Enter a name or heading and watch it appear in bold Triforce gold on a dark backdrop, much like a Zelda opening screen set in Hyrule. Keep the picture, or get the free font behind this Zelda look.
Look
Background
A PNG for a story, a pin or a poster. Clear has no background.
The Wild Breath of Zelda, by Chequered Ink, is a fan font after the Breath of the Wild logo. Its author’s license page lists only paid licenses and does not say it may be passed on, so it is not given here: get it from its page on dafont, where it is marked 100% free. Use it for anything, even things you sell.
Sancreek is close to it: heavy letters that flare at the ends, with pointed serifs, in capitals and small letters. 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 Legend of Zelda logo?
There is no single Zelda font. Every Zelda game has its own hand-drawn logo, so none of them is a font you can install, and the fan-made versions online differ from one another: The Wild Breath of Zelda by Chequered Ink follows the Breath of the Wild logo, Legend Of Zelda TriFont by xstreamed is another, one fan thread on Breath of the Wild titles suggests Calamity Sans, and The Legend of Zelda NES on FontStruct copies the letters of the NES game.
None of them is Nintendo’s own. This page doesn't offer The Wild Breath of Zelda, so the downloadable Zelda-style font here is Sancreek by Vernon Adams, released under the SIL Open Font License. Its heavy, flared letters have a similar carved feel.
The look of the Zelda titles
The fan font made after the Breath of the Wild logo has heavy capitals with flared ends, and each word starts with a taller letter than the rest. Gold is the color of the Triforce, the three triangles that stand for the whole series, and it is the color that goes with that carved, ancient feel.
Solid on the Logo backdrop sets your text in Triforce gold over deep darkness, scaled up as far as the frame allows. Glow fits a heading for a nighttime Hyrule scene, Outline produces a gold stroke to place over a background of your choosing, and Clear keeps just the letters for layering onto a gameplay screenshot.
Make a Zelda-style title in CapCut
Enter your own quest's name here: a channel, a trip, a cosplay, a playthrough.
Export on Clear to get the gold lettering with no backdrop behind it.
In CapCut, add it as an overlay on your first clip and keep it on screen for two or three seconds.
Add a short white subtitle beneath, like Chapter 1 or a date, and have the gold heading gradually fade away.
Where people use it
Zelda’s world is full of castles and old stone, and our old English fonts copy and paste in that medieval mood.
Titles and thumbnails of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom playthroughs
Intros of cosplay and fan-edit videos
Zelda birthday party invites and banners
Fan art prints with a gold title under the drawing
Maps and handouts for a tabletop campaign with a Zelda mood
Questions
What font is used in Zelda?
No one font: each Zelda game has a logo Nintendo drew as lettering for it. Fans have made fonts after them, such as The Wild Breath of Zelda for Breath of the Wild, and Sancreek is the free one with a similar look that you can download on this page.
Is the Legend of Zelda font free?
Nintendo’s logo lettering is not sold or given as a font. The Wild Breath of Zelda is listed as 100% free on dafont, where its creator says it may be used for anything and is recommended for Zelda projects, yet this site doesn't supply it. Sancreek, the typeface used here, is available at no cost under the SIL Open Font License.
Is there a Legend of Zelda font generator?
The Zelda text generator at the top of this page is one such tool: enter your text, choose Solid, Glow or Outline, then export the image in Triforce gold against the Logo backdrop or with Clear.
What are the Hylian and Sheikah fonts?
They are fan fonts of the alphabets written in the Zelda games, and the Hylian alphabet is the one people most often look for. They draw your letters as in-game symbols, not as the lettering of the title, so this page does not use them.
Can I sell things made with this font?
Yes: Sancreek’s license allows it, so a title of your own in it may go on a shirt, a print or a sticker you sell. The Legend of Zelda name and logo stay Nintendo’s, so do not put them on what you sell.
Not affiliated with Nintendo. Names and logos belong to their owners.