120 best free fonts for designers

We know how hard it can be to find the perfect font, so we've put together a list of 120 for you to use

Choosing a suitable size, colour and style of your font can be a great way to change the tone of your messages and guide your readers through your content, whether it be on business cards, logos or icons.  

We've compiled a list of 120 fonts for you to use, divided into the most popular font categories: Sans Serif, Serif, Script and Decorative type style. The best part? They're absolutely free!

Sans Serif is one of the most common categories for your font. This style adds a modern touch to your work and its defining characteristic is simplicity. The following 30 styles are ideal Sans Serif fonts for your writing.

  

Created by Cristina Pagnotta, Audrey is an elegant font inspired by Audrey Hepburn and is available on Behance. It combines straight and curvy lines to gracefully display all your messages. It is available in two styles, regular and oblique with the option of a regular, medium and bold weighting. Cristina Pagnotta has described its utility as ideal for paragraphs, headlines and typographic compositions.

 

Designed by Marcelo Reis Melo, Bavro offers a minimal free style and is available on Freegoodiesfordesigners. It’s clear design makes it suitable for any reader. It provides a clean finish and neat format to capture the reader. The font is ideal for posters and headlines.

 This minimalistic and geometric Alcubierre font was created by Matt Ellis and is available on Behance. It makes for a clean and basic font which can work well to legibly display any content. It works well for content, logos and posters for both commercial and personal purposes.

 

Modern Sans was created by Marius Kempken and takes inspiration from 1920’s typography. And yet it offers a modern and clean feel to the text and is available on Behance. It can be found only in one bold weight and is based mostly on upper case letters but also offers fonts in letters, numbers and some alternative letters. 

 

Designed by Manh Nguyen, Arcadia offers a balanced and feminine finish. It has a light stroke, slim size and presents soft fluency and delicacy to its text. The free font is ideal for magazine titles, logos and modern texts.

 

Created by Gumpita Rahayu, Mohave is an all caps display typeface and is available on Dribbble. It has a constant and smooth size, making it ideal for large point settings. It has three weights of regular, semi bold and bold as well as availability in italics. The font is ideal for headlines, posters and titles of any sort.

 

Created by Kaiwa, Simplifica is a fine and clear option to display your text and is available on Freetypography. It is characterised by a uniform and thin line width and its simplicity promotes easy legibility. The free font’s high reaching caps adds height to the text and creates a neat tone.

 

This Stellar font is designed by Mathieu Desjardins who states: “it was designed to give purpose to your ideas, galactic or atomic.” This typeface is characterised by its tall x-height and its condensed style. It can be found in four weights of light, regular, medium and bold. 

Alegreya Sans was created by Huerta Tipografica and is available for download on the designer's website. The calligraphy-inspired design creates fluidity throughout the letters and a dynamic feel, which makes reading long texts pleasant.

It can be found in seven different weights and matched with italic and small caps options. The free font is ideal for books and articles and will create a harmonic paragraph for smooth reading.

  

Designed by Marco Ugolini, Biko is a geometric and sturdy style and is available at Dafont. It has a neat and tidy finish, providing a clean tone to the text. It can be found in four weights of light, regular, bold and black. The free font is ideal for display, copy, text and logos.

 

Created by Villa Studio, Bonn provides a tight yet clear depiction of the words and is available at Fontsforfriends. It is a simple geometric font that is available in three weights of light, medium and bold. It is ideal for big words and texts such as logotypes, headings or posters. Bonn has capital and small letters, numbers and some punctuation.

 

This Qanelas Soft font, designed by Rodamir Tinkov, is a modern text with geometric influence and opentype features. It can be found in twenty different weights such as ultralight, medium and extra bold and in ten uprights with matching italics. It is ideal for multiple purposes such as web, signage, corporate and editorial text designs.

 

This Aileron font designed by Sora Sagan provides a clean and classic feel to the text and can be found on Tipotype. This neo grotesque style is similar to helvetica but uses a multiple master and diversity throughout its style. It can be found in 16 different weights varying from ultralight to black. Due to its versatility it is ideal for a range of texts including headings, bodies and slogans.

 

Sk-Modernist is designed by Sean Kane and provides a modern tone to any text. It combines geometric shapes and modern grotesque shapes to create a legible text. Each letter has been designed using a mathematical system rather than the traditional typographers eye. It can be found in four weights of light, regular, bold and monospace. The free font is ideal for any digital expression as Kane states: “it has been designed specifically for the digital age.”

 This Arciform font designed by Matt Ellis offers a soft, rounded lettering, which creates an endearing tone to the text and is available on Behance. The styling maintains geometric spacing, which complements the curves finishing off each letter. It is available in one weight in lowercase, uppercase, numerals, accents and some symbols.

 Designed by Tshepo Mosoeu, Rhetoric is inspired by 19th century to early 20th century designs of grotesque and is available on Behance. Its rounded figures, squared off at the ends makes it a soft design and pleasant to the eye. This free font is only available in one weight, but it’s clear style makes it ideal for headings and texts.

 

This Leto Text Sans font designed by Glen Jan takes inspiration from traditional font styles to produce an innovative modern style and is available on Behance. It comes in four weights of light, regular, medium and bold with their italics. It can be found in nine styles of capitals, ligatures, small caps, superscript, subscript, numerators and denominators, case-sensitive forms, oldstyle and stylistic alternates.

 

Kiklo is designed by Marios Balaskas to produce a modern and structured style and is available on Behance. It’s slim and elegant structure works well with both big and small lettering and is ideal for everyday designs and texts. It adds a tone of sophistication to your message. This free font can be found in english letters as well as Greek and Latin characters, numbers and a few symbols.

 Designed by Aaron Amar, Dozer One is a heavy weight design with thick bold lettering and is available on Dafont. This styling makes it ideal for posters, logos and headlines to grab the reader’s attention. It’s curved edges complemented by its sharp finishes provides a neat and clean representation to your words. It can be found in upper case, lower case, numbering and other characters.

 

This Rometri Sans font is designed by Thomas Richardson who takes inspiration from neo classic styled architecture. Available on Behance, the font fuses old and new trends to creatively integrate modern angles and geometric shapes of circles and triangles. Each letter displays three horizontal lines which are directly influenced by the Roman style pillars. The purpose of its creation was for the Wellington City Gallery and its artistic depiction represents the fusion of old and new trends.

 This Pier font was designed by Mathieu Desjardins and boasts modernity and structure. Desjardins states his purpose: “was to create a slightly off geometric font that would look as good big or very small.” This versatility makes it ideal for everyday designs and texts. It can be found in four weights of regular, italic, bold and bold italic and is available in lowercase, uppercase, numerals, glyphs and accents.

 

This Arkhip font, created by a variety of designers carries with it a Russian soul. The lettering of the Russian alphabet is clearly represented through this style. Its natural wavy characteristics, flowing through its script creates an idiosyncratic style that will intrigue your readers. 

 

Designed by Osama el Khalfaoui, Bakersfield is an elegant geometric styled script and is available on Dafont. It was created with inspiration from 1920 fonts with the primarily goal of legibility. The kerning between the letters are well spaced with maintained precision. It can be found in 22 different weights with their matching italics. It’s clean style makes it ideal for texts both online and in print.

 This Cornerstone font, designed by Zac Freeland is labelled as a “no-nonsense modular font” and is available on Behance. It’s high-reaching counters, rounded at the edge makes for a modern touch and provides a clean and neat tone to the text. It is an all caps style available in one weight and is ideal for headlines and catchy slogans.

 Designed by Kenji Enos, Locksmith is a sleek script designed to create a sophisticated tone to  text and is available on Behance. It is available in five variations of light, regular, small inline, medium inline and double inline. The inline feature of the font creates a gentle idiosyncratic alternative to add character to the text. This makes it ideal for headings and slogans complementing soft settings and images.

 This Oswold font, designed by Vernon Adams is a remodel of classic gothic sans serif styles and is available on Fontsquirrel. Its slim clean design provides easy legibility to all readers. This enhanced traditional text offers a better alternative for on screen texts and is ideal for web and digital devices such as tablets, computer screens, laptops and cell phones. This free font can be found in three weights of light, regular and bold and their complementing italic characters.

 

Manifesto, designed by Tomaz Leskovec, draws inspiration from the “Italian rationalist movement” and is available on Behance. It’s slender figures offers a sleek and sophisticated tone to your text. The shortened arms and the extended lettering offers a modern characteristic to the available lettering. The simplicity of the design enhances legibility and is ideal for eye catchy headlines, posters and titles.

 

Designed by Rene Bieder, RBNo2 is a geometrically straight alternative for a modern text and is available on Fontfabric. It is inspired by late 19th century industrial fonts and depicts a strong German influence. In addition to its regular design, the alternative version provides shortened characters, creating a softer and more contemporary tone to the text. Both versions are available in four weights of light, regular, bold and black.

This Moon font, designed by Jack Harvatt, is a simple, rounded design and is available on Behance. The smooth curves of the lettering creates a space-like influence to the text. The well structured lettering creates easy legibility and the soft nature of the text makes it ideal for both headlines and text bodies for posters, websites and slogans. It can be found in two weights in thin and bold variations.

 Delicate, designed by the team at graphic design studio, FAAK&PAAT in Bordeaux, offers a contemporary alternative to your text. The blank spaces located across most letters creates a quirky and modern design. The unusual nature of the words will intrigue the reader. The strong alignment of the letters ensures suitability for any design project. This free font is available in three versions; rounded, bold and strict.

Serif typographic styles are characterised by a small line attached to the end of a stroke in the letter or symbol. This style is renowned for its legibility and has dominated the book realm for the majority of its history. The following 30 styles are ideal Serif fonts for your writing.

 Droid Serif, designed by Steve Matteson, offers a simple sophisticated tone to the text and is available at Fontsquirrel. It has been designed for comfortable reading on any screen whether its tablets, computer screens or cell phones. The letters have been slightly condensed to allow greater display on any screen. This free font is available in two weights of regular and bold.

 This Rokkitt font, designed by Vernon Adams, is a slender alternative to create a modern tone for your text and is available on Fontsquirrel. It is inspired by late nineteenth and early to mid twentieth century geometric slab serif fonts (originally called Egyptians). Due to its simplicity and slenderness it is ideal for headings, which was the ultimate reason for its creation. It is available in two weights.

Arvo, designed by Anton Koovik, is an example of a geometric slab serif typeface, also known as Egyptians and is available on Fontsquirrel. Arvo, in Finnish, means number, value, worth, reflective of the programming involved in its creation. The monolinear styling of the letters creates a visually balanced font enhancing legibility. This free font is available in two weights of regular and bold and their complementing italic fonts.

This Musket font, designed by Bu, is a solid text ready to present a bold message and is available at Behance. Its curved finishes and rounded counters complement the robust bodies of each letter. It is an example of a slab serif that has been slightly condensed to additionally suit smaller sized letters. However, it is ideal for headings and larger print and can be found in two weights of regular and bold.

This Tertre font, published by Paragraph, provides uniform and well structured figures apt for a solid text and is available at Dafont. The thickness of each letter is identical, both in capital and lowercase. It takes its name from Place du Tertre, a square located on Montmartre, a hill overlooking Paris. It is ideal for a variety of texts, ranging from signage to menus and pricelists, branding and packing to publishing. It can be found in six weights from extra light to black.

 

Citizen, designed by Joel Felix, provides a vintage feel to the text. Its shadowed and 3D effects add character to the words and create intrigue. The designer states: “Inspired by a recent trip to Boston, which stirred up a strong feeling of patriotism, I wanted to create a typeface that honored the days gone-by but was still relevant in today's design world.”