Font to download · free picture
Type a band name or a song title and watch heavy white capitals appear on black, the black and white of the Metallica logo. Keep the picture it makes, or take the free font that goes with it.
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A PNG for a story, a pin or a poster. Clear has no background.
The font file is just belowThe original
by Metallica
The Metallica logo is lettering drawn for the band, with a long pointed M and A, and it is not a font. A font that copies it, Pastor of Muppets, was withdrawn by its author, Ray Larabie, so it is not given here either. It was made for the brand alone: no one sells it or gives it away.
Free to download
by Astigmatic
Luckiest Guy has heavy capitals set as tight as the logo’s, though none of its long points, and it is the nearest free font of the ones we compared. Use it for anything, even things you sell.
TTF in a ZIP, with its licence · 37 KB
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What the font has, before you download it.
Open the file in a font app from the App Store and install it. Then pick it in Pages, Keynote or Procreate.
Unzip the file, right-click the .ttf and choose Install. It shows up in Word, Photoshop and Cricut Design Space.
Unzip the file, double-click the .ttf and press Install.
In Brand Kit, choose Upload a font and pick the .ttf. Uploading fonts needs Canva Pro.
Install the font on your computer first, then restart Design Space: it is under System fonts.
They take no fonts. Save your words as a picture at the top of this page and add it as a sticker.
The Metallica wordmark is custom artwork made for the group, so no installable typeface stands behind it. The font people usually mean is Pastor of Muppets, by Ray Larabie of Larabie Fonts, and the sources disagree about it: one page calls it inspired by the logo, another says it is the font used in the logo. Wikipedia’s article on Larabie says Metallica’s attorneys sent him a cease and desist order over it and that he complied, so it is not on dafont and not given here.
The typeface offered on this page is Luckiest Guy from Astigmatic. Released free under the Apache License 2.0, it isn't the typeface behind the Metallica mark: its capitals are heavy and tight like Metallica’s, but they have none of its long points.
METALLICA is heavy, sharp capitals in black or white and nothing else, and the letters carry no extra line or glow. The first M and the last A run out into long points, which is why a Reddit post asks for a generator that gets the last letter facing the right way. One font page says to type the first letter in capitals and the last in lowercase to get them, a trick that works only in the font it is written for.
With Solid selected on the Logo backdrop, your text appears as flat white uppercase letters on black, mimicking the Metallica name and nothing beyond that. Outline works well on a flyer over a photograph, whereas Paper and Clear leave the backdrop to your own poster or video. Glow is not the logo’s look: keep it for a different cover.
These are pictures and a font file, not letters to paste; for gothic lettering to put in a bio or a caption, see old English font.
The logo has no font name, because the band had its letters drawn. The font people usually mean is Pastor of Muppets, a copy of them by Ray Larabie that he withdrew. Luckiest Guy, given here, is the free font nearest to it of the ones we compared.
This page is one: type your words and it draws them in capitals in the logo’s black and white, and you save the picture. It does not draw the long pointed M and A that people ask for on Reddit, because Luckiest Guy has no such letters.
Luckiest Guy, the font given here, costs nothing under the Apache License 2.0. Pastor of Muppets is not given: its author withdrew it after Metallica’s attorneys wrote to him, and its file refers to a license that is not attached.
Text you paste is made of Unicode characters, and none of them has the shape of the Metallica logo, so this page gives you a picture to save instead. For letters you can paste into a bio, see copy and paste fonts.
Yes: the Apache License lets you sell what you make with Luckiest Guy, using words of your own. The name Metallica and its logo belong to the band, so do not print them on merchandise you sell.
Not affiliated with Metallica. Names and logos belong to their owners.
