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43 Best Playful Fonts (Fun & Games Fonts!)

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In this article, we show you a list of playful typography that appeals to children. Let's take a look at some of the most fun and playful fonts!

1. Morales Bonaven Playful Fonts (OTF, TTF)

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Groovy and playful fonts like Morales Bonaven are hard to come by. This reverse contrast font is inspired by retro 70s styles. It's perfect for children's games, party invitations, and branding.

2. Pop Culture Fun Word Fonts (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

Best playful fonts: Pop cultureBest playful fonts: Pop cultureBest playful fonts: Pop culture

This classic display font is bold yet elegant. While it could be used in a grown-up setting, it's also perfect for kids. This playful typeface can be used in children's games, YouTube thumbnails, and social media.

3. My Coffee Break Font Playful (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

Best playful fonts: My Coffee BreakBest playful fonts: My Coffee BreakBest playful fonts: My Coffee Break

My Coffee Break is a child handwriting font that's handcrafted and fun. Each character has a natural touch, with uneven strokes and a combination of lowercase and uppercase. Use this fun and playful font for card games, invitations, and branding.

4. Puff Square Easy Fun Fonts (OTF, TTF)

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If you're looking for a playing card font, this playful typography is perfect. With bold and round uppercase characters, this font is great for transmitting a youthful personality. Since the font has rounded corners, it comes across as playful and easygoing. 

5. Marchton Fun Typefaces (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

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Marchton is one of the best playful fonts available. The uneven strokes on each character make it fun and give it movement. This bold display font has many ligatures and alternates that can help make your projects look seamless and natural.

6. Big Stomach Playful Fonts (OTF, TTF)

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This child crayon font is great if you're looking for something with less structure and more of an organic feel. The quirky and playful typography is great for younger audiences that love a friendly personality. Use it as a playing card font or for branding projects and posters.

7. Earth Days Fun Word Fonts (OTF, TTF)

Best playful fonts: Earth DaysBest playful fonts: Earth DaysBest playful fonts: Earth Days

Earth Days is a bold, playful font inspired by Earth Day. This organic and fun font is perfect for modern child-based projects. Use the multiple glyphs and ligatures to create a natural personality in your projects.

8. Love is Spring Font Playful (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

Best playful fonts: Love is SpringBest playful fonts: Love is SpringBest playful fonts: Love is Spring

This playful typography features sketch-like drawings within the characters. The monoline-style illustrations include hearts, swirls, and ornaments—perfect for kid's ornaments, Instagram posts, and greeting cards.

9. Easter Risen Easy Fun Fonts (TTF, OTF, WOFF)

Best playful fonts: Easter RisenBest playful fonts: Easter RisenBest playful fonts: Easter Risen

Easter Risen is a playful typeface that's based on handwritten characters. It's fresh, classic, and ideal as a playing card font. This playful font is also suitable for branding, kids' books, and YouTube banners.

10. Fancy Arts Fun Typefaces (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

Best playful fonts: Fancy ArtsBest playful fonts: Fancy ArtsBest playful fonts: Fancy Arts

This handwritten font resembles a child crayon font while staying groovy. With the curvy and bottom-heavy structure, this font looks fun and playful. Use Fancy Arts for branding projects, invitations, and packaging.

11. Playful Child Fonts (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

Best playful fonts: Playful ChildBest playful fonts: Playful ChildBest playful fonts: Playful Child

Playful Child is one of the best playful fonts with its modern yet classy design. The font is highly legible, making it perfect to use as a playing card font or for designing your own game. This font comes with multiple language support, which is great if you're looking to translate or create a multi-language game.

12. Powerful Fun Typefaces (OTF, TTF)

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This child handwriting font is like its name, Powerful. It features multiple layers that allow the characters to have their own colorful shadows. Choose between having a shadow, an inline effect, or just the simple font. 

13. Portuis Ginger Easy Fun Fonts (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

Best playful fonts: Portuis GingerBest playful fonts: Portuis GingerBest playful fonts: Portuis Ginger

This fancy child handwritten font features a high contrast between the strokes that adds a fun personality. The font also mixes uppercase with lowercase playful typography, and it's great for transmitting an easy-going vibe. This font is suitable for book cover designs, social media, and movie titles. 

14. Metorius Font Playful (OTF, TTF)

Best playful fonts: MetoriusBest playful fonts: MetoriusBest playful fonts: Metorius

This playful typeface with a geometric and fun look is great for a children's storybook. Metorius features straight edges and combines lowercase and uppercase characters to make the vibe more easygoing and friendly. This font is perfectly suitable for invitations, labels, and packaging.

15. Nice Trendy Fun Word Fonts (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

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This trendy, playful font is inspired by the groovy 70s. The form features a narrow top and a wider bottom, giving it a bubble-like look. This bold, playful font is suitable for branding projects, invitations, and children's books.

16. Peachman Playful Fonts (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

Best playful fonts: PeachmanBest playful fonts: PeachmanBest playful fonts: Peachman

This playful serif font features uneven slab serifs that give it movement and a friendly personality. It's clean, soft, and suitable for display projects. Use it also on Cricut, logo designs, and social media.

17. Flavory Fun Typefaces (OTF, TTF)

Best playful fonts: FlavoryBest playful fonts: FlavoryBest playful fonts: Flavory

Flavory is one of the best playful fonts out there, and it comes with a set of two fonts. This type of font is perfect when you need a sans serif and a display font. With plenty of ligatures, Flavory is perfectly suited for packaging, children's books, and magazines.

18. Silverkids Easy Fun Fonts (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

Best playful fonts: SilverkidsBest playful fonts: SilverkidsBest playful fonts: Silverkids

Silverkids is a child handwriting font that's funny and cute. With clean and soft edges, this font is perfect for Cricut, craft projects, and branding. The characters sit at different baseline levels, making the font look as if it has movement.

19. Cutline Font Playful (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

Best playful fonts: CutlineBest playful fonts: CutlineBest playful fonts: Cutline

This fun and playful font, Cutline, features curvy strokes, and each character has extra strokes that make the font look as if it's moving. The soft curves help the font look friendly and fun. It's suitable for Cricut, brand design, and social media. 

20. Cheerful Kids Playful Fonts (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

Best playful fonts: Cheerful KidsBest playful fonts: Cheerful KidsBest playful fonts: Cheerful Kids

This unique display font is great for younger kids. The bubble style makes the entire font look jolly and lively. Cheerful Kids is a font suitable for display designs like cover designs and children's books.

21. Playfulion Fun Typefaces (OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2)

Best playful fonts: PlayfulionBest playful fonts: PlayfulionBest playful fonts: Playfulion

Playfulion is a playful typeface that resembles a child crayon font style. This font has an organic, handwritten, but minimalist flair. It's suitable for poster designs, brand design, and business cards.

22. Golga Easy Fun Fonts (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

Golga is a bold, playful font. This strong font was drawn first and then turned into a vector to preserve the hand-drawn effect. It's great for when you want a natural and fun look in your projects.

23. OBIT Fun Word Fonts (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

Best playful fonts: ObitBest playful fonts: ObitBest playful fonts: Obit

Our next playful font is Obit, a square display font with a natural texture. The font features a combination of lowercase and uppercase characters with a geometric look. This font is suitable for Cricut, craft projects, and invitations.

24. Just Kidding Playful Fonts (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

Best playful fonts: Just KiddingBest playful fonts: Just KiddingBest playful fonts: Just Kidding

Just Kidding is a child handwriting font with a natural and relaxed look. The font has been hand-drawn and turned into vector. This charming font is suitable for children's books, packaging design, and invitations.

25. Colie Fun Word Fonts (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

Best playful fonts: ColieBest playful fonts: ColieBest playful fonts: Colie

This display typeface is one of the best playing card fonts. The font is based on a square grid with curved edges. It's soft and has a fun mix of uppercase and lowercase letters.

26. Lucid Dream Easy Fun Fonts (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

Best playful fonts: Lucid DreamBest playful fonts: Lucid DreamBest playful fonts: Lucid Dream

Retro and groovy, Lucid Dream is inspired by the 70s era. The strokes are curvy and organic, giving it a natural and fun look. Use this playful typeface for a kids' party invitation, YouTube cover, or music album cover. 

27. Wonder Pleasure Fun Typefaces (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

Best playful fonts: Wonder PleasureBest playful fonts: Wonder PleasureBest playful fonts: Wonder Pleasure

This playful typography comes in a hand-drawn vintage style with rounded corners. This typeface is perfect for projects that require a display font that needs to be distinctive. Use it as a playing card font—it's highly legible and perfect for kids' games.

28. Street Beans Playful Fonts (OTF, WOFF)

Best playful fonts: Street BeansBest playful fonts: Street BeansBest playful fonts: Street Beans

This lovely, playful font has an organic and natural feel. Street Beans is a child handwriting font inspired by kids and perfect for children's projects. The font features different thicknesses that make it look relaxed and laid-back.

29. Sagobi Fun Display Playful Font (OTF, TTF)

Best playful fonts: SagobiBest playful fonts: SagobiBest playful fonts: Sagobi

Sagobi is a natural, playful font offering plenty of alternates and ligatures to make words look like real handwriting. The pack comes with three weights, perfect if you're developing a brand project or creating a kid's playing card game. Sagobi is also great for invitations, presentations, and quotes.

30. Ding Dong Playful Font (OTF)

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Ding Dong Playful Font is one of the best fonts for child-related projects. The font features a chubby structure mixed in with a bubbly personality. If you're looking for fun swashes, Ding Dong has many different options for each character, so you can create an organic design.

31. Playfresh Playful Font (OTF, TTF)

Best playful fonts: PlayfreshBest playful fonts: PlayfreshBest playful fonts: Playfresh

This handwritten playful typeface, Playfresh, is fun and kid-friendly. The design of this font is natural, relaxed, and has a lot of movement because it mirrors real handwriting. Use this font for back to school projects, Cricut, and fun games.

32. Buttercup Fun Typefaces (WOFF)

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Buttercup Fun Typeface is a lovely and playful typeface that's perfect for a range of projects, from branding to greeting cards.

33. Momotako Cute Playful Font (OTF)

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Momotako Cute Playful Font is a hand-drawn font that's bold and fun. It's perfectly suitable for a kids' brand that wants to come across as legible but playful. Momotako is also a great font for a children's book or magazine.

34. Lemon Press Fun Word Fonts (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

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Lemon Press Fun Word Fonts is a fabulous font that comes in regular and display versions. Use it for flyers, branding, signage, and more. 

35. Dino Moose Fun Typefaces (WOFF)

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This happy and fun font is great for kid-themed projects. This font is bold with great texture and two colors. There are three font styles included, so you have lots of options to have fun with.

36. Playful Time Font (OTF, TTF, WOFF)

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This fresh and fun font is perfect for all kinds of kid-friendly projects. This display font is bold, playful, and colorful: all the qualities you need in a font designed for children.

37. Luckids Fun Typefaces (TTF, OTF)

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Children's fonts often have soft edges, but when you want something with a slightly cleaner look, choose Luckids Fun Typefaces. It's perfect for a children's book or magazine and tons of other projects.

38. The Burcey Fun Typefaces (TTF,  OTF)

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Here's a cool font that's simple, fun, and very easy to read. Use this display font for book titles, greeting cards, posters, and other child-friendly projects. 

39. Colosal Fun Word Fonts (TTF, OTF)

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How wonderful is this font? Colosal Fun Word Fonts has that naive touch of a child's penmanship that's totally endearing. The fun font style includes upper and lower case letters, numbers, and punctuation. Give it a try. 

40. Milkyway Bubbly Font Playful (TTF, OTF, WOFF)

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Milkyway Bubbly Font Playful is a fun and playful font in a bubble style. The thickness resembles a child crayon font with super rounded edges. Milkyway is suitable as a kids' party invitation or a playing card font.

41. Huckleberry Fun Word Fonts (TTF, OTF)

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How about Huckleberry Fun Word Fonts, a bold and fun font style that children will love? The font offers both upper and lower case letters, numbers, and punctuation. Use this kids' bold font to create eye-catching signage, cute greeting cards, and awesome T-shirt logos. 

42. Gemoy Fun Layered Font (TTF)

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Gemoy Fun Layered Font is a super sweet confectionery-inspired fun font style. The colorful and creative font has been created with seven different layers to give it a fun, irresistible look.

43. Loux Font Playful (TTF, OTF)

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This happy and fun font is suitable for kid-themed projects. This child crayon font lookalike has soft curves and is bolder than usual, and those attributes make the font fun. The characters stand at different baselines and add movement to a design composition.

Choose Your Favorite Playful Fonts

Now that you know just where to find the best friendly fonts when you need them, head to Envato Elements and download your favorites today. 

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