Over the festive season, I can’t resist getting crafty with the kids and making our own DIY Christmas cards is an ideal way to create something to share with our loved ones and spread some holiday season joy.
You can find all kinds of beautiful free fonts on Creative Fabrica, which are perfect for all of your Christmas crafts.
And what’s more, the fonts on Creative Fabrica come with a commercial use license which is great as this gives you the freedom to sell the Christmas cards you make, if you’re considering hiring a stall for your card designs at the local Christmas market or Fayre for example this would be perfect!
Let’s run through 10 of our favourite Christmas fonts, whether you’re looking for something classic and traditional, cute and fun, or something a little bit quirky.
10 Free Christmas Fonts for Your Holiday Cards
Take a look through the following free fonts from Creative Fabrica, whatever style you’re going for you’re sure to find the perfect lettering for your Christmas card
1. Farmhouse Christmas Font
This font is a delicate and elegant handwritten script font, with all of the charm that the “Farmhouse Christmas” name suggests, with beautiful rounded letters. It’s all clear enough and easy to read.
This is an ideal font for your “Merry Christmas” holiday greetings, and channels a traditional farmhouse style. Pair this lettering with festive red tartan for a classic Christmas look that Santa himself would love.
2. The Winter Font
This is another beautiful handwritten script font with lots of swirls and flourishes. This modern calligraphy typeface is a beautiful choice.
These gorgeous lowercase letters give an elegant Snow Queen vibe, and would look amazing styled with silver, icy blue and of course some glitter or sparkles.
3. Milk And Tea Font
This is a cute serif font with bold chunky letters. This display font is striking yet soft, with it’s heavy yet rounded letters.
This one also has a fun youthful and on trend feel. It’s a holiday font that you could repurpose all year round, as it’s so versatile.
4. Candy Land Font
This serif font is a playful and fun choice, with special characters. This holiday font has candy canes and Christmas sweet treats surrounding the letters.
The red and white candy cane lane theme is trending this year for Christmas tree designs so take that theme across into your diy greetings cards to create a holiday design that keeps it sweet.
5. Christmas Shine Font
This font is a beautiful classy and refined script font, with a minimal lightweight feel but still gives a sense of occasion.
This typeface makes me picture the dark blue sky on Christmas eve night as Santa rides his reindeer sleigh across the sky.
6. Jingle Ball Font
This fun Christmas font is a two in one font pair, including glyphs that come inside Christmas decorations, along with a swirly Christmas script.
The combination of these two font styles makes a bold and powerful impact.
7. Merry Christmas Font
This cheery, bright and cheerful festive font is perfect for adding style to all of your diy holiday card designs.
There are so many details to spot within each letter of this Christmas font. This fun font would also be a great one for kids Christmas card designs.
8. Gingerbread Font
Gingerbread font is a real classic for DIY christmas cards. Each letter becomes a delicious gingerbread treat, with extra characters of gingerbread men, stars, gingerbread houses and all kinds to flourish and embellish your design.
9. Lumber Font
This contemporary font is gorgeous and minimal, while being just a little bit quirky. It will compliment your card design so well without taking away too much attention.
This beautiful sans serif font choice would be perfect for a personalised photo Christmas card.
10. Snow Font
This whimsical wintery font is absolutely gorgeous and would coordinate so well if you are creating holiday cards with snowflake or snow imagery.
It’s a gorgeous Christmas font to get you dreaming of a white Christmas
How to Use Free Fonts
Check the compatibility of the font, if you’re using Windows or Mac then download the font files and make sure to unzip the folder. Inside you should have OTF and TTF files.
You can upload these fonts to programmes such as canva or pics art or install them directly onto your computer.
Many of the Creative Fabrica fonts are also compatible with Cricut.
Homemade Christmas Card Inspiration
Looking for some more ideas for your DIY Christmas cards this year? Before you buy, have a think about what diy holiday cards you could make.
Here are a few more posts to share Christmas craft ideas that could spark your creativity, or some ideas to help you get that perfect Christmas photo for your holiday card.
- Over 20 Easy Christmas Cards That Kids Can Make
- Christmas White Box Photoshoot with Gorgeous Moments Photography
- Personalised Photo Wreath Cards and Christmas Ornaments
- Fingerprint Christmas Lights Craft for Toddlers
- Top 10 Tips to Take Beautiful Christmas Photographs
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Merry Christmas!
Anna Marikar, mum of four and seasoned blogger, has spent over a decade sharing her parenting journey and passion for kid-friendly crafts and free printables.
Her easy-to-follow craft ideas and practical parenting advice have transformed In The Playroom into a cherished resource for parents.