Daytona – Broadcast-Inspired Racing Display Typeface

Daytona – Broadcast-Inspired Racing Display Typeface

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Important Notice
Daytona is a premium commercial font and is not available for free download on Kreativ Font. To use it legally in personal or commercial projects, purchase it from an official marketplace.

Daytona is a Display typeface from Jim Wasco, published by Monotype.

Why you should consider Daytona

Find Daytona on MyFonts (https://www.myfonts.com/collections/daytona-pro-font-monotype-imaging); the listing offers webfont and desktop packages and per-style pricing. Designed by Jim Wasco for Monotype, the family grew from a brief to improve type for televised sporting events. It ships as an 18-style family with condensed, italic and ‘fat’ weights tailored for headline use.

Visual character

Daytona favors squared terminals and robust, relatively uniform strokes that read clearly at distance; its condensed cuts tighten letterspacing for dense headlines while ‘Fat’ styles increase footprint for maximum impact. Italic styles are available across weights, introducing forward motion suitable for lower-thirds and runner graphics. The family emphasizes simple, clear shapes and strong numeric legibility for timing and score displays.

Best use cases

• On-screen sports graphics and lower-thirds where legibility at speed matters
• Race and motorsports event posters and signage that need condensed headline fits
• Athletic team wordmarks and kit lettering emphasizing bold, compact forms
• Event banners and printed flyers for competitive sports with heavy headlines

Font pairing ideas

• Neutral humanist sans for body copy — a lighter humanist will contrast Daytona’s squared, heavy headlines without competing for attention and improves paragraph readability.
• Geometric sans for secondary display text — a simpler geometric face in medium weight complements Daytona’s condensed cuts while maintaining a modern, sporty tone.
• Clean slab serif for tactile event collateral — a restrained slab in book/regular weight adds institutional presence and pairs well with Daytona’s strong stroke endings for printed posters.

Font Features

• OpenType glyph listing with alternates and ligatures (per MyFonts glyph page)
• Condensed and ‘Fat’ weight variants included in the family
• Family offered in 18 distinct styles

What’s Included

• Webfont and Desktop packages (as listed on MyFonts)
• Complete family package of 18 fonts (family bundle option)
• Individual styles available for separate purchase

Pricing

• Individual styles from $50.99 USD
• Complete family of 18 fonts: $314.99 USD

Font details

• Font Style: Display
• Font Mood: Bold, Modern, and Retro
• Font Use Case: Poster, Branding, and Web
• Designer: Jim Wasco
• Foundry: Monotype
• Offered on MyFonts as Webfont & Desktop packages (Source: Webfont & Desktop)
• Family contains 18 styles including Condensed, Italic and Fat variants (style list shown on product page) (Source: Daytona contains 18 styles and family package options.)