It's difficult to nail down a single typeface as the tee shirt font style of the 1980s. Tee shirts wearers of the opulent eighties were starving; hungry for a fanciness just a font called Pretorian could provide. Pretorian: a late seventies Victorian revival which spread across the low-end design world like a chichi wildfire. Pretorian's flowery flame burned brilliantly for a strong years. If you're trying to find a classic tee shirt typeface which really embodies the spirit of the eighties, Reagan is it. In OpenType smart applications, letter pair autoligs help break up the uniformity of obviously repeating letters.
Font Family: Reagan Regular