Glacial Indifference is another more basic font that’s great for custom printing. This font is clear and simple making it easy for people to read without overpowering other design elements! This font is also versatile as it can work well for both professional businesses and fun, less-professional events and businesses.
25. Cheque
Cheque is a unique font that has the potential to be a little more versatile than other fonts. Due to the fact this font features “outlined” parts, it’s easier to play around with different colors within the font! While this font looks nice, it is more decorative making it great for small businesses, restaurants, and designs trying to convey a message that’s more fun than professional. NOTE: This font is only available in capital letters and numbers.
26. Angelica Maya
Angelica Maya is a great cursive font when you really want the words in your design to look like handwriting! This font is more cute and “girly” making it great for fun designs, vacations, and boutiques. For cursive, this may not be the best font if you’re creating a professional or more serious design but it’s still a great font for other designs!
27. Impact
Impact is another more basic font but it’s usually more bold than others making it perfect for almost any design. While it may not be very fun on its own, the legibility and clean look of the font are great for adding other interesting graphics and elements! This font is great for logos and any design where you want the main focus on other elements but still want the verbiage to be clear and stand out.
28. Roboto
Roboto is similar to other typical fonts but can vary depending on how you use it! The normal version of Roboto looks quite different from the bold version of the font but still looks cohesive and clean. This font, like the other more basic fonts, can seem boring but when it’s arranged well with additional elements, it can make for a really cool design!
29. Bulletproof
Bulletproof is a great font for those who are going for an action movie theme for their design. This font is great for military organizations, industrial companies, and certain events! While it may not be fit for more corporate designs, it’s a great font to capture a feeling of adventure in your design. NOTE: This font is only available in capital letters and numbers.
30. Dezire Stacked
Dezire Stacked can be a very overwhelming font if it’s not used properly. If overused, this font can make a design look very cluttered and congested but if it’s used for single words or short, single-line phrases, it can look great! This font is great for sports, teams, and clubs, especially when used in moderation. NOTE: This font is only available in filled-in and outlined letters.
These fonts are just some of the thousands of great fonts out there just waiting to be used in your custom designs. When choosing fonts, don’t forget to consider the other elements in your designs, and make sure to be creative! You may think the font you’ve chosen for your design is good but there may be a better font out there to fully capture attention and the message behind the design. Although it may not seem like it, your t-shirt can tell a story! The way that story is told ultimately boils down to the design you create.
For help selecting the best font and telling your story through your design, please email help@undergroundshirts.com!