About Retro Wave
Retro Wave is our 80s style font pick, and it is a pick rather than a default — we looked at the shelf twice before leaving it on. It is dmletter31's work. It sits at 1 saves — too few to call it popular, which is exactly why it is worth a look before everyone else finds it. No reviews either way, so the preview is doing all the work on this one.
Our own plan for it is album artwork, because that is where this kind of font does the least arguing with you. Check the capitals and the spacing between them — display type lives or dies on how a short word in caps sits together. Spend the minute on the preview at full size — it is where you find out whether 80s style font was the description or the aspiration.
The words on the listing are artistic endeavours, bold display font, bold edges and bold fonts, and they are worth reading as a description rather than as tags. You will find it among the display and poster fonts, sorted next to everything that does roughly the same job. Nearby you will see poster, headline, vintage and slab, which is where to go if this one is nearly right but not quite. The wording people arrive with is vintage fonts commercial license, display fonts, vintage fonts canva, number fonts vintage and retro canva fonts, and we would rather shelve for those requests than for how a thumbnail looks in a grid.
Retro Wave Specifications
| Font name | Retro Wave |
|---|---|
| Designer | dmletter31 |
| Font type | Display and Poster Fonts |
| Format | Digital download |
| Rating | Not rated yet |
| Reviews | None yet |
| Saved by | 1 makers on Creative Fabrica |
| Where to get it | Creative Fabrica |
How to use this font
- Download the font from Creative Fabrica and unzip it — you normally get OTF and TTF of the same face, plus a licence file.
- Install the OTF if your software gives you the choice: it carries the alternates and ligatures that make a script face look handwritten.
- Restart the app you design in — Canva, Photoshop, Cricut Design Space and Word all read the font list once, at launch.
- Read the licence before a paid job: personal and commercial use are priced apart, and a logo often needs the extended one.
Download Details
- Format: Digital download
- Files: listed on the Creative Fabrica page for this font
- Licence: whichever licence Creative Fabrica shows for this file — check it there before you sell what you make
