45 Beautiful Free Fonts for Modern Design Trends

December 16th, 2008 by Jacob Gube | 113 Comments | Stumble It! Delicious

The proper selection of typography in a design can set the appropriate theme and mood that the designer is going for. There are a lot of free fonts on the web – created by talented designers and type foundries.

In this collection, you’ll find 45 first-class, downloadable fonts for your use.

Clean, Modern, Web 2.0

Eurofurence

Cicle

Reznor Broken

Alte Haas Grotesk

Abrosia

Babel Sans

AUdimat

Folks TT

Bedizen

tondo

Grunge

Birth of a Hero

Everyday Ghost

Times New Yorker

Grymmoire

District

Ginga

Sidewalk

Trashco

Dirty and Classic

Laundromat 1967

84 Rock

Vintage / Retro

Americana Dreams

Vintage

02.10 fenotype

Automania

Chick

Deftone Stylus

Groove Machine

METRO-RETRO

Registry

Mexcellent

Swingtime MF

Hand Drawn / Painted

Joe Hand 2

advent

Sunday Morning Garage Sale

Rough Draft

Burst My Bubble

Loved by the King

Angelina

Sebastián Font

Karabine

Loveable Scruff

AE Scrawl

Edo

Note

You should read the license of each font before using them in your designs. In some cases, you have to attribute the font designer or need to meet specific requirements for you to use the font for commercial purposes.

113 Comments

Lawrence Anderson

December 16th, 2008

Very nice & lengthy collection of quality free fonts. Thanks!

Daisy

December 16th, 2008

I have most of these but the first few sans serif’s are fantastic, especially Beziden. It’s exactly what I’m looking for at the minute.

I’ll be a hero when I show this at work in the morning!
:D

Jim Gaudet

December 16th, 2008

Honestly, I can never have enough fonts.. The funny thing is, its like TV, all the stations and I can still never find what I want..

Matt

December 16th, 2008

Some great fonts in here. Excellent post.

Jacob Gube

December 17th, 2008

@Daisy: How funny is that? I was just talking about Beziden (as a potential replacement for the current Six Revisions logo). Glad this collection helped!

Robyn

December 17th, 2008

Really? Scanning your handwriting or bastardizing and sodomizing Garamond is beautiful? This is why type designers are not taken seriously.

insic

December 17th, 2008

wow cool fonts. thanks for sharing

Simon Vallee

December 17th, 2008

Great roundup. Now delicioused. :)

“Times New Yorker” – clever.

Timothy Long

December 17th, 2008

GOOD GRIEF that’s a nice roundup.

emmanuel

December 17th, 2008

Are you kidding ? These fonts are awful and the ones that work with it should try Comic Sans. Free fonts are not the designer’s friend. Un seul mot : amateurisme.

Phil Cook

December 17th, 2008

Nice, free fonts are always welcome. Shame I am blocked for most of these sites at work :(

I will get them at home later.

Many thanks

Simon

December 17th, 2008

Reznor Broken and Ambrosia are really nice sans-serif fonts
I love typography – it makes a website

Dietmar

December 17th, 2008

Wow, awesome list, very nice fonts! Thanks for this list!

Youandigraphics

December 17th, 2008

Great fonts!’Share’ and ‘Karabine’ are my favourites

Kevin Brown

December 17th, 2008

I can never get my hands on enough fonts! I have most of these, but nevertheless, great list!

Luca

December 17th, 2008

Really I don’t like your choice of free fonts (apart from one or two of them). A better choice of free professional fonts was published at Smashing Magazine http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/08/40-excellent-freefonts-for-professional-design/

Thank you, anyhow.

spyder

December 17th, 2008

Thank you so much. Always love more fonts.

And I don’t know why you hate on free fonts. If it works and the client likes it…why not?

How about post a link to some great fonts that you have to buy. I would like to see the difference.

Patareco

December 17th, 2008

Nice Fonts! Already knew some!

Maxx

December 17th, 2008

Angelina is great, and metro retro is a classic

max

December 17th, 2008

love the collection ! busy downloading !

Navdeep

December 17th, 2008

Thanks for the collection

Chris W.

December 17th, 2008

Jacob. Brotha. Some of these are weak. American Dreams? Groove Machine? Metro Retro? I would replace those with Museo, Museo Sans and Knife Fight, fo’ show.

p@r@noid

December 17th, 2008

great list!

jyoseph

December 18th, 2008

lol Chris, yeah great list indeed but I draw the line at Groove Machine. :P

aniec2

December 19th, 2008

Loveable Scruff link doesn’t work!

Nathan Longbrook

December 19th, 2008

This is a great list! I have a few of them, but just added some of the others to my collection. Thanks for posting these!

Mohd. Aleem

December 20th, 2008

Thanks for the help of my beautiful font selection.
i like these fonts, very much.

Thanks again.

Mike Seidle

December 20th, 2008

I absolutely love the fonts. Great free type isn’t so easy to find.

mike

December 20th, 2008

Ack, some of these are terrible. Some are great, sure, but… urgh. I’m no designer’s designer, but if I caught a peer using a few of these fonts, I’d have to shut ‘em down.

Vasili

December 20th, 2008

Great fonts. Cicle and Angelina have to be my favorites, but I found a couple new ones I love. Thanks! :)

Miaowei

December 21st, 2008

very good

Jacob Gube

December 21st, 2008

@aniec2: Fixed it, sorry about that. It was only the image that wasn’t working.

Tom Kenny

December 22nd, 2008

Some excellent fonts there especially considering they’re free. Thanks.

Allison

December 22nd, 2008

Over 50% of these are hideous.

Tyasske

December 26th, 2008

A point: Advent Pro is beautiful, but it’s not hand drawn. The preview image is only a sketch from the font’s designer.

abdusfauzi

January 1st, 2009

nice list here. i love most of the fonts here. [^^]

Stron Goodghost

January 3rd, 2009

Those are so amazing. Thank you for publishing. Love it man.

Ramazan Dönmez

January 3rd, 2009

Great fonts and Great list. thanks…

mansooreh

January 10th, 2009

dirty and classic

Kim

January 12th, 2009

Check another free fonts collection at – tools.khrido.com/webtools/fonts-collection.aspx

Amit Shah

January 29th, 2009

Awesome list, very nice fonts! Thanks for all!

Font chu

February 20th, 2009

Great list, thank for sharing!!!

Aaron zhang

February 28th, 2009

thanks so much !

Pandaribai

March 29th, 2009

Thanks! but is absolutely painful to download them individually. It would be awesome if one could download the whole set in one shot…

download09

March 29th, 2009

Very good thanks…

z.Yleo77

April 9th, 2009

most of this list look like beatuiful…

Volition

April 14th, 2009

thanks for the fonts. ignore the ingrates. effn’ douches are everywhere.

here’s a tip for the bitches: only download the ones you like, morons. this ain’t a damn exhibit, and no one cares about your bs opinion.

Syed Balkhi

May 6th, 2009

Once again a great article at sixrevisions. Thanks for the fonts they are surely worth to be collected. I am using a few of them already. I try to keep my fonts installed to the minimum as it speeds things up.

French Blast

May 11th, 2009

very nice selection of font and very useful if I lose inspiration!

Jordi

May 11th, 2009

All fonts available (some are lost)

http://rapidshare.com/files/231948419/45_Beautiful_Free_Fonts_for_Modern_Design_Trends.20090512044333.rar

http://sn.im/hub0p

Martijn

May 19th, 2009

What a nice selection, i really watched every single one of them closely

kim sherrell

May 21st, 2009

this is by far the best free collection in a long time. thanks!

Bogdan

May 21st, 2009

Very nice collection. Thank you.

WillK

June 10th, 2009

Great collection, I appreciate it.

Rajiv Menon

June 12th, 2009

great list. i didn’t know most of them before.

Pamela

August 15th, 2009

These are great. Thanks for pulling them together. I think I have a few, but will definitely be grabbing a few more!

Senith

September 2nd, 2009

Just what I’ve been looking for! Thanks for this great list of fonts. I’m always looking for new sites to find free fonts and I will have to bookmark this because I will come back to visit each site.

James Ballard

September 4th, 2009

nice resource

Jupiter

September 4th, 2009

Great font list.

It is very useful to us.

Prashanth

September 8th, 2009

Nice fonts.

DJ BEAR

September 8th, 2009

These fonts are shite

Honey Singh

September 8th, 2009

I used many of the above fonts in my designs !
The list is really needful for designers !
Thanks for the share, looking forward for more resources.

V

September 17th, 2009

Thank you for providing this collection of cool fonts. Very unique and interesting selection!

Rockergirl3131

September 23rd, 2009

LOVE this page! We especially love “Rough Draft” and just used it in a print ad for an arts fair. Brilliant stuff. Can’t thank you enough for sharing!