The free split-flap font.
Love the departure-board look? Download our split-flap typeface and use it in your own designs, completely free.
Two styles, OTF and TTF. Free for personal & commercial design use.
- ✓Posters, menus and social graphics
- ✓Mockups and presentations
- ✓Personal projects and prints
Two typefaces, four files.
The download contains two styles, Split-Flap TV and Split-Flap TV BlackLine, and each one ships as both an OTF and a TTF, so it works whatever your software prefers. Every file carries 101 glyphs: the full uppercase and lowercase alphabet, the numerals 0 to 9, and the standard punctuation set including the dollar sign.
One honest limitation before you download it. The character set is standard ASCII, so there are no accented characters such as é, ü or ñ, and no euro or pound symbol. If you are setting a French or German menu, or pricing in euros, check your copy against that first. The animated boards in Split-Flap TV itself are not limited this way.
Install it on your computer
On Windows, right click either the OTF or the TTF and choose Install. On a Mac, double click the file and choose Install Font. Once installed it shows up automatically in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Word, PowerPoint and the Figma desktop app.
Use it in Canva and browser tools
Canva lets you upload your own fonts on its paid plans, under Brand Kit, then Brand Fonts. Upload the OTF. Note that Google Docs and Google Slides do not support custom font uploads at all, so those are the one place the font cannot go.
Where the look comes from.
The shapes are borrowed from the mechanical departure boards that ran the world’s airports and railway stations from the 1950s onward, built by Solari di Udine and known everywhere as Solari boards. The horizontal seam across each character is the line where a real flap folds in half. If you want the full story, from a 300 year old Italian clock company to the first board installed in Liège in 1956, we wrote it up: the history of split-flap displays.
The font gives you that look frozen on a page. If you want the characters to actually flip, that is what Split-Flap TV does on a screen you already own.
Free font FAQ
Want the real thing on your TV?
The font is lovely, but the board actually flips. Try Split-Flap TV free for 7 days.