10 Awesome Free Fonts for your Designs
Some typographic essentials to fuel your creative designs
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Once in a while we search for fun typography, for inspiration, and to fuel our creative side. So, we’ve put together a list of ten fonts that we love, and hopefully, you’ll love too.
Chalk Hand Letter Font
Sometimes you need a chalk style font. Chalk Hand Letter font is a slate typeface by Fonts Cafe.
Ribbon Font
Ribbon font, designed by Dan Gneiding. Dan rides the blue wind high and free as a designer, illustrator, teacher, and typographer. He’s from Philadelphia and enjoys gray hoodies, long walks with beer and early Star Wars trivia. You can opt to donate $5, $10 or $20 for the download or donate “0”. We recommend anything but $0.
Lavanderia Font
Lavanderia font, designed by James T. Edmondson, a student at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. It’s based on lettering found on Laundromat windows of San Francisco’s Mission District. Lavanderia features numerous OpenType features and three weights. The folks at Lost Type would accept a donation for a download in a small denomination of $5, $10, $15, $20 or $25.
Tetra Font
Tetra font is totally free. Just find the download link on the Behance gallery page. Tetra is designed by Alexey Frolov, of Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Weston Font
Wild West vibes anyone? Another awesome font for free called Weston font. It’s fun for headlines. Weston is a slab-serif font designed by Pavel Pavlov for FONTFABRIC.
Rex Font
Rex is a font type with three weights—light, bold and bold inline— designed to create unique titles on the fly by FONTFABRIC. Available for both personal and commercial purposes.
Molesk Font
Molesk font designed by Pedro Lobo of Guimaraes, Portugal. It’s a vintage font. Check it out!
Ranger Font
Ranger font was designed by Evan Huwa, designer, illustrator, and typographer. Colorado native with roots in the dairy business. It’s a weighty italic display face inspired by Colorado. Make a small donation of $5, $10, $30, $50, $100.
Bola Font
Bola is another great headlines type. A chunky font for display use by Pablo Caro.
We love free fonts but it’s also really important to check out the ReadMe document in your downloaded package from any free font websites to be certain they are available for personal or commercial use. Of course, you always want to download fonts from a reputable website. Download safe!
So what did you think of our list of ten fonts for your designs? What fonts have you recently downloaded? Let us know. We’d love to hear from you on Twitter or Instagram.