These are the best free fonts to upgrade your designs
Upgrade your designs with the best free fonts - in serif, sans-serif, script and decorative styles.
Mar 23, 2021 • 24 minute read
Updated on Sep 12, 2022 by Brad B.
Professional Content Producer
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A skillfully chosen font will immediately upgrade your work, whether you’re a designer, artist, job seeker or blogger.
Fonts are so crucial, there’s a whole field of study dedicated to them, and there are hundreds of thousands of fonts in existence!
Best of all, many of these are free for personal and/or commercial use.
Our guide highlights 100 of our favorite free fonts in the Sans Serif, Serif, Script and Decorative categories, including many just released in 2022.
The right font improves your work in a number of ways. It will:
The medium plays a key role in your font choice. Some fonts work better on product packaging or flyers than on resumes - and vice versa.
For each font, we've identified best use cases. But let your imagination run wild. Since all of these are free for personal use (and some for commercial use), you can test out a few to see how well they fit your project.
So let's jump right in and have some fun with fonts!
SANS SERIF
Sans Serif is one of the most common categories of font, primarily used for digital text displays or headings. This style adds a modern touch to your work and its defining characteristic is simplicity. Here are 25 free sans serif fonts, and links to their download location.
01. Audrey
Inspired by Audrey Hepburn, Audrey is one of the most popular free fonts you can find. It has a feminie vibe with its combination of straight and curvy lines.
Download it here
02. Marbre
Marbre is a font similar to Audrey, combining the straight with the curvy, albeit with a more “art deco” feel.
Download it here
03. Ledare
Ledare is a brand new free font style, first released in 2021. This expressive, slightly quirky font nonetheless exudes confidence and determination.
Download it here
04. Bavro
Bavro is what one could call a neat-and-clean font. It has a neat geometric format and a clean finish, which make it suitable for any reader.
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05. Arcadia
Arcadia’s balanced form with light strokes and slim lettering provides a soft fluency and delicacy to the text.
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06. Mohave
Mohave is a versatile display typeface with strong lettering that gives it a powerful feel. It was initially designed with only all-caps lettering but eventually expanded into various styles.
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07. Simplifica
Simplifica, quite like its name, is a simple yet sophisticated typeface. Its uniform and thin line width ensures easy legibility.
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08. Alegreya Sans
This calligraphy-inspired design creates fluidity and dynamism through its graceful letters. Choose this font to make reading long texts a pleasant experience for your readers.
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09. Biko
Biko is a geometric typeface with a sturdy yet warm and friendly appearance. On a side note, the name Biko is a solemn tribute to the South African anti-apartheid acitvist Steve Biko.
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10. Bonn
Bonn is a simple geometric font with high legibility. Its compact and narrow lettering exudes power and urgency, making it one of the best fonts for slogans and logos.
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11. Qanelas Soft
This is a modern typeface with a geometric influence and reader-friendly inter-letter spacing. Qanelas Soft’s various alternate styles with ligatures and rounded lettering make it a versatile, multi-purpose font.
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12. Arciform
Arciform offers soft, rounded lettering which renders an endearing vibe to the text. The styling maintains geometric spacing, which complements the curves finishing off each letter.
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13. Rhetoric
Tshepo Mosoeu drew inspiration from 19th and early 20th century designs of grotesque to create Rhetoric. This font’s rounded letters squared off at the ends make it a soft design that is pleasant to the eye.
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14. Leto Text Sans
Leto Text Sans takes inspiration from traditional font styles to produce an innovative modern variation. This style introduces ligatures between some adjacent letters to draw a reader’s attention.
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15. FuturaⓇ Now
If you want a new Futura font free and independent of its historical past, go for Monotype Studio’s FuturaⓇ Now. This modern take on an iconic typeface carries the sturdiness of formality as well as the warmth of artistry.
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16. Bakersfield
Bakersfield is a highly legible and elegant geometric script that draws inspiration from early 20th century fonts.
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17. Cornerstone
Cornerstone is a modular font that uses a combination of typical uppercase and some lowercase alphabets. Most letters are rounded at the edges, giving a neat and smooth touch to an otherwise rugged design.
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18. Locksmith
Locksmith is one of those free trendy fonts that remain stylish forever. Its sleek script makes even a simple text look quite sophisticated.
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19. Oswald
Oswald is a thoroughly modern remodeling of the classic gothic sans serif styles. Its slim-and-trim design provides easy legibility to all readers.
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20. Manifesto
Slovenian designer Tomaz Leskovec created Manifesto drawing inspiration from the Italian rationalist movement. Its sleek lettering imparts a sophisticated feel to your text while maintaining great legibility.
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21. RBNo2
Although inspired by late 19th century industrial fonts, RBNo2 is a geometrically straight and slender contemporary alternative for modern texts. This one belongs to a family of many similar typefaces that you can choose from.
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22. Moon
Moon is a well-structured, soft and rounded design with easy legibility. The smooth curves of the lettering create a space-like aura in the text, taking you to the moon and beyond.
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23. Delicate
Delicate offers a contemporary alternative to your regular text. The stencil-like blank spaces dividing the letters create a peculiar yet modern and intriguing design.
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24. Andala
Andala is one of the best fonts 2021 has to offer. Its slender, upright lettering makes it at once suitable for both formal and informal texts.
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25. Antona
Another 2021 gem, Antona is a highly legible geometric typeface with a friendly and modern vibe.
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SERIF
Serif typography 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 25 free fonts are ideal serif fonts for your books and documents.
26. Bogart
Zetafonts’ Bogart is an eclectic typeface inspired by many 1920s styles such as Cooper Black, Goudy Heavy Face and Windsor. Although created in late 2020, this style still carries the hip and electric persona of its ancestors.
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27. Rokkitt
Rokkitt derives from geometric slab serif typefaces called Egyptians which were popular from the late 19th century to mid-20th century. Its broad and spaced lettering exudes modernity and commands attention.
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28. Musket
Musket is a robust style apt to convey a strong and bold message. Its unique and solid lettering makes it one of the best free display fonts available today.
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29. Tertre
This uniform and well-structured font finds its roots in bold and catchy French signage styles. Interestingly, Tertre borrows its name from a buzzing Parisian square called Place du Tertre.
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30. Eczar
Eczar is a quirky style that gives a contemporary, lively appeal to the text with its crooked curves and flicks. This font supports over 45 languages and multiple scripts including Latin and Devanagari.
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31. Elsie
Elsie’s soft lettering with gentle curls personify femininity and glamour. This adds an expressive feature to each character which is bound to intrigue the reader.
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32. Spinwerad
Spinwerad is one of those classical typefaces that can turn simple words into powerful messages. The combination of thin letter frames contrasting with bolder frames in each letter further adds sophistication to the text.
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33. Bullpen
Texts written in Bullpen exude sturdiness and masculinity. The lettering in its numerous variations shows linear, geometric cuts that give the text its persona.
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34. Abril Fatface
Abril Fatface is an elegant typeface that ensures that the text has a strong presence and a contemporary vibe. This style borrows from the heavy fonts used for headings of posters and advertisements in 19th century Britain and France.
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35. Dubiel
Dubiel is an elegant font style with condensed lettering. The letters’ serifs and the combination of thin and thick letter frames work together to create a chic look.
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36. Draconis
Draconis is an all-caps font inspired by the titling styles in a Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons and Dragons game. Its narrow-ended, pointed serifs accentuate its pronounced letters and highlight its heavy appearance.
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37. Snow White
This is the title font of Rupert Sanders’ film ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’. Snow White’s lettering has an uneven design which gives a mysterious yet appealing character to the text.
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38. Espacio
This stellar font imbibes mystique and other-worldliness in the text. Its thin and soft lettering makes it apt for happy, artistic purposes.
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39. Obcecada Serif
Obcecada Serif is a narrow, geometric font with symmetrically rounded curves. It has a gentle touch even while maintaining an official aura around the text.
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40. Jander Closer to Free
Jander Closer to Free uses accentuated, rounded serifs to create a fun-filled artistic style. The thick lettering further adds to this font’s strong character.
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41. Capital Regular
Capital Regular uses a geometric, square style to create straight-edged letters. Squared serifs add to the rigidity of its lettering and an expanded letter-width gives it a tone of digital modernity.
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42. AC Big Serif
AC Big Serif is a unique typeface that creates its characters like they were fused, welded bars of metal. It uses both thin- and thick-framed serifs to create an intriguingly elegant and modern text.
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43. Janda Quirkygirl
Janda Quirkygirl lives up to its name by providing a quirky, feminine vibe to the text. The extended curls as well as the asymmetric nature of its letters will immediately amuse any reader.
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44. Love Ya Like A Sister
Love Ya Like A Sister is another playful font that draws you in with its handwritten, pencil sketch-like feel. Kimberly Geswein designed this font as a tribute to her friendship with her sister.
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45. Futurex Slab
Futurex Slab is an aptly named font that summons a futuristic vibe with rounded curves, shortened arms and warped shapes.
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46. Jobbernole
Jobbernole is a whimsical and fun font whose crescent-like serifs create unique creative vibes apt for any art project.
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47. Margherita
Margherita is one of the best free serif fonts created. Condensed lettering with straight-edged uppercase serifs and rounded lowercase serifs give it an authoritative feel with a hint of fancy.
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48. Shaping Heart
The creativity of this new font will speak directly to any reader’s heart. Its straight line serifs are perfectly complemented by flowy loops in each letter.
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49. Rochie
This broad, short and bold typeface is sure to immediately grab any reader’s attention. Newly released in 2021, Rochie is the perfect choice if you want to make a strong statement with text.
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50. Colatemta
This new font style from late 2020 has an undeniable tough and sturdy tone to it. With its broad, bold lettering, this font will remind the reader of Hollywood’s classic Western films.
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SCRIPT
Script is based on the fluency and strokes natural to handwriting. There are two variations, with formal scripts based on the lines produced with a quill, and casual scripts representing the motions of the pen in hand. The following 25 styles are ideal Script fonts for your writing.
51. Angel Tears
Angel Tears imitates the stroke of a brush to create soft lettering. The addition of thinly framed letters enhances the legibility of the text and complements the thicker brushstrokes.
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52. Beautiful Bloom
Beautiful Bloom stays true to its name by evoking that lovely feeling one gets after looking at a pretty flower. This is a handmade font that adds a brush-like fluency to your text.
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53. Oleo Script
Oleo Script font brings out a cursive flavour in the text without ever joining the letters. Its simple style maintains a good balance between flowy and easy-to-read.
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54. Little Days
Little Days is a thin and petite script that mimics how little kids write. The thin lines composing the letters enhance legibility while small flowy loops provide a fluidity to the letters.
