Hi all,

I'm making a 'mock' for a TV channel for if it had been around in the 80s.

I need fonts that scream 1980s. They need to be free!

I would love to hear some suggestions from you!

http://www.dafont.com/blade-runner.font?text=THE+1980

hmmmmm free ? quite hard ...
what about this one ?
http://www.dafont.com/glass-houses.font


in all the 80s albums stored on my computer, the most common fonts are not free (and are not from the 80s) :
Helvetica bold, Friz Quadrata bold, Eurostile bold, Cooper black,...




Tell this tight-fisted TV channel to give you some of the money they earn from ads, to buy fonts.

BTW, none of the pics in your comp seem to be from the 80s (except reagan & mj)
(maybe they come from free image banks, that's why it looks so cheap and contemporary)


and : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_ribbon
The Red Ribbon Project was created by the New York-based Visual AIDS Artists Caucus in 1991

Glass Houses is 1998, minimal 10 years too late

don't really know when it's from, but i think i saw this on old albums too
http://www.fonts.com/font/itc/shatter/shatter

edit : 1973 (http://www.linotype.com/fr/3436/viccarless.html?lang=fr)
edit 2 : and it's not fucking free (http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/itc/shatter/)

https://www.google.es/search?q=fonts+made+in+the+80s&client=firefox-a&hs=pTN&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=xqXCU9LANM3K0AX4_YDADQ&ved=0CCkQsAQ&biw=1215&bih=749

oh yeah, i forgot the heavy use of futura black cond italic.
but i think it was even more present in 2013


LOL, arnold böcklin in the results.

I've been using futura in parts and it's working well.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Note- it needs to scream 80s but I don't want anything too clichéd.

so remove all the clip arts containing 80s objects

80's ? It before the creation of the True Type Format.
Look at the old pixelised Macintosh fonts...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonts_on_Macintosh#Fonts_of_the_original_Macintosh

But photo-setting yes.

Why the 80s? Boring decade after the 60s and 70s ... and nothing screaming was ever there

The 80s because I am making a 'mock' for Channel 5 had it been around in 1984. It's just for fun really.

Chicago : http://www.dafont.com/pix-chicago.font
A classic on the dot-matrix printer.

Thank you very much for these - some have really been useful so far.