50 awesome free fonts for professional design

Standard Posted on September 18, 2009 by mirko 110 Replies

Good graphic designers don’t underestimate the importance of typography in their work. Classic fonts from major foundries are great, but if you want to vary often, they are too expensive for freelancers. These free fonts will allow you to bring some variety in your designs without spending.

1. Capricorn OSF

capricorn osf

2. Capture it

capture it font

3. Serif Beta

serif beta

4. Champagne & Limousine

champagne and limousines

5. Deja Vu

deja vu font

6. Karabine

karabine

7. Bienetresocial

bienetresocial

8. Molot

molot

9. Ubuntu title

ubuntu font

10. Delicious

delicious font

11. Ferrum

ferrum

12. Miso

miso

13. Vollkorn

vollkorn

14. Quicksand

quicksand

15. AUdimat Mono

audimat mono

16. Philosopher

philosopher

17. Bitstream Vera

bitstream vera

18. Medio

medio

19. Collaborate

collaborate

20. Vegur

vegur

21. Fertigo

fertigo

22. Geo Sans Light

geo sans light

23. Gauntlet

gauntlet

24. CP Mono

cp mono

25. Calluna

calluna

26. Walkway

walkway

27. Nilland

nilland

28. Sorts Mill Goudy

sorts mill goudy

29. Ronda

ronda

30. M+ Fonts

mplusfonts

31. Nadia Serif

nadia serif

32. Chunk

chunk

33. Bergamo Std

bergamo std bold

34. Young Dantes

young dantes

35. Sansation

sansation

36. Birra Stout

birra stout

37. Kontrapunkt

kontrapunkt

38. Museo

museo

39. Typo Latin Serif

typo latin serif

40. Athena Unicode

athena unicode

41. Justus

justus

42. Grandesign Neue Serif

grandesign neue

43. Timeless

timeless

44. Folks

folks-font

45. Liberation

liberation

46. Covington

covington

47. Portland

portland

48. FF Dagny OT Thin

FF dagny ot thin

49. Myndraine

myndraine

50. Often TF

often tf

About the author: Mirko Humbert is a freelance designer from Switzerland. He shares his thoughts about his passion on his design blog. To connect with Mirko, you can follow him on Twitter.

http://www.informatclic.com Djolhan

What a nice collection ! Thank you
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Wow, these are brilliant! Thanks a million for sharing such a wonderful resource. Cheers!
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Thanks for the fonts! Geo Sans Light is one of my favorite fonts, I love that is simple and elegant.
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Thanks for sharing these. It’s a nice collection of useful fonts, many of which I haven’t come across yet. Thanks again!
http://nymphont.blogspot.com Lauren

Oh so stoked and honored to have my font featured in this list. The other fonts that I am familiar with in this list are definitely excellent free fonts in my opinion, very happy to see my font in their company. Thank you, keep up the great work on this blog
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Terry

Wow, awesome list! Be careful tho as some are not free for commercial use like Champagne & Limousine. Great list tho.
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http://www.linkedin.com/in/garethwong Gareth Wong

what can I say?

these are one of the benefit of our internet age!

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Great list! Chunk and Museo are some of my favourites, but there were quite a lot on here that I haven’t seen before. Thanks!
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Simply lovely, bookmarked!
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really nice font list some of fonts are really beautiful and nice.
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Really nice collection. Some of those surprisingly I didn’t know. Thank you.
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How about a Download all link? This is great! Cheers
Mark

love these fonts! thank you so much for compiling the list. and great job to designers!
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wow thankS!
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cool, thank u for this post
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Thanks a lot for this present!
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Great post and lovely selection of fonts – thanks.
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Dammit. Why must you compile such a massive list!? I already have way too many to the point it takes my mac about 3 minutes to open Fontbook.
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Thanks! Yet another group of (50) fonts for our collection.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!

Awesome fonts, and FREE!!! Wow! Just like women say they can’t have too many shoes, designers can’t have too many fonts…

Did I say thank you already?.. Well, thanks!
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Wow, Awesome Fonts collection. Thanks for sharing this post.
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Take a look at the license for “Often TF” (#50). Apparently can’t be used for anything outside of Deviant Art community.
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thanks its so cool fonts.
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Hey thanks for the free fonts just what i have been looking for. Great design and looks very clean!!

Thanks Again

Steve
kATHY

Champagne & Limousine is is free for PERSONAL USE ONLY !!!
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Great post. Used already Serif Beta and it looks great.
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Simplement classe, auteur ñïàñèáî
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If you are looking for free fonts, check http://www.fonts2u.com. Discovered it just few days ago. Their
character map search is awesome! Saved some time when looking for specific character maps supported.
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Lee

Thank you for this. This will help me LOADS.
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Jeff

This title is deceiving. Free, in this case =/= free for commercial use. At least for some. Great list though.
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luv ya work champ
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Sorry for the question, but I am very interested in how CMS operates a blog?
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wow..its a really fantastic and awesome font, its can be very use full for to make my design.
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Excellent stuff. Many thanks!!
eve

this is an AWESOME Website u people r very smart!!!!! and u helped me with my project
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Wow, you guys have taste… exellent site

cheers from Bavaria/Germany
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Nice fonts…
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The League of Movable Type… Great name Thanks for the link we’ll definitely bookmark them.
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Wow, Great List for RTE I’ve ever seen. Currently i use ThinyMCE for now i can use more. thanks
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Amazing list. Very useful for me
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You are definitely a skilled writer. You definitely know how to write to keep the audience engaged. Cheers
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As a Newbie, I am always searching online for articles that can help me. Thank you
Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your
post to my blog?
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Huge.. but nice… dudu

thanks for the fonts
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Nice list… Thanks for posting it
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my God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insght at the end there, not leave it with ‘we leave it to you to decide
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These fonts are very useful to me …. thank you
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Very nice fonts…Its great stuff of fonts for professional designers…i shared with my friends also..thanks for this service
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Very useful and excellent font collection.Thanks for sharing
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Great!!!! Thanks
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some of these look rather usefull
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Good topic, thanks.
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Great list. Thanks for sharing it
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Thanks for the free fonts.
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have to point out that Museo #38 in not free anymore.
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Amazing list. Thanks for posting it.
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Thank You for the fonts! , Very useful 4 me
Emily

This IS awesome! I’ll probably wind up spending some money on these designers’ other fonts, too. Thanks!
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Nice list of fonts! very helpfull thank you
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Thanks for conversation about it as I am curious in this subject.
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Amazing fonts
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Nice fonts…
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I like the Serif Beta one because it’s oldskool
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great list of fonts….very informative
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Thanks this is good post i love it so much.
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Great collection. Thanks for sharing … appreciated!
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