20 best free fonts for designers
When you’re designing anything for print or digital, there are a number of creative decisions that need to be made – including typography. Selecting the right font for your designs can add the right personality to your designs, accurately reflect your visual branding, attract the right audience and make your copy easier to read.
Digital typography has been relatively limited until now, with new improvements such as FlexBox, Variable fonts, CSS Grids and CSS Shapes making it easier to look at typography online from new angles. Read on for 20 stylish free fonts that could help you take your projects to the next level.
Correct at the time of publishing. Remember: Always check whether the font you are downloading is free, and what the specific licensing terms and conditions are – some fonts are free for personal use only, while others are available for commercial use.
1 – Obrazec
Looking for something strong and industrial? Created by Armenian designer Ilya Zakharov, this sans serif font would be ideal for word-based logos and giving short, snappy ads extra punch.
2 – Sonder Regular
A stylish font with high-contrast weight, Sonder has become a popular font choice among beauty and wellbeing brands. But its shifting line weight may make it a better, easier-to-read option for headers than body copy.
3 – WILD WORLD
Bold and unapologetic, WILD WORLD wouldn’t look out of place in a sci-fi movie. Designed by Abdullah Mosad, this is a font for businesses who have something to say and need to say it as loud as possible.
4 – Nighty
If you like to make moves but not take things too seriously, meet Nighty. This groovy, 70s-inspired font was inspired by retro magazines and would be the ideal choice for vintage-style designs.
Download Nighty – free for personal use.
5 – MONIQA
MONIQA is a variable display typeface with multilingual capabilities (it has both Latin and Cyrillic scripts). Its eye-catching style is drawn straight out of the roaring 20s, with dramatically varying line weights and tight character spacing.
6 – Creme Espana
An elegant calligraphy font with a few romantic flourishes that’s perfect for adding a touch of sophistication to your projects. If you work in events, this could be perfect for personalised stationery.
Download Creme Espana – free for personal use.
7 – Pulchella Pro
Playful and lively with a vintage hint, Pulchella Pro is a sans serif font ideal for webpage headers, product packaging and logos.
8 – Calfine
This high-contrast weight font is bold and strong, with an almost reckless playfulness to it. Ideal for use in logos, labels and marketing materials, this font will help you stand out from the crowd.
Download Calfine – free for personal use.
9 – Projekt Blackbird
With hard lines and minimal spacing between characters, Projekt Blackbird is a sans serif font created by Leonit Gashi.Its simple, versatile style makes it a great option to use for both headers and body copy.
10 – Neutral Face
Designed by Vadym Aksieiev, this minimalist, elegant font could be used for logos, magazines, landing pages and product packaging. Its crisp lines and use of space could work wonders for your site’s UX.
11 – Eskool
Reminiscent of ’90s school materials and teaching shows, Eskool is a colourful, nostalgic font ideal for making headers and sub-headers standout and unskippable.
Download Eskool – free for personal use.
12 – Migha
Migha’s vintage allure and striking, modern design could make it a popular choice with entertainment venues, late-night dining spots and boutiques. It has a full set of numbers, uppercase, punctuation and multilingual support with six weights, 4 widths, contrast and slant.
13 – Nafta
This high-contrast font has a modern, rebellious edge to it, and is meant to look like free-hand marker strokes. For businesses looking to create a subversive visual brand, this could be a good pick.
14 – Karen Funny Cartoon
Bold, rounded, funny, bouncy – always to describe this eye-catching font. With its hand-sketched, ’80s style and high-contrast weight, Karen Funny Cartoon is an ideal font for grabbing people’s attention.
Download Karen Funny Cartoon – free for personal use.
15 – SK-Modernist
Modern and fuss-free – that’s what the SK-Modernist font can convey about your business. This clean, minimal font was designed for online use, making it easier for your target audience to read all about you.
16 – Harmond
Harmond is a strong serif font in a modern, fresh style. Its sharp lines and traditional slant can add a touch of modern elegance to a brand, and could be used for posters, webpages and business cards.
Download Harmond – free for personal use.
17 – Ramona
Inspired by Argentinian folk songwriter Mercedes Sosa, Ramona is a textured sans serif font designed by Cristian Tournier. Its irregular line edges could give a handcrafted, personal touch to newsletters.
18 – Fogtwo No5
Ranging from fine and elegant to brutalist and bold, Fogtwo No5 is a font meant for any larger text – page titles, poster headers, pop-ups. This display serif font is surprisingly versatile.
19 – Bagnard Sans Regular
Originally created by type designer Sebastien Sanfilippo. Bagnard Sans Regular is a clean, minimalist font that could remind some of writing with fountain pens. Its professional, almost traditional style would fit both headers and body copy.
Download Bagnard Sans Regular.
20 – Junicode
Despite its origins as a font for Medievalists, the old-style Junicode font has enough characters to also be an asset to any designer. Junicode Bold Condensed has a narrower set width than other fonts on this list, so you can say more with less.
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