29 Best Winter Fonts for Ice-Cold Designs

Looking for the best winter fonts to inject a little holiday spirit into your designs this season? You’re in the right place!

Below, we’ve listed 29 of the coolest typefaces that are perfect for holiday cards, Christmas displays, and all your other winter-themed designs.

All of the wintry fonts on this list have been designed by professionals and hand-selected by us. They all evoke the cold season and conjure up images of snow, ice, and chestnuts roasting by an open fire. 

29 Best Winter Fonts 

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1. The Winter – Our Top Pick

Our top pick goes to The Winter, a stylish, understated calligraphy font. It’s one of the most popular winter fonts on Envato Elements and comes with over 300 glyphs, with alternates including swash, contextual alternates, and stylistic sets. 

Why it’s our top pick

The main reason this is our overall favorite winter font is because of how versatile and tasteful is. The handwritten letterforms are elegant and modern, with flourishes like long tails and swashes that add character without impacting readability. 

It’s simple and clean and doesn’t look over-the-top or tacky like many other winter-themed fonts, so it’d work well in many different designs (especially holiday cards).

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

2. Winter Dreams

Next up, we have Winter Dreams by Figuree. This is a playful, bouncing display font, with natural brush strokes and a wintry design. It doesn’t take itself as seriously as our top pick and doesn’t have any of those exaggerated flourishes, but it’s fun and stylish. 

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

3. Winter Kingdom

Winter Kingdom is an all-caps winter font that uses chunky, block letters. It’s very fun, cartoonish, and friendly-looking, so I can see it working well in child-facing designs, such as on a winter-themed children’s book cover or mobile game. 

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

4. Snowy Font

Snowy is one of the most unique winter fonts we’ve come across. It uses bold, block letters with decorative floral touches and intricate details like snowflakes that make it look extra magical — so it’s perfect for Christmassy designs 

Snowy uses the new OpenType SVG font format (i.e. Color font). This format allows the designer to get really creative and add more detail to the letters than in traditional formats. 

However, it also means that you can only open it on Photoshop CC 2018+ or Illustrator CC 2018+. If you want to open it up in other software, you’ll need to use the included vector AI & EPS file version instead.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

5. Christmas Story

If you’re working on a Christmas-themed design project, check out Christmas Story. This festive font uses a modern handwritten design with beginning and ending swashes. It’s simple, elegant, and—best of all—free!

Price: Free for non-profit and personal use

6. Snow Color Font

Snow is another SVG OpenType/Color font that only works in modern versions of Photoshop and Illustrator. It comes in two versions: a winter theme and a snow theme. Both utilize a cool 3D effect that makes them jump off the page. They’re super detailed, with a rough texture that makes them look as if they’ve been cut out of blocks of snow and ice.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

7. Under The Snow Font

Under The Snow is a simple, snow-inspired, layered typeface. The download pack comes with free font versions: Regular, Style 01, Style 01 inner, and Style 02. Each of these has a slightly different design. Style 02 is our favorite and is designed to look like the letterforms are slowly filling with snow as it falls from the sky. You can add the layered inner font to any of the others to create cool effects. 

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

8. Fronzy

Fronzy is another playful winter font. It’s a rough typeface with chunky letterforms and wavy strokes that make it look vaguely cloud-like. It has an icy cold aesthetic that’d work great on all kinds of winter designs. It also comes with uppercase and lowercase letters, symbols, punctuation, numerals, alternates, and multilingual support. 

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

9. Winter Soda

Winter Soda is a modern, handwritten winter font with a natural touch. It’s feminine and elegant and would work well on greeting cards, logos, book covers, and stationery. 

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

10. Christmas Time

Here’s another one of the best Christmas fonts that you’ll find anywhere. Christmas Time is a free typeface from Lukasz KuIakowski’s. The designer clearly put a lot of effort into the font and has added intricate details like stars within each stroke to make it look extra festive.

Price: Free for personal use

11. Iceberg

Iceberg is an ice-cold decorative display font from designer Naulicrea. The wavy strokes make this font unique and unlike anything else on this list. It comes in TTF and WOFF format and includes A-Z letters, numbers, and punctuation, plus 26 free detailed ice alphabet vector images that you can use in your logo.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

12. Cute Snowman

As the name suggests, Cute Snowman is a super-cute display font that’s ideal for playful and upbeat designs. It’d look great on children’s products, logos, t-shirts, greeting cards, and posters. The download pack includes both TTF and OTF font files, plus cute snowman vector images.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

13. Choko

Choko is another snowy font by designer Måns Grebäck. It features rounded, snow-topped letterforms and comes in multiple styles including Choko Outline, Choko Plain, Choko Highlights, and Choko Shadow. You can layer these different versions on top of each other to create a multi-colored layer effect.

Price: Free for personal and commercial use

14. Winter Bells Font

Next up, we have Winter Bells, a Christmas font by Attype-Studio. What’s cool about this font is that it comes with dingbat characters of bells, which make it look like there are baubles hanging from each glyph. It’s perfect for Christmas product packaging, branding, and other festive designs. 

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

15. WinterLand

WinterLand is a simple, serif typeface that comes in two styles: regular and slanted. It’s fairly light and would work well in posters, magazines, banners, and large-scale display artwork. It comes in TTF and OTF formats and includes A-Z, a-z, and 1-9 glyphs, plus punctuation and multilingual support. 

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

16. Southea

Southea is a monoline display font by Attype-Studio. It comes in two variations: regular style and display style. The display style is designed to look as if snow is dripping off the bottom of the letters, so it’s the perfect fit for winter and Christmas-themed designs. 

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

17. Coolest Icy Font

Coolest, by Konstantinestudio, is a font that packs a punch. It’s big, bold, and makes a big impact, so it’s great for designs where you really need the text to stand out. The designer took inspiration from the winter season and added icy details like snowdrops and counters shaped like snowflakes.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

18. Ice Age Color Font

Here’s another super-realistic color font by Cruzine on Envato Elements. This typeface looks as if it’s been carved out of a block of ice. It’s incredibly detailed, with a realistic icy texture (complete with surface cracks) and mottled blue colors. 

19. Snowhouse

If you want to keep things simple, try Snowhouse. This free cursive font by Måns Grebäck is classy and elegant, with swirly, snow-topped strokes. It’s the perfect fit for Christmas cards. 

Price: Free for personal use

20. Winter Sunday

Winter Sunday is another playful winter font available on Envato Elements. It uses thick, block letters that look as if they’re covered in snow. It’s also a little playful and cartoonish, which makes it a great choice for children’s books and other fun, friendly design projects.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

21. After Fall

After Fall, by Subectype, is a font that celebrates all things festive. The designer has used quirky letterforms with curved edges. There are snowflakes embedded within the strokes to add that wintry aesthetic. It’d look great on print-on-demand products like mugs, pillows, and t-shirts. 

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

22. Holly Jolly Christmas

If you’re looking for something a little different, check out this unique Christmas font — Holly Jolly by Brithos Type. What makes this so original is that every glyph is contained within a cute Christmas tree. Typing an underscore (_) between each glyph will add a connector, which you can use to make your text look like a string of Christmas bunting. 

Price: Free for personal use

23. Crafty Christmas Font

Crafty Christmas Font by Blankids is another quirky seasonal typeface. The designer has put a lot of work into this and created a totally original design that’s full of character. No two letters are the same – each features its own unique pattern. Some feature mounds of snow, others feature wavy lines or circles. 

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

24. Holly Frosty Font

Holly Frosty by Figuree is a joyful, monoline winter font. It has a handwritten design, with twirly strokes and playful letterforms, and it’d work well on children’s books, merchandise, and any other winter- or holiday-themed artwork. 

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

25. Arctic Blast

Arctic Blast is a serious-looking winter font. It’s bold and comes in all caps. The letterforms look as if they’re frozen solid, with straight edges and icicles dripping down from the top. 

Price: Free for personal and non-commercial use

26. Ice Cube Frozen Font

Ice Cube is another OpenType SVG font with a winter theme. Each glyph is designed to look as if its encapsulated in a block of ice. The ice cubes have a really realistic 3D effect with tons of detail.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

27. Ice Valley

Ice Valley is a stylish, handwritten font by designer Garisman. It has a vaguely wintery theme but is versatile enough to look good on all kinds of designs. You can use it in greetings cards, logos, product designs, and more. The font pack includes 3 file formats: OTF, TTF, and WOFF.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

28. Kingthings Christmas

If you’re looking for a free decorative Christmas-themed font, look no further than Kingthings Christmas. It’s jam-packed with intricate details. The glyphs look as if they’re sat on top of mounds of snow, with beautiful snowflakes swirling all around them.

Price: Free for personal and commercial use

29. Adventures In The Snow

Last but not least, we’d like to introduce you to Adventures In the Snow — a quirky, delicate typeface by Salt & Pepper fonts. The cute, feminine design and handwritten lends itself well to festive greetings cards. The wide kerning and light weight make it very pleasant to look at.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($16.50/month) for personal and commercial use.

We hope you found your perfect typeface in this roundup of the best free and premium winter fonts. While you’re here, you might want to check out our roundups of the best sans serif fonts or the best block fonts.

Good luck with your designs!