Enter a headline and it appears in tall orange capitals on dark teal, in the slim style of the Showgirl artwork. Download the showgirl picture to your device, or take the free font.
Look
Background
A PNG for a story, a pin or a poster. Clear has no background.
Steelfish Bold Italic, by Ray Larabie of Typodermic Fonts, is a narrow sans that leans like the Showgirl title. dafont labels it free for personal use, while its author’s licence covers finished work but not passing the font file on, so it is not given here: get it from its author. Free for posters, invites and your edits; to sell what you make with it, buy its author’s licence.
Anton has the tall, narrow, heavy build of the Showgirl title, with capitals, small letters, numbers and accents, but it stands 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 Life of a Showgirl?
Google’s AI answer says the album art and promotional materials use Gazzetta, by TipoType, in its slanted and condensed styles, and a post in the same results calls it an Adobe font. Our own match is different: Steelfish Bold Italic, by Ray Larabie, a narrow leaning sans on dafont. We found no word from Taylor Swift’s team, so none of these names is an official credit.
Gazzetta is a licensed typeface, so it isn't offered here, and the same goes for Steelfish. Anton, by Vernon Adams, is: it is free under the SIL Open Font License, tall and slim like the headline, yet upright where the headline slants.
The look of the Showgirl title
The Showgirl title is tall, narrow and slanted. Google's AI overview describes the typeface as a nod to old newspaper headlines with a high-glamour, old-Hollywood feel, and advises a stand-in in all capitals with slightly widened letter spacing. The orange (#FF9B3D) and deep teal (#073B41) used here are our own reading of the album’s art, not official values.
Solid on the Logo background sets your words in orange capitals on dark teal, whatever way you type them. Glow makes them shine like a marquee sign for a Showgirl poster, and Clear leaves only the letters to place over a photo.
Make a Showgirl-style cover in Canva
Enter the name of your own playlist, edit or era in the field at the top and save the image with Clear.
In Canva, start a square or story page, put a photo or a sparkly background on it and upload the picture over it.
For other lines, grab Anton here and place it in Canva's Brand Kit, which accepts your own fonts on Canva Pro. Set them in capitals with a little extra letter spacing.
Set a date or a track list in a plain small font, so the Showgirl title remains the only loud element.
Mood boards and Instagram stories in the style of The Life of a Showgirl, like the Canva template in Google’s results
DIY shirts for a listening party or a premiere night, cut with a Cricut
Titles of Showgirl-era fan edits and lyric videos on TikTok
Album-style covers for your own playlists
Headings in Google Docs and Slides for a Swiftie project
Questions
What font is The Life of a Showgirl in Canva?
The title’s own font, Gazzetta, is named as an Adobe font, and Google’s AI answer suggests League Gothic as a popular Canva stand-in. For the Showgirl look in capitals, get Anton here, load it into Canva's Brand Kit and enter your text in #FF9B3D.
Is The Life of a Showgirl font free?
Anton, the typeface on this page, is free for any project under the SIL Open Font License. Gazzetta is an Adobe font, and Steelfish Bold Italic is free for personal use on dafont, but its licence forbids passing the file along.
Is there a The Life of a Showgirl font generator?
Yes, the field at the top of this page: enter your words, choose Solid, Glow, Outline, Logo, Paper or Clear, and export a PNG. It saves a picture, not text you can paste; for styles that do paste, see copy and paste fonts.
What fonts did the Showgirl era use besides the title?
Google’s AI answer names Fleur Bold, by Sproviero Type, for the single “The Fate of Ophelia”, and TT Modernoir for the 7-inch vinyl cover of “Elizabeth Taylor”. Neither one is offered here.
Can I sell things made with The Life of a Showgirl font?
Words you set in Anton can appear on products you sell, since its licence permits it. The title The Life of a Showgirl, its album art and Taylor Swift’s name stay hers, so merch that carries them needs her permission.
Not affiliated with Taylor Swift. Names and logos belong to their owners.