Valentines Fonts: 11 Best Valentine’s Day and Romantic Fonts for Cards, Hearts and Love Notes

Valentines fonts are typefaces that make a card, label or post feel romantic at a glance: flowing love-letter scripts, letters with hearts built in, heart dingbats, soft serifs and the hand-drawn, slightly retro type of a classroom valentine. With Valentine’s Day on Sunday 14 February 2027, now is the time to choose one for cards, printables, bakery packaging and social posts.

Our top three picks are The Romantic Font, a script and serif hybrid inspired by antique quilled lettering; Heart Burn, a Valentine-inspired type collection with editable heart graphics; and Fagi, a soft, retro serif in nine weights. Eight more follow, covering bows, paper-cut letters, glowing dots and watercolour hearts.

Browse romantic fonts on Creative Market Commercial fonts sold with a licence

Every font in the main list is a commercial font sold on Creative Market. Six free romantic fonts with open licences, safe for commercial work, are further down.

What is a Valentine font?

A Valentine font is a typeface that signals love and romance: a flowing script that looks like a handwritten note, letters decorated with hearts, bows or flourishes, a companion set of heart dingbats, or a soft, rounded serif. It is used for short phrases, names and headlines on cards, packaging and posts.

A short history of Valentine lettering

The first recorded link between Saint Valentine’s Day and romantic love is believed to be Chaucer’s Parlement of Foules from 1382, according to Wikipedia’s Valentine’s Day article. By the 19th century, paper valentines were so popular in England that they were assembled in factories, and cheaper postage made mailing them easy; handmade cards “gave way to mass-produced greetings”. The heart shape has been used on Valentine cards and candy boxes since the 19th century, per Wikipedia’s heart symbol article.

In the US, the key figure is Esther Howland of Worcester, Massachusetts. After receiving a British valentine with “a fine lace border” in 1847, she began making her own, advertised them in 1850 and is credited with layering lace and thin paper. After her death she was called “The Mother of the American Valentine”. Today the Greeting Card Association estimates that about 190 million valentines are sent each year in the US. That history explains the looks below: lace-like flourishes, hand-written verses, hearts everywhere and cut-paper craft.

Flowing romantic scripts

The classic love font is a connected script with long entry and exit strokes, like a note written with a dip pen. For Valentine’s Day it tends to be lighter and more playful than wedding calligraphy. Our calligraphy fonts roundup and wedding fonts roundup cover the formal end; the picks here are friendlier and none are repeated from those lists.

Hearts in the letters and heart dingbats

Heart fonts come in two kinds: letters with hearts drawn into them (a heart dotting the i, a heart counter in an O) and dingbat fonts or bonus graphics where each key types a heart. As Ilene Strizver wrote for Fonts.com, “Getting your type and graphics from the same font is convenient, saves money and helps create a consistent look.” Heart Burn and Pop Hearts Studio work this way.

Retro and vintage Valentine cards

Vintage valentines mix Victorian ornament with mid-century card lettering: decorated capitals, soft serifs, ribbons and bows. Fagi, Aveline and Elisabeth Darlington with Bows borrow from this. Our floral fonts roundup has rose- and vine-trimmed letters for the same lace-and-flowers look.

Playful love notes

Classroom valentines, candy hearts and social posts call for bouncy, hand-drawn lettering rather than calligraphy. Lovers in New York, Belovya and Hand & Heart sit here. For more sweet, rounded options, see our cute fonts roundup.

Colour fonts and which apps show them

Some Valentine fonts are colour fonts, with watercolour texture or glitter stored inside the font as artwork. Adobe’s page on OpenType-SVG colour fonts says Photoshop and Illustrator support them; elsewhere glyphs fall back to a solid black style. Microsoft’s Peter Constable wrote in 2024 that Edge support “went away” with its move to Chromium. Canva’s upload page lists OTF, TTF and WOFF without mentioning colour fonts, and Microsoft doesn’t document colour-font support for Word. Treat a colour font as a Photoshop or Illustrator tool, and buy one that also includes a solid version or PNG letters, as The Lovestory Font Collection does.

Valentine colour palettes

• Classic: true red #B3122E, blush #F4C6C9 and cream #FFF6EE. Good for cards and candy labels.
• Vintage: rose #C9737B, dusty pink #E8B4B8, antique gold #B8955A and ivory #F7F0E3. Good for lace-style printables.
• Modern: hot pink #E6417A, burgundy #6E1530 and chocolate #3B2420. Good for bakery and chocolate packaging.

Thin scripts in pale pink on white lose contrast; set them in red or burgundy, and keep pink for backgrounds and hearts.

The best valentines fonts at a glance

*One-seat desktop licence on Creative Market, checked October 2026.

How we chose these fonts

We started from tantype’s reviews of romantic, heart and Valentine fonts, then went through Creative Market’s romantic category for scripts, heart fonts, soft serifs and colour fonts. We skipped every font already picked in our wedding, calligraphy, floral, cursive and signature roundups, so this list adds new options. Every listing was checked live in late October 2026 for the regular Desktop price, contents, languages and app notes. We favoured fonts with hearts or graphics that work outside Adobe apps, flagged colour fonts, and noted buyer reviews only where a listing had them.

Best Valentine fonts on Creative Market

1. The Romantic Font: antique quilled lettering

Nicky Laatz describes The Romantic Font as “a hand-drawn script and serif hybrid inspired by antique quilled handlettering”. Flowing lowercase meets tall uppercase, and alternates, ligatures and swashes let you letter each word differently; in the listing’s words, “No two words need to look the same.” The extras are PUA-encoded for Canva and apps without OpenType support. Languages include English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. Use it for love-letter cards, Valentine’s menus and boutique branding. Desktop licence: $25.

See The Romantic Font on Creative Market · Read our Romantic Font review

2. Elisabeth Darlington with Bows: a script with ribbon swashes

PeachCreme’s Elisabeth Darlington is a connected script with bows built into its swash set, a good match for the current ribbon-and-bow “coquette” look. It has two styles, Regular and an upright version, and 719 glyphs, including attachable swashes for lowercase letters and Western and Central European characters. The designer recommends converting text to outlines when the design is finished. Use it for names on Valentine cards, Galentine’s invitations and gift tags. Desktop licence: $22.

See Elisabeth Darlington on Creative Market

3. Belovya Script: a Valentine-themed script and sans

Maghrib’s Belovya is, in the listing’s words, “a sweet and playful Valentine-themed font family”: a script with flowing strokes and soft curves plus a handwritten sans to pair with it. The “charming imperfections” keep it informal, so it reads as a note from a friend rather than a formal invitation. The designer lists Valentine’s designs, love cards, romantic quotes, social posts and packaging. Use the script for one or two words and the sans for the message. Desktop licence: $19.

See Belovya on Creative Market · Read our Belovya review

4. Lovers in New York: a lively hand-drawn script

PeachCreme’s Lovers in New York has “a lively, hand-drawn quality”, and its lowercase letters keep an all-caps structure for readability, so words stay clear even in a playful setting. It is one of the better-reviewed fonts here, with 16 buyer reviews on the listing. It suits Valentine’s social posts, bakery chalkboards and casual party invitations, and works well in red on a pale pink background. Desktop licence: $19.

See Lovers in New York on Creative Market · Read our Lovers in New York review

5. Heart Burn: a Valentine type collection with heart graphics

Bruised Goods made Heart Burn as “a lovely type collection with bonus heart graphics”, “inspired by Valentine’s Day and all things foolishly heartfelt”. The fonts have 261 glyphs (uppercase, numbers, symbols and punctuation, English only, in OTF), and the bonus is more than 10 editable heart icons in an Illustrator file plus a PNG of each, which the listing says work in Canva. Use it for candy-shop packaging, Valentine’s sale posters and retro T-shirts. Desktop licence: $20.

See Heart Burn on Creative Market · Read our Heart Burn review

6. Pop Hearts Studio: playful letters with heart illustrations

Ayya Studio calls Pop Hearts Studio “type that refuses to sit still”: “playful, loud, and intentionally imperfect”. The font comes in OTF, TTF and WOFF, with 29 bonus hand-drawn illustrations of hearts, charms and small details as SVG and PNG files, so the hearts work in any app that takes images. It has three buyer reviews. Use it for stickers, Etsy printables and playful café or florist branding in February. Desktop licence: $23.

See Pop Hearts Studio on Creative Market · Read our Pop Hearts Studio review

7. Hand & Heart: paper-cut letters and a brush script

Tropical Type’s Hand & Heart is “a real handmade font duo”, one style “cut out of paper”, the other a dry-brushed script. The cut-paper letters echo the construction-paper valentines people still make at school. Files are OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2 and SVG, with extended Latin accents. Pair the paper-cut capitals for “Be Mine” with the script for the names on handmade cards, craft-fair signs or a stationery brand. Desktop licence: $18.

See Hand & Heart on Creative Market · Read our Hand & Heart review

8. Shiny Affair: a dotted script that glows

AnMark’s Shiny Affair is a “decorative romantic script font DUO with a charming dotted texture”. The two styles, Solid and Glow, can be used alone or layered, so you could set white dots over a soft pink glow for a marquee-light look. It has three buyer reviews. Use it for Valentine’s party headlines, beauty and fashion promotions and monograms. Desktop licence: $24.

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9. Fagi: a classic Valentine serif in nine weights

Casloop Studio’s Fagi is “a classic Valentine-inspired serif font that blends retro charm with refined elegance”. It comes in nine weights from Thin to Black, with ligatures, stylistic alternates and support for 27 European languages, in OTF, TTF, WOFF and WOFF2. The listing names Canva, Figma, Kittl and Affinity among compatible apps. It suits chocolate boxes, bakery labels and Valentine’s campaigns that want romance without a script. Desktop licence: $25.

See Fagi on Creative Market · Read our Fagi review

10. Aveline: a soft serif with Victorian alternates

CarmineType’s Aveline is a hybrid serif between a modern sans and a serif, with “discreetly Victorian-inspired alternates” and more than 170 ligatures and alternates. Our review notes its small, rounded serifs and gentle contrast, which keep it calm until the alternates come in. It comes in Regular and Italic with Western, Central and Eastern European coverage. It is the priciest pick, aimed at romantic editorial titles, beauty packaging and brand identities. Desktop licence: $59.

See Aveline on Creative Market · Read our Aveline review

11. The Lovestory Font Collection: watercolour hearts and brush letters

Nicky Laatz’s Lovestory pack converts hand-painted watercolour lettering into two SVG colour fonts, so “it looks like you have just hand painted them”. The SVG fonts need Photoshop CC 18.0+, Illustrator CC 22.0+ or InDesign CC 13.0.1+, but the pack also has two solid TTF versions for other apps, a serif, 23 watercolour hearts, leaves and swashes, overlays and PNG letters. It has eight buyer reviews. The listing bars use in templates. Desktop licence: $23.

See The Lovestory Font Collection on Creative Market

How to choose a Valentine font

• Valentine’s cards: one script for the greeting (The Romantic Font, Belovya) and a plain serif or sans for the message. Sign-offs look best in the script at a large size.
• Etsy printables: classroom valentines and “love coupons” need fonts children can read; use a playful hand-drawn font (Lovers in New York, Hand & Heart) for names and keep scripts for one word.
• Bakery and candy packaging: a soft serif (Fagi) or a bold retro set with hearts (Heart Burn) reads from the shelf; save hairline scripts for the gift tag.
• Social posts: bold hand-drawn type and heart graphics (Pop Hearts Studio, Heart Burn) stay legible on a phone; very thin scripts don’t.
• Couples’ keepsakes: anniversary prints, “est.” signs and save-the-dates sit between Valentine’s and wedding design; Elisabeth Darlington or Aveline bridge the two. Our wedding fonts guide covers invitations.
• Colour fonts: only if you design in Photoshop or Illustrator; otherwise use the solid versions or PNG letters.

Using a Valentine font in Word

Install the OTF or TTF file first; Microsoft’s guide to installing custom fonts for Office covers Windows and Mac. Swashes and hearts encoded in the Private Use Area can be copied from Character Map (Windows) or Font Book (Mac) and pasted in. Colour fonts show as solid black.

Using a Valentine font in Canva

Canva’s Brand Kit upload is available on Pro, Teams, Business, Education and Nonprofits plans, accepts OTF, TTF and WOFF, and allows up to 500 fonts per Brand Kit. Canva says uploaded fonts “should be licensed for embedding”. Add heart graphics such as Heart Burn’s or Pop Hearts Studio’s PNGs as images.

Using a Valentine font with Cricut

Installed fonts appear in Cricut Design Space as system fonts. Scripts need welding so the letters cut as one piece, and dotted, glowing or watercolour fonts don’t cut cleanly. Bold hand-drawn letters and heart dingbats are the easiest for vinyl and card. Our Cricut fonts guide explains welding and sizing.

Free Valentine fonts

All six are on Google Fonts under the SIL Open Font License, which allows commercial use, including printed products you sell.

• Lovers Quarrel: Robert Leuschke’s “playful calligraphic style” with clean lowercase and ornate capitals. The best free Valentine script for one or two words; more formal than Belovya.
• Love Light: also by Robert Leuschke, a calligraphic script with heart embellishments. The free answer to a heart font for a short greeting; lighter than Heart Burn.
• Rouge Script: Sabrina Mariela Lopez’s script, drawn with a copperplate nib and finished with brush-style terminals. Its low slant keeps it legible, a good free love-note font for menus and labels.
• Meddon: Vernon Adams’s handwriting font based on an 18th-century legal document. It gives a quill-written love-letter look, close in spirit to The Romantic Font.
• Love Ya Like A Sister: Kimberly Geswein’s chunky hand-drawn display font, made in honour of her sister. Good for Galentine’s cards and classroom valentines.
• Noto Emoji: Google’s monochrome emoji font, a free heart dingbat font. It includes ♥, ❤, 💕, 💘, 💌, 🌹, 💋 and 🍫 as single-colour symbols you can colour like text.

Many “free Valentine fonts” on download sites are personal-use demos. Cards, stickers or printables you sell are commercial use.

Licensing: personal vs commercial use

• Desktop licence: Creative Market’s font licence lets you install the font and use it in unlimited personal and commercial projects, including physical products, packaging, social media and ads. Buy one seat per person who uses it.
• Webfont, App and E-pub: separate licences cover embedding the font in a website, an app or an e-book.
• Print-on-demand: only the licence holder may use the font to make the finished product, so customer-personalised products, such as custom-name valentines, are not covered.
• Templates and cut files: selling editable Canva card templates or SVG cut files that let buyers reuse the letters can count as redistributing the font, and some listings, such as Lovestory, forbid template use. Ask the designer first.

This is a summary of published terms, not legal advice.

Valentine font FAQ

What is the best Valentine’s Day font?

The Romantic Font is the best all-round romantic script, Heart Burn the best heart font and Fagi the best Valentine serif. For free, try Lovers Quarrel or Love Light.

What font has hearts in it?

Heart Burn and Pop Hearts Studio come with heart graphics, and the free Love Light has heart embellishments. Noto Emoji is a free font of heart symbols you can colour like text.

What are romantic fonts?

Romantic fonts are scripts and soft serifs that suggest love letters, lace and flowers: flowing joins, swashes, gentle contrast and decorative capitals. They are used for cards, invitations and gift packaging.

Are there free Valentine fonts for commercial use?

Yes. Lovers Quarrel, Love Light, Rouge Script, Meddon, Love Ya Like A Sister and Noto Emoji are all on Google Fonts under the SIL Open Font License, which allows commercial use. Many free downloads elsewhere are personal-use only.

Can I use Valentine fonts in Canva?

Yes, on Canva’s paid plans you can upload OTF, TTF or WOFF files you have licensed to your Brand Kit. Colour fonts aren’t listed as supported, so use solid versions and add hearts as PNG images.

What is the difference between Valentine fonts and wedding fonts?

Wedding fonts are usually formal calligraphy for invitations, while Valentine fonts are more playful: hand-drawn scripts, hearts, bows and bold retro lettering for cards, candy and social posts.

Is a Valentine font generator the same as a font?

No. Font generators swap your text for Unicode look-alike characters or render an image; neither installs a font you can type with.