26 Best Neon Fonts to Light Up Your Designs for 2023

There’s nothing quite as atmospheric as the fluorescent glow and buzz of neon signs.

Neon calls to mind cozy diners, trendy bars, and cheap motels. It’s an iconic symbol of the 1900s, and of the night-time and leisure economy in cities that never seem to sleep.

If you want to evoke that same atmosphere in your designs, you’ll love these neon fonts.

We trawled the internet to find the best neon fonts by some of the most talented designers around and compiled them here for your convenience. 

Feel free to browse the list below and if you like the look of anything, click through to download it. Enjoy!

The 26 best neon fonts

1. Neon Ballroom

Neon Ballroom is the most popular neon font on Envato Elements. The designer crafted it by hand after taking inspiration from a retro poster they saw in a coffee shop. It has a nostalgic, 80s feel and looks retro and stylish. It comes with 203 characters including letters, numbers, and multilingual characters.

Why it’s our top pick

Neon Ballroom has everything we’re looking for in a neon font. The glyphs look as if they’re built from fluorescent neon tubes that have been twisted into shape, with smooth edges and rounded corners. It’s versatile enough to work well on all kinds of designs, from club posters to concert ads, logos, product packaging, and much more.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

2. Stacko

Stacko is a neon sign display font characterized by straight, tubular lines. Breaks in the strokes make it look extra realistic as it mimics the gaps between the neon tubes found in real neon signage.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

3. Night Light Outline

This is the first of several Night Light fonts that we’ve included on this list. The outline version looks similar to bubble fonts, but with thin strokes designed to look like neon signs. It’s perfect for film titles, movie and concert posters, YouTube thumbnails and channel art, etc. The font includes uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and bonus graphic presets.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

4. Neoncity

Neoncity is one of the most stylish fonts on this list. It was inspired by the 80s and has a vintage aesthetic with a modern twist. It comes in two versions: Neoncity and Neoncity Script. The Script version is in a cursive style that looks really nice. You can mix and match both together to create contrast within your typography designs.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

5. Concrete Neon

Concrete Neon is one of the most realistic neon fonts on this list. It’s a 3D color SVG font that looks as if it’s crafted out of concrete blocks inlaid with neon tubes. 

Color or SVG OpenType is a relatively new font format that allows designers to include more detail such as colors and textures in the font file, which is why this font is so highly detailed. However, be aware that it will only work correctly in modern design programs like Photoshop CC 2017+ and Illustrator CC 2018+.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

6. Gamblin Light

As the name suggests, Gamblin Light is a typeface that wouldn’t look out of place outside a casino. It’s a serif font inspired by old-school neon lamps and would work well on club signage, gig posters, and other trendy designs.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

7. NEON

NEON is a modern sans serif font with a minimalist style. It’s only available in all caps and features slick, neat letterforms and straight lines The simple and clean style makes it a great choice for logos, branding, headlines, and websites. You can add a neon glow effect to bring it to life.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

8. Oregon

Oregon is a futuristic, decorative typeface by Cruzine Design. It features a cool linear style and a double-line effect that makes it perfect for neon artwork.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

9. Shade Blue Retro Neon Font

Shade Blue is a cool neon script font with a retro style. It’s sexy, chic, and elegant. It comes with all the usual glyphs: uppercase and lowercase letters, numerals, symbols, and multilingual support.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

10. Klaxons

Klaxons is a thin, neon-influenced font that’s free for both personal and commercial use. The glyphs look as if they’re constructed out of tubes that have been bent and arranged in the shape of letters and numbers. It’s very fresh and clean and would look great in stylish and elegant designs.

Price: Free for personal and commercial use

11. Stacker

Stacker is another multi-line, neon font. It has a futuristic style and would be great for SciFi-themed designs. The minimal letterforms feature rounded corners and the designer has strictly used open-ended lines to mimic real neon tubes.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

12. Hastron

Hastron is a realistic handwritten script font. It looks like any other elegant calligraphy font, but once you add a glow effect, it becomes a stylish neon sign. It includes hundreds of glyphs, including stylistic sets, alternates, swashes, and ligatures.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

13. Shock Block

Shock Block is a unique hand-drawn font that’s truly electrifying. The eye-catching design was inspired by classic horror movies and cartoons from the 80s, with spiky strokes that make the letterforms look as if they’re being electrocuted. It’s available in all-caps only and comes with numerals, punctuation marks, and multilingual characters. 

In addition to the regular font, you also get an alternative ‘Block’ style that you can use to create contrast, plus bonus decorative symbols and graphic presets that you can use to replicate the neon look in the preview image.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

14. Automania

Automania is a retro inlined font that’s bold and chunky, with extremely rounded corners and filled counters. As you can see, it doesn’t feature a neon effect in the preview image above, but the shape is well-suited to it. You just need to add your own glow effect. 

Price: Free for personal and commercial use

15. Night Light Compressed

This is the compressed version of the Night Light font we looked at earlier. It’s slim, stylish, and looks very authentic. It was specially crafted to make it easy for designers to replicate traditional hand-made lettering digitally and comes with graphic presets that you can use to create a very realistic neon look.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

16. Retake

Retake is an innovative outline font with a techno futuristic style. It looks really cool once you add a neon effect and would be perfect for all kinds of projects, from game titles to posters, flyers, logotypes, book covers, and beyond.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

17. Qlinsey

Here’s another stylish handwritten font that looks great with a neon effect. It’s a script font with lots of swashes and beautiful leaf alternates. It’s very delicate and would work well in a variety of designs.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

18. Square Neon

Square Neon is another hyper-realistic 3D color font. The glyphs look as if they’re made from neatly-arranged fluorescent tubes—and the effect is very convincing.

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19. Clubeight

Clubeight is a retro neon font by Letter Stock Studio with a cyberpunk aesthetic. It’s another multi-line typeface, with four lines making up each stroke. It includes 199 characters in total and comes in TTF, OTF, and WOFF formats.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

20. God’s Own Junkyard

God’s Own Junkyard is a very rounded neon sans-serif font by designer Simon Stratford. It was inspired by British designer Chris Bracey, who owned one of the largest collections of neon signs in the world and ran a studio called God’s Own Junkyard.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

21. Komplex

Komplex is a modern sans serif font with a neon effect. It looks clean and fresh and would be great for t-shirt prints, logos, quotes, bar signs, movie titles, etc.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

22. Night Light Script

This is the Script version of the Night Light font we’ve looked at already. It has a much more delicate, stylish aesthetic compared to the Outline and Compressed version. 

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

23. ThirtyNine

ThirtyNine is a stencil font by TypeFaith. You can add a glow effect to make it look like neon lights.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

24. Neon Blitz

Neon Blitz is another retro multiline neon font that’ll take you back to the 80s and 90s. It was inspired by real-world neon lights and features round edges. 

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

25. Avaneonz

Avaneonz is a retro-themed typeface with a minimal design. It comes in OTF and TTF formats and includes all the usual glyphs plus 6 bonus styles.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

26. Fuse

Last but not least, we have Fuse. This realistic neon typeface by Epdesigns uses geometric letterforms and rounded corners just like real neon tubes. It looks just like the signs you might see outside bars in Vegas or Tokyo.

Price: Included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50/month) for personal & commercial use.

Tips for Choosing the Best Neon Font

That concludes our roundup of the best neon fonts! Not sure which one to choose? Here are some tips to help!

Add a Neon Effect Manually

When you’re choosing a font, don’t limit your search to fonts that already come with a neon glow effect out of the box. You can add the neon light text effect manually in Photoshop by layering up glow and gloss effects, so any font can be a neon font!

That said, while you can add a neon effect to pretty much any font, it tends to look best on certain types of fonts, like outline fonts and inline fonts, as these mimic the shapes of the fluorescent tubes found in real neon signs.

Choose Your Style

There are lots of fonts on this list, and each of them has a different style. Choose a font that matches the mood of your project. 

For example, if you’re working on an 80s-inspired design project, choose a retro neon font that evokes that time period. If you’re working on a logo or sign for a more modern bar or nightclub, a classy neon script font might be a good fit.

Consider Contrast

If you’re using two or more fonts in your design, try to pair fonts that complement each other nicely. It’s usually a good idea to incorporate contrast by pairing a heavy font with a light font, or a serif with a sans-serif, etc.

Don’t Forget to Check the License

Before you use any font, you should make sure it has a suitable license for your project. For example, some fonts are free for commercial use but others are only free for personal use. You can’t use the latter in commercial projects unless you purchase the appropriate license. 

If in doubt, you can’t go wrong with an Envato Elements subscription. Once you subscribe, you get access to all the fonts on the Envato Elements marketplace with a license that covers you for both personal and commercial use.