65 Popular And Professional Free Fonts For Creative Typography
Dainis GraverisSome time ago I created article – 52 Really High Quality Free Fonts For Modern And Cool Design, which turned out to be very popular. But I felt like I haven’t featured even a half of beautiful, professional free fonts, so I decided to continue with another article. This time I found 65 high quality fonts, where many of them are very good for font creation, creative graphic typographic works, unique web design titles and so on. But hey – we are here all becoming/experienced designers, I don’t need to tell you where to use those fonts, I am here to find that stuff for you!
Note – before using these fonts for commercial projects, check out creator copyrights (on their homepages, not asking me – I am just collector), because all of these fonts are free for personal use, but not all for commercial usage.
Note – Updated on April 30, 2012
1. Just Old Fashion
2. Kontrapunkt
3. Sovereign Regular
4. Geo Sans Light
5. Apogee Rounded Sans Beta
6. Nordic
4 font variations here in separate download files.
7. Existence Light
8. Lacuna
9. WalkWay
10. Kawoszeh Medium
11. Tallys
Tallys is a font that is one degree slanted and has large caps, a small x-height and long ascenders. It comes (see also Fontin) with hybrid numbers and a complete character set.
12. Jacks Font
13. Birdman
14. Gauntlet
15. Aldo Semi Bold
16. TYPORM01 Round ans Square
17. Vintage
18. Edifice
19. Goca Logotype
20. MDRS-FD01 Font
21. Confection
Confection is an adorable typeface inspired by copperplate scripts but is non-connecting. It’s frosted with swirling peaks of whipped cream and whimsical stems of pulled taffy. The opentype version is caramel filled with delicious ligatures and alternates.
22. Parallello Font
23. AvantGarde ALT
24. ABC – Font Typeface Version 2
25. Knarf Art Font
26. Miso
27. Blackout
Eats holes for breakfast lunch and dinner. Inspired by filling in sans-serif newspaper headlines. Continually updated with coffee and music. Makes your work louder than the next person’s.
28. Vollkorn
29. Colaborate
30. Ubuntu Title
31. Tittilium
32. Ferrum
33. Tenderness
34. SquareTypeB
35. Philosopher
36. Graublau Sans
37. Deja Vu
38. Madame Butterfly
39. Alexandria
40. Aubrey
41. Special K
42. BienetreSocial Font
43. Champagne & Limousines
44. Velocity Font
45. More Folks
46. Mayberry™ Pro Semi Bold font
47. Serif Beta
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.
48. Yanone Kaffeesatz
49. Cardo
50. Capricorn OSF
51. Molot
52. Myndraine
53. Justus Font
54. Day Roman
55. Bitstream Vera
56. Synthetique
Designed as a bitmap font using Fontlab’s Bitfonter and then converted to an outline font. Synthetique has been optimized for on screen display at 17 pts. When your using this font at 17 pts be sure that anti-aliasing (smoothing) is turned off in your graphics program. Otherwise, author recommends using this font at 24 pts or above with font smoothing on. It looks great printed at any size.
57. Amputa Bangiz Standard TTF
58. Karabine
59. Facet
60. Capture IT
This font won the Best Overall Font 2008 award.
61. VAL Font
62. Exus Pilot
63. VTKS Revolt
64. MadreDeus
65. Angelina
Note – Updated on April 30, 2012
I really hope you will enjoy this font article as I enjoyed creating it!
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Michelle
Posted 969 days ago 25Very nice fonts! Fonts really make a difference!
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Adelina
Posted 979 days ago 24Thank you for an awesome article! finally got the fonts I was craving for so much time!!! God bless:)
Deborah
Posted 989 days ago 23These fonts are great. Thanks.
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Donna Greene
Posted 999 days ago 22Thanks so much for these! Great collection. I liked #21, but found it was $28, not free. Bummer.
Manuel
Posted 1001 days ago 21This list contains some of the best free fonts out there. Good to have them all listed here. And the rest can easily be found in part one that you wrote before. Thank you!
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Andre
Posted 1001 days ago 20Top Pro fonts! Thanks for sharing .
mitesh
Posted 1002 days ago 19Nice collection
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Gilmara Elisa
Posted 1002 days ago 18Thanks for sharing
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Marilyn
Posted 1002 days ago 17Awesome collection of fonts!
SawII
Posted 1002 days ago 16Wow! Thanks for this great collection. Really useful.
Andrew Kelsall
Posted 1002 days ago 15Thanks, I’ve been wanting some quality fonts fro upcoming logo designs. Delicious Boomarked this one…
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Eric Shafer
Posted 1002 days ago 14Really awesome typefaces Dainis, you got some that even I hadn’t seen. :)
Featured here: http://www.presidiacreative.com/best-of-the-web-33/
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Frank Stallone
Posted 1002 days ago 13I haven’t been impressed with a free typography list in a while, most of the articles are repeats but you have some really intriguing typfaces here! Thank you!
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Bilal
Posted 1003 days ago 12Thanks a lot for these !
NBA
Posted 1004 days ago 11hmm nice gallery :) thanks
Graham Paterson
Posted 1004 days ago 10Thanks for the awesome collection!
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Bendesign
Posted 1004 days ago 9Beautyfull. Thank you for sharing.
Bruno
Posted 1004 days ago 8Wow, some of these are beautiful! Thanks for sharing ^^
Bunnygotblog
Posted 1004 days ago 7These are really a wonderful collections .
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PelFusion
Posted 1004 days ago 6thanks…i was looking for SquareTypeB like font
Jay Zuckerman
Posted 1004 days ago 5I haven’t created a font in while. This makes me want to get back at it, but if I persist in being lazy boy do I have a lot to choose from here.
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Andy Walpole
Posted 1004 days ago 4Another list of inspiring fonts Dainis!
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Rahul - Web Guru
Posted 1004 days ago 3Nice one. Really cool and pro fonts too.
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h1brd
Posted 1004 days ago 2I currently use some of them, these are really awesome! Obligatory in a designer collection, great list :)
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Jasmin Halkić
Posted 1004 days ago 1Nice collection.