Typography is one of the most important elements of website design. For decades, graphic designers of print displays have long known that the right font can be just as important as striking graphics, and the same holds true for website design.
01. Manifesto
Tomaz Leskovec’s clean, uppercase show font Manifesto was inspired by the geometric aesthetic of the Italian rationalist movement in the mid 1920s. Angular and eye-catching, it’ll add impact to headlines, posters and more.
FORMAT: TTF
02. Delicate
For a minimal option, French studio FAAK&PAAT’s Delicate is an elegant serif stencil with a contemporary geometric twist. The classy design is available in three versions; rounded, bold and strict, and is free for both personal and commercial use.
FORMAT: TTF
03. Asfalto
Asfalto is a bold, distressed font with an industrial feel. If you’re looking to add a touch of vintage letterpress to your designs,Fernando Forero’s retro creation could be just what you need – and is free for personal and commercial use.
FORMAT: OTF, TTF
04. Bizon
Nantes-based art director Axel Bizon is behind this personality-packed uppercase typeface, Bizon. The irregular, handmade design is free for both personal and commercial use.
FORMAT: TTF
05. Sunn
Creative duo Gatis Vilaks and Krišjānis Mežulis designed Sunn – a charming, uppercase font with a handwritten feel – for headlines and promotional material with short descriptions. Tall slender lines combine with tiny quirks to produce a decorative, handwritten feel.
FORMAT: TTF
06. Futuracha
A group of curious design explorers make up høly and are the team behind today’s font of choice Futuracha. They comment on Behance: “The name is the combination of words futura and cucaracha (cockroach in Spanish). “The design is based on the basis of the pf futura book. The letters edges radically extend in a forceful way trying to remind the art deco’s style.
FORMAT: EPS
07. Big John
Spain-based designer Ion is behind this bold typeface. A geometric design, Big John is accompanied by a sister font, Slim Joe, an ultra light version of its bigger brother. Both designs are free for personal and commercial use.
FORMAT: TTF
08. Reis
This cool, handwritten design Reis was created by Marcelo Reis Melo. Great for posters, logos and much more, Reis is available free for personal and commercial use, with donations to the author, as always, appreciated.
FORMAT: TTF
09. Building
Building was created by Italian design student Leonardo Gubbioni. He comments on Behance: “With a strong visual impact, Building’s primary purpose is to capture the attention, in a world where you are constantly assualted by sensory stimuli.”
FORMAT: OTF
10. Anders
Geometric design Anders was an experimental project by creative advertising student Tom Anders Watkins. “Using influences from modern font design, I wanted something very minimal and a little unique, here’s the result,” Watkins comments on Behance.
FORMAT: TTF
11. Dense
Dense is a versatile, elegant, geometric and compact sans-serif typeface. Three weights have been created thus far: thin, regular and bold. Created by Canadian artist Charles Daoud, Regular is currently the only weight available, but Daoud has said that he’ll update his Behance page with news on how to get the other weights in the near future.
FORMAT: TTF
12. Reckoner
Reckoner was created by Sydney-based graphic designer Alex Dale. “Drawing inspiration from popular industrial sans serif typefaces such as Bebas Neue, Alegre Sans & Dharma Gothic, I set out to design a typeface with a modern twist whilst keeping the fundamentals of a traditional font,” Dale comments on Behance.
“The result is Reckoner, a free for commercial and personal use typeface that features a secondary set of characters in the lowercase setting that can be placed in your designs to add a unique touch to certain words.”
FORMAT: TTF
13. Higher
Created by Portugal-based graphic designer Marissa Passos, free font Higher was made as a student project during her time at the University of Porto. The typeface contains a full set of uppercase characters and numbers 0-9. It’s free for both personal and commercial use, and available in OTF and TTF formats.
Format: OTF and TTF
14. Vincent
Vincent was developed by graphic and product designer for NBC Universal Ben Suarez. Created at the end of last year, this vintage-inspired design was Suarez’s first fully functioning typeface, and is a great addition to our list of 100 free fonts.
“Vincent was intended to be used as a title font,” explains Suarez. It was “named after my grandfather who drove a ’76 Chrysler Cordoba and smoked out of an old wooden pipe. He was rad.”
FORMAT: TTF
15. Jaapokki
Jaapokki was created by Finnish designer Mikko Nuuttila. With clean lines, two alternatives and large set of glyphs, Jaapokki is great for headlines, posters, logos and more.
