Stylish Mid Century Fonts for Neat-O Crafts every Cricuteer will Love!

Welcome to our collection of favorite Mid Century style fonts! These fonts showcase all the bold, fun design elements typical of typefaces from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. Elegant brush and monoline scripts and chunky off-kilter display fonts set the tone for stylish vintage wow-worthy projects!

This is a collection of both cutting and writing fonts. The fonts you see here are ALL tested and used, by us, for real projects. The pictures you see here are photos of lettering on white cardstock, either cut from Cricut Value Vinyl or written using a Fine Point pen. We included a sample height measurement on each photo so you know what the fonts look like at that size.

Almost all of these are free, but since so many of you have subscriptions, we included a handful of Creative Fabrica fonts. We’ve sorted them into serif, sans serif, and script/cursive fonts but they span many different styles.

Serif

These Mid Century serif fonts immediately evoke everything cool and fun about this era of typefaces. Think Vegas-style signage, vintage ads, old cartoons, and Atomic Age everything!

*MCM monogram ornaments featuring Crava*

We often pair these with cursive fonts, or even throw in a sans serif like Sassy Sway. Mid Century designs look great with more than one font in the mix, but a swingin’ serif is a must!

*MCM Father’s Day card featuring serif font Peralta (with the “A”s backwards!), script Creampuff, and Sassy Sway sans serif*

*Inside of the MCM Father’s Day card featuring Peralta, Creampuff, and Sassy Sway*

photo of mid century serif fonts, cut out of Cricut Value Vinyl in mint and mounted on white cardstock. Crava line height noted as a scale bar, 0.75"

Atomic Circle (Creative Fabrica)
Berry Merry (Creative Fabrica)
Bigelow Rules (free for commercial use)
Boyz R Gross (free for commercial use)
Crava (personal use only)
El Durango (personal use only)
Fontdiner Loungy (personal use only)
Fontdiner Swanky (free for commercial use)
Fontdinerdotcom Sparkly (personal use only)
Handwriting (Creative Fabrica)

photo of second set of mid century serif fonts, cut out of Cricut Value Vinyl in mint and mounted on white cardstock. Qraxy line height noted as a scale bar, 0.8"

Lounge Bait (personal use only)
Maiden Orange (free for commercial use)
Pale Martini (Creative Fabrica)
Proton Pop (Creative Fabrica)
Peralta (free for commercial use)
Qraxy (personal use only)
Risque (free for commercial use)
Spicy Rice (free for commercial use)
Star Mode (Creative Fabrica)
Wendyville (personal use only)

Sans Serif

Sans serif fonts aren’t as common in Mid Century designs, but this is the category where you see some famous fonts, like Grinched or Mouse Memoirs.

Cherry Cream Soda (free for commercial use)
Grinched (personal use only)
Grinched 2.0 (personal use only)
HFF Low Sun (personal use only)
Mouse Memoirs (free for commercial use)
Ranchers (free for commercial use)
Rancho (free for commercial use)
Sassy Sway (Creative Fabrica)
Stereofidelic (free for commercial use)
Tiki Tropic (Creative Fabrica)
Twist (Creative Fabrica)

Script

Like the serif fonts, script typefaces do a lot of heavy lifting in Mid Century design. We rarely create a vintage project without one! These fonts capture all kinds of vibes, whether you’re looking for car culture cool, casual elegance, or something fun and energetic.

image of the finished pink and green MCM Christmas inlay card, featuring the words "happy holidays cut out of pink and green striped cardstock with white cardstock text inlaid in it's place. The finished card is embellished with gold and silver sparkle starbursts and set against a pastel pink background — *Inlay card featuring monoline script Grand Hotel*

mid century-inspired card made in skewed rectangle shape with stylized deer, starburst, boomerang amd rectangle shapes — *MCM card featuring Swanky Mojo*

Some of these scripts are a little on the thin side for cutting (Clicker Script, Honey Script, Sacramento, Stalemate, The Hills), but they cut well out of Value Vinyl with a minimum 0.6″ line height. These particular fonts also work well as writing fonts – see the next section.

photo of cursive mid century fonts, cut out of Cricut Value Vinyl in Teal and mounted on white cardstock. Line height of Clicker Script is noted for scale, 0.6"

Advertising Script (personal use only)
Airstream (personal use only)
Amplify (personal use only)
Artely Inks (personal use only)
Clicker Script (free for commercial use)
Cookie (free for commercial use)
Creampuff (free for commercial use)
Creation (personal use only)
Damion (free for commercial use)
Don’t Melt (personal use only)
Engagement (free for commercial use)
Grand Hotel (free for commercial use)
Honey Script (free for commercial use)

photo of second set of cursive mid century fonts, cut out of Cricut Value Vinyl in Teal and mounted on white cardstock. Line height of Rickles font is noted for scale, 0.6"

Mr Bedfort (free for commercial use)
Quigley Wiggly (free for commercial use)
Remachine Script (personal use only)
Rickles (personal use only)
Rochester (personal use only)
Rocket Script (personal use only)
Sacramento (free for commercial use)
Stalemate (free for commercial use)
Style Script (free for commercial use)
Swanky Mojo (Creative Fabrica)
The Hills (personal use only)

Fonts to write with an inset, or Print & Cut

We often use these fonts for cards where we want to include a sentiment written in pen. Most of these require an inset (negative offset) to fill them in so they look like a solid line, but you can also use these for Print & Cut sentiments.

photo of the inside of the gesturing Santa christmas card, with sentiment written in pen and vintage ornament decorations — *MCM Christmas card with sentiment written in Honey Script*

These fonts were written with a 0.4mm (Fine Point) Cricut pen on cardstock, and we’ve indicated how many insets we used for each writing sample at the line height given.

If you need more help, check out our tutorial on how to fill in text with a pen using your Cricut.

photo of mid century writing fonts, written on white cardstock with a Fine Point Cricut pen in black. Line height of Honey Script is noted for scale, 1.0". Most fonts have been filled using an inset technique, see text for details.

Advertising Script Monoline (personal use only)
- line height 1″
- no inset
Clicker Script (free for commercial use)
- line height 0.75″
- 3 x -0.07″ offsets
Honey Script (free for commercial use)
- line height 1″
- 4 x -0.07″ offsets
HFF Light Petals (free for commercial use)
- line height 0.75″
- 1 x -0.07″ offsets
Rocket Script (personal use only)
- line height 0.8″
- 3 x -0.07″ offsets
Stalemate (free for commercial use)
- line height 0.75″
- 2 x -0.07″ offsets
Sacramento (free for commercial use)
- line height 0.6″
- 2 x -0.07″ offsets
The Hills (personal use only)
- line height 0.97″
- 3 x -0.07″ offsets

Bright pink Christmas card interior with a cheerful sentiment inside reading "Wishing you sparkle, joy, and all things merry". Embellished with silver and gold sparkle stars and diamonds — *Inside of MCM inlay card featuring a sentiment written in Sacramento*

Mid Century designs of all kinds, including fonts, have aged spectacularly – there’s a reason why modern designers have continued to revisit these styles. We hope you enjoy these timeless classics as much as we do!