Inline Fonts: 17 Types to Spice Up Your Designs
The use of inline fonts and typefaces is undeniably one of the hottest trend both in print and web designs. You see them in movie posters such as in Tron movie. Inline fonts are characterized by hairline strokes inside thicker bold strokes. Unlike black headline fonts, inline typefaces do not appear heavy and chunky. Using these fonts can give your design three-dimensional (3D) effect.
Inline fonts are perfect for logos, titles for posters, headers, headlines and other designs where you need bold typeface that standout from the body type or the images in your design. If you want to try inline fonts for your design, you need not look far because we have listed below 17 of the best free inline fonts from around the web. Some of these free fonts are even free for commercial use. To download the font, click on the title for each font entry. I hope you you will find these resources helpful. Enjoy!
If you want more free fonts, check out our round up of free slab serif fonts, which are also useful for making big headlines for posters and ads.
FREE INLINE FONTS TO DOWNLOAD
01: INTRO INLINE FONT
What distinguishes the new Intro free font from FontFabric is the strongly expressed geometric makeup and structure. The basic letters of the Alphabet like “A”, “O” and “H” are built or based on principles of simple geometric forms – triangles, circles and squares. In contrast to the Futura font which possesses similar styling, the Intro font preserves the characteristic sharpened edges of the “?”, “V” and “W” letters even in bold version. You can view beautiful posters created using this font at Behance.
02: GIST UPRIGHT EXTRA BOLD
A demo font created by Yellow Design Studio, Gist is an inline slab serif with a retro yet modern vibe. It is a collision between mono-line slab and indie script. All-caps typesettings have an especially retro edge. It also includes line layers for adding color to the inline areas.
03: OSTRICH SANS
A gorgeous modern sans-serif with a very long neck. With a whole slew of styles & weights. The inline style comes with italics.
04: METROPOLIS
Metropolis comes from the the industrial movement of the 1920?s where skyscrapers where born. “Using a double line technique, I wanted to create my own Art Deco style font that represented this era. The result is a bold, bumptious typeface with a stolidly calm disposition.”
05: REX FREE FONT
Rex is a font family with three weights – light, bold and bold inline – perfect for creating unique titles on the fly. It’s all caps font, but there is a difference between both – caps & small caps (see in the examples). Applicable for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items like posters, logos. It also includes Cyrillic version.
06: LOVELO FONT
Lovelo free font is remake of the original Lovelo Inline.
07: BENDER INLINE FONT
A chunky face for display type in two weights: inline and solid.
08: RIBBON INLINE FONT
First appearing as a Numeral Set, Ribbon is now a full display face, including Opentype features for an alternate alphabet.
09: SULLIVAN
Not your traditional modular typeface. Sullivan is a bold display face that comes in three variations. Each can be used effectively on their own or layered for a uniquely modern, industrial effect. Originally inspired by the letter “S” design by Scott Allen Hill of Foundry Collective.
10: Night At The Opera NF Font
This decorative inline font is available for personal and commercial uses.
11: PORTER SANS BLOCK FONT
Porter Sans is an extended sans serif headline family. This font is great for making striking headlines and titles for your posters, books, or announcements.
12: GENESEE STREET FONT
Available free for personal use only. This free inline fonts have rounded edges and comes in four weights: Regular, Italic, Black and Black Italic.
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13: HOMESTEAD FREE INLINE FONT
Homestead, a multi-layered type system, is an evocative yet forward thinking slab serif. Always searching for the place to call home. Homestead is available in 6 styles: Regular, Inline, Display and One, Two and Three; a family of 3 fonts perfect to use in conjunction with one another.
14: BLANCH FONT FAMILY
Blanch is a display typeface for the ‘Fruita Blanch’ brand, a family-run company which, for four generations, has dedicated itself to the cultivation and marketing of sweet fruits. This typeface family came about from a search for a traditional font with a contemporary feel which reflected the Blanch products; artisanal recipes, adapted to our modern times.
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15: AW CONQUEROR
AW Conqueror is typeface family who include 5 variations with great potential: Small glyph sets, mostly all caps, but based on same structure, with some connection between them (width for example), to offer a great & easy titling toolbox to any designers, from skillful to beginner. Each of the members try their best to be different from the others because of their features. They should work harmoniously in contrast.
16: PINSTRIPE LIMO FONT
(by Nymphont)
17: MENSCH FREE INLINE FONT
( by Morgan Knutson)
A condensed uppercase typeface with regular, thin, inline, and bold weights.
