When you’re designing within a genre, you need the right fonts at hand. Otherwise, you risk setting the wrong tone and/or leaving your audience confused. The fantasy genre in particular is one full of tropes and types and although these can seem limiting, sometimes it’s when you’re working within limits that the most creative ideas are born.
To compile our list of 12 fantasy fonts, we’ve spoken to experienced designers in gaming and publishing. It’s a list we hope will give you new ideas, and there is certainly a great deal more to fantasy fonts than blackletter variants. A few of these sets are available asThis beautiful, mystical font evokes the idea of enchanted roots and vines that reach, grab, climb and entangle, ultimately blotting out the sun and suffocating their victim.
If Darklands doesn’t tick your gothic boxes, perhaps Enchanted Land will fit the bill. It too steps away from the tropes of the blackletter category with swooshes and flourishes reminiscent of a prince’s standard fluttering in the wind. It costs a king’s ransom, though, at $125/£99.87 for commercial use.Come forth ye blades, ye musketeers, a quest awaits thee. Seven Swordsmen only has a basic character set however it goes over the top on adventure and heroism.