10 mouth-watering restaurant menu fonts

Whether you're designing for a high-end restaurant or a cheap and cheerful fast food joint, the menu is a crucial part of the puzzle. And it that needs to work in two ways – it must reflect the restaurant's style and personality, and of course it also has to communicate its range of dishes.

This means you need to get your choice of fonts for a menu design absolutely right, hitting the perfect mix of style and legibility. One font alone is unlikely to be enough, but by putting together two or three from this list you'll be able to create beautiful menus that'll delight all manner of diners. Want more? Try our list of free script fonts.

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Jim McCauley

Jim McCauley is a writer, performer and cat-wrangler who started writing professionally way back in 1995 on PC Format magazine, and has been covering technology-related subjects ever since, whether it's hardware, software or videogames. A chance call in 2005 led to Jim taking charge of Computer Arts' website and developing an interest in the world of graphic design, and eventually led to a move over to the freshly-launched Creative Bloq in 2012. Jim now works as a freelance writer for sites including Creative Bloq, T3 and PetsRadar, specialising in design, technology, wellness and cats, while doing the occasional pantomime and street performance in Bath and designing posters for a local drama group on the side.