25 Marquee Fonts for Retro Signs and Designs

Marquee fonts can bring a retro or vintage touch to your designs while creating drama and excitement. The look of your text will resemble lights and signs from theaters and cinemas of the past. With the help of the best marquee fonts, you can recreate the look quickly and easily within any of your designs.

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The Best Marquee Fonts

Thankfully, there are many high-quality fonts and letter resources for creating a genuine marquee look. We'll highlight the best fonts and other resources that make it possible to add marquee letters to your designs.

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Marquee Front View – Color Fonts

First, we have a big collection that includes a total of 15 fonts. There are 8 color fonts that require Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or another program capable of working with color fonts. You'll also get six traditional fonts that can be used in any program.

The package also comes with four high-res PSD backgrounds that you can use for your marquee designs. With this variety of resources, you can create several different types or marquee text.

Marquee Chaos View – Color Fonts

Here's another set of marquee fonts from the same designers as the previous set. This set is even bigger with more than 40 fonts. Many fonts include alternate views so that you can create something unique and custom.

Again, this package includes color fonts as well as some traditional fonts. The color fonts make it easy to get a complete marquee look if you're working in Photoshop or Illustrator. With so many different fonts, the possibilities are endless.

Disc House

Disc House is a 3D fonts with a look that's inspired by marquee lights. Instead of an authentic look, it uses a cartoon approach to add dots resembling marquee lights.

This font is perfect for posters, book covers, album covers, t-shirts, apparel, product packaging, and branding. You're sure to use it in many different projects.

Marquee Lights – 3D Color SVG Font

This 3D color SVG font requires a modern version of Photoshop, Illustrator, or another program that supports color fonts. It's an incredible display font that works best for text at very large sizes. The letters have a genuine 3D look, featuring bright lights and subtle texture. It's great for getting a carnival letter look in your designs.

Wildheart Typeface

Wildheart is a family of seven fonts that includes two variations with marquee styling. Wildheart Dots is a thick sans serif with dots that resemble marquee lights. Wildheart Dots and Spurs (shown in the image above) is similar, but the letters have decorative spur elements that add an extra touch. You can turn it into a 3D look by layering the text.

The download file also has hand-drawn elements and animal illustrations to decorate your designs. A webfont version of Wildheart is available.

Queen Street

Like Wildheart, Queen Street is a larger font family that includes regular text as well as some with marquee styling. It's a vintage sans serif that was inspired by signage lettering, which is why the marquee option has been included.

Queen Street Marquee features the familiar marquee dots on each letter, as shown in the image above. You can also layer the letters to create a 3D look.

CA Viva Las Vegas

CA Viva Las Vegas is a family of eight fonts created with marquee styling. These fonts resemble text from digital screens and boards outside familiar Vegas casinos. It's unlike any other fonts on this list and is ideal for recreating the look of a digital casino sign.

Marquee Light Bulbs PNG Letters

This one is not a traditional font. Instead, it's a set of letters, numbers, and special characters in PNG format, and you can arrange the elements to create text within your design. While it's not quite as convenient as having a traditional font you can apply to text, the look and style of these letters, numbers, and characters is outstanding.

You'll get awesome 3D letters, white light bulbs, vintage light bulbs, and shadows. Creating your marquee-inspired designs is easy with the help of these pre-designed resources.

Marquee Light Bulbs PNG Letters

Here's another set of PNG files to create letters, numbers, and characters with stunning marquee designs. There are five different views, giving you options for slightly angled letters.

These script letters with lights give your designs an authentic feel. Best of all, you can create the look very quickly.

Marquee

There are two styles or variations in this font family. The solid version is basically a heavy-weight sans serif that can be used for many purposes. The faceted version (shown above) has a 3D look that helps it to resemble the text from vintage marquee signs and displays. There are no lights on the letters, but the text style resembles what you would see on theater signs from several decades ago.

Bold Marquee – Color Font

This color OpenType font requires Photoshop, Illustrator, or another program capable of working with color fonts. With this one in your toolbox, you can create fantastic thick text with dots that resemble marquee lights.

There's only one style in this package, but it's worth having if you're working on a project that calls for this style.

Bourton Marquee

Bourton is a large family that includes more than 30 fonts. Bourton Marquee is a sans serif featuring the recognizable dots. You can get the entire family or just Bourton Marquee, if that's all you're looking for.

Bourton Hand Marquee

Here's another option from the Bourton font family. Bourton Hand Marquee. Bourton Hand is a similar sans serif font, but with a subtle hand-drawn effect. One of the fonts in the family includes the familiar marquee dots.

Paltime

Paltime is a sans serif font with seven variations. On of the fonts is solid, but the others all include marquee elements. You can use the solid variation as a base layer to create a 3D look with any other variations. A webfont version is also available.

Buket Serif Marquee

Buket is a large, diverse family of fonts that includes sans serifs, serifs, and scripts. One of the serif fonts is also available with marquee dots. This one is unlike the other options showcased in this article, so it can be a valuable addition to your toolbox.

White Marquee PNG Letters

Here's another set of high-resolution 3D letters in PNG format. There are five different views of each letter, number, and symbol, so you'll have plenty of options. The views can be mixed and matched to give your designs a customized feel. With the help of these 3D letters, you can add beautiful marquee text to your designs in no time.

Marquee Lights 3D PNG Letters

This set of 3D PNG letters is unique because it shows the letters lit up. Like the previous set, five different views showcase the 3D metallic letters slightly differently. You can create an authentic marquee look very quickly with the help of these pre-designed elements.

Budmo

Budmo includes two variations (dark letters with light dots, light letters with dark dots). You can also stack layers to get a 3D look, as shown in the preview image. This all-caps font is perfect for signage and other retro designs.

Jealous Mint Demo

Jealous Mint Demo is a handmade all-caps font that includes two variations with marquee-inspired dots. With the imperfections of hand-drawn letters, it has a slightly different feel than most of the others showcased here.

Bedazzle

Bedazzle comes with two variations, solid and marquee. This theatrical-inspired font can be turned 3D by layering or using Illustrator's 3D features.

Showtime Color Font

Showtime is a color font for use in Photoshop, Illustrator, and other programs that support OpenType. With it, you'll instantly have text that resembles genuine marquee signs and lights.

Casino Font

This family of 20 fonts includes several variations that feature marquee lights. The all-caps font also includes 2D and 3D variations, giving you plenty of options. This is one you'll definitely want to have in your arsenal.

Frontage

The Frontage Family includes five fonts. Frontage Bulb is a dotted font that can be layered with the others in the family to create a marquee look. The set includes Frontage, Fontage Bold, Frontage 3D, and Frontage Shadow. These fonts can be combined in many ways to create the look you're after. It's perfect for signs, posters, merchandise, packaging, and branding.

Burford Marquee

Burford Marquee is one part of the Burford family of sixteen fonts. You can access all of them with a subscription to Envato Elements.

The Burford fonts can be layered to create endless possibilities, including different extrudes and shadows. So while Burford Marquee may be pretty simple on its own, it becomes much more versatile and powerful when combined with the whole Burford family for layering.

Showtime Font

The letters in Showtime do not include marquee lights, but there are borders of lights above and below the letters. You can also easily add borders to either side. The end result is text that resembles movie theater or cinema signage.

Using Marquee Fonts in Your Designs

There are endless ways to create a retro or vintage look with your designs, and using a marquee-inspired look is one possibility. Thanks to the best marquee fonts featured here, it's easy to get a genuine marquee anytime.