35 Best Free Fonts Every Designer Should Collect
Looking for the best free fonts? There are a lot of free fonts out there but finding the best or high-quality fonts that you can use for your design projects is not an easy task. Designers actually spend (or shall we say waste?) too much time looking for free yet high-quality fonts every now and then. Not because it is hard to find free fonts but more so of the fact that there are already enormous options that finding what we need is like finding a needle in a haystack.
So, to save you time which you should be spending doing your projects and at the same time narrow down your options, we decided to share what we think are the best free fonts that every designer should have. For easy browsing, we organized the fonts according to serif, sans-serif, and display fonts. If you wish to collect more free fonts, check out also our roundup of free script fonts.
BEST FREE FONTS FOR DESIGNERS: SERIF FONTS
These fonts are best for logo design, as body text or headline. If you wish to download any of these fonts, simply follow the links below each preview image.
Calluna
First in our list of best free fonts is Calluna, a serious serif type with interesting details. This font is ideal as body text for your layout such as books, brochures, flyers, etc. Calluna comes in 8 fonts: Light, Regular, Regular-Italic, Semibold-Italic, Bold-Italic, and Black. However, only the regular is absolutely free.
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Fontin
Another of these best free fonts is Fontin, a serif font suitable for small sizes. Thus, you may use it as body text for a book layout or in any block of texts. This free font is available in Roman, italic, bold and small caps. The color is darkish, the spacing loose and the x-height tall.
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Museo
This Open Type font family comes in five weights and offers supports CE languages. Besides ligatures, contextual alternatives, stylistic alternates, fractions, and proportional and tabular figures, MUSEO also has a ‘case’ feature for case sensitive forms.
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Fertigo Pro
Fertigo Pro is a quality font that you may download and use for free. The Pro version features some important changes from its previous release (Fertigo). These include language support in Latin, Central European, Croatian, Romanian, Icelandic, Turkish, Esperanto, etc. Fertigo Pro comes in 2 fonts: a regular and italic. The regular is absolutely free.
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Nilland
Another in our list of best free fonts is Nilland, which is available in four weights: regular, bold, extra bold and black.
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Bergamo Std
A free serif typeface, in the open type format; 4 weights are available: regular, italic, bold and bold italic.
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BEST FREE FONTS FOR DESIGNERS: SANS SERIF
Otari
This free sans-serif font type is ideal to use as body text for your projects. Available in 12 weights but only the Otari Bold may be downloaded for free.
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Cartographic Pro
This Open Type font family comes in10 weights and offers supports various languages. Only the Cartographic Pro regular is free to download. The rest are available as commercial fonts.
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Vegur
This free sans-serif family is available in Open Type format and in three different weights: Extra Light, Regular and Bold. This free font is ideal as both body or copy texts as well as titles or headlines.
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Caviar Dreams
Caviar Dreams is a clean minimalist font family consisting of 4 weights. Free Caviar Dreams font is available for Windows and Mac.
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Junction
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 look and human qualities of a serif type and still retains the clarity and efficiencies of a sans serif typeface. It combines the best of both worlds.
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Delicious
Every character of this typeface has a unique shape. It features consistency in spacing, not in the character shape. With its relatively large x-height, this font is ideal for text in smaller point sizes.
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Anivers Regular
From the same authors who brought us Fertigo, Anivers Regular was added as part of the Anivers family (If you are not familiar with the other Anivers Font, these can still be downloaded from the same site). Anivers Regular has also undergone some major updates. Anivers is robust and rigid, forgiving, flexible and elegant … and also suitable for a broad use: from stationery to a poster headline. From an intro in a magazine to a base for a logo.
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Raleway
This is an elegant sans-serif typeface, designed in a single thin weight. It is a display face that features both old style and lining numerals, standard and discretionary ligatures, a pretty complete set of diacritics, as well as a stylistic alternate inspired by more geometric sans-serif typefaces than it’s neo-grotesque inspired default character set.
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Banda
Banda is a semi-serif typeface characterized by a tall x-height and rounded semi-serifs. Although it was first designed as a display typeface, Banda quickly evolved into a more complex type consisting of seven weights plus their respectful italics. Banda can be used for short passages of text as well as a fancy display type.
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Expressway
Carve a new path with Expressway. Engineered to hug the road, it features a tight new frame with redesigned lines and curves. Reflecting the sleek lines of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s “Standard Alphabets” font, Expressway has superior readability.
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Steel Fish
Steelfish is a gritty headliner with a stern, authoritative voice. Created from 2001 original, this expanded display family has been tweaked and tuned for a professional look.
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Florin Sans
These best free fonts are great for display and body copy texts. What stands out about this font is its large x-height and constant line weight. Nearly all letters bend with a continuous unfaltering style, giving the impression all letters are cast from the same mold. Available in 2 weights but only the demo version is free.
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Dream Orphanage
A high-quality reconstruction of the 1990s freeware classic, Dream Orphans. The old-style g is still available as an Open Type alternate as well as a new, simple g. Only the regular font is free to download.
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Advent Font
A free sans-serif font available in various weights: regular, light, extra light, bold, extra bold, regular oblique (not italic), regular rounded.
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Gilroy
A sans serif font family, Gilroy features multiple weights and has extensive Latin language support. It also supports the languages Cyrillic, Greek and more.
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FR Hopper
A sans serif font with geometric forms but still having a friendly personality. It is intended for mid-length texts, captions, titles and almost any other occasional use – posters, flyers and even for web sites.
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Haymer
Haymer is modern yet characterful and is ideal for use as a text family, online and wherever instant easy readability is required. An extensive family is offered, in four weights but only the petite capitals light can be downloaded for free.
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Lintel
A modern sans serif typeface with a pure clean line form. The idea has been to design a font with a proportioned and balanced structure that is applicable to a wide variety of uses.
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Merge
A rounded sans serif that you can use for free in your projects.
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BEST FREE FONTS FOR DESIGNERS: DISPLAY FONTS
Spring Steel
A new display sans serif with an unusual construction: curved lines on the outside with only a few straight lines on the inside. The resulting typeface shows a great deal of tension and dynamics. Preferably, it should be used at larger sizes, at smaller sizes only for special effects. Available in 10 different weights but only the regular is free to download.
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Chunk
This is an ultra-bold slab serif typeface that is reminiscent of old American Western woodcuts, broadsides, and newspaper headlines.
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Orbitron
Orbitron is a geometric sans-serif typeface intended for display purposes. It features four weights (light, medium, bold, and black), a stylistic alternative, small caps, and a ton of alternate glyphs.
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Blackout
Eats holes for breakfast lunch and dinner. Inspired by filling in sans-serif newspaper headlines. Continually updated with coffee and music. Makes your work louder than the next person’s.
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Museo Slab
If you need big headlines Museo Slab will surely help you get greater impact for your headlines. This is a robust slab serif with Museo’s friendliness.
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Sniglet
A rounded display face that’s great for headlines. It includes an almost full MacRoman/WinANSI character set.
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High Five
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Dan by Font Fabric
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Tondu
A versatile display font that combines classic proportions with modern styling. The precise letter fit makes it perfect for use across signage, book jackets, packaging, posters, and t-shirts.
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ION C
ION superfamily consists of 3 families: condensed (ION A), normal (ION B) and wide (ION C).
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