Block style font in word

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Microsoft Word 2013 offers several preset styles with which you can quickly format existing text by simply selecting the style from the Home tab. Unfortunately, a block text style is absent from this list. However, you can manually format text in block style using Word’s Paragraph dialog. If you frequently repeat this format, consider creating a new style from the formatted text for quicker one-click application in the future.

Step 1

Triple-click the existing paragraph to select it or click-and-drag your mouse to highlight multiple paragraphs.

Step 2

Click the “Paragraph Settings” arrow at the bottom right of the Home tab’s Paragraph group.

Step 3

Click the “Alignment” drop-down menu and select “Justified.”

Step 4

Click the small arrows in the “Left” and “Right” fields of the Indentation section to increase the values. Both values should be the same, such as one or one-half inch.

Step 5

Click the “Line Spacing” drop-down menu and select “Single.”

Step 6

Click “OK” to format the selected text in block style. If you want to save this style, continue the procedure.

Step 7

Click the “More” arrow, located beneath the scroll arrows in the Home tab’s Styles group, and select “Create New Style.”

Step 8

Enter “Block Style” as the name and click “OK.” By default, the new style appears in the Styles group, so you can click it to apply the block style to any selected text.

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When it comes to grabbing your audience’s attention, nothing beats block fonts. These powerful, attention-seeking fonts are impossible to ignore, which makes them the perfect choice for headlines, signage, posters, and any other copy that you want to stand out.

But with so many different block fonts out there to choose from, it can be tough to find the right match for your brand. To help you compare your options, we’ve compiled a list of the best block fonts in 2021.

We’ve made sure to include both free and premium options so there should be something here to fit every budget.

Feel free to browse the list below and if you see something you like, you can click through to download it! But first, let’s clarify what block fonts are and when you might want to use them.

What are Block Fonts?

Block fonts are a broad category of fonts that are easy to read and used most commonly in signage, advertisements, headlines, and other graphic designs where large type is necessary. 

They usually share certain key characteristics, namely:

• All uppercase letters
• Uniform stroke thickness (though some of the more artistic block fonts have thinner and thicker zones for added character)
• Squared-off corners and straight lines
• Slab serif typefaces (squared off serifs)

Top 49 Best Block Fonts (2023)

Alright, let’s jump into the list. Here are our top 49 favorite block fonts available in 2023.

1. Black Block Gaming Font

Let’s start with this playful, bold, block font from Envato Elements. The chunky lettering and rounded off edges give this font a fun, kid-friendly design. It’d work great in kid’s games, YouTube gaming channel art, children’s toys, merchandise, and posters. 

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

2. The Tide

The Tide is a font that evokes sunshine, sea, and surf. This adventurous, beach-inspired block font uses a carefree design that would look great on YouTube travel channel art, surf shops, beachwear, magazines, and more. 

It’s a font that doesn’t take itself too seriously and might look out of place in a professional or corporate environment, but if you’re going for a more laid-back brand identity, it’s an excellent choice.

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

3. Glubby

Glubby is another fun and quirky display font that jumps off the page. It’s ideal for children-facing merchandise and brand materials, like kids book covers, children’s clothing brands, cartoon titles, and posters. The lettering is super chunky which makes the font really stand out and aids with readability. 

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

4. Old Elm

Old Elm is a rugged slab serif font that uses a vintage-inspired hand-drawn design. The designer sketched each character by hand with a pencil before converting them into a digital font and thanks to this process, the font has a very retro, old-school look.

The package includes four variations in different textures and weights: regular, rough, smooth, and stamped. It includes every character on US keyboards as well as some international keys like the British Pound and Euro symbols. 

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

5. Due Credit

Due Credit was designed specifically for use in film posters. The designer wanted to create something highly legible that still had that classic movie look to use in credit blocks. 

As intended, the font looks very atmospheric and has a lot of big-screen flair without negatively impacting readability. It comes in several weights and two different versions. The package also includes additional cast and crew glyphs and an extra ‘horror’ genre-inspired style. 

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

6. Ballocs

Ballocs is a textured block font with a very sporty design. It’s very readable and works great as a display font on logos, headlines, scoreboards, as well as on athleticwear and other sports prints. 

The font package includes uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuations, and symbols and comes in both OTF and TTF formats. If you’re working on a sports-related design, it’s a great choice. 

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

7. Deep Block

Deep Block is a grungy, bold block font with a worn texture. It’s perfect for when you’re going for that edgy look and you want to make a statement in your designs. The distressed font feels very vintage and industrial with a modern twist. It’s not the most readable font on this list but it’s certainly one of the most interesting.

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

8. Block Glitch

Block Glitch is a ‘unique font for modern design’. As you might have guessed by the name, it’s a futuristic block font with characters that seem to be ‘glitching’. The designer has used straight lines offset with intentional flaws and errors that distort the text to give it that futuristic feel.

Despite the glitch-like design, it still manages to be highly readable and would be suitable for a large range of display projects.

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

9. Bob

Bob is a font that needs no introduction. It’s a huge typeface with a small name. Designed for the largest of displays, it features super-chunky characters and includes roughly 200 glyphs. If you want to make sure your designs can’t be missed, Bob’s got you covered.

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

10. Wraith

Wraith is a modern, super-wide block font with ultra-tight spacing. It’s modern, stylish, and ideal for headlines and titles. It works great alongside sans-serif fonts and other script fonts. 

Wraith is a wide font with ultra-tight spacing. It includes uppercase multilingual letters, numbers, and punctuation.

The font pairs well with other script fonts and sans-serif fonts, it’s ideal for titles and not long blocks of text. The download also includes the web font.

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

11. Monocoque

Monocoque is a clean and interesting font that is perfect for automotive designs, gaming designs, YouTube channel art, and more. The font is reminiscent of old racing movies like fast and furious and would be a great addition to a motor event poster or website. The download includes regular and italic versions of the font.

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

12. Porcine

Porcine is a straightforward and modern typeface that is perfect for any kind of design. It’s bold and easy to read making it extremely versatile. If you’re looking for a trendy block font that you can use in a variety of projects, this is a great choice.

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

13. Porcine Bosk

Porcine Bosk is a modern and unique block font perfect for adding visual interest to your designs. The block letters are finished with an interesting wooden texture, which would be perfect for signs, merchandise, and posters. The Porcine Bosk download pack includes OTF, TTF, and Web Fonts.

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

14. Morro

Morro is a truly unique block font based on geometric shapes. Although a little hard to read, it’s super trendy and would look great as the font in a logo design or on merchandise. The font pack includes 3 versions of the font; Regular, Regular and shadow, and Outline. Using the 3 font versions, you can really get creative with your designs.

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

15. Uphead

Uphead is a trendy retro-inspired font that is sure to elevate your designs. The font is inspired by eastern European typefaces and will help give your designs a stylish and artistic look. This easy-to-read font would look great on signs, logos, or websites. 

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

16. Blockhead

Blockhead is a bulky and robust font perfect for grabbing people’s attention. This heavy font really jumps off the page and is a great choice for titles, posters, and signs. The font is available in 3 different weights; Regular, Bold, and Black. If you want a super chunky font that really stands out, Blockhead Black is a great choice.

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

17. Behemoth

Behemoth is a tall block typeface perfect for large posters and signs. The tall and bold letters are easy to read and impactful and will give your designs an edgy look. This font pack comes with two different versions of the Behemoth font; Original and Distressed. The distressed typeface is perfect for giving designs a grungy feel.

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

18. Coolest

Coolest is an ice-themed block font perfect for wintery designs. The letters are bold and unique and incorporate elements like snowflakes and snow powder dots. This font would really elevate the design of posters and merchandise for winter sporting events and Christmas parties.

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

19. Jurka

Jurka Typeface is a unique block font inspired by 1950’s poster art. The wavy edges and curvy lettering look artistic and interesting and really help the font to jump off the page. This font would be perfect for vintage posters, apparel, web design, and more.

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

20. Devant Horgen

Devan Horgen is a bold and striking block font perfect for posters, web designs, and more. The font is reminiscent of retro movie posters and will help give your designs a trendy and artistic edge. The download includes OTF, TTF, and Web Fonts so it is suitable for a variety of creative projects. 

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

21. Blockletter

Blockletter is a fun and impactful block font modeled on the old Blockbuster Video logo. If you’re looking to inject some 90’s nostalgia into your designs this is the font to choose. The font pack includes 

Blockletter in 4 different styles; Normal, outline, tall, and 3d outline, making it a versatile pack that can be used in a variety of different designs. 

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

22. Woodman Heavy

Woodman heavy is a part of the Woodman Sans Serif font family. It’s a bold, attention-grabbing block font that would look great on signs, posters, and more. 

Woodman heavy is available in 5 different font designs; Original, rounded, grunge, press, and grunge outline. All of these fonts are bold, stylish, and eye-catching and are perfect for a variety of professional projects. 

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

23. Hyper Block

Hyper Block is a fun and youthful block font. It’s perfect for logos, YouTube channel art, posters, and more. This font would look great used on a gaming YouTube channel or gaming event poster. 

Hyper Block is a layered font, so you can easily customize it to create your own designs. 

Price: Personal and commercial use included in Envato Elements subscription ($14.50 per month) 

24. Sledge

Next up, we have the apocalyptic, all-caps, OTF Sledge typeface. The designer deliberately designed it with readability in mind. They wanted to make a font that they could use Photoshop blending modes on without negatively affecting readability, so they came up with Sledge.

The package includes two versions of the typeface: Rough and Regular. The rough version features textured characters that have a distinctly ‘worn-out’ look.

True to the name, this is a font that hits you like a hammer. The big, bold letters jump off the page and grab the reader’s attention. It’s a very urban and rugged font with minimal spacing that would look great on album covers and concert posters. 

Price: $12 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

25. Armor

Next, we have the Armor font by PutraCetolStudio. This is a very powerful display font that’s full of energy. It would work great in sport-related materials such as athleticwear advertisements, apparel design, and sports logos and posters. 

The font characters are ‘long-legged’ with an extended bottom half and sharp-ended serifs that give the characters extra flair. 

Price: $10 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

26. Dead

Dead is an interesting Block/Punk font with a unique design. Inspired by punk culture, it breaks all the rules, with disorderly, clumsy-looking characters and untidy lines. It has a hand-scrawled look and would look great for punk show posters, band apparel, rock magazines, and more.

It comes with a ton of glyphs including uppercase, lowercase, alternate uppercase and lowercase, symbols, brackets, fractions, numbers, punctuation, and everything else you could possibly need. 

Price: $8 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

27. Blackout

Blackout is another great block font with an interesting twist: the holes in the letters are filled in (hence the name). The designer was inspired by idle time spent doodling and filling in newspaper headlines.

It’s a very loud font that would work great for eye-catching headlines. It comes with 101 glyphs, 4 character sets, and 3 versions: Midnight (solid), Sunrise (stroked), and 2 AM (reversed).

Price: Free for both personal & commercial use (Open Font License)

28. Blocky

Blocky is a fun block display font that packs a punch. It features wavy lines and uses a quirky design that doesn’t take itself too seriously. It works great for food packaging and branding, T-shirt designs, wall art, merchandise, and posters. 

Price: $10 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

29. Hunters

Hunters is a modern sans serif font with block characters. It uses monospaced spacing which means the characters are all fixed-width and take up the same amount of horizontal space. This makes it highly readable, so it’s a great choice for eye-catching headings, logos, flyers, and even smaller text.

It uses a modern, geometrical structure and is very versatile. It can work well in any setting. The font is very affordable and comes in both True Type (TTF) and Open Type (OTF) formats.

Price: $5 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

30. BS Block

Next up, we have the BS Block font by BangunStudio. This is another font where the designer has chosen to fill in the holes in the lettering. The characters are short and chunky, and the font is reminiscent of early PC games like Pac-Man. BS Block comes with both a filled-in and outline version and is available in TTF and OTF formats. 

Price: $10 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

31. School Mania

School Mania is a fun handwritten block font with a whimsical twist. Uppercase letters are designed with a higher position and lowercase letters with a lower position, so you can combine the two to create an uneven, zigzag-style design.  

It’s a very playful font that’s taken inspiration from childhood school drawings, so it’s perfect for school branding, educational materials, children’s books, and toys.

Price: $14 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

32. GreatLakes

GreatLakes is a heavy, strong block font with an angular design. The sharp tilts and cuts in the letters add to the impact. As the name suggests, it evokes powerful natural imagery and would work great for outdoor brand stores, fishing posters, and similar marketing materials. 

Price: Free for both personal and commercial use

33. Athens

Athens by Twicolabsis a vintage block font with a gothic-inspired design. It works well for vintage designs, headlines, and logos. Athens comes with plenty of glyphs including numerals, punctuation, multilingual characters, uppercase, and lowercase letters. 

Price: $10 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

34. Knewave

Knewave is a fun, bold typeface. It features rounded edges and has a carefree, youthful look with a brush-like texture. It would work well for modern brands and designs targeted towards a younger demographic. 

Price: Free for both personal & commercial use (Open Font License)

35. Studly

Studly is a fun, cute, layered pop font family by Craft Supply Co. It comes in 6 different styles including Outline, Regular, Block, Block Extra, Extrude Left, and Extrude Right. You can layer up the styles in different colors to create awesome creative designs. 

It’s a bright, trendy font that would work great in greetings cards, stationery branding, book covers, posters, magazines, typography, and other art/design projects. 

Price: $14 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

36. Granite

As you probably guessed by the name, Granite is a block font that was inspired by the grainy texture of granite. It’s a strong, masculine font with a grunge-y, vintage design and would look great on things like power tool packaging, vintage posters, headlines, and more. 

Price: $10 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

37. Bumpo

Bumpo doesn’t exactly scream ‘sophisticated’, but it does yell ‘fun’. This chunky, friendly, and loud typeface is chock full of personality and would make a great choice for children’s products, food packaging, and other more-casual brand communications. It comes in both TTF and OTF file formats and the character inset includes upper and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuations, and accents. 

Price: $24 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

38. Sebasengan

Sebasengan is one of the most creative and versatile font packs on this list. It comes with 10 different styles that allow you to create all sorts of unique and experimental designs. These styles include regular, diagonal, emboss, spine, roughen, curvy, dot (my personal favorite), stitched, random, and invaded. 

Price: $12 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

39. Orbitron

Orbitron is a geometric, sci-fi-esque sans-serif typeface that comes in four weights from light to bold. The pack also includes a stylistic alternative and plenty of alternate glyphs. 

It uses a futuristic design that would be ideal for sci-fi movie posters and sci-fi game branding/packaging.

Price: Free for both personal & commercial use (Open Font License)

40. Eversee

Here’s another brilliant bold font by Noafontry. It uses a fresh, modern design with horizontal cuts through the lettering and tight spacing. It’s perfect for name cards, magazines, banners, covert artwork, and more. 

Price: $10 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

41. Wargate

Wargate is an aggressive font in a solid stencil style. The designer took inspiration from urban graffiti and military designs. It uses strong shapes, all-caps letters, and straight lines. As the name suggests, it would work well on military-related designs such as war games and military posters, as well as on warning signs, sports designs, activism posters and flyers, and more. 

Price: $16 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

42. Balatype

Balatype is a font pack that comes with 4 hand-drawn font styles: regular, shadow, grunge, and grunge shadow. It uses an interesting mix of clean lines alongside a hand-drawn effect to add a touch of roughness. It will elevate any design and works well for any type of large text. 

You can mix and match the styles to keep your designs fresh. The grunge and shadow styles work well for retro designs while the regular and shadow styles are better for eye-catching headlines. 

Price: $15 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

43. Moku26

Moku26 is an experimental font that’s a little ‘out-there’. It’s the most unusual font on this list and won’t be well-suited to every project, but if you’re trying to break the mold and make your designs stand out from the crowd, it’s a great choice. The pack includes 3 wildly different styles: Birch, Oak, and Pine. 

Price: $13 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

44. Speakeasy

Speakeasy is an art deco font reminiscent of the early 1920s. The designer has given the characters flair with sharp points that sit in striking contrast to the curved lines and rounded letters. 

Price: Free for both personal & commercial use

45. Sizela

Sizela is an interesting decorative font with an industrial design. The design is simple and fun, with twisted lettering and oddly-sized character lines. It isn’t very readable but it looks great and works well in large titles, posters, and book covers.

Price: $21 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

46. Adelfino

Adelfino is a modern block font by MysticalType. It was designed specifically for Sports projects and inspired by the ‘Sport style’. It’s ideal for sports posters and clothing but would also work well on album covers, headlines, and in many other use cases

Price: $17 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

47. Hantam

Hantam by Bangun Studios is a strong bold font collection that includes 5 different styles: normal, stencil, slab, thin, and inline. It’s versatile enough to work well for any design that you need to stand out. 

Price: $12 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)

48. Pikolo Block Alt

Next up, we have the Pikolo Block Alt font. This unique display font features an interesting design with rounded corners. The characters are built from separated lines that form the letters and occasionally intertwine together. 

Price: Free for both personal and commercial use

49. Street Road

Last but not least, we have Street Road by PutraCetolStudio. This edgy urban display font comes in two styles: clean and rough. It features wavy lines and comes in 3 different widths. 

Price: $16 for Tools License (suitable for personal and commercial use)