Stranger Things font
The Stranger Things title is set in ITC Benguiat Bold by Ed Benguiat, with custom bars and enlarged end letters.
A Stranger Things font generator, your words in this lettering, as an image you can keep.
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About the lettering
The Stranger Things title is set in ITC Benguiat Bold, letterspaced tight with the enlarged initial and final letters and the horizontal bars above and below that the show's title sequence adds. The font choice is a deliberate period reference: Benguiat was the house style of 1980s horror and adventure paperbacks, the show's main visual source.
Common questions
What font is used in Stranger Things?
The Stranger Things title uses ITC Benguiat Bold, designed by Ed Benguiat and released by ITC in 1977, with custom bars and enlarged first and last letters.
Is the Stranger Things font free?
Benguiat is a commercial font. Its page on font.io, linked above when available, carries the purchase options.
Why does the Stranger Things font look like a book cover?
Ed Benguiat's face was the standard for 1980s Stephen King paperback covers, and the show's title is a direct homage to those covers.
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