52 Really High Quality Free Fonts For Modern And Cool Design
Dainis GraverisI am big fan of typography myself and was surprised I haven’t done any good font collection yet! While doing research I was amazed how many really high quality fonts are available for free. And now with Sifr and similar tools you can use any font in your web-design actually, but if you are graphic designer you get even bigger enjoyment through such detailed and beautiful fonts. Balance between readability, elegance and use fonts with artistic approach to get best out of them, really that’s all you need to do. And by the way I am thinking about inspiring and effective typography article in soon future to show you very best examples – stay with us – get inspired and save your time because research has been done already for you!
Finally be sure to check license to these fonts, they may be free but some of them require reference or may not be used for commercial projects for free, although most of them are.
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1. Sansation Typeface
2. Fertigo Pro Typeface
Beautiful font and it’s still unbelievable it is free! Now Fertigo Pro version is released with extended language support and more.
3. Megalopolis Extra Typeface
Revamped version of the 2004 one. Now in OT with extended language support and OpenType features with alternates, ligatures, different styles of figures, etc.
4. Walkway Typeface
5. Nadia Serif Typeface
6. Modeno Font
7. M+ OUTLINE Typeface
Really beautiful font with many variations – thin, light, regular, medium, black, heavy – be sure to check this free premium font.
8. Fontin Sans Typeface
9. Diavlo Typeface
Diavlo is a free font that contains 5 weights: Light, Book, SemiBold Medium, Bold and Black. Read and look more to this one in this *.pdf document.
10. Museo Typeface
This OpenType font family comes in five weights and offers supports CE languages and even Esperanto. Besides ligatures, contextual alternatives, stylistic alternates, fractions and proportional/tabular figures MUSEO also has a ‘case’ feature for case sensitive forms.
A&H Parker Light – $5
Perfect premium font from Graphic River, a market place of Envato where every products are tightly moderated for best quality.
11. Gentium Typeface
12. Delicious Typeface
This font has been my favorite for some time, beautiful detail, every character has unique shape too.
13. Junction Typeface
Created by Caroline Hadilaksono
Inspired by my favorite humanist sans serif typefaces, such as Meta, Myriad, and Scala, Junction is where the best qualities of serif and sans serif typefaces come together. It has the hand drawn and human qualities of a serif, and still retains the clarity and efficiencies of a sans serif typeface. It combines the best of both worlds.
14. CartoGothic Std Typeface
15. Anivers Typeface
This OpenType font family comes in regular, italic, bold and small caps and has some nice OpenType features. Besides ligatures, contextual alternatives, fractions, oldstyle/tabular numerals, Anivers also has a ‘case’ feature for case sensitive forms and tabular numerals … so Anivers can crunch numbers with ease.
16. Medio Typeface
17. Birra Stout Typeface
18. Rezland Typeface
19. OFTEN Typeface
20. Engel Light Typeface
21. Contra Typeface
22. Nilland Typeface
Created by Manfred Klein
23. Calluna Typeface
Calluna supports a very wide range in languages and is a very complete OpenType typeface. Each font counts 723 glyphs. You can find detailed info on he character set and the OpenType features in the Calluna PDF specimen.
24. QuickSand Typeface
This is a free and elegant sans serif typeface.
25. Mentone Typeface
26. Vegur Typeface
27. Swansea Typeface
28. GeoSans Light Typeface
Created by Manfred Klein
I enjoy this font because of it’s thin and elegant font lines displaying text in really fashion way.
29. COM4t Nuvu Regular Typeface
30. Steiner Typeface
A&H Kerigan – $4
31. Chunk Typeface
Created by Meredith Mandel
Chunk is an ultra-bold slab serif typeface that is reminiscent of old American Western woodcuts, broadsides, and newspaper headlines. Used mainly for display, the fat block lettering is unreserved yet refined for contemporary use.
32. Aller Sans Typeface
Check out *.pdf document for full examination.
33. Juvelo Typeface
Self explaining image below, but I enjoy this font because of its unique glance and serifs.
34. Goudy Bookletter 1911 Typeface
35. Temporarium Typeface
36. Bellerose Typeface
37. Ambrosia Demo Typeface
Here’s a demo version of font called Ambrosia. It has all letters, numbers and a few symbols.
38. Surrounding Typeface
39. Circled Typeface
Very sharp and elegant letters, new font but it got my sympathies right away!
40. Nevis Typeface
This strong, angular typeface is ideal for headings. It features 96 of the most commonly used glyphs (characters).
41. Zephyr Typeface
42. Advent Pro Typeface
Excellent and very popular unique font with many, many different variations to play with.
43. SerifBeta Typeface
This is called as beta version, but still seems very complete for me – included in the set are Regular,Italic,Bold,Bold Italic for optical sizes 72, 12 and 6. Size 72 also includes italic swash characters and Black weights. (demo pdf)
44. Evolution True Type Font
Note that you have to give credit if you use this font and you must contact author before using in commercial projects!
Brushd -$4
45. Sliced AB Typeface
46. Technical Forest v2 Typeface
Only for non-commercial use.
47. Alte Haas Grotesk Typeface
48. Comfortaa Typeface
Comfortaa is a simple, good looking, true type font with an amazingly large number of 466 different characters and symbols. You can see them all in the preview.
It is absolutely free, both for personal and commercial use.
49. MOD™ font
MOD is applicable for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items like logos, pictograms, 215 character set.
50. Whiteboard Modern Typeface
Created by Jay Hilgert
Whiteboard Modern is a hand-drawn face resembling the flowing motion and freedom of writing in an open space, such as a dry-erase board.
51. Neighbourhood Type
52. Soraya Font by JustMyType
On JustMyType site you can find several more very unique and interesting letters.
Half serif, half sans serif. Capital letters A-Z, available only in Illustrator AI format.
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Posted 4 days ago 88good fonts there And Cool Design, Thanks much
Thanks very muche, really useful indeed
freeze
Posted 31 days ago 86Amazing fonts…thanks for sharing
ibnea
Posted 14 days ago 87I think so…
it’s really amazing fonts.
Bali Mojo
Posted 85 days ago 85The sansation font will come in very handy for my latest project. I considered paying a couple of hundreds bucks for a similar font just last week. Glad I didn’t now.
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Posted 108 days ago 84very nuce collection, thank you for sharing!
William
Posted 116 days ago 83I just find it hard to close this page. Not only the fonts, but the way they are displayed is beautiful. I just LOVE graphics.
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Posted 182 days ago 80good fonts thanks for sharing it
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Posted 185 days ago 79The fonts are really very beautiful and even adds a grace when you try this.
Kaye
Posted 189 days ago 78Some of these fonts I’ve seen before and have in my collection, but there are some really cute and interesting ones I havent seen before!
I really like sourrounding. Its a nice, cute small font for content. Thanks for the post!
bigconceptdesigns
Posted 204 days ago 77nice list of fonts, great taste
Caleb
Posted 206 days ago 76This sites cool love font designs, such great art, little details and simple designs can often meet perfection. I love the soraya font its absaloutly amazing. Im intrested in font desing and creation, i have designed a font in photoshop and are currently looking at diferent font software, i’d like to get a free font program that doesn’t cost anything but is still very usable. if you know of any programs like the one ive described please help. thanx!! :D
Matt Smith
Posted 227 days ago 75Great collection — thanks for posting them. Can never have too many modern fonts for our web design projects. Thanks-
Fume Hood
Posted 263 days ago 74thanks for sharing the greatest professional designs i will use these on my upcoming design
thanks alot
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Posted 264 days ago 73Thanks for the post and the resources, i was looking for something like this long time ago, now i have what i need, luck!!
Scott
Posted 268 days ago 72Nice, nice fonts people…
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Posted 273 days ago 71Great collection, i will gladly use some of them in my next designs! Thanks for sharing.
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Nanang Gunawan
Posted 276 days ago 70Very Extreme fonts list……
thanks for share, i have choose my favorit font…
redis
Posted 320 days ago 69Thanks, really helpful indeed
Ryan
Posted 339 days ago 68Thank you Dainis for your great article… You’re helping the world have better design, one visitor at a time. :) Keep it up!
Francis
Posted 356 days ago 67Very good
MV
Posted 554 days ago 66Nice fonts here And Cool Design, Thanks a lot.
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Posted 611 days ago 65Thank you very much, all best font.
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