Best Websites For Fonts
Fonts and typography are the main elements of every web design project, and there are a variety of resources available on the Internet to help you with all of your font and typography needs. Regardless of what you are looking for, there are both free and paid resources available at your disposal.
1. Dafonts
DaFont is a massive archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by alphabetical listing, style, author or popularity. A lot of it is on the unprofessional side, but you can find some choice stuff here. It’s also a good resource if you’re looking to download free fonts with a novelty theme, like the Pac-Man Font featured above.
2. Fontsquirrel
With Font Squirrel, you will gain access to hundreds of high-quality fonts that are categorized by type such as serif, script, sans serif, slab serif, and more. Font Squirrel prides itself on being the best resource for free high-quality fonts that are ready for commercial use. Keep Font Squirrel bookmarked for your next major web design project.
3. Pixelsurplus
Hundreds of free fonts available for commercial use including script fonts, brush fonts, sans serifs and serifs in all styles.
4. Google Fonts
Google Fonts is another amazing resource you can use to download free high-quality fonts for your web design projects. The mission behind Google Fonts is to make the web design process easier by offering web designers a robust library of open sources fonts. Currently, Google’s font directory allows designers to test fonts in more than 135 languages.
5. Urbanfonts
UrbanFonts is a web designer’s dream, offering over 8,000 fonts. The majority of fonts on the site are freeware, while some are shareware, and others are linkware.
6. Fontfabric
A digital type foundry crafting retail fonts and custom typography for various brands. Sharing a passion for premium typefaces, calligraphy and lettering.
7. Behance
The go-to place for designers to show off their work (don’t believe us? Take a look at our list of graphic designers to follow), online portfolio platform Behance is a brilliant place to find free fonts. It’s also had a recent redesign and is now even prettier to look at.
8. 1001 Free Fonts
Misnomer alert! 1001 Free Fonts doesn’t feature exactly 1001 free fonts; it’s actually more in the region of 10,001. All of them are handily organised across 64 categories, along with the option to browse by designer.
9. Abstract fonts
Abstract Fonts has one of the cleaner interfaces in this arena, and it’s very easy to navigate. There’s a custom font preview option, the terms are outlined clearly, and it’s updated regularly, with about 14,000 fonts for you to choose from.
10. Fontspace
Fontspace provides the modern web designer with over 67,000 free fonts created by designers all over the world. You can browse Fontspace by category, or simply conduct a keyword search to return thousands of results. Like many of the other free resources for fonts on the Internet, you will want to check each individual font for licensing terms to make sure it can be used for commercial purposes.
11. Free Design Resources: Fonts
Free Design Resources is a platform that offers tons of different designs assets free for download. Lucky for us, they constantly update their fonts section. The best part is, you can filter typefaces by license: Free for commercial use, personal use, or both!
12. Awwwards Free Font Collection
Awwwards generously put together a collection of free fonts from designers all around the web. Although not all are free for commercial use, with the vast array of styles available, you should be able to find just what you’re looking for.
13. MyFonts—Free Fonts
Did you know you can filter through free typefaces on the world’s largest collection of fonts? That’s right—MyFonts.com offers a variety of free fonts and you can access them all by clicking here.
14. Open Foundry
Open Foundry is an amazing platform that holds a rich collection of open-source fonts. Have fun exploring their collection of typefaces and toggling with their different display options. You can experiment with kerning, sizing, backgrounds, and more straight from Open Foundry’s interface!
15. The League of Moveable Type
As The League of Moveable Type declares on their homepage, their manifesto is all about raising the design standards of the web and empowering everyone with top-notch typography. They proudly offer a handful of high-quality open-sourced typefaces on their website.
