Where the Eagle and Gill Kayo answer comes from
Fonts In Use, an archive of typefaces in real work, has an entry for the Toy Story logo from 1995, contributed by Stephen Coles and credited to Pixar. It lists two typefaces: Gill Kayo and Eagle. The page does not say which word uses which font. In the comments, a reader says the TOY part is Eagle Bold, and editor Florian Hardwig agrees and adds it. The entry tags the logo with outlines, shadow and 3D effects and a bouncing baseline.
Evidence for this attribution ↓No paid font selected
Free alternatives
Compare the actual letterforms with the same text. These are editorial alternatives, not fonts attributed to Toy Story.
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Lilita One
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Regular · Latin specimen
A heavy, rounded display face with a playful, toy-like weight that suits both words of the logo. It is softer than Eagle's sharp-roofed letters and has one weight only.
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Archivo Black
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Regular · Latin specimen
A very heavy grotesque that comes close to the chunky STORY lettering. Its letters are less round than Gill Kayo's, and it has one weight only.
View fontAbout Eagle
Eagle goes back to Morris Fuller Benton's Eagle Bold, a titling face drawn in 1933 for the US National Recovery Administration. Font Bureau started its Eagle series in 1989: David Berlow added a lowercase and Eagle Book, and Jonathan Corum added Light and Black in 1994. Eagle was sold to Monotype in May 2023, along with other Berlow typefaces.
Evidence for this attribution ↓About Gill Kayo
Gill Kayo is a heavy display typeface by Eric Gill. He drew it in 1932, and the Monotype foundry issued it in 1936. Fonts In Use notes that it was later known as Gill Sans Ultra Bold, Monotype's Series 442. If you look for it in a font shop, search for both names.
Evidence for this attribution ↓How to get the look
Set TOY large in a heavy sans with narrow counters, and tilt each letter a little so they bounce. Fill the letters yellow and give them a thick blue outline. Below it, set STORY in a very heavy, round sans in yellow on a slanted red band. Lilita One and Archivo Black are good free starting points, but you will need to add the outlines and tilts by hand.
Common questions
Is the Toy Story font free?
No. Gill Kayo (Gill Sans Ultra Bold) and Eagle are both commercial fonts now sold by Monotype. For a free option, use Lilita One or Archivo Black and add the outlines and tilts yourself.
What font is the Pixar logo?
Fonts In Use says the Pixar Animation Studios logo, which debuted with Toy Story in 1995, is set in Charlemagne, a typeface by Carol Twombly at Adobe.
Do the Toy Story sequels use the same font?
We found no source that documents the type of the sequel logos, so we only make the Eagle and Gill Kayo claim for the 1995 logo.
Sources & evidence
Editorial review completed November 10, 2026.
- Fonts In Use — Toy Story logo
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- Fonts In Use — Eagle
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- Fonts In Use — Gill Kayo
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- Fonts In Use — Pixar Animation Studios logo
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