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.
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. The Butler family contains 334 characters.
3. Arvo
Arvo is a font family suitable for both display and printing. Developed by Anton Koovit for reading, Arvo in the Google Font directory is a free open font (OFL).
4. Crimson Text
A free font family customized 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, it presents each of the styles in five saturations Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold.
7. Brela
Brela is a serif humanistic font designed only for editorial design. The Spanish creative agency Makarska Studio developed the font, it is equally good when used in texts with a small size and for writing headings.
8. Baskerville Original Pro
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. British designer Ed Merritt created the free font.
10. Fenix
Fénix is a serif font and rough strokes, perfect for reading, for texts with a small size. The 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.
12. Aganè
The Aganè Font is a clean sans serif font developed by Swiss graphic designer UI specialist Danilo de Marco. Free for personal and commercial use, Aganè is a 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 the winner of the 2017 IF Design Award.
13. Titillium Web
Аs 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, a 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, perfect 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 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 lot of different characters.
17. Noto Sans
Noto Sans (from “No more tofu”) belongs to the family of free fonts, which covers over 800 languages and operates over 110 thousand characters, not a single character is included in the Unicode system.
18. Hanken
Grotesk is a sans-serif font whose creation is a product of inspiration by classic grotesque fonts such as Akzidenz Grotesk, Univers, Trade Gothic and Gill Sans. Hanken Design Co developed it with the goal of creating a friendly and readable font suitable for text with a small size. It has recently added Cyrillic.
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
Dalton Maag specially created this free font 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 support for OpenType.
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.
23. Nickainley
Nickainley – This font with classic notes and a vintage feel suggests many possible uses, including logos, t-shirt designs, letterheads and banners. The Indonesian agency Seniors Studio created this free font.
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 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 correctly 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. The Astigmatic Printing developed it Institute, a mixture of binding and an unrelated letter forms gives it a unique appearance and 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 for both personal and commercial use.
29. Bauru
Bauru- soulful retro font, the inscription evokes nostalgic feelings, summarizes the bygone time of life. One of the best free retro fonts that works well for creating posters, advertisements, and logos. Brazilian art director and illustrator Pier Paolo designed Bauru.
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 create logos, headlines, designs on t-shirts, badges, or prints.
34. Leafy
Leafy is a free handmade font. Contains over 90 characters, painted by Krisidjanis Mesoulis. Perfect for any design.
35. Playlist
The playlist is great for illustrations on products (posters, t-shirts), a dry brush-drawn font that comprises 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 – a 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 tough, with formal features, it feels like a font drawn under a stencil.
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, it emanates 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. Ukrainian designer Andy Panchenko created the font.
Unusual fonts
50. Gilbert
The font is named after Gilbert Baker, the designer of the rainbow flag who died in 2017, he was a 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.
55. Tiny Hands
This free font is about eccentric handwriting by Donald Trump. It was created by typographer Mark Davis as a fun satire, but it can be used splendidly for a cartoon or comic book.
