Font to download · free picture
Type a name and see it in heavy red capitals with a yellow edge on Superman blue. Save it as a picture, or download the free font.
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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 Joe Shuster and Ira Schnapp, 1940
Joe Shuster drew the first one by hand, and Ira Schnapp redrew it with its sharp perspective for Superman #6. It was made for the brand alone: no one sells it or gives it away.
Free to download
by Vernon Adams
Bowlby One is wide and heavy like the logo’s capitals, with small letters and numbers as well. 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.
None: it is lettering drawn by hand. Joe Shuster, who co-created the hero, drew the first logo and redrew it cover after cover, until DC asked Ira Schnapp for a cleaner one. Schnapp’s version first ran on Superman #6 in 1940 and stayed until 1983.
The S on the chest is a drawing too, not a letter from any font. For words of your own, Bowlby One is a free font with the same broad, blocky capitals, and it is the one you can download here.
Red capitals, a yellow edge, and the blue of the suit behind them. The letters are broad and square-shouldered, and in the comics the word shrinks into the distance from its big first letter.
Solid on the Logo background draws your words in those three colours and keeps them level. For the tilt into the distance, save the word on Clear and stretch it in a photo editor.
The logo uses none, since it was drawn. Comic letterers buy Up Up and Away, from Comicraft, for the look; Bowlby One is the free way to get close.
Font sites name Ultimatum Bold, also from Comicraft, changed for the film. It is sold, so it is not on this page.
Bowlby One is free under the SIL Open Font License, even for things you sell. The logo’s own letters belong to DC and were never made into a font.
In the file you download, yes, as Bowlby One has them. The picture at the top stays in capitals, as the logo does.
No: the shield and the name are DC’s trademarks. Your own words in Bowlby One are fine on anything you sell.
Not affiliated with DC Comics. Names and logos belong to their owners.
