26 Must-Have Free Fonts

thumbFonts 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

Fonce Sans Regular

Mindriders

Mindriders

Fertigo

Fertigo

Avante Garde ALT

Avante Garde ALT

MOD Font

MOD Font

Advent Font

Advent Font

Apogee Rounded Sans Beta

Apogee Rounded Sans Beta

Akashi

Akashi

ABC Font Typeface Version 2

ABC Font Typeface Version 2

Megalopolis

Megalopolis

Contemporary Modern Font

Contemporary Modern Font

Kraken Beta

Kraken Beta

Evolution True Type

Evolution True Type

Sliced AB

Sliced AB

Bobsmade

Bobsmade

TyporM01 Round-ans-Square

TyporM01 Round-ans-Square

Simplistic

Simplistic

Origram

Origram

Ultravioleta

Ultravioleta

Font HMG

Font HMG

InDEAL Regular

InDEAL Regular

Estrya's Handwriting

Estrya's Handwriting

Getting Blocky Abstract

Getting Blocky Abstract

Comfortaa

Comfortaa

Dirt2Death

Dirt2Death

Sunday Morning Garage Sale

Sunday Morning Garage Sale

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71 Responses to “26 Must-Have Free Fonts”

  1. joyoge designers' bookmark May 12, 2009 at 6:36 pm #

    nice fonts thanks for the list..

  2. Marcus May 13, 2009 at 3:07 am #

    Great set!

  3. Angelique May 13, 2009 at 9:15 am #

    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.

  4. Patternhead May 13, 2009 at 9:22 am #

    Sweet. Some nicle looking fonts here, like the look of akashi

  5. Fletcher May 13, 2009 at 4:26 pm #

    That was a truly uninspiring list. Must have? Please. You bore me.

  6. Jerry May 13, 2009 at 5:23 pm #

    To Fletcher: Only a DA would take the time to send a comment like that. Grow up.

  7. JB May 13, 2009 at 8:26 pm #

    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.

  8. Svetoslav May 14, 2009 at 3:42 am #

    Fantastic post and solid font case! Congrats!

  9. Morton May 14, 2009 at 12:08 pm #

    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

  10. tripled May 15, 2009 at 2:59 am #

    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.

  11. Kibondo May 15, 2009 at 11:23 am #

    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.

  12. Tisi May 15, 2009 at 8:14 pm #

    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.

  13. Francois Viljoen May 16, 2009 at 4:47 am #

    Nice list.

  14. HawaiiBill May 16, 2009 at 7:17 pm #

    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.

  15. Steve May 16, 2009 at 10:34 pm #

    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.

  16. Russ May 17, 2009 at 5:42 pm #

    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.

  17. Alexander Gessler May 18, 2009 at 2:52 pm #

    Great collection!

  18. DWD May 18, 2009 at 8:58 pm #

    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?

  19. Michael May 18, 2009 at 10:04 pm #

    One word… awesome

    thanks!

  20. Tomasel May 19, 2009 at 11:18 am #

    Inspiring list :-) )

  21. Sushil May 19, 2009 at 4:44 pm #

    yea very nice and greant pot thanks

  22. Rob May 20, 2009 at 2:42 pm #

    A very nice selection of fonts! Thanks for posting these.

  23. Telkom May 23, 2009 at 6:54 am #

    Great post, a zip file with all the of the fonts would have been awesome tho :P

  24. uncle sam May 23, 2009 at 12:54 pm #

    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

  25. Hezi May 24, 2009 at 5:14 am #

    wonderful! thanks.

  26. Inspired? May 26, 2009 at 9:58 pm #

    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?

  27. Cigars May 28, 2009 at 6:05 pm #

    Wow, those are some crazy fonts. Some of them aren’t really readable though – I’m not sure what the point of those are?

    The Top 10 Cigars

  28. Dan Mowrey May 29, 2009 at 10:11 pm #

    Anxious to try some of these fonts.

  29. Babatunde Adeyemi May 31, 2009 at 8:18 am #

    Nice collection. Thanks for sharing

  30. AHaN June 5, 2009 at 1:07 am #

    Sweet fonts collection!

  31. Brukhar June 5, 2009 at 1:15 am #

    Glad you like!

  32. accounting homework June 8, 2009 at 7:49 am #

    Good post. I like how you’ve illustrated each font – it makes it easy to see the differences between the fonts

  33. kik June 10, 2009 at 8:20 am #

    I just love it!Thanks!

  34. Film Institute June 12, 2009 at 1:31 am #

    great list. i didn’t know most of them before.

  35. aine June 14, 2009 at 9:14 pm #

    non of the links work!

    :( and i (L) all the foooonts!! how do i get them!!!????

  36. david July 9, 2009 at 10:56 am #

    Great list thx for sharing

  37. cooky yoon July 16, 2009 at 7:58 pm #

    thanks for your sharing!

  38. TutsKing July 16, 2009 at 9:25 pm #

    I’m not so sure some of them are “must have” but it’s definitely a useful list.

  39. jupiter August 31, 2009 at 4:20 am #

    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!

  40. Prashanth August 31, 2009 at 4:21 am #

    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

  41. Senior citizens August 31, 2009 at 4:29 am #

    Thanks for ur font list. it is very useful to my site ubdation.

  42. Meaux September 11, 2009 at 9:35 am #

    Thanks for the list, cant wait to try some out.

  43. shywb September 17, 2009 at 9:09 pm #

    Thank you!!!!!
    Good!!!!!!!
    it’s Cute , Pretty
    and so on

  44. MissSpider October 29, 2009 at 10:53 am #

    Thank youuuuuuuuuuu !! :D

  45. M.S.ENGINEERING November 23, 2009 at 1:07 am #

    Thank u….. Very creative and useful fonts…….

  46. harmony rose November 24, 2009 at 7:18 pm #

    great fonts, I just wish web browsers would allow for greater use of fonts.

  47. anes December 1, 2009 at 6:03 pm #

    creative fonts…
    good visual, color and body font..good concept.
    visit my blog http://de8lapan.wordpress.com
    thanks..

  48. Free downloads all stuffs December 3, 2009 at 2:36 pm #

    Thanks dear i like these fonts

  49. Cigar Roller December 14, 2009 at 7:22 am #

    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…!

  50. Insign December 17, 2009 at 2:51 am #

    uh.
    just wondering what you do with the fonts after you download them?
    cant seem to do all that much with them.
    thanks.

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