Free Fonts to Download and Use
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Whether you use them for newsletters, designing great CafePress gear, or just fooling around with your website, fonts are FUN. Find out where to get the best free fonts, learn more about typography, and see some of our favorites.
Fonts aren't just for letters anymore! Now you can get great dingbat fonts to create your own icons and avatars. These work especially great for scrapbooking, buttons and banners, and t-shirt designs.
Free Font Sites
Some font sites SAY they're free, but it's just a conspiracy to get you to their site. The following sites truly ARE free, and they have some awesome fonts to choose from.
- Font Freak
- Search by PC or MAC font, and then alphabetically. Also has a section of just dingbat fonts. Shows the font in action! Some fonts are available to purchase.
- Free-Fonts.com
- Search over 55,000 OpenType, TrueType and PostScript Type 1 fonts from Adobe, Linotype, Monotype, URW and free fonts archives. Search by name or see what other people are looking for.
- Fontsville.com
- Search by category of font style or browse them by alphabetical order. A clean site that is easy to use.
- Web Page Publicity
- Free True Type Fonts from an assortment of over 6000 fonts. Listed in alphabetical order with a display of what each font looks like.
- dafont.com
- Free and shareware fonts organized by theme or alphabetically. Includes a great list of dingbat fonts categorized by theme or holiday.
- 25 Best Free Quality Fonts
- The Personal Notebook of Vitaly Friedman, a freelancing web-designer, who develops simple and user-friendly web-design.
What can you use fonts for?
Fonts have dozens of great uses. Pick up a few for your next project.
- Newsletters - newsletters (PDF or print) are great places to try out new fonts. They add a little life to your copy and help separate sections of your page.
- CafePress - now you don't have to rely on the standard Windows fonts for all your CafePress creations. Break out beyond Arial and Comic Sans into Aswell, A Yummy Apology, and Tussle.
- Website graphics - jazz up your graphics with freaky fonts. Careful if you decide to use them on your website as basic text though - they can be hard on the eyes and will only show if your visitors have them installed.
- Scrapbooking! Create awesome scrapbook layouts with custom fonts. Design your own tags, stickers, borders, frames, and quotes that perfectly match your pages.
- Handmade cards - design your own greeting cards using handwritten or kid-friendly fonts.
- Buttons and Banners - not great at drawing? No problem. Grab a fun dingbat font and create your own icons.
- Facebook - Create images and fun post using wacky fonts.
Give your Presentations IMPACT with Fonts
Before they were used on the Web, fonts were used in print. Learn how to make fonts work for you both on AND off the Web. Great guides for desktop publishing, newsletters, cover art, and marketing copy.
Wear your Fonts on your Sleeve
CafePress has a few wacky designers who have made wearing fonts trendy. Well...maybe that's not the right word, but if you do have an affinity for fonts, you can find a fun shirt here.
Tips for Using Fonts Effectively
Not all fonts are created equal. Using fonts online versus using them in print poses special challenges.
- eHow.com to Use Fonts Effectively
- The fonts you choose can help you set the mood for your piece. Misused, however, they can make your work look amateurish or difficult to read.
- Web Fonts Basics
- A great selection of mini-primers on using fonts on the web.
- Typographic Web Design
- Type for your web site, what to do and what not to do. Provided also are links to other articles and primers for web typography.
Helvetica
An entire movie about a font, and actually VERY fascinating!
Helvetica
Amazon Price: $12.98 (as of 05/31/2012)
Are you addicted to fonts?
I love fonts! I have so many that they can't all be "seen" by my programs, so I have to switch them out in the fonts folder as I use them. Which statement best describes your love of fonts?
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Dingbat Fonts
Fonts come in more than just letters. Find your favorite TV characters, shapes and flowers, and logos in dingbat fonts. Finding some of these requires a little digging, but they're there!
- dafont.com Movie and TV fonts
- Over 50 movie, TV show, and comic fonts. Includes large, clear displays so you can see what you're getting.
- dafont.com Logos
- Free fonts featuring logos from popular restaurants, corporations, toys, games, stores, and more.
- FontFreak.com
- A variety of character dingbats including borders, trademarked logos, household items, animals and bugs, and dozens of other things you'd never think to find in a font!
The Warning Label
Here's a great tip from webseitler. She's so smart... :)
"Just a note: just because a font is free, doesn't mean that we can use them however we'd like to. A lot of free fonts have commerical licenses or restrictions. Always good to read the Read Me file."
"Just a note: just because a font is free, doesn't mean that we can use them however we'd like to. A lot of free fonts have commerical licenses or restrictions. Always good to read the Read Me file."
Fonts for Upcoming Holidays
Holiday and special occasion fonts are great ways to jazz up invitations, banners and buttons, or your MySpace page.
- Fontenstein - A Castle Full of Halloween Fonts
- Page after page of creepy fonts great for adding a little dripping blood, shaken and scared, or double vision to your next Halloween project.
- Halloween Fonts from Acid Fonts
- Cute ghost and witch icons, page borders, and spooky fonts for your Halloween projects.
- Halloween Chamber of Horrors
- A collection of true type fonts that make SUPER Halloween web pages!
Are you a Friend of Fonts?
Aren't fonts great? Share your joy of fonts with a haiku...or just say hi.
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Mickie_G
Mar 9, 2012 @ 4:13 pm | delete
- I like to find fonts for special projects. I found a "free" Disney font to us on the Disney Memory Book (fyi: I wrote a lens!) that I made for the grandkids. Having a great font makes the difference between a good and and great project.
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dogface
Oct 24, 2011 @ 1:27 am | delete
- I find typography quite fascinating.
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RenaissanceWoman2010
Jun 26, 2011 @ 7:55 am | delete
- I appreciate this guide to free legitimate fonts. One can never have too many! Thanks!
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snazzify
Mar 23, 2011 @ 10:51 pm | delete
- lensrolled to my free font lens :)
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BizGuides
Oct 26, 2010 @ 5:30 pm | delete
- I've been to where they like fonts at Fontana Village.
It's next to Fontana Lake.
Does Lord Fontleroy come from there?
Heard of fontsquirrels?
How about Fonts for peas?
It's amazing thing, these fonts.
There are everywhere!
....and they are growing out of control.
I do not know if I would won't to own a thousand fonts.
Do you think it would be a bit much?
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