I have been working as a freelance editor for several magazines for several years. One consistent problem that I used to face was that my designer used to use the same font in different headings of the stories which is not at all catchy to the readers. It also drags their attention as it looks like the magazine is full of the same content.
So I searched for some websites which offers free fonts for your personal and professional (commercial) projects. These websites are quite beneficial and I am still using these websites for my different commercial projects.
You can also check these websites if you are a designer or an editor like I am who always needs different font styles for different stories.
Fonts Available On Different Websites Free of Cost
For more of your convenience and to make your work more aesthetic and look more professional, I am mentioning some websites where you can download as many fonts as you want. Not only this but there is a variety of fonts available on each website, so you can pick any of those according to the nature of your content and project.
Adobe Fonts
Adobe fonts is basically a subscription based platform which offers thousands of interesting fonts. But you can also have their fonts free of cost but you need to subscribe to their website for this.
And if you want to have access to their paid fonts too, you can also subscribe to their trial period which is also free for a certain period of time.
Some of their free font styles are as follows:
1. Orpheus Adobe Font
2. ITC Avant Garde Gothic Adobe Font
3. Brothers Adobe Font
4. ITC Benguiat Adobe Font
5. Futura Adobe Font
6. Plantin Adobe Font
7. Basekerville Adobe Font
8. Neue Haas Grotesk Adobe Font
9. Big Caslon Adobe Font
10. Aktiv Grotesk Adobe Font
These are only a few examples. If you want to explore more fonts, you can go tohttps://fonts.adobe.com/ and find many like these.
Font Squirrel
Font Squirrel is also a great website for free fonts which can easily be used for personal and commercial projects. You just need to go to the font, download it and use it in your projects.
Some of the best fonts available there are:
11. Acherus Grotesque
12. Intro Rust
13. Milkshake
14. Source Sans Pro
15. Open Sans
16. Questa
17. Fira Sans
18. Corbert
19. Alex Brush
20. Sofia Pro
If you want to find more interesting and exciting font styles, you can visit https://www.fontsquirrel.com/ where there is all you need for your personal and professional projects.
DaFont
Another popular website for free fonts is Dafont where there is a vast collection of free fonts for personal use but if you want to use these fonts for commercial use, there are some specific conditions. Before downloading fonts from DaFont, reading https://www.dafont.com/faq.php section would be of great help for you to understand their terms and conditions.
Some interesting free fonts that I like on DaFont are:
21. Caneta Script
22. Quetes Signature
23. Meanshine
24. Rising harder
25. Dark distance
26. Alphaget
27. Heydex
28. Crudex
29.Qaboos
30. Instory
For having more exciting free fonts at DaFont, you can visit https://www.dafont.com/ .
Font space
A wide variety of free fonts for personal and commercial use is also available at FontSpace which is a popular website for designers to have different stylish font styles. Downloading and using these fonts in your projects is quite simple and convenient.
Even then, you are suggested to visit directly the official website of FontSpace to read their terms and conditions as they are updated frequently to maintain their caliber.
Some of the best font styles available at FoneSpace are:
31. ANKH SANCTUARY
32. FLORISA
33. MATCHA
34. PUMPKIN TYPE HALLOWEEN
35. COFFEE HEALING
36. NESTO COPPER 42
37. AUTUMN FLOWERS
38. CREAMY SUGAR
39. DANGER NIGHT
40. KATERLIN
Please visit https://www.fontspace.com/ in order to have more immersive and interesting font styles.
1001 FONTS
1001 Fonts is one of the best websites for free and premium fonts which is highly recommended by the professional designers and editors. There is a vast variety of fonts is available on 1001 Fonts which you can use for your personal and professional projects.
Some of the best font styles which I have found on 1001 Fonts are:
41. GALGEY LIGHT
42. FRANCHIE
43. GALFEGO
44. FUNKLEY
45. FINLAND
46. DESTROYS
47. MEPHISTO
48. MATHILDA
49. AMARISSA
50. MESSY BERRY
If you like these unique font styles and want to have more like these, you can simply have these by visiting https://www.1001fonts.com/ .
FONT SPRING
Font Spring is a very popular platform for decent font styles for personal and commercial use. Although many of their font styles are premium and you have to pay for it, yet there is also a wide variety available of the fonts which are completely free. You just need to subscribe to the website to get a particular font style.
An interesting thing about this website is that a font style does not come alone here. Instead it comes with a whole family (different styles of the same style), so you can use whichever you want for your project.
51. GILROY
52. GALANO GROTESQUE
53. MUSEO SANS
54. SOFIA PRO
55. MUSEO SLAB
56. CALLUNA
57. GARET
58. AVENTA VARIABLE
59. ASHBURY
60. GORDITA
In order to have more free font styles at Font Spring, you can visit https://www.fontspring.com/free where you can find hundreds of such amazing fonts.
FontStruct
FontStruct basically is an online platform for font creation where one can create, share and download customized fonts for their personal and commercial projects. This platform is a versatile platform which can be accessed both by beginner level designer as well as experience typographers as well.
Some interesting font styles present at FontStruct are:
61. ETC SOLID 42
62. STF_JS-PPT 1975
63. STF_VAN NELLE
64. SCHAAR
65. STF_FAKOS VARY TITAS
66. STF_ARS NOUVEAUX
67. RO’USTER VI’EL
68. RHINO’S CLUB HOUSE
69. DAWN CHORUS
70. STF_FAUXHAUS
https://fontstruct.com/gallery is the official website of FontStruct where you can have many more interesting fonts.
URBAN FONTS
A diverse and versatile collection of free fonts is available on Urban Fonts which can be used for personal as well as commercial projects.
As both free and licensed fonts are available on this website, please make sure that you are using them correctly in your projects according to the terms and conditions of the website.
71. ARCANUM ORDER
72. RITHONDINMINBY FONTPANDA
73. SKRAWL
74. HAND CAPZZ
75. VIELKALAHIZO
76. STUPID MEDIUM
77. GHGY
https://www.urbanfonts.com/ is the official website where you can find as much as you want according to the nature of your project.
Fonts.com
Fonts.com offers you a huge variety of free fonts which you can use in your personal and commercial projects. Not only this but it also offers overs 1,300 font families and that is too free of cost. In these family of fonts, you can pick one according to the width, weight and language as well.
78. MONT
79. NAVINE
80. COMIC HERO
81. FORREST
82. GALANO GROTESQUE
83. RECOLETA
84. GARNISON
85. AVAYO
86. HOWLI
87. LOEW
In order to have much more interesting font styles, https://www.fonts.com/ is the web address.
Font Bundles
Either you are a beginner level designer or a professional level, Font Bundles has a lot of interesting font styles for you which you cannot resist. There are hundreds of font styles available at this website which you can have free of cost.
Some of the most interesting fonts available at this website are:
88. Olivia script
89. Buttermilk
90. Magnolia
91. Hernia font
92. Hello Bella
93. Nostalgia
94. Biskuit
95. Candy Lane
96. Juliette
97. Cremona
98. Inked Blood Dripping Halloween Font
99. Shaky Halloween – Horror Display Font
100. Scarytale – A Vintage Multi-layered Font
101. Spider Web Split Font
You can download many other free fonts at https://fontbundles.net/free-fonts including fonts for Christmas, fonts for Halloween, Fonts for logos, and many more. Download according to the nature of your project.
BEWARE – SOME PRECAUTIONS ARE NECESSARY
Using free fonts from online websites is although very convenient and time saving, yet exercising these practices may prevent some potential issues.
So try to exercise these practices while picking a font from website:
- Some fonts are available on websites but not for commercial use. So make sure to check the license for commercial use.
- You are suggested to download fonts from reputable and trusted sources only. The websites which have been mentioned above are the most trusted website on which you can rely on. Downloading from suspicious or unknown websites may contain malware which can be harmful for your system.
- Also ensure that the font is up-to-date.
- If you scan a font before downloading it, it is more beneficial for your system. although it is not going to happen if the source is trusted, yet you can keep these things in mind.
CONCLUSION
So these were some websites which I have been using for years. Their terms and conditions keep on changing but not the basic structure of their services. So you can use these websites with complete confidence and security.
