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.
Why choose a new unique font?
The right font improves your work in a number of ways. It will:
aid readability
direct the reader’s focus
create and amplify a mood
compliment your visuals
compliment the medium (packaging, flyers, resumes, etc)
What font to choose?
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.
Great for: Headlines, logotypes, packaging, fashion magazines
Styles available: Regular and oblique styles in regular, medium and bold weighting
Free for: Personal and commercial use
02. Marbre
Marbre is a font similar to Audrey, combining the straight with the curvy, albeit with a more “art deco” feel.
Great for: Fashion magazines, logotypes, branding, labels
Styles available: Regular style in regular and bold weighting
Free for: Personal use
03. Ledare
Ledare is a brand new free font style, first released in 2021. This expressive, slightly quirky font nonetheless exudes confidence and determination.
Great for: Headlines, titles and body texts
Styles available: Regular and italic in extra light, medium and bold weightings
Free for: Personal use
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.
Great for: Posters, headlines
Styles available: All-caps only
Free for: Personal use
05. Arcadia
Arcadia’s balanced form with light strokes and slim lettering provides a soft fluency and delicacy to the text.
Great for: Magazine titles, logos, modern texts
Styles available: One uppercase style and two lowercase styles (script and regular)
Free for: Personal use
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.
Great for: Headlines, posters, banners, titles, signage
Styles available: Regular and italic in regular, semi-bold and bold weightings
Free for: Personal and commercial use
07. Simplifica
Simplifica, quite like its name, is a simple yet sophisticated typeface. Its uniform and thin line width ensures easy legibility.
Great for: Display text, headlines and body text
Styles available: Regular only
Free for: Personal and commercial use
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.
Great for: Books, magazines, newspapers, articles
Styles available: Regular, italic and small caps in seven different weightings
Free for: Personal and commercial use
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.
Great for: Display, copy text, logos
Styles available: Four weights of light, regular, bold and black
Free for: Personal use
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.
Great for: Logotypes, headings, posters, slogans
Styles available: Three weights of light, medium and bold
Free for: Personal use
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.
Great for: Headlines for the web, signage, corporate and editorial texts, advertisements
Styles available: Twenty different weights such as ultralight, medium and extra bold and ten uprights with matching italics
Free for: Personal use
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.
Great for: Logos, headlines, advertisements, product packaging and labeling
Styles available: One weight, with lowercase and uppercase letters, numerals, accents and some symbols
Free for: Personal and commercial use
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.
Great for: Headings and texts in logos, artwork, posters, advertisements, greeting cards
Styles available: One weight
Free for: Personal and commercial use
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.
Great for: Posters, banners, covers and body texts of books, advertisements
Styles available: Four weights of light, regular, medium and bold with their italics, and nine styles of capitals, ligatures, small caps, superscript, subscript, numerators and denominators, case-sensitive forms, old style and stylistic alternates.
Free for: Personal and commercial use
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.
Great for: Packaging, printed texts, desktop-only uses for both headlines and body texts
Styles available: 102 styles, including various weightings of thin, extralight, light, regular, medium, bold, extrabold, black etc. and their italic versions.
Free for: Personal and commercial use; only script regular and headline bold styles available for free
16. Bakersfield
Bakersfield is a highly legible and elegant geometric script that draws inspiration from early 20th century fonts.
Great for: Both online and printed text
Styles available: 22 different styles, including 11 weights and their matching italics
Free for: Personal use
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.
Great for: Headlines and catchy slogans
Styles available: Regular only
Free for: Personal and commercial use
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.
Great for: Headings and slogans complementing soft settings and images
Styles available: Five variations of light, regular, small inline, medium inline and double inline
Free for: Personal and commercial use
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.
Great for: Websites and other on-screen texts for reading on any digital device
Styles available: Seven primary styles called extralight, light, regular, medium, demibold, bold and heavy, along with their italic characters. An additional stencil regular style.
Free for: Personal and commercial use
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.
Great for: Eye-catching headlines, posters and titles
Styles available: Two variations, regular and inline
Free for: Personal and commercial use
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.
Great for: Any printed text, logos, product packaging
Styles available: Four weights of light, regular, bold and black.
Free for: Personal use
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.
Great for: Both headlines and text bodies of posters, websites and slogans
Styles available: Three weights of light, regular and bold, and lowercase
Free for: Personal use
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.
Great for: Design projects
Styles available: Rounded, bold, strict and lowercase
Free for: Personal and commercial use
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.
Great for: Both headings and body texts
Styles available: Regular and bold, with their corresponding italic styles