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Rosie Hilder

16 of the best fun fonts to add quirky personality to your designs

A sample of one of the best fun fonts, Bobby Jones.

Fun fonts can add a dose of cheer to design projects and put a smile on people's faces. There's an almost endless supply of friendly, happy fonts whirling around the web, and we've picked out our favourites.

Used in the right projects, the quirky fonts below can add an injection of fun typography into your work. We've included options at a range of price points, with different personalities, including funny fonts, exciting fonts, friendly fonts and typefaces that simply make us smile (don't worry – Comic Sans didn't make the cut).

With the list below, you're should be able to find the best fun font for your project, but if you want more options, don't miss our selection of the best retro fonts. We also have roundups of the best free script fonts and calligraphy fonts

The best fun fonts: upbeat, quirky typefaces

01. Bobby Jones

(Image credit: Tom Chalky)

Offering 16 styles, Tom Chalky's Bobby Jones Font Family packs a lot of punch with its imperfect handmade look, including outline styles. It can help a wide range of design pieces stand out, from flyers to infographics. We particularly like Bobby Jones Bobby Rough Condensed Regular, which adds rough texture for a more organic look, which can make a striking impression for display text.

02. Balgin

This fun font takes us back to the '90s (Image credit: Cahya Sofyan)

Balgin is here to take you back to the '90s for a dose of nostalgic fun.  This happy font designed by Cahya Sofyan is formed from basic shapes and is available in three 'flavours' – display, normal and text and six different weights. It supports over 75 languages and we just love its bright and friendly look – the very definition of fun typography. It's available from £7.99.

03. Mohr Rounded

Soft terminals give this fun font a friendly feel (Image credit: Sofia Mohr )

A curvier version of the Mohr typeface, this fun font features soft terminals for a friendly look. The family includes three versions (normal, alt and italic) in a wide range of weights, making it nice and versatile. It was designed by Sofia Mohr for Latinotype and is available from £20.99 for individual styles.

04. Caramel Macchiato

If you like your fonts sweet, this one's for you (Image credit: Orenari)

Caramel Macchiato is as sweet and happy a font as the name suggests. Swirly and bouncy, it leaps off the page with bursts of caffeinated energy. A layered font, with two font styles, it's available for $14. It's worth having a look at Orenari's other font creations as there are lots of other fun font options to behold.

05. Lemon Yellow Sun

This fun font has tall bouncy glyphs with lots of personality (Image credit: Hanoded Fonts)

Taking its name from a lyric in Pearl Jam's, Lemon Yellow Sun is a quirky font with bouncy glyphs and lots of diacritics. It's an all caps typeface with a hand-drawn look that could look great paired with illustrations for a children's book. Creator Hanoded Fonts says that "upper and lower case have been designed to mingle, so have a ball!"

06. Rocher

Yabba dabba doo, is this fun font for you?

Rocher is a rock-solid fun font family that has been made to feel like stone. If you take a closer look though, you'll see that there's nothing obviously stoney about the design. That's because the creators used rounded edges and the right amount of roughness to make sturdy letterforms that feel like stone, but don't resort to cliches like cracks and rubble. Buy individual styles from £20.99.

07. Masqualero

Masqualero comes with six weights and italics (Image credit: Monotype)

Taking its inspiration from the life and work of Miles Davis, Masqualero is at the classy end of the fun font spectrum. Designed by Monotype, this dual-natured serifed typeface packs the flair of Davis' electric funk and rock sounds. It can be yours to own and use from £13.99 for individual styles.

08. Marshmallow

This fun font looks good enough to eat

With its fat shape, the super high-contrast script typeface Marshmallow looks just like the squidgy, tasty treat it's named after. Marshmallow might not be suitable for every occasion, but with 820 characters and a range of stylistic alternatives, it's certainly carved out a sybaritic niche. You can download it for £27.99.

09. Konga Rock

Let's all do the Konga (Rock)

If you're familiar with the delightfully bubbly Konga Pro font that was released in 2012, you'll love the more rough and ready version: Konga Rock. Dotted with little stylish imperfections, Konga Rock has a screenprinted look that is sure to give your projects a handmade feel.

10. Argö

No, not the Ben Affleck film

Just like Masqualero, the Argö typeface is a fun font that veers towards the sophisticated. Initially designed as an Art Deco display font, Argö is a serif typeface whose horizontal lines have been replaced with Medieval-style ascenders to create greater flow and versatility. It can be yours for just $30.

11. Quarz1974

Quarz 974 is a chiselled font perfect for logos and posters

The geometric free fun font Quarz 974 takes its inspiration from simple lines and triangles. This has resulted in a jagged, spiky font that has a lot of fun translating different word forms into its signature style. It's only composed of capitals and numbers, but this makes it the perfect eye-catching choice for posters and logos. 

12. Rosecube

There's more to Rosecube than meets the eye

Looking like a font from a Wild West wanted poster, Rosecube is a deceptively odd serifed font. Its chunky capitals look like refined enough, but when placed side by side the letters have a sort of higgledy piggledy scruffiness about them. Rosecube has been a stalwart fun font since 2005, and you can download it for free.

13. Duke

We love the shadows on this font

When it came to designing Duke, creator James T Edmondson was inspired by the signage for the Cup & Saucer luncheonette in New York. Available as a pay-what-you-want font for personal use (or from $30 for a commercial license) Duke includes three layers: fill, shadow, and fill plus shadow. You can even try out Duke on the Lost Type site to see how you like it.

14. Ribbon

Ribbon started out as a numeral set

The road to release has been a long one for the Ribbon font. It started life as a purely numerical set, before creator Dan Gneiding expanded it into a complete display face that you can download for personal use at a price that suits you. Commercial Licenses start at $40.

15. Kitten

This is the purr-fect font for cat lovers

Cat lovers will adore this feline-themed fun font set. Kitten is a multi-weight script family with a range of variants, alternates and ligatures. With its curvy, bouncy shape and variety of weights, this sassy font can be tailored to fit logo designs and longer text blocks. Available in 40 languages, Kitten is available to download from €29 (single weights).

16. Zing Rust

Zing is fun font with attitude (Image credit: Fontfabric)

Rounding off our pick of the best fun fonts, Zing Rust is a fun font with attitude – and no shortage of options. Designed by Svetoslav Simov, Stan Partalev and published by Fontfabric, it comprises a massive 238 styles and family package options. It's a handmade system based on layer combinations allowing designed to be mixed and matched since each style can be used separate or merged to achieve the creative look you want, including some grungier options.

It could work well for attention-grabbing logos and headlines. And for dessert there's Zing Goodies with its Bakery, BBQ, Banners and Words form, packing in gastro-related icons, ribbons and ornaments. There's a lot of fun to be had with this large and boisterous type family!

For more on type design, see our guides to the difference between font vs typeface and the perfect font pairings. We also have a complete guide to font licensing for designers.

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