The original
The Rocky logo
by MGM
Not for sale
The Rocky title is lettering drawn for the films: heavy red capitals, close-set. It is MGM’s, so we offer no file of it. It was made for the brand alone: no one sells it or gives it away.
Font to download · free picture
Rocky font for your own fight poster
Write your own title and watch it drawn in heavy red capitals on black, the color of the Rocky title. Save it as a picture, or get the font behind it, which is free.
Look
Background
A PNG for a story, a pin or a poster. Clear has no background.
The font file is just belowThe font behind it
Free to download
Archivo Black
by Omnibus-Type
100% free
Archivo Black has the weight of the Rocky title: very heavy, upright capitals, with small letters, numbers and accented letters too. Use it for anything, even things you sell.
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TTF in a ZIP, with its licence · 41 KB
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Every letter
What the font has, before you download it.
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
How to use it
iPhone and iPad
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 Rocky logo?
Google’s results for this search do not agree on one font, and none of them names a typeface for the film logo. One result calls the original Rocky logo custom lettering and rebuilds the look with Alfa Slab One, a heavy slab serif. The rest are about other fonts that are also called Rocky: a typeface by Matthew Carter, available through Carter & Cone and Adobe Fonts, which Google’s AI answer says began as the headline face of the Rocky Mountain News, and a demo font on dafont.
The font given here is Archivo Black, by Omnibus-Type: a very heavy sans serif that anyone may use, thanks to its SIL Open Font License. It is a lookalike for the title, not the film’s own lettering, which belongs to MGM.
The look of the Rocky title
The Rocky title is capitals only: thick, upright and set close together, in red. In the maker, small letters you type come out as capitals too, because the logo has none.
Solid on the Logo background draws your words as Rocky red on black, as large as the frame allows. Glow lights the red from behind, Paper sets it on a pale sheet for printing, and Clear drops the black and keeps the red letters, to sit over your footage.
Make a Rocky-style training title in CapCut
- Write the name of your own Rocky moment in the maker: a first 5K, a gym streak, a boxing class.
- Save it on Clear, which keeps only the red letters, so they can sit over your training footage.
- In CapCut, open Overlay, add the picture and drag it to the size you want; in Canva, upload it and place it on your page.
- Cut your clips to a drum beat, as a Rocky montage does, and keep the title on screen for the opening seconds.
Where people use it
For more heavy lettering to try, see our cool fonts.
- Titles of training montages: a run up the steps, a first 5K, a gym streak
- Posters for a boxing night, a charity fight or a gym open day
- Name labels for a gym bag or a pair of boxing gloves
- Fan edits, quote cards and movie-night invites for the Rocky films
- Banners and shirts for a birthday with a boxing theme
Questions
Is the Rocky Condensed font the one from the movie?
Not as far as the results say. Rocky Condensed, Extra Condensed Bold and Medium Italic are cuts of Rocky, a typeface by Matthew Carter available through Carter & Cone and Adobe Fonts. Google’s AI answer ties it to the Rocky Mountain News, not to the film, and we do not hand it out.
Is the Rocky font on DaFont?
A font called Rocky is: dafont lists Rocky-Regular.ttf, a demo for personal use only, with no commercial use allowed. It is not the font given here, and we do not hand it out.
Is the Rocky font free?
Archivo Black is free for any use, a poster, a video or a shirt, because of its SIL Open Font License. The lettering of the Rocky logo is MGM’s and is not sold or given away, and Carter & Cone’s Rocky is a separate typeface, licensed by them.
Is there a Rocky font generator?
Yes: it is the box above, where you type. Pick Solid and the Logo background, and save the picture: heavy red capitals on black, ready for a poster or a thumbnail.
Can I sell things made with the Rocky font?
Archivo Black’s license lets you sell what you make with it, such as posters, prints or shirts that say whatever you like. The Rocky name and its logo stay MGM’s, so a product that carries them needs MGM’s permission.
Not affiliated with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. Names and logos belong to their owners.