1 / 8About Chinese New Year Font
You're designing a red envelope suite for a client's Lunar New Year campaign, and you need ornamental border elements plus festive symbols that read as genuinely crafted, not mass-produced. Chinese New Year, created by designer Nongyao, is a dingbats font built entirely from decorative seasonal characters that work confidently across both digital and print workflows, from sketch phase through final layout comps.
These glyphs shine in red envelope and greeting card border layouts, Etsy shop banners showcasing lunar new year collections, DIY party invitation designs, and restaurant menu headers with festival theming. Each character sits cleanly behind your main typeface without demanding the spotlight, letting you layer ornaments across promotional materials or seasonal event collateral. Nongyao carefully balances traditional festival symbols with contemporary doodle-style decorative elements, giving you flexibility if your project leans toward formal celebration aesthetics or a looser, handmade character. The character set spans from intricately outlined ornaments to fuller decorative shapes, providing real texture and visual weight options for building layered compositions across your layouts.
Hunt for Chinese New Year on Creative Fabrica and add this to your seasonal design toolkit. That breadth of dingbat characters means you're equipped for whatever lunar-themed or celebratory project lands next.
Style & Use Cases
- Overall Style
- Iconographic, Fonts
- Use Case
- Icons, Accents
- Ideal For
- ornaments, bullets, and decorative flourishes
- Pairs With
- any text font
How to Install Chinese New Year Font
Step-by-step instructions for every platform
- 1Download the Chinese New Year font file (.ttf or .otf).
- 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
- 3Right-click the font file.
- 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
- 5Chinese New Year is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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Chinese New Year Font is a versatile dingbats font that works for both headings and body text. Pair it with a contrasting sans-serif or serif font to add visual interest and a clear distinction between titles and body copy.
Chinese New Year Font
by Nongyao
Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated July 2026















