25 High Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designs
Sometimes, the best things in life are free – fonts are a great example of this concept. There are many typography designers and type foundries that choose to share their beautiful creations to the public. In this collection, you’ll find some of the best free and high-quality sans serif fonts for clean and professional designs that you can download on the web.
1. Nevis
Download: Ten by Twenty (ZIP)
2. Aller Sans
Download: Danmarks Medie (ZIP)
3. Junction
Download: The League of Moveable Type (ZIP)
4. Audimat
Download: SMeltery (ZIP, read EULA first)
5. Quicksand
Download: Typophile (ZIP)
6. Delicious
Download Page: MyFonts
7. Legendum
Download: TrueType/OpenType Tools (ZIP)
8. Comfortaa
Download: deviantART (ZIP)
9. Luxi Sans
Download: freedesktop.org (TAR)
10. Bonveno
Download: The Crud Factory (ZIP)
11. Anivers
Download Page: MyFonts
12. Flaminia Type System
Download: The League of Moveable Type (ZIP)
13. Museo Sans
Download Page: MyFonts
14. Euphemia
Download: Tiro Typeworks (Windows/OSX TTF)
15. advent font
Download: deviantART (ZIP)
16. MEgalopolis Extra
Download: SMeltery (ZIP, read EULA first)
17. Modeno Font
Download: deviantART (ZIP)
18. Often tf
Download: deviantART (ZIP)
19. Folks
Download: typOasis (ZIP)
20. CartoGothic Std
Download: FontSite (ZIP, read License Agreement)
21. Blackout
Download: The League of Moveable Type (ZIP)
22. Mayberry
Download Page: Ascender Fonts (ZIP)
23. Share Font
Download: dafont (ZIP)
24. Fonce Sans Regular
Download: deviantART (ZIP)
25. surrounding__
Download: deviantART (ZIP)
What free fonts do you recommend?
If your favorite free font isn’t featured here, please share it with all of us in the comments! Additionally, are you using one or more of the above fonts on a project? Feel free to show off your work by linking to your design’s URL!


























60 Comments
Fred
July 14th, 2009
Awesome, I love good free fonts hard.
Bariski
July 14th, 2009
Wow downloading man, thanks for sharing :D
ollo
July 15th, 2009
thanks for sharing you always give out the best stuff.
Angela
July 15th, 2009
Thanking you I see I couple even a font mad women like me doesn’t have lol :)
trice22
July 15th, 2009
Thanks!
thestorms
July 15th, 2009
24th link sis wrong
Markus
July 15th, 2009
some nice fonts indeed! ;)
Express
July 15th, 2009
Awesome :) I really use fonts :P
Armig Esfahani
July 15th, 2009
nice ones! thank you!
cssah
July 15th, 2009
Amazing collection,the best thing is the direct link,i love Quicksand
Valisk_61
July 15th, 2009
Excellent list, thanks for sharing.
Downloading now…
Binoj Xavier
July 15th, 2009
Nice Simple Humble Fonts. itweeted :)
Eddie Giese
July 15th, 2009
Great list! I have most of these, but not all.
I also highly recommend Fontin and Graublau Sans Web
Maxime Perron Caissy
July 15th, 2009
Good collection of fonts, I especially like Nevis, Advent and Museo.
henry
July 15th, 2009
Nice.. my website use one of those. Aller Sans..i love it.
Jacob Gube
July 15th, 2009
Thanks for the compliments everyone, I’ve been collecting these fonts in my bookmarks for at least two months!
Chris Lentz
July 15th, 2009
Awesome list!
Sumesh
July 15th, 2009
Useful roundup, I already have a bunch of these fonts – Nevis, Aller Sans, Delicious etc., but I’d have liked to see a few more serifs in there.
And maybe also mention the fact that free fonts and professional designs don’t always go well – more often than not, these free fonts are overused, rendering your designs not-so-unique if you use them in the design.
Issa Qandil
July 15th, 2009
Great list, thanks for sharing.
Downloading …..
RipeType
July 15th, 2009
I’d also recommend some of the fonts at RipeType.com.au – I might be a little biased though.. peace
amelie
July 15th, 2009
nice, Great list, i love
Tamia
July 15th, 2009
Museo is one of my favorites. Thanks for the recs!
Terry Anne
July 15th, 2009
Wonderful! Thanks so much!
stk
July 15th, 2009
Jacob,
You say “high quality” and I looked quickly into #6 (Quicksand). It was the author’s first effort at creating a font and the spacing is bad.
Tip: When you say “high quality” and “for professional design”, people expect them to be just that.
Don’t know about the rest on your list, but after a look at only one, I’m very disappointed.
qubed
July 15th, 2009
i may have mentioned this on another post (sorry, i cant keep all these recent best of typography posts straight, a little overkill, but anyway…..)
check out http://www.pilo.me – it is a private typography forum putting just about every typography related site out there to shame. house industries and alejandro paul count themselves as members. i think the site is private / invite only, but if you can get in, you are golden with any font you may want.
Philipp
July 15th, 2009
Nice list! Makes my day happy :)
maya
July 15th, 2009
thank you! this is great. :)
Ben
July 15th, 2009
I’ve stumbled across a handful of those this year, but there are some great ones in the list that are new to me. A tremendous list. Thanks for posting it.
PVLiii
July 15th, 2009
Anyone know how to install the Flaminia Type System font? It’s a bunch of VFB files. I’m pretty sure even Google doesn’t know how to do it.
Alex Korsakov
July 15th, 2009
Gorgeous! Thank you so much for this post!
Jay
July 15th, 2009
Great collection! Thank you.. especially for the direct link!
Robyn Quinter
July 15th, 2009
A really nice collection of fonts. Thanks for sharing them. I like the trend toward clean, modern lines.
Meador
July 16th, 2009
Way cool! Nice clean fonts with a modern Myriad-style flair. I’ve got more than 10,000 fonts ahd these are a great addition. Thanks!
nachokb
July 16th, 2009
Just one issue: Often FT is not free by any means, its author clearly states:
> **YOU CANNOT USE THIS FONT OUTSIDE OF DEVIANT ART
> THIS FONT IS NOT FOR COMMERCIAL USE (websites, logos,
> banners, books, etc)**
> if these rules aren’t followed, I’ll be forced to take
> my own measures.
– nachokb
Callum Chapman
July 16th, 2009
Fantastic round-up. I’m saving this for when I get my new iMac at the beginning of next month! ;) Thanks!
Danny Hinde
July 16th, 2009
Great set of fonts, really nice selection downloaded almost all of them! I love “Nevis”, can’t wait to do some design work with them!
Nice article.
Philbo
July 16th, 2009
Nice, modern, clean fonts … can’t wait to use them, thanks!
fatheadsuk
July 16th, 2009
Some lovely fonts added here, many thanks. I particularly love the Legendum font and especially that Q, great example
kusu
July 17th, 2009
downloading almost all of it. lol.
thanks
Ricardo
July 23rd, 2009
Hi! a like those fonts! thanks…
i have another… Brie Light is cool font..
http://www.fontreactor.com/buscar/brie-light/
Johnny C
July 23rd, 2009
where the serifs at?
great list thanks!
Gary Stephen Callaghan
August 13th, 2009
Thanks for this great collection of free fonts, This is greatly appreciated.
Mario Lat
August 15th, 2009
Would you be kind enough to tell me what the name of this BONUS font is? Thanks a lot!
Jasmin Halkic
September 12th, 2009
Awesome. Thanks!
robb
September 12th, 2009
quick sand and aller sans are awesome yet simple fonts.
kudos.
dotndot
September 20th, 2009
Great collection of fonts…Thank you.
Xtence
September 21st, 2009
Awesome fonts, thanks for sharing !
Elaine B.
September 29th, 2009
Love comfortaa!! Nice list! Thanks!
Hugoagogo
September 30th, 2009
why is it that this came up on stumble upon when i couldn’t find something like this with Google, awesome post
Gian
October 21st, 2009
Best compilation of all!!
markt
January 15th, 2010
Great! Good fonts are hard to find these days.
Deko
August 15th, 2010
Quicksand is really nice font. Thank you for sharing.
belg4mit
November 29th, 2010
Re:nachokb’s comment on Often TF.
That text file appears to be out of date, since the deviant art page for the font has it has CC3.
mannysaxman
January 26th, 2011
Wow! Nice Collection!
Marcelo Vanwagoner
March 2nd, 2011
Bon truc. Merci.
SREE
March 2nd, 2011
GREAT ,THIS IS REALLY INFORMATIVE.
sami
May 10th, 2011
Thank….Nice collection sneh… I helped alot for me… Thank again
RAJU
July 27th, 2011
THANKS
Angga
September 6th, 2011
Very thanks..
BilgiSpot
November 6th, 2011
it’s cool fonts.
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