Bold Headline Fonts

Type a headline and see it in twelve heavy faces at once, narrowest first, each row labelled.

This is a sample. Type your own to replace it.

Bebas NeueGrand OpeningAntonGrand OpeningDM Serif DisplayGrand OpeningAbril FatfaceGrand OpeningRusso OneGrand OpeningTitan OneGrand OpeningMade at weirdfonts.com Alfa Slab OneGrand OpeningArchivo BlackGrand OpeningDela Gothic OneGrand OpeningHoltwood One SCGrand OpeningChangoGrand OpeningRubik Mono OneGrand OpeningMade at weirdfonts.com
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12 fonts, plain look: 2 pages, portrait, fits US Letter and A4.

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Next step One heavy face as a sign, hollow or 3DA headline dressed as a front page

Headlines to try

One tap draws any of these 12 in the look on show:

What this sheet prints

Every font: 2 pages on US Letter or A4, portrait, in the Plain look, black.

  1. "Grand Opening" in Bebas Neue, Anton, DM Serif Display, Abril Fatface, Russo One, Titan One
  2. "Grand Opening" in Alfa Slab One, Archivo Black, Dela Gothic One, Holtwood One SC, Chango, Rubik Mono One

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Every font in this tool is free to use, also for things you sell. The files are served from this site under their open licence.

  • Bebas Neue by Ryoichi Tsunekawa. Copyright © 2010 by Dharma Type. SIL Open Font License 1.1 (reduced to the Latin characters, saved as WOFF2)
  • Anton by Vernon Adams. Copyright 2020 The Anton Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/AntonFont.git). SIL Open Font License 1.1 (reduced to the Latin characters, saved as WOFF2)
  • DM Serif Display by Colophon Foundry. Copyright 2014-2018 Adobe (http://www.adobe.com/), with Reserved Font Name 'Source'. All Rights Reserved. Source is a trademark of Adobe in the United States and/or other countries. Copyright 2019 Google LLC. SIL Open Font License 1.1
  • Abril Fatface by TypeTogether. Copyright (c) 2011, TypeTogether (www.type-together.com),. SIL Open Font License 1.1
  • Russo One by Jovanny Lemonad. Copyright (c) 2011-2012, Jovanny Lemonad (jovanny.ru), with Reserved Font Name "Russo". SIL Open Font License 1.1
  • Titan One by Rodrigo Fuenzalida. Copyright (c) 2011, Rodrigo Fuenzalida (www.rfuenzalida.com|hello@rfuenzalida.com),. SIL Open Font License 1.1
  • Alfa Slab One by JM Solé. Copyright 2016 The Alfa Slab One Project Authors (http://www.jmsole.cl | info@jmsole.cl), with Reserved Font Name "Alfa Slab". SIL Open Font License 1.1
  • Archivo Black by Omnibus-Type. Copyright 2017 The Archivo Black Project Authors (https://github.com/Omnibus-Type/ArchivoBlack). SIL Open Font License 1.1 (reduced to the Latin characters, saved as WOFF2)
  • Dela Gothic One by artakana. Copyright 2020 The Dela Gothic Project Authors (https://github.com/syakuzen/DelaGothic). SIL Open Font License 1.1 (reduced to the Latin and kana (no kanji) characters, saved as WOFF2)
  • Holtwood One SC by Vernon Adams. Copyright 2011 The Holtwood Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/HoltwoodFont). SIL Open Font License 1.1 (reduced to the Latin characters, saved as WOFF2)
  • Chango by Fontstage. Copyright (c) 2011 Fontstage (info@fontstage.com), with Reserved Font Names, 'Chango'. SIL Open Font License 1.1
  • Rubik Mono One by Hubert and Fischer. Copyright 2015 The Rubik Project Authors (mail@hubertfischer.com). SIL Open Font License 1.1 (reduced to the Latin characters, saved as WOFF2)

How it works

These bold headline fonts are twelve heavy display faces, and the sheet sets one headline in all of them at once. Rows run from the narrowest face to the widest, each labelled with its font. It opens on Grand Opening. Type your own.

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Narrow first, wide last

Every row is as wide as the page allows. Bebas Neue and Anton are so narrow that Grand Opening fills only three quarters of the row at full height. From DM Serif Display on, each face fills the row and shrinks instead. The wide bold fonts close page two: Dela Gothic One, Holtwood One SC, Chango and Rubik Mono One, whose capitals stand six tenths as tall as Bebas Neue's.

Read the rows as kinds

Sans serifs: Bebas Neue, Anton, Russo One, Archivo Black. High-contrast serifs: DM Serif Display and Abril Fatface. Slabs: Alfa Slab One and Holtwood One SC. Rounded: Titan One and Chango. Bebas Neue and Rubik Mono One have capitals only, and Holtwood One SC draws small capitals.

  • A short headline shows the widths best. Hi sets nearly three times as wide in Rubik Mono One as in Bebas Neue.
  • Each row prints the name of its font, a free open-licence typeface you can look up by that name.

Questions and answers

Which of these are elegant bold fonts?

The two serifs with thick and thin strokes: DM Serif Display and Abril Fatface, rows three and four on page one. Their hairlines stay fine while the stems go heavy, the fat poster style of the 1800s.

Which are the strong bold fonts for a sign?

Alfa Slab One, with block serifs as heavy as its stems, and Archivo Black, a plain heavy sans. Both open page two, and both keep small letters, so a headline need not be all capitals.

Are there creative bold fonts on the sheet?

Three rows are less formal. Titan One is fat and rounded, from brush lettering. Chango is wide and bouncy. Dela Gothic One is a heavy Japanese display face with flat, square letters.

Do these work as bold header fonts on a web page?

The sheet shows the shapes, not web code. All twelve are open-licence fonts, so the name on a row is enough to find the files. Once you type or print, Download this page (PNG) keeps a picture of the comparison.

Is this a poster fonts generator?

It is a comparison sheet. To make one line of poster lettering in color, with a shadow or an outline, pick a face here and set it in the block letter tool linked below.

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