26 Must-Have Free Fonts
Fonts are one of the essential parts of graphic design. The font that accompanies a graphic or web design helps define the feel and complement the design.
There are a plethora of free fonts available on the internet, but many of them are lackluster or completely impractical. Today, we have 26 must-have fonts that are free to download and use in your personal designs. Make sure to read the license agreement for each font, as some are for personal use only, while others are free to use in commercial work.
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Fonce Sans Regular
Mindriders
Fertigo
Avante Garde ALT
MOD Font
Advent Font
Apogee Rounded Sans Beta
Akashi
ABC Font Typeface Version 2
Megalopolis
Contemporary Modern Font
Kraken Beta
Evolution True Type
Sliced AB
Bobsmade
TyporM01 Round-ans-Square
Simplistic
Origram
Ultravioleta
Font HMG
InDEAL Regular
Estrya’s Handwriting
Getting Blocky Abstract
Comfortaa
Dirt2Death
Sunday Morning Garage Sale
nice fonts thanks for the list..
Great set!
Please differentiate between fonts that are for personal and commercial usage; out of the 26 fonts listed, the following 11 specifically state they should not be used in commercial products (eg, graphic design, some web sites):
* Sunday Morning Garage Sale
* Dirt2Death
* Estrya’s Handwriting
* Re-Noise
* Ultravioleta
* Simplistic
* Sliced AB
* Evolution
* Kraken Beta
* MDRS-FD01
* Advent
Additionally, the author of Apogee Rounded Sans states the font is in beta and not to be shared outside of DeviantArt:
Please be aware that even if it’s shared on dA, this font is not especially meant to be a freeware (or a shareware). It should be not shared anywhere else than here.
It’s a good list, but just wish the fonts had been more thoroughly vetted for designers’ purposes.
Sweet. Some nicle looking fonts here, like the look of akashi
That was a truly uninspiring list. Must have? Please. You bore me.
To Fletcher: Only a DA would take the time to send a comment like that. Grow up.
With all due respect, most of these are amateurish and not very well-designed. The few that were made by real typographers stand out nicely, while the rest look like they were done by high school kids with pirated copies of FontLab.
Fantastic post and solid font case! Congrats!
Any designer with creative versatility would see the value in a diverse range of styles. If you’re successful and work with a variety of clients, it’s beneficial to have a wide range of fonts & typestyle variations available.
Only narrow minded designers would write any of these fonts off as uninspired. I think it might just be the designer who’s uninspired in this case, and I’d bet their portfolio shows a narrow range of style and taste.
Great fonts, thanks for posting.
M
some people knows nothing but criticism. you should dare show your own artwork when criticizing one. seems like you have too much to say but nothing show off. uhh. i must say they’re a bunch o’ losers.
Some of these are alright, but no free-fonts list is complete without Museo and Museo Sans, two of the best free fonts any designer can get their hands on. Surprised not to see them on the list.
Some of these are good. Some of these are very creative but bad. Some of these are almost unreadable. Is the smoke one even really a font, or is it someone’s ad? Either way, cool idea for an ad, but definitely NOT a “must have font”. It’s almost impossible to read. Mindriders is a cool idea that’s hard to read also. It’s easier to read than the smoke one, but it’s still not at all practical. So as to not be COMPLETELY negative, InDEAL Regular, Comfortaa, evolution, and a few others are nice. I recently downloaded Fertigo and find that it is nice (though not for every day use). Dirt2death is good for posters for certain types of things and events. I just really wouldn’t call most of these “must have”s.
Nice list.
As a trade shop designer, I get requests for so many fonts that the list will always grow longer.
Thank you for adding a few more drawers to the overflowing cabinet.
If this is a must have list I’d hate to see the Must Not Have list!
Not inspiring nor really interesting type faces at all.
What a bunch of mismanaged blatant promotional hee haw of what seems to be a load of old failed fonts NO ONE wants to buy or use for free.
I can’t imagine why you would risk your reputation by promoting such rubbish. (Rubbish = garbage when spoken in english)
R.A.
Great collection!
Geez! So much artistic sniping! I wasn’t thrilled with every font, but hey, they’re free! How can you bitch about that?
Personally, I’m grateful for the list, and will take what I can use, and toss the rest.
Chill out, folks! We’re in the Earth Changes. If we can’t get beyond petty gripes, we’ll never survive … we might not anyway, but wouldn’t it be nice to at least go out feeling good about ourselves and each other?
One word… awesome
thanks!
Inspiring list :-))
yea very nice and greant pot thanks
A very nice selection of fonts! Thanks for posting these.
Great post, a zip file with all the of the fonts would have been awesome tho
Well bugger me, that is a collection of mostly boring and un useful fonts, well done in compliling mediocraty.
stumbleapon kak.
dont keep up the day job, dont even bother collating shite, these fonts are yawn….. dull, nicely presented on designs though, give you that
wonderful! thanks.
Thanks for taking the time to compile and publish the list.
I notice that the people who posted the negative comments about your list did not provide a link to their list of super duper fonts. Why do you think that is?
Wow, those are some crazy fonts. Some of them aren’t really readable though – I’m not sure what the point of those are?
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Anxious to try some of these fonts.
Nice collection. Thanks for sharing
Sweet fonts collection!
Glad you like!
Good post. I like how you’ve illustrated each font – it makes it easy to see the differences between the fonts
I just love it!Thanks!
great list. i didn’t know most of them before.
non of the links work!
Great list thx for sharing
thanks for your sharing!
I’m not so sure some of them are “must have” but it’s definitely a useful list.
I have been looking for a nice collection of fonts because I want to do a areal logo for my site and this is a great resource! Bookmarked and will be looking over it for the next couple of days to find the right one. Thanks for sharing!
These are glorious days for typography: the quality and quantity of fonts being developed is impressive. Also I’m cheap… I Always prefer your free font lists
Thanks for ur font list. it is very useful to my site ubdation.
Thanks for the list, cant wait to try some out.
Thank you!!!!!
Good!!!!!!!
it’s Cute , Pretty
and so on
Thank youuuuuuuuuuu !!
Thank u….. Very creative and useful fonts…….
great fonts, I just wish web browsers would allow for greater use of fonts.
creative fonts…
good visual, color and body font..good concept.
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Thanks dear i like these fonts
Hey…! Great list dude, It really works, I was searching for this kind of list and i got because of you,,, Thanks a lot broo…!
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just wondering what you do with the fonts after you download them?
cant seem to do all that much with them.
thanks.
Add them to your system fonts, then you can use them in your graphics program
Nice fonts ..Thanks for sharing…..
If you are looking for free fonts, check http://www.fonts2u.com. Discovered it just few days ago. Their
character map search is awesome! Saved some time when looking for specific character maps supported.
How do I download one of these fonts?
Click the font image which will redirect you to the host site, then download there.
Thanks. I really like these fonts. I love really “out there” fonts. These are great.
I just used the MOD font with a black outline and a tiled fill (like a bathroom shower tile, and used my water drops tube and it looks awesome. Thanks so much!
these fonts are great. thank you
wow..its a really fantastic and awesome font, its can be very use full for to make my design.
Yeah, really good fonts, it is always a problem to find a good font for your project!
good article………
fonts are very nice. thank you
Nice Fonts… Thanks for posting
Amazing fonts…
Nice fonts thank you for sharing with us.
MCSE
I really like this list. There is something for every design type. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing this cool collection.
Great collection.. to my delicious
Am I the only person becoming increasingly sad that some people seem to think it is a great use of their time to litter the internet with spiteful, destructive comments that imply their superior intellect/taste/skill/experience. Please, if you need to talk big, back it up with examples of something that you have done that is truly amazing and bring that into the public arena for discussion, if not, please keep your bile to yourself and be thankful that some people are making a pro-active effort to share something they find stimulating, enjoyable and inspiring with you.
Downloading – great job. Thx!
wow , like this fonts so much .. downloading ,
I am really thankful to you for this great Collection!!