Feminine fonts can bring an air of elegance, grace, and sophistication to your designs. If you’re looking for a way to make your design more feminine, then check out this post filled with font and color inspiration. I’ve designed 14 unique combinations of header fonts, body text fonts and complementing color schemes (with hex codes!) to inspire you and hopefully help you along with your next project.
All fonts are available in Canva.
Most are free, but some are from the Canva pro collection.
What makes a font feminine?
Feminine fonts typically possess characteristics that bring softness, delicacy, and refinement. These fonts often feature curves, swirls, decorative elements and have soft and rounded edges. The fonts I’ve selected for this post are serif fonts (with elegant decorative elements) and handwritten fonts (with light, thin and rounded strokes).
How to combine feminine fonts and colors
Selecting the right colors for your fonts and their backgrounds is just as important as the fonts themselves. Soft pastels, neutral tones and gentle hues work beautifully with feminine fonts. In the following sections, we will delve into various font and color combinations to inspire and elevate your designs.
My favourite feminine fonts
These are my favourite feminine Canva font and color combo’s. I’ve listed the used fonts and colors below each image. Feel free to use these combinations directly in any of your projects.
Heading: Giaza
Text: Rosario
Background color: #ddbeb5
Heading: Manison
Text: Source Sans Pro
Background color: #eef4f0
Text color: 474c2f
Heading: Carelia
Text: Glacial Indifference
The background is a half-transparent image with the pink color #e98a8b behind it.
Heading: DM Serif Display
Text: Antic Didone
Heading color: #d9aa9c
Background color: fdfbfb
Heading: Boston Angel
Text: Berhard Gothic
Heading color: #ad7d8e
Text color: #656262
Background color: #fbf5f5
Heading: Coterie
Text: Valera Round
Heading color: #305d70
Text color: #76889e
Background color: #f7fdfd
Heading: Catchy Mager
Text: Open Sans
Background color: #4a4545
Heading: Quilin
Text: Cloud
Heading color: #c2806a
Text color: #b39382
Heading: TAN Pearl
Text: Questrial
Heading color: #ceae7a
Text color: #908c87
Background color: #fffcf7
Heading: Brown Sugar
Text: Niramit
Background color: #e6aca3
Heading: Amsterdam Three
Text: Glacial Indifference
Heading color: #e05465
Text color: #656262
Background color: #fff8fc
Heading: Brittany
Text: HK Sentiments
Background color: #8ca1b0
Text color: #eff2f4
Heading: Moontime
Text: Sabon
Heading color / text color: #27395a
Background color: #dfe8eb
Heading: Lumios Marker
Text: Antic Didone
Background color: #e49385
More design inspiration
Ready for more? Take a look at my article about picking your brand colors. Or check out my pastel color palette inspiration blog for more soft and feminine color combinations.