The bright lights of old theater signs promise excitement, drama, and the glamour of classic Hollywood movies. Now, you can add that retro look to design projects of all kinds with this collection of realistic-looking fonts complete with authentic light bulb effects that recreate the styles and colors of the vintage cinema marquee.
1. Marquee Light Bulbs
The Marquee Light Bulbs font set features vintage style 3D lettering with realistic light bulb effects to use for designing posters, invitations, and announcements. The set comes with two 3D lettering sets, a collection of light bulb renders that suggest the textures and shades of burned out bulbs and rusted sockets, plus a set of six grunge display fonts in transparent PNG files.
2. Showtime Alphabet
The Showtime Alphabet recreates the lettering of old marquees with 3D lettering, bulbs, and elements in separate files for creative combinations. The Showtime Alphabet set includes four ready-made scenes and background textures, along with glyphs and graphic elements that can be used for projects such as announcements, prints, and posters.
3. Queen Street Display Font
Inspired by the hand-painted signage of boutique shops and the typefaces of independent zines, the Queen Street Display Font set is a vintage styled display font with stackable Photoshop layers in four styles. This setup allows you to create a variety of effects, either by stacking layers on top of each other or using them alone for a cleaner look. The Queen Street font set also comes with multilingual support for a long list of languages in both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets.
4. Buket Font Collection
Buket means “bouquet” in Turkish, and this large font set contains a bouquet of 18 compatible vintage-inspired serif and sans serif font styles and textures for use in a variety of creative projects such as signage, menus, posters, prints, and branding. The Buket Font Collection comes in four styles, including script, contrast, basic, and shiny. It also features a large set of decorative elements such as ornaments and swashes for use with all the font variants.
5. Lights On! Vector Alphabet
Lights On! is a pure vector alphabet with no raster effects that features realistic bright light bulbs, suitable for adding a genuine movie marquee look to projects such as headers, prints, posters, and packaging. The all-caps alphabet is fully editable in Adobe Illustrator for customizing colors, strokes, and changing the look of the light bulbs inside each letter. The alphabet also includes a full set of numbers.
6. Vector Light Bulb Marquee Letters
Featuring bright yellow light bulbs inside each letter, the Vector Light Bulb Marquee Letter set is an all-caps vector alphabet made of individual elements, not a font. Each letter is in its own vector EPS file for complete editing and customizing. The simple A to Z Latin alphabet includes a full set of 26 characters, and can be sized and arranged using the tools of Adobe Illustrator for projects such as branding and marketing, posters, invitations, scrapbooking and more.
7. Showtime Color Font
The Showtime Color Font is an Open Type font in a realistic marquee format for adding eye-catching color and vintage style to projects such as illuminated signs, announcements, invitations, branding, and other projects needing an attention-getting set of all capitals. Each letter is individually created in 3D and then converted to a color font, and comes with additional instructions for working with color fonts.
8. Marquee Light Bulb Sign Letters
Featuring photorealistic lighting and textures, the Marquee Light Bulb Sign Letter set is not a font. Each letter in the Marquee Light Bulb Sign Letter set is created separately on individual transparent PNG files for separate editing and use in posters, announcements, branding, and packaging. The set includes a full Latin alphabet in all caps, plus 10 numbers.
9. Marquee Letters
The Marquee Letters set is a pack of 3D rendered marquee letters with light bulb effects based on the free INTRO typeface. The set of high-resolution Photoshop files comes with a separate pack of 39 symbols including a full number set and punctuation, plus a tileable marquee border for creating projects such as headers, posters, announcements, and invitations.
10. Realistic Marquee Set
The Realistic Marquee Set is a uniquely realistic letter set featuring three options for each letter with light bulb effects including bright, low light, and burnt out for adding vintage marquee effects to signage, headers, and posters. The set includes a full all caps Latin alphabet, selected punctuation marks, and special symbols.
Bonus: Burford Pro Pack
Made for professional users of premier design programs such as Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator, the Burford Pro Pack of vintage and retro fonts was inspired by European display typography. The Burford Pro Pack includes 18 layered font styles, plus stylistic alternatives and 100 extra elements.
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