Great selection of free fonts: the best of the best

Original author: Tom May
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This article is a great selection of 55 free fonts that have been selected from thousands of available on the Internet today. The font collections listed below can be downloaded and used in various projects.



For convenience, fonts are divided into 8 categories, you can select the one you need from the list:



Serif fonts


1. Droid Serif




The Droid Serif font family is primarily designed for easy reading on small screens.

2. Butler




This is a mix of the Dala Floda & Bodoni font families. It was created in order to slightly modernize serif fonts. Great for posters, large sized books. In total, the Butler family contains 334 characters.

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3. Arvo




Arvo is a font family that is suitable for both display and printing. Developed by Anton Koowit for reading, Arvo in the Google Font directory is a free open font (OFL).

4. Crimson Text




A free font family designed specifically for book production with a touch of vintage Garamond-esque fonts. Crimson Text - Designed by a German designer based in Toronto, Sebastian Kosh. Crimson is a great alternative to traditional Garamond-esque, with expressive italics, blends in well with geometric serifs like Futura or Avenir.

5. Aleo




Aleo is a semicircular font with a smooth structure that gives a touch of personality, but at the same time is readable. A free font family that includes six styles, 3 font weights / weight (Light, Regular, and Bold) with matching italics. The font was designed by Alessio Laiso.

6. Cormorant




Cormorant is an extravagant serif font, a legacy of the historical fonts of the French punch player and publisher Claude Garamont. It was painted by Christian Talman. “Sharp sharp serifs, dangerously smooth curves,” such a font is best used for headings or in large texts (posters). It is readable both on the screen and in print. Cormorant supports the Cyrillic alphabet, each of the styles is presented in five saturations Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold.

7. Brela




Brela is a serif humanistic font designed exclusively for editorial design. The font was developed by Makarska Studio, a Spanish creative agency, and is equally good when used in texts with a small size and for writing headings.

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8. Libre Baskerville




Libre Baskerville is a web font created by ATF (American Type Founders 1941). The font is high x, it is characterized by lower contrast, which allows you to use it for reading on the screen.

9. Jura




The Jura font is an unusually elegant font with distinctive details such as rounded wedge-shaped serifs. It looks good with large and small text sizes. The free font was created by British designer Ed Merritt.

10. Fenix




Fénix is ​​a serif font with rough strokes; it is great for reading, for texts with a small size. A font called the bird of happiness is the work of Fernando Diaz, designer of TipoType, a Uruguayan foundry.

11. Luthier




Luthier is a modern font with characteristic sharp serifs and high contrast, the presence of two types of saturation + italics. Well suited for headlines, for the main text, for serious intellectual projects. The free font was created by living in Barcelona designer Adrian Gomez.


Free sans-serif fonts


12. Aganè




Aganè Font is a sans-serif-free font developed by Swiss graphic designer UI specialist Danilo de Marco. Free for personal and commercial use, Aganè is the result of inspiration from fonts such as Noorda Font, FF Transit and Frutiger. Optimized for readability even with small size pins. Available in 4 saturations: light, regular, bold and extra bold. Aganè is a 2017 IF Design Award winner.

13. Titillium Web




As for the free font, Titillium has a very respectable pedigree, which originates from the design project of the Italian Academy di Belle Arti di Urbino. Each academic year, dozens of students work on the project, develop it, improve the font by analyzing the data provided by designers who use this font in their work. It is sharp, modern and comes in a wide range of saturations. It is best suited for writing headlines.

14. League Gothic




League Gothic is a sans-serif compressed inspired by the classic Alternate Gothic # 1 font, originally developed by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders Company in 1903. This is a revival of the old classics, a new version of the forgotten old.

15. Chivo




Chivo is a grotesque font, ideal for headlines and other labels that you want to attract attention. Confident, elegant, it is offered in four saturations using italics. This free font is the work of Hector Gatti and the Omnibus-Type team.

16. Comfortaa




Comfortaa is a sans-serif rounded geometric font designed for texts with large size. Created by Design Engineer of the Technical University of Denmark Johan Aakerlund. This is a simple, beautiful font that includes a large number of different characters.

17. Noto Sans




Noto Sans (from "No more tofu") belongs to the family of free fonts, which covers more than 800 languages ​​and operates over 110 thousand characters, not a single character entered in the Unicode system is missing.

18. HK Grotesk Hanken




HK Grotesk is a sans-serif font whose creation is a product of inspiration with classic grotesque fonts such as Akzidenz Grotesk, Univers, Trade Gothic and Gill Sans. It was developed by Hanken Design Co with the goal of creating a friendly and readable font that is suitable for text with a small size. Cyrillic has recently been added.

19. Aileron




Aileron is a versatile neo-grotesque sans serif font, something between Helvetica and Univers. Sora Sagano, the designer of Tipotype, was created. It is designed to provide readers with a high level of visual comfort.

20. Ubuntu




This free font was specially created by Dalton Maag for Canonical in addition to the Linux operating system for use on personal computers, tablets and smartphones.

21. Clear Sans




Clear Sans is a universal font developed by Intel for comfortable display on the screen. Suitable for both printing and web use. It is universal, in a restrained style (sans serif) font with OpenType support.

22. Source Sans Pro




Released in 2012, Source Sans Pro was the first open source font family for Adobe, and its popularity can be envied. This is a classic grotesque font with a simple, unpretentious design designed by Adobe designer Paul Hunt.


Handwriting fonts


23. Nickainley




Nickainley - this font with classic notes and a vintage feel, suggests many possible uses, including logos, t-shirt designs, letterheads and banners. This free font was created by the Indonesian agency Seniors Studio.

24. Pacifico




Pacifico is a handy fun handwritten font inspired by the 1950s American surf culture. This open source font was developed by the late designer Vernon Adams, who passed away last year. Vernon graduated from the University of Reading with a Masters in Font Design and lived in California.

25. Cute Punk




Cute Punk is a vibrant, youthful, and completely modern approach to handwritten fonts. This is the work of Flow, a designer and illustrator from Bratislava, Slovakia.

26. Futuracha




One of the strangest handwritten fonts, Futuracha may work well if applied properly in design. A peculiar, idiosyncratic approach is applied in this handwritten font, Futuracha was created under the inspiration from the classic fonts of John Baskerville and Futura Book. This free font family includes numeric characters - Greek and Latin. Futuracha can be used in creative headlines, logos or typographic illustrations.

27. Yellowtail




Yellowtail is a classic handwritten font, an old school of the 1930s, such as Gillies Gothic and Kaufmann. It was developed by the Astigmatic Printing Institute, a mixture of binder and unrelated letter forms gives it a unique appearance and at the same time provides readability.


Vintage and retro fonts


28. Cheque




Cheque - was originally a studio project by Mirela Belova, it has notes of geometric shapes and a classic, vintage look. It is used in the headers of the Regular and Black versions for free both for personal and commercial use.

29. Bauru




Bauru- soulful retro font, the inscription evokes nostalgic feelings, summarizes the past time of life. One of the best free retro fonts that works well for creating posters, advertisements, and logos. Bauru was designed by Brazilian art director and illustrator Pier Paolo.

30. LOT




LOT is one of the thickest, coolest, retro-free fonts. Stylized inscriptions on blogs and advertising, on posters and magazines in the style of the 1970s, 1980s. LOT is a sleek new vintage style with a collection of thick geometric letters. With 78 characters, the free LOT font is good for logo design, for headings.

31. Streetwear




Plunge into the retro atmosphere? Easy! The Streetwear font is a cool, bold font in the style of retro fashion and sports of the 1960s, 1970s. Versatile and fun at the same time. Suitable for logos, posters, packaging and design of t-shirts.

32. Paralines Font




Paralines Font - a font in a retro futuristic style. Parallel lines are peculiarly used here, this technique inspires designers, the font is suitable for any project, conveys the mood of the 1970s and early 1980s.

33. Hamurz




Free Hamurz Font - Retro hipster style with rough edges and rounded shapes. Created by Bagus Budiyanto, it can be used to create logos, headlines, designs on t-shirts, badges or prints.


Brush fonts


34. Leafy




Leafy is a free handmade font. Contains over 90 characters, drawn by Krisidjanis Mesoulis. Perfect for any design.

35. Playlist




Playlist is great for illustrations on products (posters, t-shirts), a dry brush-drawn font that consists of three options: script, hats and ornament.

36. Sophia




Free Sophie font for decoration, lightweight, friendly and speechlessly cheerful. Handwritten font with a sweet decorative bonus)

37. Reckless




Reckless - font for uplifting, includes uppercase Latin characters. Good for creating the effect of watercolor paints for printing and for web projects. It was created by Russian designer Nadia Spasibenko.

38. Kust




Kust is a handwritten font with slightly distorted strokes. It was presented in painted form - on solid paper in black ink with a thick brush by Leva Mezule.

39. Brux




Font Brux with an original approach to handwritten fonts, it is quite rigid, with formal features, it makes you feel like a font drawn under a stencil.


Tattoo style fonts



40. Betty




Betty is one of those free fonts that return to the past when every “real man” had a sailor’s anchor and a “lady of the heart” pinned up on his biceps.

41. Angilla




Angilla - an unusually fresh and stylish tattoo font, the work of the Swedish designer Måns Grebäck.

42. Serval




The free Serval font is a sinewy, prickly beast with a distinctive design.

43. MOM




MOM is a font in the style of an American old school tattoo, a tribute to the great tattoo artists of the past.

44. Original Gangsta




Uncompromising style in every character of the Original Gangsta font. No mercy, Gangsta is a hard font for brutal inscriptions.


Graffiti fonts


45. Ruthless Dripping One




Ruthless Dripping One is one of the few free graffiti style fonts that looks realistic. Most free graffiti fonts are actually stylized fonts without a sense of art, style and playfulness, which are so important for the urban street art scene.

46. Urban Jungle




Stencils are the focus of modern street art. Urban Jungle mixes traditional stencils with the addition of textures that instantly plunge into the atmosphere of the street, a violent street.

47. Blow Brush




Blow Brush is inspired by hip-hop and urban culture, emanating energy and courage. A quirky yet legible and functional font.

48. Sister Spray




Free Sister Spray font for a beautiful dirty spray font: letters, numbers and a bunch of splashes, stains and strokes.

49. Tag Type




Tag Type is inspired by graffiti tags, contains upper and lower case letters, numbers and punctuation marks. The font was created by Ukrainian designer Andy Panchenko.


Unusual fonts


50. Gilbert




The font is named after Gilbert Baker, the designer of the rainbow flag, who died in 2017, he was an LGBTQ activist and artist, known for creating the iconic rainbow flag. Gilbert is available in standard vector format, OpenType-SVG color format and animated version.

51. Jaapokki




Jaapokki is a beautiful sans serif font with clean lines, a large set of characters and unusual elements, great for headlines, posters, logos. It has many options, you can safely experiment with the font.

52. Carioca Bebas




Fresh, fruit, colorful font. Carioca is a new, fun creature. This delightful free font was developed as part of a three-month pilot project by Argentinean graphic designers Tano Verona and Yai Salinas.

53. Le Super Serif




The Le Super Serif font is a rare thing: a typographic experiment by Dutch designer Thijs Janssen. Trendy uppercase font in a modern western style. The font has 88 ligatures and several "special" alternative characters.

54. Pelmeshka




The free Pelmeshka font is a new twist, a unique variation of fonts for food topics. Perfect for any design. The funny, friendly and original style of this font is the work of Russian designer Kirill Mikhailov.

55. Tiny Hands




This free font is dedicated to eccentric handwriting by Donald Trump. It was created by typographer Mark Davis as a fun satire, but at the same time it can be used splendidly for a cartoon or comic book.

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