Type your words and see them in silver capitals with a red edge on a dark night, the colours of the Back to the Future logo. Keep the image, or grab the no-cost Back to the Future typeface that produced it.
Look
Background
A PNG for a story, a pin or a poster. Clear has no background.
Back to the Future 2002, by Cyril Bourreau, is a fan-made copy of the film’s title lettering in slanted, heavy capitals, and its file credits Retourverslefutur.com. Dafont shows no licence for it and says that a missing licence does not mean a font is free, so it is not passed on here: it is got from its page on dafont. Free for posters, invites and your edits; to sell what you make with it, buy its author’s licence.
Bungee has the same wide, heavy capitals as the film’s title, though its letters stand upright where the title leans. Use it for anything, even things you sell.
Open the file in a font app from the App Store and install it. Then pick it in Pages, Keynote or Procreate.
Windows
Unzip the file, right-click the .ttf and choose Install. It shows up in Word, Photoshop and Cricut Design Space.
Mac
Unzip the file, double-click the .ttf and press Install.
Canva
In Brand Kit, choose Upload a font and pick the .ttf. Uploading fonts needs Canva Pro.
Cricut Design Space
Install the font on your computer first, then restart Design Space: it is under System fonts.
Instagram and TikTok
They take no fonts. Save your words as a picture at the top of this page and add it as a sticker.
What font is the Back to the Future logo?
Google’s AI answer says the 1985 logo is custom hand-lettering, not a font you can install, and that designers rebuild it from a bold sans such as Tuska Bold or Pricedown, then warp it in Illustrator or Photoshop. The fan-made copy it names is Back to the Future 2002, by Cyril Bourreau, which dafont lists as a techno, science-fiction font. On Reddit, one person asks which font sat under the warp, because the A is so distinctive.
We do not give Back to the Future 2002. The AI answer calls it free on dafont, but dafont shows no licence for it. We give Bungee, by David Jonathan Ross: broad, bold uppercase letters, usable without charge in any project thanks to the SIL Open Font License.
The Back to the Future look
BACK TO THE FUTURE is all capitals, wide and heavy, and drawn in perspective: the warp that fans add by hand to their copies is part of the look. The A is the letter people ask about most.
Solid on the Logo backdrop renders your text in silver outlined in red against a dark night, like a headline hovering over a road at twilight. Glow fits a neon night cruise, Outline retains just the letters' contours over a still, and Clear keeps the lettering untouched for layering on video.
Make a time-travel title in CapCut
Enter your own time-travel title into the generator above: Back to 1999, Back to School, Back to the Beach.
Export it using Clear, leaving the silver text with no background at all.
Inside CapCut, place the image as an overlay at the beginning of your footage and expand it over the whole frame.
Add a keyframe that grows it from small to large over one second, so the title seems to rush at the viewer, then let it fade.
Where people use it
More looks for a throwback title are among our cool fonts.
Titles of throwback and nostalgia videos on TikTok
Back-to-school posters and banners with a time-travel pun
Thumbnails of videos about the films and the DeLorean
Invites to an 80s party or a Back to the Future Day on 21 October
Fan edits of Marty and Doc, with a title card of their own
Questions
What is the Back to the Future font called?
The film’s logo is custom lettering with no font of its own. The fan-made copy people find is Back to the Future 2002, by Cyril Bourreau, and the closest free font given here is Bungee.
Is the Back to the Future font free?
Bungee costs nothing to use in any project, governed by the SIL Open Font License. Back to the Future 2002 is called free by Google’s AI answer, yet dafont shows no licence for it and says that does not mean it is free, so ask its author before you use it for more than your own fun.
Is there a Back to the Future font on dafont?
Yes: Back to the Future 2002, by Cyril Bourreau, is on dafont with no licence label and no note. It is not on FontSpace, and it is not given on this page.
How do I use the Back to the Future font in Canva?
Grab Bungee from this page and load it into Canva’s Brand Kit, a feature that accepts custom typefaces on Canva Pro. Or save your words from the maker above on Clear and drop the picture into your design.
Can I sell things made with the Back to the Future font?
In Bungee, yes: its licence allows selling work made with it. Back to the Future's title and emblem are owned by Universal Pictures, so merchandise bearing them can't be sold by you, and Back to the Future 2002 offers no license to do so.
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