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13 great free Christmas fonts

Christmas fonts are ideal for adding a bit of festive, typographic cheer to your seasonal designs. And the good news is you don't always have to pay for them, either: we've searched high and low to bring you the best free Christmas fonts to spruce up your creative projects this December.

Add some Christmas presence (pun intended) to your designs with these free festive fonts. Just make sure you check the terms of use, and throw some money to the designers if that option is available.

For more font inspiration, see our best free fonts and best free handwriting fonts roundups. And if you're choosing Christmas presents, make sure you check our article on what NOT to get a graphic designer for Christmas.

01. Christmas

free Christmas font — This font is not just for Christmas (Image credit: Crella Marketplace)

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This Christmas font, aptly named, Christmas, lends a handwriting feel to your projects. It has multilingual support and the characters join up beautifully. Christmas is free for personal use or you can buy a commercial licence.

02. Beyond Wonderland

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Font hobbyist Chris Hanson kicks off our best free Christmas fonts list with his quirky, Gothic-style calligraphy font, Beyond Wonderland. Created on a whim, the font is free for both personal and, says the author, commercial use – with donations to a koala hospital appreciated.

Sadly it doesn't support accented vowels, but its dark, decorative flourishes will add more than a touch of Burton to your designs.

03. One Starry Night

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One Starry Night is a fun, festive font created by Brittney Murphy Designs. Free for personal and non-profit use, it's a swirly, handwritten font that's guaranteed to add some sparkle to your Christmas projects. Commercial use will set you back a mere $5.

04. Santa's Sleigh

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Add a vintage feel to your Christmas designs with HypoTypo's Santa's Sleigh. It comes in three weights: regular, bold and – our favourite – deluxe, and is available for non-commercial use only.

05. Metro Retro NF

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Tired of traditional Christmas fonts? Make an impact with Metro Retro, a dramatic sans serif published by Nick's Fonts. Used sparingly, it's perfect for festive headlines in large point sizes.

The free version is uppercase only, but the commercial version, Metro Retro Redux (which was inspired by Wadsworth A. Parker's 1927 typeface, Modernistic) comes with lowercase letters and a complete Adobe character set.

06. Rothenburg Decorative

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For a more blackletter style of script, Dieter Steffmann's calligraphic font Rothenburg Decorative will add a splash of Gothic class to your projects. With 194 elaborate characters, it's free for commercial use – like all Steffmann's fonts.

07. Christmas On Crack

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After something a little less heavy than Rothenburg Decorative? Christmas On Crack by David Lovelace, aka Parallax, has a similar Gothic twist but with a dash of fun thrown in. It's available for Mac and PC. Commercial licences are available if you make a donation.

08. Christmas/Flakes Font

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No entry into our top free Christmas fonts list, so far, says 'Christmas' quite so well as Florida-based creative Randy Ford's ornamental typeface Christmas/Flakes. Best used as a headline font, it's free for commercial use and suitable for both Mac and PC.

09. Candy Cane

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Matching Christmas/Flakes in the festive stakes, Michel Bujardet's Candy Cane is a decorative font dripping in Christmas spirit. It's free for personal use, and comes complete with upper and lowercase lettering, numerals and punctuation.

10. Sentinel

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Another entry from Dieter Steffmann – who also goes by the name Typographer Mediengestaltung – is Sentinel, a striking uppercase display font with 52 ornamental characters. Again, it's free for non-commercial use and perfect for those Christmas designs.

11. Holly Nites

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Jester Font Studio's charming Holly Nites Font is a blocky, 3D font decorated with a holly leaf pattern. Perfect for Christmas cards, it's free for personal and non-commercial use.

12. ChopinScript

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One more free cursive font for luck: ChopinScript. Based on Phil Martin's Polonaise, this face was originally released as a True Type font in 1999. The new OpenType font has been embellished with ornaments and accented characters, and it's free for both commercial and non-commercial use.

13. The Gingerbread House

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The second entry from one-time type designer Chris Hanson is The Gingerbread House, a gloriously creepy decorative serif, again with an air of Burton to it. Be warned: there isn't a '4'. But that aside, it's a font with Christmas character.

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Julia is editor-in-chief, retail at Future Ltd, where she works in e-commerce across a number of consumer lifestyle brands. A former editor of design website Creative Bloq, she's also worked on a variety of print titles, and was part of the team that launched consumer tech website TechRadar. She's been writing about art, design and technology for over 15 years.