Fonts are a fundamental part of a graphic design: they must convey information, be clear, legible. Choosing a well-designed, consistent and beautiful font is an indication of professionalism, competence and care for the project.
In the great sea of fonts available on the web, there are some that you can download for free. In fact, there are type designers (those who design typefaces) who, for mostly promotional reasons, make their fonts available for free (usually for personal use: for example, to print your own business cards they will do just fine). And there are some great ones.
These are 10 fonts that we think are among the best of those you can find on the web today.
1.Museum Slab
The Museum Slab font is now a classic: free in only one of its “weights,” it is a well-designed font that is great for headlines.
The definition Slab in the Italian language of typography used to be translated as “Egyptian font” and stands for stick typefaces (Sans Serif) with small graces, i.e., endings that link one letter to another.
2.Fabrica
Fabrica is a font designed specifically for Mobile users, thus to be best used and viewed on Smartphones and Tablets. For these very reasons it is well suited to be used even for very small texts.
3.Glamor
Glamor is a font capable of making any design chic, elegant and modern. The glossy fashion-magazine effect is achieved thanks to the curls of some letters and the contrast of the thick and thin lines of each character (typical of the first modern graced font, the Bodoni, designed in 1700).
4.Laundry
Designed taking inspiration from the signs of San Francisco laundries, this font is perfect for headlines and all those projects where you want to achieve a vintage effect.
5.Monthoer
Monthoers is a font that simulates the characteristics of hand-printed letters. It is perfect for those who want to give a hipster effect to their projects.
A curiosity: this font was created by an Indonesian designer.
6.Airbag
Airbag is a really trendy font: it is a slab (see above) with very elegant shadows. It is free, but the designer asks for a tweet in return.
7.Lobster
Lobster is a modern script font, useful for headlines and headers, perfect in print and on the web. It is now a classic among free fonts. It is inspired by the hand-lettering of American signs, those of old trucks in movies set in deepest America.
(To download the free version of this font, type 0 in the “Donation” box.)
8.Fabfelt
Another really well-designed script, Fabfelt is suitable for both vintage and more modern designs.
9.Linux Libertine
Linux Libertine is the result of a public domain Open Source font project. It is a good alternative to the overused Times New Roman, perfect for long texts (books, brochures) and elegant even in larger formats. It comes in a wide range of weights: regular, italic, bold, includes more than 2000 glyphs, Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew letters.
What are you waiting for to download it?
10.Klinic Slab
Slab fonts are immediately perceived as modern, children of the new century; in fact, Klinic proves it, thanks to digital font design, the old Egyptians (slab) are the ones that have enjoyed the most success. Klinic is perfect for both headlines and text, achieving a tasteful and sophisticated feel in both cases.
(To download the free version of this font, type 0 in the “Donation” box.)
Now all that’s left to do is to incorporate these beautiful fonts into your projects and see the effect!