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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Web Resources.eu
Posted 768 days ago 64Very cool collection ! :) xaxaxa
Thanks a lot ! :)
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Shine
Posted 783 days ago 63Very great usefull fonts, thank you.
edgar
Posted 837 days ago 62Thanks for sharing! This font are very useful..
tulio
Posted 849 days ago 61Hi, the font #32 is not available anymore, could you post it again? thks!
Nilimesh
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turystyka
Posted 879 days ago 59Nice site, and great pack. Thx.
Haberler
Posted 883 days ago 58I love all of these fontss.
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IVAN
Posted 980 days ago 57SO Useful ! ♥
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Deborah
Posted 989 days ago 56I love all of these fonts.
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peter
Posted 989 days ago 55Great fonts, I’ll have to for sure download some of them.
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Posted 990 days ago 54Thanks this info..
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Josh
Posted 1000 days ago 53Really great collection(s). I posted a link to this article on my blog. Thanks. :)
pablo
Posted 1005 days ago 52great collection..! i like all
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Driveways
Posted 1006 days ago 51Excellent collection and thanks for sharing :)
nara
Posted 1011 days ago 50Very nice to see the fonts which are marvellous to use in our writings…
I love them all; but which one to choose it the question… It is something like a perfume…
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gabriel
Posted 1018 days ago 49thanks for this fonts
Jimmy Rittenborg
Posted 1019 days ago 48Thank you so much for sharing, they’re really great!
Callum Chapman
Posted 1019 days ago 47Thank you so much for these fonts, I’ve downloaded and installed at least half of them! I’ve just bought a new iMac and was looking for some good quality, free fonts (I’m pennyless now!) so these are a great help. My favourite is CHUNK. ;)
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GeoNeo
Posted 1019 days ago 46I’m loving all the quality free fonts site out there at the moment. Great post!
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nadia
Posted 1020 days ago 45Just to let you know that Whiteboard is no longer free.
Great collection though – thanks!
Mac Hoe
Posted 1020 days ago 44thanks for including walkaway font.. it’s one of my favorite..
Ben
Posted 1021 days ago 43Great fonts!
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Multimedia Design
Posted 1021 days ago 42I already have most of these, but more free fonts is always good . Thanks!
Nacho
Posted 1021 days ago 41Definitely. I will be using some of there quite a lot.
Alex Peterson
Posted 1021 days ago 40Excellent collection. Not all … but definately a few beauties!