This list represents the very best free fonts we’ve found, split into eight categories. You can use the drop-down menu at the top of the page, or the boxout, right, to jump to the section you want.<\/p>\n
Don’t forget, we have many other articles covering specialist font types including handwriting fonts<\/u><\/a>, kids’ fonts<\/u><\/a>, cursive fonts<\/u><\/a>, beautiful fonts<\/u><\/a>, web fonts<\/u><\/a>, professional fonts<\/a> and more. (You might also like the fonts in our 20 fonts every graphic designer should own<\/a> article.)<\/p>\n Most of the typeface collections listed here can be used in your projects for free, but please be sure to check the terms. Read on for our pick of the best free fonts, which you can download and use today.<\/p>\n This free font family is an open source project<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n This free serif display font takes inspiration from the late 18th century European Enlightenment and the work type designer John Baskerville. The high-contract letterforms have delicate hairlines, relating to rise in popularity of pointed steel pens, which took over from the previous broad nib quills during this period.<\/p>\n The typeface design is a project led designed by Dutch designer Claus Eggers S\u00f8rensen. It’s development is open source, and can be found on GitHub here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Brushed curves contrast with driving serifs in this free font<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Lora is a free font that has its roots in calligraphy. It was originally designed for type foundry Cyreal<\/a> in 2011, with a Cyrillic extension added in 2013, and comes in four styles: regular, bold, italic, and bold italic.\u00a0<\/p>\n Brushed curves contrast with driving serifs to give this free font a well-balanced, contemporary feel. Although Lora is technically optimised for use on the web, it will also work well in print projects.<\/p>\n Inspired by both Dala Floda and the Bodoni family, Butler is a free font designed by Fabian De Smet<\/a>. His aim was to bring a bit of modernism to serif fonts, by working on the curves of classical serif fonts, and adding an extra stencil family.<\/p>\n The Butler family contains 334 characters, seven regular weights and seven stencil weights, and includes text figures, ligatures and fractions. It also suits many different languages with its added glyphs. De Smet suggests it would work well for \u201cposters, very big titles, books and fancy stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n Arvo is a geometric slab-serif font family that\u2019s suitable for both screen and print use. Designed for legibility, it was created by Anton Koovit<\/a> and published in the Google Font directory as a free open font (OFL). Unlike many slab serifs on Google Fonts, Arvo contains normal, italic, bold and bold italic styles.\u00a0<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a free font family created specifically for book production, inspired by old-time, Garamond-esque book typefaces. Crimson Text is the work of German-born, Toronto-based designer Sebastian Kosch<\/a>, who says he was influenced by the work of Jan Tschichold, Robert Slimbach and Jonathan Hoefler.\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s also favourite free font of Taylor Palmer<\/a>, a senior UX designer based out of Utah, USA. “Crimson is a sophisticated serif that makes a nice alternative to traditional Garamond-esque typefaces,\u201d he says. \u201cIt also has a very expressive italic, which pairs nicely with strong, geometric sans-serifs like Futura or Avenir.”<\/p>\n Aleo has semi-rounded details and a sleek structure, giving a sense of personality while maintaining a good level of legibility. This free font family comprises six styles: three weights (light, regular and bold), with corresponding true italics. Released under the SIL Open Font License, it was designed by Alessio Laiso<\/u><\/a>, a designer at IBM Dublin, as the slab serif companion to Lat<\/a>o<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cormorant is a display serif typeface inspired by the Garamond heritage. It was hand-drawn and produced by Christian Thalmann, aka Catharsis Fonts<\/ins><\/a>, who describes it as containing \u201cscandalously small counters, razor-sharp serifs, dangerously smooth curves, and flamboyantly tall accents\u201d. The font is best used for headlines and poster text at large sizes, both on screen and in print, but is also highly legible at smaller text sizes.<\/p>\n Brela is a humanistic serif font designed exclusively for editorial design. With a generous x-height, it\u2019s very legible, even at tiny sizes, yet it works equally well in bold, large headlines. This free font was designed by Spanish creative agency Makarska Studio<\/u><\/a> and comes in regular and bold weights.<\/p>\n Libre Baskerville is a web font optimised for body text (typically 16px). It\u2019s based on the American Type Founder’s Baskerville from 1941, but it has a taller x-height, wider counters and a little less contrast, allowing it to work well for reading on screen. This open source project is led by Impallari Type<\/a>, a type design foundry based in Rosario, Argentina.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I like to keep my eye on the Libre fonts, like Libre Baskerville,\u201d enthuses Taylor Palmer<\/a>, a senior UX designer based out of Utah, USA. He also recommends you check out its sister font, Libre Franklin<\/a>, which is also free. \u201cLibre Franklin hearkens back to strong, traditional typefaces, like Franklin Gothic, that have the declarative nature of something like a newspaper headline but are simple enough to set as paragraph text,” he explains.<\/p>\n A remarkably elegant font, Jura is characterised by its narrow proportions and distinguishing details, including its rounded, wedge shaped serifs. It looks good at large sizes, but reads well at small ones too. This free font was created by UK-based designer Ed Merritt<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n F\u00e9nix is a calligraphy-inspired font that works well as both display text and body copy. Featuring strong serifs and rough strokes, it provides a lovely rhythm when reading long passages in small text sizes. It\u2019s the work of Fernando D\u00edaz, a designer at Uruguayan foundry TipoType<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n Luthier is a contemporary typeface characterised by sharp serifs and high contrast, which comes in two weights plus italics. Good for both headlines and body text, it would suit designs focused on serious, intellectual topics. This free font was created by Barcelona-based designer Adri\u00e0 G\u00f3mez<\/a>.<\/p>\n Currently the number one most popular serif font on Google Fonts, Slabo was designed by John Hudson, co-founder of Tiro Typeworks<\/a> foundry. Slabo is a growing collection of size-specific web fonts, with Slabo 27px and Slabo 13px <\/a>out so far, fine-tuned precisely for use at those specific pixel sizes. The blocky feel of its ligatures give a modern twist to the serif font, perfect for online designs.<\/p>\n We love the single-story rounded a in Bree Serif<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Created by indie type foundry TypeTogether<\/a>, Bree Serif is the free serif cousin of the paid-for font family, Bree<\/a>. Described as a “friendly upright italic”, we love the modern, easy to read face when used at larger point sizes. Its rounded a with a single counter is a nice touch, too.<\/p>\n Merriweather is featured in more than 3,000,000 websites, according to Google Fonts<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n A truly open source free serif font, Merriweather has its own project on GitHub<\/a>. It was designed by Sorkin Type to be easy to read on screens, particularly. “It features a very large x-height<\/a>, slightly condensed letterforms, a mild diagonal stress, sturdy serifs and open forms,” it says.<\/p>\n Next page: Free sans-serif fonts<\/strong><\/p>\n Raleway is an elegant, sans-serif free font<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Raleway is a free, neo-groesque inspired, sans-serif typeface. It was designed by Matt McInterney<\/a> (who previously worked at Pentagram) and is available in a single, thin weight. This display typeface includes standard and discretionary ligatures, a good set of diacritics, and both old style and lining numerals. Fans of the font can also experiment with a more geometric-inspired alternate.<\/p>\n Designed with wayfinding signage in mind, and equally suitable for user interfaces or anything that requires legibility from an angle, Agan\u00e8 is a clean sans-serif from Swiss graphic, UI and type designer Danilo De Marco. Free for personal and commercial use, Agan\u00e8 was inspired by Noorda Font by Bob Noorda, FF Transit by Erik Spiekermann, and Frutiger by Adrian Frutiger.<\/p>\n For a free font, Titillium has a highly respectable pedigree, born of a type design project at Italy\u2019s Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino. Each academic year, a dozen students work on the project, developing it further and solving problems, and they ask all graphic designers who use Titillium in their projects to email them some examples of the typeface family in use, to help them develop it further.<\/p>\n \u201cTitillium has been a favourite font of mine for a few years now,\u201d says Rob Hampson, head of design at The Bot Platform<\/a>, a new platform for building bots on Messenger. \u201cIt\u2019s sharp, contemporary and comes in a wide range of weights. In my opinion, it works best in larger sizes; for example, for titles. That said, with careful consideration, it could be used as a body font.\u201d<\/p>\n League Gothic is a condensed sans-serif inspired by the classic typeface Alternate Gothic #1, originally designed by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders Company in 1903. The League of Movable Type<\/u><\/a> decided to make its own version and, as ever, open source it, with contributions from Micah Rich, Tyler Finck and Dannci.<\/p>\n Chivo is a grotesque typeface that\u2019s ideal for headlines, and other page furniture where you want to grab attention. Both confident and elegant, it\u2019s been released in four weights with matching italics. This free font is the work of H\u00e9ctor Gatti<\/a> and the Omnibus-Type Team.<\/p>\n Comfortaa is a rounded geometric sans-serif type design intended for large sizes. Created by Johan Aakerlund<\/a>, a design engineer at the Technical University of Denmark, it\u2019s a simple, good looking font that includes large number of different characters and symbols. Part of the Google Font Improvements Project, the latest updates to the family include the addition of a Cyrillic character set and support for Vietnamese.\u00a0<\/p>\nSerif fonts<\/h3>\n
01. Playfair Display<\/a><\/h3>\n
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02. Lora<\/a><\/h3>\n
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03. Butler<\/a><\/h3>\n
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04. Arvo<\/a><\/h3>\n
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05. Crimson Text<\/a><\/h3>\n
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06. Aleo<\/a><\/h3>\n
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07. Cormorant<\/a><\/h3>\n
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08. Brela<\/a><\/h3>\n
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09. Libre Baskerville<\/a><\/h3>\n
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10. Jura<\/a><\/h3>\n
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11. Fenix<\/a><\/h3>\n
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12. Luthier<\/a><\/h3>\n
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13. Slabo<\/a><\/h3>\n
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14. Bree Serif<\/a><\/h3>\n
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15. Merriweather<\/a><\/h3>\n
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16. Raleway<\/a><\/h3>\n
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17. Agan\u00e8<\/a><\/h3>\n
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18. Titillium Web<\/a><\/h3>\n
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20. Chivo<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n21. Comfortaa<\/a><\/h3>\n
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