Shanghai is a decorative display font designed by Vladimir Nikolic, created to add ornamental sophistication and visual richness to design projects across multiple creative disciplines. With its fancy, elaborately detailed character set, this Regular weight typeface is available as a free download from this page, with licence terms detailed on the page itself.

The font comprises 56 individual glyphs and supports 89+ languages using Latin-based scripts, offering genuine international accessibility for diverse global audiences and markets. Its strongly decorative nature makes it exceptionally well-suited for creating striking headlines in bold digital marketing campaigns, designing eye-catching Etsy shop banners that capture buyer attention, building ornate title treatments for special event posters, and embellishing custom greeting card designs with premium flair. The elaborate character forms ensure Shanghai commands attention and adds personality to any project requiring visual impact and distinction.

Combine Shanghai with a clean, minimal sans-serif typeface for supporting text to maintain readability while allowing the decorative font to shine in focal points and headlines. This classic contrast between ornate display typography and restrained sans-serif creates natural visual hierarchy and guides viewer attention, ensuring your message communicates clearly while the elaborate letterforms naturally draw focus exactly where you want it to land.