Typography, calligraphy and lettering

13 Best Free Fonts Websites

Discover the best free fonts websites that offer a wide variety of beautiful and unique fonts. Start creating stunning designs without breaking the bank!

1. Fontshare

Fontshare, launched by Indian Type Foundry (ITF), provides a growing collection of professional grade fonts that are 100% free for personal and commercial use. It aims to help brands and individuals who do not have the budget but still want access to beautiful typography by making professional-grade fonts available for personal and commercial use. Apart from ITF’s own fonts, Fontshare also distributes free fonts from the other publishers.
The service is available worldwide and offers a desktop app for both Mac and PC users.
Fontshare
Fontshare

2. Open Foundry

Open Foundry is a free platform for curated open-source typefaces; to highlight their beauty, activate ideas and encourage exploration. OFs inspiration comes from it’s audience and they want the next generation of font-hunters and type-lovers to be equipped with new tools for the alphabetical challenges of the future.
Open Foundry
Open Foundry

3. Free Faces

Freefaces offers a curated collection of typefaces that are available under various free licenses. Providing designers with free resources to enhance their design projects, the website features a range of typefaces at no cost.
Free Faces
Free Faces

4. UNCUT

UNCUT is a free typeface catalogue, focusing on somewhat contemporary type. There are currently 143 typefaces featured in their creative market.
UNCUT
UNCUT

5. Use & Modify

Use & Modify is a personal selection of beautiful, classy, punk, professional, incomplete, weird typefaces. Open source licenses make them free to use and modify.
Use & Modify
Use & Modify

6. Velvetyne

VTF, or the Velvetyne Type Foundry, launched in 2010 and have since been designing and distributing free and open source typefaces. They also organise ass-kicking workshops for humans and computers. Created by Frank Adebiaye as a logical continuation of his blog about typography and type design. They believe that making type design more open and transparent increases the dynamism of contemporary creation. In that sense, users can continue developing and adapting our fonts according to their own point of view and their particular needs.
Velvetyne
Velvetyne

7. Collletttivo

Collletttivo is a design collective that creates and distributes free open-source typefaces. They have a curated font library of high-quality free fonts available for commercial and personal use. Collletttivo is a non-profit group of students and young professionals sharing their interest in type design and experimentations. Collletttivo lives thanks to the work of its members and the support of the many downloading and using our free typefaces.
Collletttivo
Collletttivo

8. Badass Libre Fonts by Women

Badass Fonts is free, feminist, open-source, and exists only online. How do those values and resources become physical? The concept includes a space that is free and open because space is a resource in which the public can modify material by screenprinting typefaces onto it.
Badass Libre Fonts by Women
Badass Libre Fonts by Women

9. Tunera

Tunera is a transnational type foundry that aims to present new and original typefaces for everyone. Tunera Type Foundry was founded in January 2020 by Ariel Martín Pérez, an art director, type designer and illustrator based in Paris. Anton Moglia joined him in this project soon afterwards.
Tunera
Tunera

10. Death of Typography

Death of Typography are a young Singaporean type collective, practicing, researching and exploring type through creative inquiry and collaboration. As young designers, they wanted to challenge preconceived notions of type design, striving to be a platform for designers to connect.
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11. Pixel Surplus

Pixel Surplus helps bring your projects to life with the best digital design tools - at a fraction of the price!
Pixel Surplus curate popular free design goods including the ability to download fonts from their selection of over 1000 free high quality fonts and typefaces.
Pixel Surplus
Pixel Surplus

12. The League

The League is the first open-source type foundry. As designers on the web, the founders of The League have a calling to raise the standards of the web-design world. Starting The League, back in the beginning of 2009, it was just as browsers were just getting the capability to use more than the 12 or so web-friendly fonts that everyone had installed on their computers.
The League
The League

13. Fonts in the Wild

Fonts in the Wild gives you an easy way to browse through beautiful fonts and design resources and choose what's right for your design, offering designers high-quality free and paid fonts for their projects.
Fonts in the Wild
Fonts in the Wild

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