Best Retro Fonts in Squarespace

1. IM Fell English

IM Fell English is a digital revival of a typeface presumably cut by Christoffel van Dijck (roman & small caps), with italics presumably cut by Robert Granjon, acquired by John Fell in 1672. To be printed at 13.5pt to match the original size.

2. Cardo

Cardo is a large Unicode font specifically designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists. It also works well for general typesetting when a high-quality Old Style font is appropriate.

3. EB Garamond

EB Garamond is intended to be an excellent, classical, Garamond. It is a community project to create a revival of Claude Garamont’s famous humanist typefaces from the mid-16th century. This digital version reproduces the original design by Claude Garamont closely: The source for the letterforms is a scan of a specimen known as the “Berner specimen,” which was composed in 1592 by Conrad Berner, the son-in-law of Christian Egenolff and his successor at the Egenolff print office.

4. Cormorant Garamond

Cormorant is a free display type family developed by Christian Thalmann. The project currently comprises a total of 45 font files spanning 9 different visual styles (Roman, Italic, Infant, Infant Italic, Garamond, Garamond Italic, Upright Cursive, Small Caps, and Unicase) and 5 weights (Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, and Bold.)

5. Lustria

Lustria is a rounded-serif text typeface with details that make it interesting to use a larger display size as well. Starting in 1999, this typeface has been aged to perfection and is finally ready for public consumption.

6. Sorts Mill Gordy

Sorts Mill Goudy is a revival of Frederic Goudy’s ‘Goudy Oldstyle’ with Regular and Italic styles, and extended Latin character coverage.

7. Glegoo

Glegoo is a truly modern slab serif. It has a precise balance of shapes, counterforms, and strokes. Glegoo is slightly condensed and has a large x-height, short ascenders/descenders, and large counterforms. These attributes all add up to help reading text, even in very small sizes.

8. Playfair Display

Playfair is a transitional design. In the European Enlightenment in the late 18th century, broad nib quills were replaced by pointed steel pens as the popular writing tool of the day. Together with developments in printing technology, ink, and paper making, it became to print letterforms of high contrast and delicate hairlines that were increasingly detached from the written letterforms.

9. Della Respira

Della Respira is a revival of the 1913 Della Robbia typeface by American Type Founders, based on T.M. Cleland’s typeface of the same name.

10. Cinzel Decorative

Cinzel is a typeface inspired by first-century roman inscriptions and based on classical proportions. However, it’s not simple revivalism, while it conveys all the ancient history of the Latin alphabet it also merges a contemporary feel onto it.