Fonts are always important in creating mind blowing designs. Choosing an appropriate font for your design is an crucial task for every designer. Free Fonts are always a treat for graphic designers and web designers. In this compilation we are presenting a collection of best free fonts that you can use in your projects. These fonts will expand your collection and will surely help to improve your designs.
December 2016 Update:
Wildera
A handwritten typeface. Feminine with a bite, suitable for sweet and sarcastic copy. The font includes stylized lowercase, uppercase, and ligatures.
License: Free for Personal & Commercial Use
Westfalia
This font provides an authentic hand drawn feel with its messy edges and varied line thickness. Great for any design work related to the outdoors and exploration.
License: Free for Personal & Commercial Use
Rude
Rude is a new font, which was worked by me, special to be free. You can use it, modify it, no licence is required for its use.
License: Free for Personal & Commercial Use
Canyons Vintage Script
Canyons is a professionally-crafted vintage script font that will become a wonderful addition to every designer’s toolbox!
License: Free for Personal & Commercial Use
Octanis
Octanis, a perfect typeface for headlines, logos, typographic compositions and paragraphs of text. Just try strong Octanis Sans, soft Octanis Sans Rounded, or Vintage Octanis Slab and Octanis Serif for your design projects.
License: Free for Personal & Commercial Use
Allema
Allema Script Typeface is Modern Calligraphy. This font was designed by handwriting, and it has a modern and unique forms of calligraphy, the writing style is very soft. Allema has a very unique style of calligraphy, it is very suitable for use in the work of modern design.
License: Free for Personal Use (Trial Version)
Just Smile
Just Smile is suitable for Apparel Brand, any greeting cards, Painting design style, or any design that needs natural and personal touch.
License: Free for Personal & Commercial Use
Klasik Sans
This family consist Klasik regular, rough and shadow. Thanks to the 3 different styles, you can easily choose your own Klasik that will perfectly fit into different design area.
License: Free for Personal & Commercial Use
Wild Youth
Wild Youth is a modern font with the distinct influence of adventure and the great outdoors. Perfect for logos, quotes, stationary, apparel and much more
License: Free for Personal & Commercial Use
Akrobat
Akrobat is a modern sans serif font with condensed proportions. The typeface comes in 8 weights with a geometric aestetics and slight neo-grotesque characteristic.
License: Free for Personal & Commercial Use
Mixa
Neo-grotesque Sans Serif mixed with the classical handwritten Script in slanted geometric shapes
License: Free for Personal & Commercial Use (Trial 1 weight only)
PhotoWall
PhotoWall is a casual, connecting script in four weights with lots of swashes, ligatures and alternates. It comes with a comprehensive package of complementary fonts: PhotoWall Sans, PhotoWall Poster Sans (a bold humanist all caps font), PhotoWall Serif, PhotoWall Poster Serif
License: Free for Personal & Commercial Use (Demo Version)
Locke
Locke is a stylish slab serif with a modern twist.
Currently, it has 6 weights, ranging from ExtraLight to Bold. The presence of ball terminals on certain glyphs and its unusually high x-height give it a unique look, perfect for large titles or body copy.
Currently, it has 6 weights, ranging from ExtraLight to Bold. The presence of ball terminals on certain glyphs and its unusually high x-height give it a unique look, perfect for large titles or body copy.
License: Free for Personal & Commercial Use (Demo Version)
SF Kingston
SF Kingston Pro is a contemporary Serif Didone typeface comprising of 6 weights (Extra Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Black) and houses an extended Latin character set for 80+ Languages. The font is a blend of separate grid systems, combining geometric shapes with more fluid characteristics, creating an even blend of circular and triangular components.
License: Free for Personal & Commercial Use (Trial Version)
Equable Free
Equable free retro font, an exclusive freebie from Free Design Resources is here for all of us. A very classy handmade font with imperfect natural curves but still looking very nice and neat.
License: Free for Personal & Commercial Use
Atami
Atami is a modern san-serif designed for aesthetically pleasing logotype.
License: Free Personal & Commercial Use
Modesta Sans
Modesta Sans is a modern Grotesque sans serif typefamily of seven weights plus matching italics. Perfectly suited for graphic design, headlines, advertisements, and any display use. It could easily work for editorial design, corporate, web, signage and many other uses in print and digital media.
License: Free for Personal & Commercial Use (Demo Version)
May 2016 Update:
Sitka Brush
A playful brush typeface. Perfectly imperfect, yet extremely versatile. It’s all about Sitka, an All-Caps typeface featuring Uppercase and Small Caps. It’s fun, quirky, and easily aesthetically pleasing.
Elrotex Brush Font
Catch this cool brush typeface of two fonts that will help you to bring a beautiful handcrafted look in your design.
February 2016 Update:
Weem – Free Font
Weem is a serif handwritting font, it’s sketchy but a strong bone underneath, ideal for playful and a bit serious designs – as for headlines and small text blocks
Something Wild Free Font
A gorgeous handwritten font with a genuine wild spirit. Just the right thing for you if you want to add some raw feeling in your design!
Carosello Font
Carosello, a beautiful font inspired by vintage ads, and created to give a genuine hand-written impression to your work.
FESTER
FESTER is an uppercase, semi-condensed, sans-serif typeface. Its gentle, clean appearance makes it a suitable typeface for headlines
Guerrilla
Guerrilla is a little bit rough, a bit graffiti and a little bit brush flavored free font designed by Carlos Zubia
Breathe Font
Get the Breathe, a new handwritten font in 2 styles available in all modern formats. Ideally suitable for the decoration of your works, design of logos, creation of invitations, greeting card and more!
Debby
Debby is a hand-drawn brush typeface to make your works looks natural. It designed to feel personal and imperfect; the irregular bouncy characters and the rough shapes speaks by itself.
September 2015 Update:
Yarin is a free font designed by Mario Pandeliev and inspired by the summer freedom. It looks like personal handwriting, and can be use for short, modern and fresh types, slogans and logo, presentations, branding and various other artistic ideas.
Bellico, a beautiful script typeface with a wide range of alternates available through OpenType features for any kinds of creative projects. The great fit for your headlines, logos, posters and many more!
Rissa, a stunning typeface that will give your designs an authentic brush handcrafted feel. Perfect for stationery, logos and much more.
July 2015 Update:
BERNIER – Free Typefamily
A vintage look BERNIER font is free and comes with 3 different styles (Regular, Distressed & Shade). It is perfect for vintage badge, old school style typography, and logotype. It is uppercase only
Stellar – Free Font
Stellar is a slightly condensed sans serif type with a taller x-height to give it legibility and personality. It comes in four weights and was designed to give purpose to your ideas, galactic or atomic
Bleakerst Free Font
Bleakerst is free version ( Free for Personal / Commercial use ) from Sortdecai Cursive Script with wild style.
QONTRA Font
QONTRA is a condensed sans serif font with low contrast which suit well any kind of texts and typographic applications.
May 2015 Update:
Reef – Rounded Font
REEF font is free for commercial and personal use! It’s strengths lies in simplicity and construction!
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Sant’Elia Free Script Font
Sant’Elia Script from Yellow Design Studio is a robust modern type family with regular and rough versions in six weights. Its letterforms are crisp and welcoming with a splash of verve.
El Capitan: Hand-Drawn Font
El Capitan is a new adventurous handcrafted typeface that will give your project a proper vintage look! It supports accented characters and can be used for various purposes such as headings, logos, t-shirt designs, labels, posters, badges and more.
Bough: Hand-Drawn Typeface
Bough is a hand-drawn typeface featuring vintage aesthetics. It goes in two characters: regular and condensed.
April 2015 Update:
Hamster Script Free Font
Hamster is a cursive typeface inspired by brush lettering and traditional sign painting. Suitable for branding/identity, clothing/t-shirt design, signage, headlines, poster, etc.
Muller Thin & ExtraBold (Demo Version)
This font family is suited for everything, raging from advertising, packaging, editorial and branding, to web and screen projects.
Nickainley Script
Nickainley is a Monoline Script font. handwriting font with a touch of classic and vintage.
in uppercase, lowercase characters, numeral and punctuation.
in uppercase, lowercase characters, numeral and punctuation.
February 2015 Update:
Kontanter Free font
Kontanter is a free experimental monospaced display typeface designed by Kash Singh. This font is loosely based on Gotham Bold.
Ohmega Sans
Ohmega Sans is a sans-serif display typeface inspired by geometry, fashion & the universe.
Serendipity Script Free Font
The package includes over 90 different hand-drawn characters for a range of languages and dialects.
Streetwear (Free Font)
Streetwear is bold and stylish retro inspired script typeface suitable for logo, poster, branding, packaging and t-shirt design.
Quickline Script
Quickline Script is a monoline hand type script font with the hand draw design style. It is a highly suitable graphic design font for logo, poster, branding, wedding card, etc. You can easily give the feel of hand type design style into your project.
Oldways (Free Font)
Oldways is a retro font that combines old western typography with the modern design style. It is a highly suitable graphic design font for logo, poster, branding, etc. You can easily give the feel of retro design style in a modern way into your project.
Pier Free Typeface
Pier is a modern and structured typography font. The idea was to create a slightly off geometric font that would look as good big or very small. It was made to fit your everyday designs and text needs.
REFUGE (FREE FONT)
Refuge is a handcrafted typeface that suits any vintage style design. Perfect for hand-lettering projects, t-shirts, logos, etc.
January 2015 Update:
Fonesia – Free Font
Fonesia was inspired by stroke of handwritten style. Available in three styles; light, regular and bold.
KH-Metropolis
KH-Metropolis is a free Art Deco Typeface inspired by the 1927 Fritz Lang Film, Metropolis
Signale
Signale Font is a somewhat modern/retro font based purely in straight lines and circles of two different diameters.
Vigneta
Allcaps font with handwritten style very suitable when combined with watercolor and it can makes your work more stylish.
Phalanx
Phalanx is a vintage, hand drawn typeface inspired by print catalogs from the early 1900’s. It’s perfect for adding some personality and character to your designs!
PH
PH from Fontfabric is a multifaceted font system consisting of different font weights (96!) and types of condensation
De La Fuente Sans Serif
De la fuente is a brand new sans-serif font actually with a serif in the lower case, a modern headline purpose font with a touch of the hand writed fonts in the ductus
Motorless
Motorless is a three styles display typeface inspired by good ol’ clunkers, wrecking yards, oil and dirt.
Mad Squire typeface
Mad Squire is a free geometric and experimental sans serif typeface inspired by double parallel lines
Norse free font
Norse is a typeface designed mostly for the fun, inspired by nordic epigraphy : runes, futhark, or whatever you call them.
Linotte Free Semibold Typeface
Linotte is a rounded sans serif typefamily with friendly vibes. Slight irregularities give the typeface a warm and naive look, while the solid geometric construction allows good legibility in long texts and small sizes. Linotte is ideal to set texts for food or children related products, and anything that needs to convey a friendly feeling.
SCHIST Free Typeface
Free classic accident grotesk for headlines, posters, titles with chalk & glitch style.
Rafale Free Font
Rafale is an all caps font that also contains – Open Type, Fractions, Sups & Subs, Ligatures, Alternates, Russian and Bulgarian Cyrillic. It was designed as a display type for titles, headlines, and posters.
INCISE – Free Font
Incise is a free font made for headlines, and it also can be used for illustrations, posters or flyers.
Pretender Free Font
Pretender is a narrow Art Deco headline font inspired by the sheet music cover from an early 20th Century waltz ballad, Mexicali Rose.
Free Font – SKINNY BASTARD
Here is a super nice and skinny new hand write font by Marcelo Reis Melo and Free Goodies for Designers.
SUNN – Free Handwriting Font
Sunn is a handwriting font wich would still be a little bit clumsy but with a strong construction underneath.
This is a great decorative font for headlines, names and short
This is a great decorative font for headlines, names and short
Chelsea
Chelsea is a sans-serif version of London. The basic structure remains unaltered. Some minor adjustments were only needed in order to preserve the legibility, such as narrower gaps and small caps as lower case.
Curely Free Typeface
Curely is a handmade decorative typeface inspired from a girly stuffs and cuteness overload in every single letters on it, fit for your cute and sweet design project and stuffs.
Donau Free Uppercase
Donau is an art nouveau inspired sans and slab serif typeface, sharing proportions and widths across two weights. It is intended for any kind of display use as well as short amounts of text.
Oslo
Oslo & Oslo II are very light monospaced typefaces. Both have their own set of numbers, special characters and punctuation. Though the font is primary intended to be all caps, Oslo II is featured as lower case to Oslo.
Sanity reflects those stylistic principles in a very basic minimalistic form. We borrowed inspiration from a high stroke contrast which the Bodoni font-family is best known for, and took it to an even more extreme conclusion.
There are five key stylistic principles taken as a main framework for the creation of the “Sanity”: symmetry, contrast, sanity is the monospaced type, geometry, artificiality.
There are five key stylistic principles taken as a main framework for the creation of the “Sanity”: symmetry, contrast, sanity is the monospaced type, geometry, artificiality.
Pirou is an experimental outline typeface inspired by Didot.
The font contains more than 300 characters including uppercase, lowercase, numbers, symbols, ligatures and accents. Pirou is designed for large title such as logo, headline, poster
The font contains more than 300 characters including uppercase, lowercase, numbers, symbols, ligatures and accents. Pirou is designed for large title such as logo, headline, poster
Natalia’s voice reflects the contemporary world. With its irreverent style you may find her speaking and exposing the most trendy contents that would reflect how we, the millenials, strive in this mad place where we have grown.
Fold is a typeface made out of only horizontal and vertical lines.
It was originally made as a bitmap typeface but then adapted into what it is now
It was originally made as a bitmap typeface but then adapted into what it is now
Nexa Rust from Fontfabric Type Foundry is a multifaceted font system consisting of font sub-families Sans, Slab, Script, Handmade and Extras.
Luthier is a contemporary and versatile serif typeface. A transitional fontfamily with sharp serifs, high contrast, and four styles; regular, italic, bold, & bold italic
Docker is uppercase sans-serif font in 3 styles: One – regular, Two – inline, Three – pseudo-3d. You can mix all three types with different colors and get some nice result.
Zodiaclaw is a new typeface that inspired by the lion claws. I designed this font for those who want to be different. Zodiaclaw is a luxury font you can use it as product title or logo. With some old classic european touches. Zodiaclaw is a humanist typeface that is based on traditional calligraphic forms, but with some new features in its shapes and strokes that provide a more open, elegant and actual look.
Belepotan is free typeface based on handdrawn brush. Normal and italic are available.
Feel free to download and used for personal or commercial works.
Feel free to download and used for personal or commercial works.
This display typeface is free for both personal and commercial use.
Great for posters, logos and many kind of headlines.
Available in OpenType/TrueType format.
Great for posters, logos and many kind of headlines.
Available in OpenType/TrueType format.
A free sans serif type family containing seven styles, made by Smidswater.nl
The goal of this font was to make a typeface that was legible, clean cut, and followed the rules we had determined.
LOOQUE is a free decorative typeface based on linear patterns with circular and angular edges.
Brela is a serif typeface of Humanistic style designed exclusively for editorial design. Thanks to the generous height of X, it accomplishes great legibility at small sizes. At bigger sizes its rational features stand out, making this typeface perfect for headlines.
Blaze & Radley Display Typeface
An elegant handwritten display typeface design. I was inspired by the characters of the amazing cartoon from late 80′s while coming up with the name of the typeface, the ones who used to watch will definitely remember.
Lovato is a family of five fonts, perfect for branding applications, books, or poster designs that require a clear, sharp, stylish tone. The styles range from an elegant, delicate light weight up to a brazen, commanding black weight. This original Latin-serif family, designed by Kosal Sen, has primarily a geometric construction, with hints of details inspired by inscriptional lettering, designed to fit a contemporary palette.
Bushcraft is a font family of 6 beautiful hand-drawn faces in OTF format. Inspired by vintage hand lettering sans able to improve your next project: print graphics, logos, badges, t-shirts etc.
Born is a humanistic typeface that is based on traditional calligraphic forms, but with some new features in its endings, strokes and drops, that provide a more open, fresh and actual look. It also has a big X height, so it offers a high legibility even at small sizes.
PORT118 is a 100% free uppercase typeface inspired by port cities and the typography on ships that pass by their shores and lay in the docks. A strong, clear typeface that fits their character.
Font family of 3 faces in .OTF format! Outstanding hand written style will perfectly fit for headlines of all sizes, print graphics, logos, badges, t-shirts and other items like posters.
Taurus Mono Outline Font Family
The regular and bold weights of Taurus Mono Outline. Taurus Mono is a new (2014) round monospace family, inspired by space!
MECHANO is an All Caps and alphanumeric font.MECHANO is an experiment font made just for fun, the baseline grid of MECHANO is geometric and the font is rational and mechanical.It’s free for both personal and commercial use.
Agne tries to combine modern with the old-fashion. Although some might consider it a very bold and heavy font, if well utilised, ought even be seen as a gracious light-weight typeface, due to its beautiful massive contrast between stems.
This font is inspired by Styx, one of four infernal rivers. This river’s dark waters make immortal, like ink for printed words. This typeface is sophisticated, elegant and suitable for printing. His sensual shapes, soft and, at the same time, cold, give a pleasant feeling while reading.
Meticulous Ariel is a new typeface that inspired by the world of fashion. Meticulous Ariel Typeface should be in use by the most popular fashion magazines and super luxury brands. Beside the typeface I designed a few typographic posters to demonstrate the type uses.
Neuza is a fun, module constructed typeface. Fully developed by Estudio Pum. It counts with two variables “Fill” and “Stroke”. It is ideal for titles, letterings and special occasions.
Aaram is a unique font family, that comes in six gorgeous styles to choose from. Aaram primarily designed for screen but it’ll look fantastic in print too.
Simple delicate and good universal is the goal of our design. Pipe is a nice font which includes two styles (regular & bold).
Idolatra its a capital group of letters inspired in Polynesian culture and tiki style from 40′s and 50′s with a modern touch, more solid and minimalistic. Recommended for headlines, slogans, logos, displays…
Silent Lips – Experimental Free Font
An experimental typeface imagined through a lot of different experiences.
Baron is an free uppercase display typeface inspired by the classic sans serif font familes. This typeface is, because of his many alternative options and weights, perfect for usage in posters/logotypes and headlines.
This is an experimental project I decided to create. I thought to create something I could give to everyone, almost as a thank you to the overwhelming support my work has received. Using influences from modern font design, I wanted something very minimal and a little unique, here’s the result.
Gokú is a multilingual typeface, initially designed as a stencil font for a Watches of Switzerland launch event. It is host to a large array of ligatures, glyphs and alternates. Bold lines, subtle curves and improved legibility make it perfect for any application.
It was designed based on the Campton Family, with the same principles in mind: geometry, simplicity and neutrality. As a consequence, Choplin could be seen as an immediate companion to the Campton Family.
Anke is a geometric, simple yet legible Sans Serif typeface. For my first non-experimental type, it meant the conception of the need of a earnest but always cool font for my projects, something in between Futura with a kind of orbed structure was pictured on my mind.
This font based on old Russian calligraphy. Free for personal and commercial use.
The Intro type system consists of 50 unique font styles and weights. The family is characterized by excellent legibility both in print and on the web, a well-finished geometric design, optimized kerning, etc. Intro is most suitable for headlines of all sizes, but it does well in a variety of text lengths as well.
This is the third font I’ve created, you can use it for personnal and commercial works.
Designed this font for a project. Idea was to have a small shadow illusion with each character.
Fontfabric type foundry presents Uni Sans Free. Four font weights set in Caps from our well known best seller Uni Sans, available for free download.
Berlin is a group of display fonts inspired by the classic geometric typefaces from early last century. It features (so far) four versions, each one in three weights: regular, bold & X-bold.
SIMPLIFICA Typeface is a slightly condensed sans-serif typeface featured by an uniform and thin line width. Its high positioned capsheight and ascender favours legibility. A fine, simple and clear font.
Our challenge was to keep the graffiti style and still have legible letters. We strived for a functional font that would not only be useful for the graffiti community, but also for a wider audience. This way, apart from promoting graffiti we also help build a pool of more and diverse cyrillic typefaces.
Prosto Sans quality sans serif fonts created for casual use in interactive environments. This font family was based on the legendary Prosto free font. We added in this fontfamily new typefaces and support for many codepages and languages.
Skyline is a geometric sans-serif font. This typeface based on upper case letters, but I create lower case letters, numbers and glyphs.
Comic Neue is here to save the day…sort of. The new font aspires to be the casual script font of choice, even for typography lovers.
Gafata is a font designed for small sizes in medium-long text, mixing elegance and readability which is why it has great applicability in books, magazines and web pages. In the process of finding the finest legibility, particular features emerged making this whimsical sans serif different from the rest, creating an original mark to the text its applied to.
ADAM is an All Caps, Sans-Serif typeface inspired by Futura. The sharp, clean appearance makes it a suitable typeface for headlines, posters, titles and captions. It consists of 227 glyphs and is free for both personal and commercial use.
Campton is a simple sans serif with a geometric skeleton, based on the mid to early twentieth century visual trend of achieving neutrality. Although, there are a lot of typefaces focusing on similar principles, tries to find its niche in the field of anonymous typefaces by combining simplicity with a subtle friendliness.
Fenix is a serif typeface designed for display and long texts, its foundations are based in calligraphy, with strong serifs and rough strokes. Its proportions seek to gain space in height and width. Fénix is elegant at large sizes and legible at the same time, with a lot of rhythm in small sizes.
The Glober font family includes 18 weights – nine uprights with nine italics. It is characterized by excellent legibility in both – web & print design areas, well-finished geometric designs, optimized kerning, excellent web-font performance and legibility etc.
REN Typeface is a latest retro typeface. Its available in 4 weights and its completely FREE. Its best suited for posters,logos and motion graphics etc. Ren supports Greek too.
Separator was designed as an experimental typeface by simon stratford. It’s a simple sans serif font created without curves.
I designed Equal in Adobe Illustrator then imported each letter, number, and symbol into Glyphs which is a font designing software. Only three geometric shapes were used to contract this font. A circle, and line, and a diagonal line. Which allows a a fluidity through out each letter.
DUAL is a full width sans-serif typeface with an experimental side. Inspired by fonts such as Gotham, Proxima Nova and Neue Haas, Its straight lines and 90 degree angles give it a very geometric feel without hindering its legibility. There are three weights available right now, 100, 300 and 600. I will be releasing 3 additional weights later this year to complete the family (200, 400 and 500).
This font is a sans serif font and created to be used only in uppercase. It’s totally free to download.
This is the best handwriting font I have ever seen,http://graphicriver.net/item/free-handwritinghandwritten-font/12614271?ref=LYB-Design
very nice font collection http://howengineering.com/
The world is becoming a great place when there are lot of free stuffs. These fonts are cool and what’s great about them is that they’re free!