Design your way

Many popular metal bands like Motorhead, Slayer or DIO, have used heavy metal fonts for their band covers and it is still in use today. The spirit of metal band music is mostly hard and fast music with much aggression.

With the popularity of metal bands in the mid-70s, rough, fast-paced and powerful music composition along with font aesthetics made its way. Typography on band covers depicted the band’s logo more than its meaning.

There are many variations in the different types of metal fonts available. Most of the times the heavy metal fonts used in the bands define the genre of music or reflects the music of different bands and artists.

Heavy metal fonts to check out

Morgan

The Morgan heavy metal fonts are a huge family with many different versions of the same typeface. They have visible differences in their styles.

This is classified under modern and gothic styles and is available for both personal and commercial use.

Metal Mania Font

This heavy metal font consists of 258 defined characters 201 unique glyphs. The font contains characters from various Unicode characters such as basic Latin.

Designed by Dathan Boardman of Open Window, Metal Mania is a gothic font licensed under SIL Open font license. It is available for commercial or personal uses and also available as web-font at Google fonts.

BAQ Metal

BAQ heavy metal font is designed by Alex Haigh under the publishing house Thinkdust. It supports around 21 languages in typefaces of standard Latin and Opentype CFF.

This heavy metal font is a remix of the 2008 original BAQ Rounded typeface.

Golondrina font

This heavy metal font is a clean and geometrical Blackletter with sharp-looking lowercase characters.

The name is derived from a Spanish migratory bird who moves from north to south similar to the angles in the font. Golondrina has a medieval typeface with coarse lettering for a heavy metal band.

Screter

Screter is a Blackletter decorative typeface that was designed by CucuSupriyadi under the publishing house Seventh Imperium in 2015.

The font is designed by and is available under demo licensing, i.e., available for personal and commercial purposes. It is tagged under the style of gothic Blackletter.

Noggovoso decorative

One of the black metal fonts is Noggovoso decorative display font which was designed by Tama Putra.

This metal band font has taken its inspiration from gothic and Victorian styles. It includes a set of characters from A-Z including uppercase and lowercase letters.

It also has various numerals, punctuations and other multilingual characters. These metal fonts can be used for many other purposes apart from band covers like banner and poster designs.

Vertigo Death font

This metal band font is designed by Micro Zett. It has taken its inspiration from heavy metal and extreme sports culture.

There are heavy metal generators available on many websites to get a demo of the font and create text-based images and logos.

Iron Man of War

This black metal font family was created by Fontry in 2013 with 4 different styles. It is a non-commercial freeware and is available only for personal use.

Spectrashell font

This death metal font is designed by Typodermic fonts in 2018 and is classified under Sci-Fi and techno styles. It is freely available for commercial use and is also referred to as a desktop license.

This font can be either installed on a computer or embedded in an app or web for creating games, web graphics, logos, posters etc. It supports all Latin based languages including Vietnamese, Greek etc.

Mighty Brush

This heavy metal font was designed by RismanGinarwan and published by Garisman Studio. The font family supports 23 different languages and is PUA encoded with open type feature available.

It is licensed for personal used and is classified under Brush and Script styles. The font has an eye-catching appeal with attractive curves.

Lyra font

The death metal font is published by Myfonts.com and is licensed for personal use only. The font supports OpenType font and TrueType font formats.

The font appears to be an amalgamation of chancery cursive, book-hand and a moderate italic slant.

Wormwood Gothic

This black metal font was designed by Rian Hughes and it was published by Device. It is categorized under regular style with classifications of woodcut and display and supports OpenType font(OTF) format.

The font also supports the languages of Western Europe, Central/Eastern Europe, Baltic, Turkish, Romanian.

Wulf Utility

This heavy metal font was also designed by Rian Hughes and contains two styles and family package options. It was published by Device in 2015 and supports OpenType font format.

Wulf Utility family comprises of Wulf Utility and Wulf Utility Dirty and has a glyph count of 221. It supports at least 21 languages in Western Europe. This heavy metal font is shrouded in secrecy and considered as a mysterious typeface.

Brothers of Metal

This metal band font is a gothic and modern font which is a trademark of defaulterror. It was designed by Derek Clark in the year 2006. It is available for both personal and commercial uses.

It comprises of 27 glyphs and 52 characters and supports TrueType font(TTF) format. There are websites for this heavy metal font generator where you can check the preview of the font and create one for your use.

Sword Font

Sword font was designed by Harry Kasyanov and consists of four fonts in two format types: OpenType Font and TrueType Font formats. These two formats can be combined: sword angular, sword rectangular, sword angular shadow and sword rectangular shadow.

The sword font contains 5 glyphs for lowercase, 4 glyphs for uppercase and 4 alternates for each number along with a set of character from A-Z. It also supports multiple languages.

There are few more metal band fonts listed below: