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Welcome to Font Style. A collection of the most creative fonts where you can browse and download thousands of fonts with unique font styles. Created by the most talented artists worldwide. Jan 22, 2010 - I am looking for good trackers for finding fonts and font collections, preferably. Free font styles fueling pay font sales: I think that's a myth.
The importance of typography in design can’t be overestimated. The accuracy, precision and balance of geometric forms can give letters the elegance and sharpness they deserve. Besides, elegant fonts can help to convey the message in a more convenient way. In fact, while there are many excellent professional fonts there are literally thousands of free low-quality fonts which you would never use for professional designs.
Quality costs. The price of “bulletproof” fonts usually reflects their quality and starts at 50$ per typeface. However, before purchasing a font you will probably use only once in your designs you might want to take a glance at outstanding free alternatives first.
Over the last year we’ve been observing typo-designers and their works; we’ve regularly collected high-quality fonts available for free download and free to use for personal or/and commercial projects. In this article we’d like to present an overview of over 40 excellent free fonts you might use for your professional designs. What is your favourite?
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Please notice:
- Some images are taken from Gerrit van Aaken’s Typography Essays. Thank you, Gerrit.
- We haven’t listed Arial, Georgia, Verdana, Trebuchet MS & Co. as well as Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Constantia and Corbel as they are delivered almost “automatically”.
- We’d like to thank to all typo-designers and foundries for releasing these fonts for free. We appreciate your work and your intentions.
- Before using fonts please read the license agreements carefully — they can change from time to time.
Excellent Freefonts For Professional Designs in 2008
GentiumGentium is a typeface family designed to enable the diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. It supports a wide range of Latin-based alphabets and includes glyphs that correspond to all the Latin ranges of Unicode. Gentium examples.
District ThinA very calm, serious and impressive sans-serif free font from GarageFonts’ District family. The font is available as Mac Postscript, Mac TrueType, PC Postscript, PC Truetype and OpenType.
Few years ago the government of the region has decided to design a new typeface to enable its 28.000 citizens to use all four languages in a uniform manner. The result is a beautiful, rich and professional sans-serif free font. The family includes a bold, heavy, italic, light and regular weights. Examples.
DeliciousSpecial attention was given to character spacing to obtain a homogenous appearance. With its relatively large x-height the Delicious can be used for text in smaller point sizes. The Delicious italic is not a slanted roman, but a true italic. Serif, Mac / PC.
AniversA robust and rigid font, forgiving, flexible, elegant and also suitable for a broad use: from a stationery to a poster headline. A smashing serif freefont by Jos Buivenga, dedicated to the One-Year-Anniversary of Smashing Magazine. Besides ligatures, contextual alternatives, fractions and oldstyle/tabular numerals Anivers also has a ‘case’ feature for case-sensitive forms. Anivers supports CE languages and Esperanto. It has more than 350 glyphs and over 1.600 kerning pairs. Examples.
TallysTallys is a font that is one degree slanted and has large caps, a small x-height and long ascenders. Only roman style is available.
Fontin SansAvailable weights: regular, italic, bold, bold italic and small caps. It is a sans companion of Fontin and can be downloaded at Mac & PC (OpenType). Fontin Sans is absolutely free for personal and commercial use. Examples.
Geo Sans Light, by Manfred Klein
Yanone KaffeesatzThis “coffee”-font is supposed to be used in headlines and brief text passages; it shouldn’t, however, be used for body copy. The numbers and currency signs are monospaced, which means that they have the same width. This is useful if you’d like to place them on a restaurant menu beneath each other in a table. The alternative and historic symbols as well as ligatures can be activated via the OpenType-option »optional ligatures«. Released under Creative Commons license. Examples.
JustOldFashionA font designed by Manfred Klein.
CardoCardo is a large Unicode font specifically designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists. This font is free for personal, non-commercial, or non-profit use.
Liberation SerifPublic domain / GNU GPL, Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, PC / Mac OS X
Liberation SansPublic domain / GNU GPL, Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, PC / Mac OS X
Romeral offers aside from optimal legibility an elegant style, rounded forms and sharp geometric structure of its letters. Romeral is designed to produce a noticeable visual impact that invites the audience to the reading due to its sizable thickness. Interestingly enough, the basic idea of this OpenType-font was to find a way to fill the color titles zone in order to create a comfortable atmosphere for the reading experience. It can be used for body copy and headlines. Free to use in personal and commercial projects.
You can get the font sending a personal request via e-mail or comment form. More information is available on Typies, Pablo De Gregorio’s blog.
ScriptinaHandwriting, PC, Mac.
Mank SansA freefont designed by Manfred Klein.
DiavloJos Buivenga’s freefont that is a bit square and sharp. Great attention has been given to detail, spacing and kerning. It contains more than 300 glyphs and over 1.300 kerning pairs. So Tørwald can pick up his Téléphone without worrying. Diavlo contains (some) East European characters and also Esperanto characters.
The final release contains 5 weights: Light, Book, SemiBold, Bold and Black. Diavlo contains a bunch of ligatures and contextual alternatives (OpenType feature) to prevent undesired collisions.
CicleSans-Serif, 7 weights, freeware.
KontrapunktSlab-serif. Kontrapunkt was awarded the Danish Design Prize for best typeface. The aim has been to develop a distinct font, with regards to both the inidividual character and the overall image as such. The typeface has so far been developed in a light, light italic and bold version.
FontinThe Fontin is designed to be used at small sizes. The color is darkish, the spacing loose and the x-height tall. The numbers of the Fontin have a ‘hybrid’ design. They carry the characteristics of medieval numbers, but their size is larger than the x-height. Mac (Type 1), PC (TTF, Opentype).
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FertigoIt’s a bit like Laphroaic; the more you get to know it, the more you’ll (probably) appreciate it. With it’s auto-ligatures (no Open Type programms needed), a complete character set and many other unknown features it can be hard to resist. Regular only.
SteinerThis typeface is ideal for logos and general design. It isn’t very suitable to be used with word-processors as it lacks some symbols and letters. Sans Serif, free for personal use only.
AUdimat (v2)OpenType, Mac, PC, in four weights: regular, italic, bold, bold italic. Freeware, via fontleech.
Google’s Android project, an open platform for mobile devices, includes the Droid font family, which was designed to provide optimal quality and comfort on a mobile handset when rendered in application menus, web browsers and for other screen text.
The Droid family of fonts consists of Droid Sans, Droid Sans Mono and Droid Serif. Each contains extensive character set coverage including Western Europe, Eastern/Central Europe, Baltic, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish support. Description with a specimen. You can find concrete instruction of how you can use the fonts in this article.
OT Versa Condensed, by Peter Verheul
Ourtype offers a bonus font of the month. To download the font, click on the “About” item in the left sidebar of this site. Once the horizontal menu has appeared, click on the “Bonus font of the mont” section link in the menu.
Greyscale BasicA freefont designed by Greyscale
Existence LightA free sans-serif font designed by Yeah Noah. 3 weights — Light, UnicaseLight, StencilLight. OpenType, PC, Mac OS X.
Pixel fonts
Style-Force Semplice PixelfontsTiny pixelfonts, Flash-compatible including detailed instructions on how the fonts should be used to achieve the best readability.
SilkscreenSilkscreen is best used in places where extremely small graphical display type is needed. The primary use is for navigational items (nav bars, menus, etc.). Silkscreen also works very well at large point sizes if you’re looking for that chunky, old school computer look so popular with the kids today. Created by Jason Kottke. Silkscreen, with both Mac and Windows versions, is free for personal and corporate use. TrueType, Windows, Mac, Linux.
Choosing the perfect font for your projects is an important step, as it could make or break your design entirely. The wrong choice of font can break your flyer, poster, business card, blog, just about anything. We know that it takes a lot of time to look for a font that would really fit your design, that is why it is also important to have as many fonts as you can at your disposal!
You may also like to take a look at our previous font collection from last year as well.
Now to make it even faster for you to create an astonishing design, we’ve compiled a huge collection of FREE modern fonts! More choices means more fun! Use these fonts for creative typography designs, business logos, website designs – you pick! There are plenty of free professional fonts to choose from!
All the Fonts You Could Ask For
Feel free to play with these free fonts and find the best match for your design!
Note: Before we start – be sure to check license information on these popular fonts, they may be free but some of them require reference or may not be used for commercial projects for free, although most of them are.
Sansation Typeface Modern Font (Free)
Fertigo Pro Typeface (Free)
Beautiful, modern font and it’s still unbelievable it is free! Now Fertigo Pro version is released with extended language support and more.
Bank Nue Display Font(with Envato Elements Subscription)
Megalopolis Extra Typeface (Free)
Revamped version of the 2004 one. Now in OT with extended language support and OpenType features with alternates, ligatures, different styles of figures, etc.
Walkway Free Typeface (Free)
For some reason this is one of my favorite modern fonts here. Love the elegant shapes, simplicity, and how clean this font looks.
Nadia Serif Typeface (Free)
TM Stanley(with Envato Elements Subscription)
Modeno Font (Free)
M+ OUTLINE Typeface (Free)
Really beautiful font with many variations – thin, light, regular, medium, black, heavy – be sure to check this free premium font.
Kohm(with Envato Elements Subscription)
Fontin Sans Typeface (Free)
Diavlo Typeface (Free)
Diavlo is a free font that contains 5 weights: Light, Book, SemiBold Medium, Bold and Black. Read and look more into this one in this PDF document.
Museo Typeface (Free)
This OpenType font family comes in five weights and offers support for CE languages and even Esperanto. Besides ligatures, contextual alternatives, stylistic alternates, fractions and proportional/tabular figures MUSEO also has a ‘case’ feature for case sensitive forms.
Baker Street Rough(with Envato Elements Subscription)
Gentium Typeface Simple Font (Free)
Delicious Typeface Font (Free)
This free, modern font has been my favorite for some time – it has beautiful details and every character has a unique shape too.
Junction Typeface Free Font (Free)
Inspired by humanist sans serif typefaces, such as Meta, Myriad, and Scala, Junction is where the best qualities of serif and sans serif typefaces come together. It has the hand-drawn and human qualities of a serif, and still retains the clarity and efficiency of a sans serif font. It combines the best of both worlds.
CartoGothic Std Typeface Free Font (Free)
Lawless Font(with Envato Elements Subscription)
Anivers Typefac Contemporary Font (Free)
This OpenType font family comes in regular, italic, bold, and small caps and has some nice OpenType features. Besides ligatures, contextual alternatives, fractions, oldstyle/tabular numerals, Anivers also has a ‘case’ feature for case sensitive forms and tabular numerals … so Anivers can crunch numbers with ease.
Medio Typeface Simple Font (Free)
This unique free font will be great for artistic poster or wallpaper designs.
Glowist(with Envato Elements Subscription)
Birra Stout Typeface Bold Font (Free)
Rezland Typeface Unique Font (Free)
This free font will be amazing for textual logo designs.
OFTEN Typeface (Free)
If you are looking for a tech font, this will do nicely.
Parlour(with Envato Elements Subscription)
Engel Light Font (Free)
Contra Modern Font
Knox(with Envato Elements Subscription)
Nilland Typeface (Free)
This free font will do well for tech logo designs.
Calluna Font Typeface (Free)
Calluna supports a very wide range of languages and is a very complete OpenType typeface. Each font counts 723 glyphs so it’s a cool and thorough letter font. You can find detailed info on the character set and the OpenType features in the Calluna PDF specimen.
Arkibal Serif(with Envato Elements Subscription)
QuickSand Typeface Free Font (Free)
This is a free and elegant sans serif typeface.
Splandor(with Envato Elements Subscription)
Mentone Font Typeface (Free)
This unique font is available in various formats and will definitely look nice in your next design.
Vegur Typeface (Free)
Jackham (Plus Bonus)(with Envato Elements Subscription)
Swansea Typeface Simple Font (Free)
GeoSans Light Font Typeface (Free)
I enjoy this modern font because of it’s thin and elegant font lines displaying text in a fashionable, yet simple way.
RNS Camelia(with Envato Elements Subscription)
COM4t Nuvu Regular Typeface (Free)
Looking for artistic fonts? Look no further!
Steiner Typeface Tech Font (Free)
Chunk Modern Typeface Font (Free)
Chunk is an ultra-bold slab serif typeface that is reminiscent of old American Western woodcuts, broadsides, and newspaper headlines. Used mainly for display, the fat block lettering is unreserved yet refined for contemporary use.
Aller Sans Typeface (Free)
It’s a pretty cool Sans Serif font, great for modern typography designs.
Troupe Font(with Envato Elements Subscription)
Juvelo Typeface Artistic Font (Free)
Self explaining image below, but I enjoy this font because of its unique glance and serifs.
Goudy Bookletter 1911 Serif Typeface (Free)
Burford Rustic Book Bold(with Envato Elements Subscription)
Temporarium Typeface (Free)
It’s an interesting font and could be used for artistic designs and text displays.
Bellerose Typeface Free Font (Free)
The Douglas Collections(with Envato Elements Subscription)
Ambrosia Demo Typeface New Font (Free)
Here’s a demo version of a font called Ambrosia. It has all letters, numbers and a few symbols.
Surrounding Free Bold Font (Free)
Circled Typeface (Free)
Very cool and sharp font, it got my interest right away! Use this free font to add beautiful lettering to your designs. I am sure if you use this simple type on brochures or business cards for emphasis, it would look amazing.
Nevis Free Font (Free)
This strong, angular typeface is ideal for headings. It features 96 of the most commonly used glyphs (characters).
Zephyr Font (Free)
Advent Pro Typeface Font (Free)
Excellent and very popular unique font with many, many different variations to play with.
SerifBeta Typeface (Free)
This is a beta version of this font, but still seems very complete for me – included in the set are Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic for optical sizes 72, 12 and 6. Size 72 also includes italic swash characters and Black weights.
Evolution True Type Font (Free)
Note that you have to give credit if you use this font and you must contact the author before using it in commercial projects!
Sliced AB Font Typeface (Free)
Technical Forest v2 Typeface (Free)
Only for non-commercial use.
Alte Haas Grotesk Modern Font Typeface (Free)
Comfortaa Font Typeface (Free)
Comfortaa is a simple, good looking, true type font with an amazingly large number of characters and symbols. You can see them all in the preview. It is absolutely free, both for personal and commercial use.
MOD™ Modern Font (Free)
MOD is applicable for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items like logos, pictograms, with its 215 character set.
Whiteboard Modern Font Typeface (Free)
Whiteboard Modern is a hand-drawn face resembling the flowing motion and freedom of writing in an open space, such as a dry-erase board.
Neighbourhood Type Interesting Font (Free)
Love this modern font! Now if you cannot create cool letter designs with this, I don’t know how you will do it!
Soraya Font by JustMyType (Free)
On JustMyType site you can find several more very unique and interesting letters. Half serif, half sans serif. Capital letters A-Z, available only in Illustrator AI format.
Kenzo Free Typeface Font (Free)
Benito Clean Italic Font (Free)
Unfortunately this cool font is no longer available for free.
Yeseva One Elegant Free Font (Free)
Matchup Light Free Fun Font (Free)
Otsu Slab Mediuma Quirky Font (Free)
PIXACAISM Free Neon Font (Free)
Airbag Trendy Font (Free)
Ponsi Rounded Slab Font (Free)
This is a cool letter font sparking with elegance!
KG A Little Swag Quirky Font (Free)
What’s My Age Again Quirky Font (Free)
Quirky Nots Free Font (Free)
Rich McNabb Modern Font (Free)
Kelson Sans Font (Free)
Summit Contemporary Font (Free)
Bamq Typeface Amazing Font (Free)
Moderna Unicase Medium Font (Free)
Corbert Regular Classy Font (Free)
Xclv.Neon Pro Tech Font (Free)
Foro Rounded Light Modern Font (Free)
Corbert Italic Simple Font (Free)
Langdon Bold Font (Free)
Brisko Sans Bold Italic Font (Free)
Muchacho (Free)
Brisko Sans Bold Tech Font (Free)
Modular free Typeface GADO Luxury Font (Free)
PALO ALTO Luxury Font (Free)
Dragon Force Technology Font (Free)
Fopi Rush Artistic Font (Free)
Dickson’s Tales (Free)
Bisurk Font (Free)
Bacana (Free)
Liquor Typeface (Free)
Cyntho Slab Pro Regular (Free)
Cyntho Slab Pro Italic Free Font (Free)
Lev Serif by TypeFaith*Fonts (Free)
Digitalino (Free)
Myra free font (Free)
Oami Quirky Font (Free)
Quark Free Font (Free)
Capita Light (Free)
Aleo free font (Free)
Intrique Script (Free)
CHRONIC Typeface Font (Free)
Altrashed-Rough (Free)
Bouh Type (Free)
Dense (Free)
South Rose (Free)
Sanchez Slab Regular (Free)
Sanchez Slab Italic (Free)
Heister Type (Free)
Dos Amazigh Font (Free)
ARSENAL (Free)
Nudo Free Font (Free)
Sequi (Free)
Les Etoiles Elegant font (Free)
Chomage (Free)
Chomp Free Font (Free)
BRIG (Free)
Grandma’s Garden Artistic Font (Free)
Belladone (Free)
Versa Free Modern Font (Free)
Discreet Font (Free)
Free fonts Namskout & Namskin (Free)
Agilis (Free)
Sabado (Free)
SANOTRA TYPEFACE (Free)
Corduroy Slab (Free)
Hair Problems Free Font (Free)
Track free Modern font (Free)
Smitten Over U (Free)
Valkyrie (Free)
LINUX BIOLINUM (Free)
Global Medium (Free)
Global Medium Italic (Free)
Global Medium Stencil (Free)
Speakeasy (Free)
Lovelo Simple font (Free)
Canter Typeface (Free)
Hapna Mono (Free)
Truelove (Free)
LeHand Font (Free)
«zwodrei» (Free)
Born (Free)
PROMESH (Free)
Uralita Bold (Free)
Tomahawk Font (Free)
RELIC TYPEFACE (Free)
XXII Centar Sans (Free)
BARON (Free)
Vidaloka (Free)
ROUNDA (Free)
Brassie Regular Font (Free)
Scribbage (Free)
Maw Free (Free)
AC Filmstrip Classy font (Free)
Biko Regular (Free)
Valk Display (Free)
Dia Free Unique Font (Free)
London Cool Letter Font (Free)
STELA UT (Free)
VETKA (Free)
MERRIWEATHER SANS Font
Hiruko Pro (FREE) (Free)
Look Up Artistic Font (Free)
Saniretro Modern Typeface (Free)
Higher Modern Tech Font (Free)
SEAGLE FREE FONT (Free)
Villa Quirky font (Free)
Laika FREE Tech Font (Free)
Mexicano Chili Sauce Fun Free Font (Free)
BoB Fun Font (Free)
Gabriela Elegant Font (Free)
Orange Juice (Free)
Attentica Free Technology Font (Free)
Distractor free Cool Typeface Font (Free)
Engine Artistic font (Free)
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