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Saturday, May 28, 2016

100 Best Free Fonts

The 100 Best Free Fonts for Designers

This collection focuses on those clean and distinctive fonts that will make a professional and highly legible impact on your designs, wether that be on the web or in print. So, there are no overly decorative styles, as we have covered hand-drawn fontsbrush fontssci-fi fontschunky fontsgothic fonts, and all those other creative and quirky fonts we all love, before.
Without delving too much into typeface classification and to also help you find that perfect font you’ve been looking for much quicker, we’ve grouped the most popular categories for you: Serif FontsSans Serif FontsSlab Serif Fonts and Monospaced Fonts.

Free Serif Fonts

Serifs are defined by the small lines (or decorative features) that trail from the edges of each letter and number. As Serif fonts are considered to be easier to read, they’re typically used in print design as the characters are clearer and more distinctive, making it much easier for our brains to process.
Just like Slab Serifs (see further down), there are always exceptions to the rule. Most Serifs will work perfectly well as a title or headline on the web, and some, as you will see by the selection of free Serif fonts below, will even work beautifully as body text, but please do choose your web typography carefully.

Bitter HT Serif

Bitter HT includes Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. Designed by Sol Matas.
Download here: Bitter HT Serif.
Bitter HT serif free font family typeface

PT Serif

PT Serif includes Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic variants. Created by ParaType.
Download here: PT Serif.
PT serif free font family typeface

Ayres Serif

Ayres Serif includes ligatures and alternate glyphs. Created by Mariel Gornati.
Download here: Ayres Serif.
Ayres serif free font family typeface

Calendas Plus Serif Font Family

Calendas Plus Regular includes both desktop and webfonts variants. Designed by Altipo Fonts.
Calendas Plus serif free font family typeface

SilverLeaf Handwritten Serif

SilverLeaf is a handwritten Serif font that includes both desktop and webfont variants. Created by Nathan Brown.
SilverLeaf Handwritten serif free font family typeface

YoungSerif Medium Typeface

YoungSerif Medium includes both webfont and desktop versions. Created by Uplaod.
YoungSerif Medium serif free font family typeface

Droid Serif

Droid Serif includes Regular, Bold, Bold Italic and Italic variants. Created by Steve Matteson.
Download here: Droid Serif.
Droid serif free font family typeface

Jura Serif Typeface

Jura Serif includes Regular, Italic, Bold and, Bold Italic variants. Created by Ten by Twenty.
Download here: Jura Serif Typeface.
Jura serif free font family typeface

Merriweather Serif

Merriweather includes Regular, Light, Bold, Itlalic and Black variants. Designed by Eben Sorkin.
Download here: Merriweather Serif.
Merriweather serif free font family typeface

Vollkorn Serif

Vollkorn Serif includes Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Semibold, Semibold Italic, Medium, Medium Italic variants. Designed by Friedrich Althausen.
Download here: Vollkorn Serif.
Vollkorn serif free font family typeface

The Crimson Text Typeface

The Crimson Text typeface includes Bold, Bold Italic, Italic, Roman, Semibold and Semibold itlaic variants. Designed by Sebastian Kosch.
Download here: The Crimson Text typeface.
Crimson Text serif free font family typeface

Calluna Serif

Calluna includes Light, Regular, Italic, Semibold Italic,Bold Italic and Black. Designed by exljbris Font Foundry.
Download here: Calluna.
Calluna serif free font family typeface

Didactic Regular Serif

Didactic only includes a regular version. Designed by Tyler Finck.
Download here: Didactic Regular Serif.
Didactic Regular serif free font family typeface

Brela Serif

Brela Serif only includes a Regular version. Designed by Makarska Estudio.
Download here: Brela Serif.
Brela Serif free font family typeface

Bree Serif

Bree Serif only includes a Regular version of the Serif font. Designed by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione.
Download here: Bree Serif.
bree serif free font family typeface

Afta Serif Font

Afta Serif includes both Regular and Italic versions. Created by Oriol Esparraguera.
Download here: Afta Serif Font.
Afta serif free font family typeface

Badhead Typeface

The unique Badhead Typeface includes both desktop and webfont variants. Created by ianmikraz studio.
Download here: Badhead Typeface.
Badhead serif free font family typeface

Sant’Elia Font Family

Sant’Elia includes Rough Line (3 weights), Script Bold & Rough Alt Bold variants. Created by Yellow Design Studio .
Download here: Sant’Elia Font Family.
Sant Elia serif free font family typeface

Exodus Free Typeface

Exodux includes Regular, Sharpen and Striped variants. Designed by Andrew Herndon.
Download here: Exodus Free Typeface.
Exodus serif free font family typeface

Butler Regular and Stencil Typeface

Butler includes both a regular and stencil style typeface, and comes in Black, Bold, Extra Bold, Light, Medium, Regular and Ultra Light variants. Designed by Fabian De Smet.
Download here: Butler Typeface.
Butler Regular Stencil serif free font family typeface

Tryst Regular Typeface

Tryst only includes a Regular version of the Serif font. Designed by Philatype.
Download here: Tryst Regular Typeface.
Tryst Regular serif free font family typeface

Born Serif Typeface

Born Serif only includes a Regular version of the Serif font. Created by Carlos de Toro.
Download here: Born Serif Typeface.
Born serif free font family typeface

Fénix Regular Serif Typeface

Fénix Serif only includes a Regular version of the Serif font. Created by Fernando Díaz.
Download here: Fénix Regular Typeface.
Fénix Regular serif free font family typeface

Knubi Regular Serif

Knubi only includes a Regular version of the Serif font. Created by Matt Vergotis.
Download here: Knubi Regular Serif.
Knubi Regular serif free font family typeface

Abraham Lincoln Serif

Abraham Lincoln Serif has been designed by Frances MacLeod.
Download here: Abraham Lincoln Serif.
Abraham Lincoln serif free font family typeface

Free Sans Serif Fonts

The difference between a Serif and Sans Serif font, is that Sans Serifs do not have those small decorative lines that characterize Serifs.
The Sans Serifs, with their modern, cleaner and simpler appearance, are typically more accessible on the web as they’re much easier to read on screens, regardless of their font or device size. Understandably, Sans Serifs are the most commonly used Google Fonts.

Bebas Neue Sans Serif

Bebas Neue Sans Serif includes Thin, Light, Book and Regular variants. Designed by Dharma Type Foundry.
Download here: Bebas Neue Sans Serif.
Bebas Neue sans serif free font family typeface

Fira Sans Serif

Mozilla’s Fira Sans Serif includes Regular, Medium, Light, Bold, Bold Italic, Book, Book Italic, Extra Bold, Extra Bold Italic, Extra Light and Extra Light Italic variants. Created by Mozilla.
Download here: Fira Sans Serif.
Fira sans serif free font family typeface

Norwester Condensed Geometric Sans Serif

Norwester Sans Serif includes only a Regular version. Created by Jamie Wilson.
Download here: Norwester Sans Serif.
Norwester Condensed Geometric sans serif free font family typeface

Homizio Nova Sans Serif

Homizio Nova Sans Serif includes Regular, Italic, Light and Light Italic variants. Designed by Álvaro Thomáz.
Download here: Homizio Nova.
Homizio Nova sans serif free font family typeface

Alegreya Sans HT Serif

Alegreya Sans Serif includes Regular, Italic, Bold and Italic variants. Designed by Huerta Tipografica.
Download here: Alegreya Sans HT.
Alegreya HT sans serif free font family typeface

Nauman Modern Humanist Sans Serif

Nauman Sans Serif only includes a Regular version. Designed by The Northern Block.
Download here: Nauman Sans Serif.
Nauman Modern Humanist sans serif free font family typeface

Peace Sans

Peace Sans only includes a Regular version. Created by Sergey Ryadovoy and Ivan Gladkikh.
Download here: Peace Sans.
Peace sans serif free font family typeface

Sketchetik Fill Light Sans Serif

The free version of Sketchetik Sans Serif only includes a Light variant. Created by Ossi Gustafsson.
Download here: Sketchetik Fill Light.
Sketchetik Fill Light sans serif free font family typeface

Exo Geometric Sans Serif

Exo Sans Serif includes Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Light, Light Italic, Black, Black Italic, Extra Bold, Extra Bold Italic, Extra Light, Extra Light Italic, Medium Medium Italic, Semi Bold, Semi Bold Italic, Thin and Thin Italic. Designed by Natanael Gama.
Download here: Exo Geometric.
Exo Geometric sans serif free font family typeface

Mohave Sans Serif

Mohave Sans Serif includes Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Semi Bold and Semi Bold Italic. Designed by Gumpita Rahayu.
Download here: Mohave Sans Serif.
Mohave sans serif free font family typeface

Ikaros Minimal Sans Serif

The minimal Ikaros Sans Serif includes Regular and Light variants. Designed by Matt Ellis.
Download here: Ikaros Sans Serif.
Ikaros Minimal sans serif free font family typeface

Neris Display Sans Serif

Neris Sans Serif includes Thin, Light, Semi Bold, Bold and Black variants. Designed by Eimantas Paškonis.
Download here: Neris Display.
Neris Display sans serif free font family typeface

Verb Condensed Regular Sans Serif

Verb Condensed Regular Sans Serif includes Regular and Italic variants. Designed by Yellow Design Studio.
Download here: Verb Condensed Regular.
Verb Condensed Regular sans serif free font family typeface

Dense Sans Serif

Dense Sans Serif includes Regular and Bold variants. Created by Charles Daoud.
Download here: Dense Sans Serif.
Dense sans serif free font family typeface

Canter Sans Serif

Canter Sans Serif includes Bold 3D, Bold Shadow, Bold Stripes, Bold, Light and Outline variants. Created by Christopher J. Lee.
Download here: Canter Sans Serif.
Canter sans serif free font family typeface

Sabado Sans Serif

Inspired by modern swiss typefaces, Sabado Sans Serif includes both Regular and Italicc variants. Created by Frank Hemmekan.
Download here: Sabado Sans Serif.
Sabado sans serif free font family typeface

Baron Geometrical Sans Serif

Baron Sans Serif includes Regular, Bold and Black variants. Designed by Frank Hemmekan.
Download here: Baron Sans Serif.
Baron Geometrical sans serif free font family typeface

Rhyder Sans Serif

Rhyder Sans Serif only includes a Regular version. Designed by Adrian Candela.
Download here: Rhyder Sans Serif.
Rhyder sans serif free font family typeface

Langdon Sans Serif

Langdon Sans Serif only includes a Regular version. Designed by Steven Bonner.
Download here: Langdon Sans Serif.
Langdon sans serif free font family typeface

Kelson Geometric Sans Serif

Kelson includes Regular, Light and Bold variants. Designed by Bruno Mello.
Download here: Kelson Sans Serif.
Kelson Geometric sans serif free font family typeface

Myra Sans Serif

Designed in an art-deco style, Myra Sans Serif includes Regular, Light and Bold variants. Designed by Sergiy Tkachenko.
Download here: Myra Sans Serif.
Myra sans serif free font family typeface

Corbert Regular Sans Serif

Influenced by Bauhaus, Corbert Sans Serif only includes a Regular variant. Created by The Northern Block.
Download here: Corbert Regular.
Corbert Regular sans serif free font family typeface

Adam Pro Sans Serif

Aileron only includes a Regular version. Designed by Shrenik Ganatra.
Download here: Adam Pro Sans Serif.
Adam Pro Sans Serif sans serif free font family typeface

Aileron Sans Serif

Aileron includes 16 weights. Designed by Sora Sagano.
Download here: Aileron Sans Serif.
Aileron Sans Serif free font family typeface

Building Sans Serif

Building only includes a Regular version. Designed by Leonardo Gubbioni.
Download here: Building Sans Serif.
Building Sans Serif free font family typeface

Pier Sans

Pier Sans includes Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic versions. Designed by Mathieu Desjardins.
Download here: Pier Sans.
Pier Sans serif free font family typeface

Big John / Slim Joe Sans Serif

Both fonts only includes a Regular version. Designed by Ion Lucin.
 sans serif free font family typeface

Moon Rounded Sans

Moon Rounded Sans includes Light and Bold versions. Designed by Jack Harvatt.
Download here: Moon Rounded Sans.
Moon Rounded Sans free font family typeface

Linotte Rounded Sans Serif

Linotte Rounded Sans Serif includes LIght, Bold, Semi Bold, Heavy and Regular versions. Designed by Joël Carrouché.
Download here: Linotte Rounded Sans Serif.
Linotte Rounded Sans Serif free font family typeface

Nexa Sans Serif

Nexa Sans Serif includes Light and Bold versions. Created by FontFabric.
Download here: Nexa Sans Serif.
Nexa sans serif free font family typeface

Source Sans Pro

Source Sans Pro includes Regular, Italic, Bold, Semi Bold, Light, Black and Roman variants. Created by Adobe.
Download here: Source Sans Pro.
Source sans serif free font family typeface

FV Almelo Rounded Sans Serif

FV Almelo Sans Serif only includes a regular version. Created by Floris Voorveld.
Download here: FV Almelo Sans Serif.
FV Almelo Rounded sans serif free font family typeface

Maven Modern Sans Serif

Maven Sans Serif includes Light 100, Light 200 and Light 300 variants. Designed by Joe Prince.
Download here: Maven Modern.
Maven Modern sans serif free font family typeface

Intro Sans Serif

The free version of Intro Sans Serif includes Regular and Inline variants. Designed by Miroslav Bekyarov.
Download here: Intro Sans Serif.
Intro sans serif free font family typeface

Ostrich Sans

Ostrich Sans includes Regular, Italic, Black, Bold, Heavy, Light and Medium variants. Designed by The League of Moveable Type.
Download here: Ostrich Sans.
Ostrich sans serif free font family typeface

Cabin Sans Serif

Inspired by Edward Johnston’s and Eric Gill’s typefaces, Cabin Sans Serif Regular, Medium, Semi Bold, Bold and Italic variants. Created by Pablo Impallari.
Download here: Cabin Sans Serif.
Cabin sans serif free font family typeface

HK Grotesk Sans Serif

HK Grotesk Sans Serif includes Regular, Light, Bold and Medium variants. Designed by Hanken Design Co.
Download here: HK Grotesk Sans Serif.
HK Grotesk sans serif free font family typeface

Qanelas Soft Sans Serif

Qanelas Soft Sans Serif has been designed by Radomir Tinkov.
Download here: Qanelas Soft.
Qanelas Soft sans serif free font family typeface

Moderne Sans

Moderne Sans includes a Regular and Light variants. Created by Marius Kempken.
Download here: Moderne Sans.
Moderne sans serif free font family typeface

Blogger Sans

Blogger Sans includes Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. Created by Sergiy Tkachenko.
Download here: Blogger Sans.
Blogger sans serif free font family typeface

Katahdin Round Sans Serif

Katahdin Round Sans Serif only includes a Regular version. Designed by Tyler Finck.
Download here: Katahdin Round.
Katahdin Round sans serif free font family typeface

Rubik Sans Serif

Rubik Sans Serif includes Regular, Light, Medium, Bold, Ultra Bold and Italic variants. Designed by Sebastian Fischer and Philipp Hubert.
Download here: Rubik Sans Serif.
Rubik sans serif free font family typeface

Cast Iron Sans Serif

Cast Iron only includes a Regular version. Designed by Jeremy Vessey.
Download here: Cast Iron Sans Serif.
Cast Iron sans serif free font family typeface

Charlevoix Geometric Sans Serif

Charlevoix Pro Sans Serif includes Regular, Thin, Light, Mediyum, Semi Bold, Bold, Extra Bold and Black variations. Designed by Mathieu Desjardins.
Download here: Charlevoix Sans Serif.
Charlevoix Geometric sans serif free font family typeface

Relancer Art Deco Display Typeface

Relancer Display only includes a Regular version. Created by Ryan Molag.
Download here: Relancer Display Typeface.
Relancer Art Deco Display sans serif free font family typeface

Overpass Sans Serif Webfont

Inspired by Highway Gothic, Overpass Sans Serif is a Webfont that includes Light, Extra Light, Regular, Bold, Bold Italic and Italic variants. Created by Delve Fonts.
Download here: Overpass Sans Serif.
Overpass webfont sans serif free font family typeface

Coves Sans Serif

Coves Sans Serif includes Light and Bold variants. Designed by Jack Harvatt.
Download here: Coves Sans Serif.
Coves sans serif free font family typeface

Fibon Sans

Fibon Sans only includes a Regular version. Designed by Valerio Dell’Edera.
Download here: Fibon Sans.
Fibon sans serif free font family typeface

Raleway Sans Serif

Raleway Sans Serif only includes a Thin version. Designed by The League of Moveable Type.
Download here: Raleway Sans Serif.
Raleway sans serif free font family typeface

Free Slab Serif Fonts

There are many different sub-categories to serifs, Slab just happens to be the most popular variant. Evolving from the Modern style and at times called square serifs or Egyptian, they’re defined by having a bolder serif and are primarily designed to be used as print headlines and are typically paired with a thinner and lighter font.
But there are many Slab Serifs that will work perfectly well – as you will see by the free font selection below – in a smaller font size and could be easily used as body text.

Corduroy Slab Regular

Only includes Regular. Created by Ryan Welch.
Download here: Corduroy Slab Regular.
Corduroy slab free font family typeface

Promesh Athletic Font

Promesh is free slab font that has been designed with a distressed mesh appearnace, similiar to those used on school basketball jerseys from years gone by. Includes Regular and Stitch variants. Designed by by Paul Reis.
Download here: Promesh Athletic Font.
Promesh Athletic slab free font family typeface

Carton Slab Serif

Carton is a slab-serif that has been inspired by letterpress printing. Designed by Nick McCosker.
Download here: Carton Slab Serif.
Carton Slab slab free font family typeface

Weston Rounded Slab Serif

Includes Regular & Light Uppercase variants. Designed by Pavel Pavlov.
Download here: Weston Rounded Slab Serif.
Weston Rounded slab free font family typeface

Chunk Ultra-Bold Slab Serif

Chunk is an ultra-bold slab serif typeface that has been inspired by old American Western-style newspaper headlines. Created by The League of Moveable Type.
Download here: Chunk Slab Serif.
Chunk Ultra-Bold slab free font family typeface

Choplin Slab Serif

Choplin Slab Serif includes Extra Light & Medium versions. Designed by René Bieder.
Download here: Choplin Slab Serif.
Choplin Slab Serif free font family typeface

Nexa Rust Slab Serif

Designed by Fontfabric.
Download here: Nexa Rust Slab Serif.
Nexa Rust Slab Serif free font family typeface

Klinic Slab Serif

Includes Bold, Bold Italic, Book, Light, Light Italic, Medium and Medium Italic. Created by Joe Prince.
Download here: Klinic Slab Serif.
Klinic slab free font family typeface

Aleo Slab Serif

Aleo is a contemporary free font that has been created as the slab serif companion to the Lato font family. Includes Bold, Bold Italic, Regular, Regular Italic, Light and Light Italic. Created by Alessio Laiso.
Download here: Aleo Slab Serif.
Aleo slab free font family typeface

Twentytwelve Slab

Includes Regular, Bold and Light variants. Designed by by Dom Catapano.
Download here: Twentytwelve Slab.
Twentytwelve slab free font family typeface

Airbag Uppercase Slab Serif

Airbag is a slab serif font with a modern appearance. Only includes Uppercase. Designed by Simon Stratford.
Download here: Airbag Slab Serif.
Airbag Uppercase slab free font family typeface

Lumberjack Free Font

Includes Regular, Rough, Inline and Shadow variants. Designed by Aleksei Kalinin.
Download here: Lumberjack Free Font.
Lumberjack slab free font family typeface

Ansley Display

Ansley is Slab Serif typeface that has been inspired by retro design. Includes Bold, Inline, Light, Black, Outline and Regular variants. Created by Kady Jesko.
Download here: Ansley Display.
Ansley Display slab free font family typeface

Korneuburg Slab

Korneuburg Slab includes Bold, Light and Regular variants. Created by Flö Rastbichler.
Download here: Korneuburg Slab.
Korneuburg slab free font family typeface

Free Mono Fonts

Inspired by typewriter-style fonts, Monospaced fonts use a single set width for all letters, numbers and glyphs, making them highly legible, and thus perfect for writing code.
As well as the selection of free monospaced fonts below, we have also published a specialized collection of free monospaced programming and coding fonts you may also like to explore.

Monoid

Monoid is a customizable monospaced font that has been optimized for coding. Packaged with Regular, Bold, Oblique and Retina variants. Created by Andreas Larsen.
Download here: Monoid.
Monoid coding mono monospaced free font family typeface code

Ahamono

Ahamono is a free Regular monospaced typeface. Designed by Alfredo Marco Pradil.
Download here: Ahamono.
Ahamono mono monospaced free font family typeface code

Hapna Mono

Hapna Mono is a light, modern, free monospaced serif font with geometric features. Designed by The Northern Block.
Download here: Hapna Mono.
Hapna Mono free font family typeface

FiraCode

FiraCode is a beautiful monospaced font with programming ligatures. Packaged with Bold, Light, Medium, Regular and Retina variants. Designed by Nikita Prokopov.
Download here: FiraCode.
FiraCode mono monospaced free font family typeface code

Office Code Pro

Office Code Pro is a customized version of Source Code pro, with customizations specifically made for code editors. Designed by Nathan Rutzky.
Download here: Office Code Pro.
Office Code Pro mono monospaced free font family typeface code

Hack Mono

Hack is a font-family that has been designed for writing source code. Packaged with Bold, Italic and Regular variants. Created by Chris Simpkins.
Download here: Hack Mono.
hack mono monospaced free font family typeface code

Ubuntu Mono Font

This is the monospaced variant of the distinctive Ubuntu font-fmaily. Packaged with Bold, Bold Italic, Regular Italic and Regular variants. Created by Ubuntu.
Download here: Ubuntu Mono Font.
Ubuntu mono monospaced free font family typeface code

DejaVu Mono

Based on the original design of Bitstream Vera font family, DejaVu Mono is a collaborative effort to maintain and add new characters to the popular typeface. Packaged with Bold, Bold Oblique, Oblique and Regular variants.
Download here: DejaVu Mono.
DejaVu mono monospaced free font family typeface code

Droid Sans Mono

Droid Sans Mono is the fixed width version of of Android’s Droid Sans font family. Created by Steve Matteson.
Download here: Droid Sans Mono.
Droid mono monospaced free font family typeface code

BP Mono

BP Mono is monospaced font designed for coding. Packaged with Bold, Italic, Stencil, Round and Regular variants. Created by Nikita Prokopov.
Download here: BP Mono.
BP mono monospaced free font family typeface code

Anonymous Pro

Anonymous Pro is a family of four fixed-width fonts designed for coding. Packaged with Bold, Bold Italic, Italic and Regular variants. Designed by Mark Simonson.
Download here: Anonymous Pro.
Anonymous Pro mono monospaced free font family typeface code

Fantasque Sans Mono Font

Designed for programming, Fantasque Sans Mono Font includes Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. Designed by Belluzj.
Download here: Fantasque Sans Mono.
Fantasque mono monospaced free font family typeface code

All 100 of the above fonts have been confirmed as being free at the time of publishing, if that ever changes, please let us know in the comments below.
Also, most of the fonts can be used in both your personal and commercial works, others you can only use in personal projects, so please do check the chosen license of each font before you do use them.