5 Top Free Font Websites
Finding the right fonts for your printed or online projects without paying charges can be difficult, especially when you are chasing a deadline. There are plenty of sites to download fonts for free but again, that involves a lot of research work deciding which one is the best. Below you will find a list of best free fonts websites to make it a little bit easier the next time you search for fonts that are free of cost.
1.Font Squrriel
The tagline of the website “100% free for commercial use” is self-explanatory. So you don’t have to worry about checking the license and figuring out the do’s and don’ts while using the font. Many consider Font Squirrel to be the best website for free and commercial use fonts in terms of quantity, quality, and ease of usage.
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/
2. Google Fonts
Google Fonts offer a variety of free fonts in serif, sans serif, handwriting, and monospace. So if you are looking for something a stylish font and something very unique, you may not find it here. However, there are hundreds of free fonts for photoshop and designing projects in more than 135 languages. Just browse through the fonts and click “Add to Collection” for any font you like. Once you have selected the fonts you like, you can download all of them in a zip file. On unzipping, you will find the fonts in .otf or .ttf files to install. The best part about Google fonts is that all the fonts here are open source. So, you can modify them or use them for commercial use.
https://fonts.google.com/
3. DaFont
DaFont is a legal website to download free fonts for personal projects. You might have to dig in a little to find commercial use fonts, but once you learn to explore the site through categories, you might stumble upon some cool and stylish fonts for web designing. There is an extensive and detailed category collection including themes such as fancy, horror, video game, alien, gothic, Halloween and many more.
4. Font Space
FontSpace has over 35,000 fonts to share with users, making it the largest font library. These free fonts are submitted by more than 2,000 designers who like share their work without charging anything. Much like DaFont, FontSpace has an awesome collection of categories to choose from with the help of tags. It also allows you to preview multiple fonts at once and offers easy download options. Before jumping into the font hunt, make sure you check off “only show commercial use fonts” option to filter out the commercial use fonts only. The best part is that the site lets you download free fonts in a single click an without signing up for it. Files are downloaded in a zip file containing .otf and .ttf files which are ready to be installed.
https://www.fontspace.com/
5. 1001 Fonts
1001 Fonts houses a collection of over 7360 free fonts in 9526 families. However, not all of them are available for commercial purposes. So if you want the 4000+ free commercial fonts present on this website, you can it access it from this link. The UI may not be as friendly as the aforementioned websites, but the fonts available here are of impressive quality and easy to install. As 1001 Fonts is one of the most popular sites for free downloadable fonts, there are comments on the majority of the fonts available so you can know the opinions and recommendations of other people too. Also, do not get misled by the character map on the font web pages as they don’t always represent the characters accurately that come with the font. Some fonts may display few characters only, but you will find the full set on installing it.
https://www.1001fonts.com/
Humolli Drin, Editor