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!
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This was published on Jul 14, 2009
60 Comments
Fred Jul 14 2009
Awesome, I love good free fonts hard.
Bariski Jul 14 2009
Wow downloading man, thanks for sharing :D
ollo Jul 15 2009
thanks for sharing you always give out the best stuff.
Angela Jul 15 2009
Thanking you I see I couple even a font mad women like me doesn’t have lol :)
trice22 Jul 15 2009
Thanks!
thestorms Jul 15 2009
24th link sis wrong
Markus Jul 15 2009
some nice fonts indeed! ;)
Express Jul 15 2009
Awesome :) I really use fonts :P
Armig Esfahani Jul 15 2009
nice ones! thank you!
cssah Jul 15 2009
Amazing collection,the best thing is the direct link,i love Quicksand
Valisk_61 Jul 15 2009
Excellent list, thanks for sharing.
Downloading now…
Binoj Xavier Jul 15 2009
Nice Simple Humble Fonts. itweeted :)
Eddie Giese Jul 15 2009
Great list! I have most of these, but not all.
I also highly recommend Fontin and Graublau Sans Web
Maxime Perron Caissy Jul 15 2009
Good collection of fonts, I especially like Nevis, Advent and Museo.
henry Jul 15 2009
Nice.. my website use one of those. Aller Sans..i love it.
Jacob Gube Jul 15 2009
Thanks for the compliments everyone, I’ve been collecting these fonts in my bookmarks for at least two months!
Chris Lentz Jul 15 2009
Awesome list!
Sumesh Jul 15 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 Jul 15 2009
Great list, thanks for sharing.
Downloading …..
RipeType Jul 15 2009
I’d also recommend some of the fonts at RipeType.com.au – I might be a little biased though.. peace
amelie Jul 15 2009
nice, Great list, i love
Tamia Jul 15 2009
Museo is one of my favorites. Thanks for the recs!
Terry Anne Jul 15 2009
Wonderful! Thanks so much!
stk Jul 15 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 Jul 15 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 Jul 15 2009
Nice list! Makes my day happy :)
maya Jul 15 2009
thank you! this is great. :)
Ben Jul 15 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 Jul 15 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 Jul 15 2009
Gorgeous! Thank you so much for this post!
Jay Jul 15 2009
Great collection! Thank you.. especially for the direct link!
Robyn Quinter Jul 15 2009
A really nice collection of fonts. Thanks for sharing them. I like the trend toward clean, modern lines.
Meador Jul 16 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 Jul 16 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 Jul 16 2009
Fantastic round-up. I’m saving this for when I get my new iMac at the beginning of next month! ;) Thanks!
Danny Hinde Jul 16 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 Jul 16 2009
Nice, modern, clean fonts … can’t wait to use them, thanks!
fatheadsuk Jul 16 2009
Some lovely fonts added here, many thanks. I particularly love the Legendum font and especially that Q, great example
kusu Jul 17 2009
downloading almost all of it. lol.
thanks
Ricardo Jul 23 2009
Hi! a like those fonts! thanks…
i have another… Brie Light is cool font..
http://www.fontreactor.com/buscar/brie-light/
Johnny C Jul 23 2009
where the serifs at?
great list thanks!
Gary Stephen Callaghan Aug 13 2009
Thanks for this great collection of free fonts, This is greatly appreciated.
Mario Lat Aug 15 2009
Would you be kind enough to tell me what the name of this BONUS font is? Thanks a lot!
Jasmin Halkic Sep 12 2009
Awesome. Thanks!
robb Sep 12 2009
quick sand and aller sans are awesome yet simple fonts.
kudos.
dotndot Sep 20 2009
Great collection of fonts…Thank you.
Xtence Sep 21 2009
Awesome fonts, thanks for sharing !
Elaine B. Sep 29 2009
Love comfortaa!! Nice list! Thanks!
Hugoagogo Sep 30 2009
why is it that this came up on stumble upon when i couldn’t find something like this with Google, awesome post
Gian Oct 21 2009
Best compilation of all!!
markt Jan 15 2010
Great! Good fonts are hard to find these days.
Deko Aug 15 2010
Quicksand is really nice font. Thank you for sharing.
belg4mit Nov 29 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 Jan 26 2011
Wow! Nice Collection!
Marcelo Vanwagoner Mar 02 2011
Bon truc. Merci.
SREE Mar 02 2011
GREAT ,THIS IS REALLY INFORMATIVE.
sami May 10 2011
Thank….Nice collection sneh… I helped alot for me… Thank again
RAJU Jul 27 2011
THANKS
Angga Sep 06 2011
Very thanks..
BilgiSpot Nov 06 2011
it’s cool fonts.