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Excellent type design has little to do with pretty shapes and everything to do with the functionality of the design. This taps on your typography skills.
But, isn’t it amazing how many font types and qualities are out there? How many free options are at your disposal, yet given your love for the minimalistic and simplistic design or out-of-the-box creative thinking, you have to pick one, at least? You have to think about whether or not you should shift your weight towards Serif, Sans Serif, Hand-lettered, Tattoo, Graffiti, Retro/Vintage, or the unusual fonts.
Whether you have a few favorites and you’d like to expand your range, or you are looking to try out new fonts, the new Typeyeah Daily Font series is dedicated to you. Each month, I will be sharing a collection of 30 of the best fonts to help you deliver a professional punch through your work.
In today’s marketing world, graphic designers have to think of creating work that resonates with a brand’s marketing strategy through typography. You now learn that the fonts chosen should be comfortable and legible – the right typography offers appropriate font faces, it assigns hierarchy where necessary, and decreases confusion, leading online visitors to stay, read, and appreciate the content created. Fortunately for you, this collection of free and premium fonts has got your back – they are readable and have excellent contrast: two important factors clients look for.
Whether your clients are looking for graphic design help with personal or commercial creative productions, these fonts will help you deliver.
Facón
Free Font
Facón is a sport display font with diagonal cuts designed by Alejo Bergmann. It contains all caps letters, numerals and symbols. Designed for a variety of display purposes, including logotypes, badges and labels, headlines and banners, posters, prints and much more.
Licence Details:
Free for personal and commercial use
Jailetter Typeface + Extras
Premium Font
Jailetter is a gothic font made by hand, inspired by classic labels. Jailetter comes with a regular, inline and ornament. Complete with uppercase, lowercase, numerals, punctuations and so many variations of each character include Opentype alternates, ligatures and also additional swash to let you customise your designs.
Use this font for Logotypes, Letterheads, Poster Design, Apparel Design, Label and more.
Licence Details:
– Commercial Use
– Unlimited Number of Projects
– Unlimited End Products For Sale
Tradesmith – Free Vintage Font
Free Font
Tradesmith is a brand new vintage font from 1871 Project. This font is the perfect balance of vintage and industrial with squared characters and angled corners – paired with other fonts you’re able to create authentic branding, logos, lockups & more. It has 4 styles: Regular, Round, Rough & Stamp, you will surely get the perfect character your project needs.
Licence Details:
Free for personal and commercial use
Download Tradesmith Free Vintage Font
Mightype 8 Font Bundle
Premium Font
Introducing Mightype, a beautiful font collection that you can use in your projects to create poster designs, logos, apparel, digital lettering, wedding invitations and more.
Included:
Mightype Brush, Bold Serif, Serif, Cursive, Casual, Sans, Sans Serif, Script PLUS This bundle also comes with 240 hand sketched illustrations.
Licence Details:
– Use resources to create a free end product or product for sale
– Use resources within personal and contracted client projects
– Use resources in multiple projects
Purchase Mightype 8 Font Bundle
Beau
Free Font
Introducing Beau from Tapiwanashe Sebastian Garikayi. Beau is a highly legible, elegant serif typeface and you’re able to get the regular version completely free. This font works just as well as large headline text as it does small body text. Download & enjoy!
Licence Details:
– Free for personal and commercial use
Black Sail Brush Font
Premium Font
Black Sail Brush Font is a simple artistic brush script font. It works well for many projects including children books, quotes, logos and more.
Licence Details:
– Commercial Use
– Unlimited Number of Projects
– Unlimited End Products For Sale
Purchase Black Sail Brush Font
Stoneburg
Free Font
Stoneburg by Ilham Herry is a slab serif display font that is great for big titles and headlines. It comes with 5 styles; Solid, Rounded, Hatch, Outline and Stoneburg Extended.
By downloading you’ll also get an exclusive 30% discount coupon off any premium product on ilhamherry.com
Licence Details:
– Free for personal and commercial use
Hyperwave Marker Font
Premium Font
Crank up the intensity with Hyperwave Marker Font, an energetic set of brush fonts with a sharp attitude!
It comes with three sets of each letter, each equipped with distinctive fast brush strokes, allowing you to create words where the same letters don’t all look the same. Hyperwave is ready and raring to make a big statement on your logo designs, brand imagery, handwritten quotes, product packaging, merchandise, music projects and social media posts.
Licence Details:
– Use resources to create a free end product or product for sale
– Use resources within personal and contracted client projects
– Use resources in multiple projects
Purchase Hyperwave Marker Font
Emmeline
Free Font
Emmeline is a free handwritten brush font from Sinikka Li. It comes with more than 260 characters. I love using this for signature style logos, inspirational quotes, cards, invitations and a whole heap more.
Included:
– A full set of uppercase, lowercase and special characters
– Another set of alternate lowercase & uppercase characters (the alternates are accessible by turning on ‘Stylistic Alternates’ in a software with OpenType capabilities – such as Photoshop or Illustrator)
– OTF, TTF and Woff (for web usage) files
Licence Details:
Free for personal and commercial use
Arlon Bold
Premium Font
Arlon makes it easy to give any brand or advertising a cool & futuristic look. Thanks to its spurless letterforms and some uncommonly shaped letters, this typeface creates a strong visual impact even in small sizes. Having generously rounded angles and terminals, Arlon also spreads warmth and friendliness. To sum up, Arlon communicates an affinity for technology – in a friendly way.
Included:
– Arlon Bold + free Arlon SemiBold Demo
– 631 glyphs
– 200+ languages covered
– Stylistic alternates
– Ligatures
– Many numerical variations, arbitrary fractions, automatic arrows
Licence Details:
– Commercial Use
– Unlimited Number of Projects
– Unlimited End Products For Sale
Saint George
Free Font
Saint George is an experimental typeface designed by Vedran Vaskovic. It is based on the widely available Georgia. The intention was to modify an existing typeface and create something new. Because it is an experimental project, it is available only in lowercase characters.
Licence Details:
Free for personal and commercial use
Download Saint George Free Font
Golden Youth Font Duo
Premium Font
Golden Youth Font Duo is a stylish and modern harmony of sans-serif & script typefaces. With a tall condensed sans-serif font and a free-flowing script companion, Golden Youth offers beautiful contrasting typography for a diversity of design projects, including; logos & branding, packaging design, advertisements & product designs and social media posts.
Included:
– Golden Youth Script
A clean, free-flowing, monoline script font containing upper & lowercase characters, numerals and a large range of punctuation.
– Golden Youth Alt
A second version of Golden Youth Script with a completely new set of upper & lowercase characters. If you want to avoid letters looking the same each time to recreate a custom-made style, or try a different word shape, simply switch to this font for an additional layout option.
– Golden Youth Caps
A tall condensed sans-serif font containing uppercase only characters, numerals and a large range of punctuation. Creates a perfect pairing contrast with the Golden Youth Script fonts.
– Golden Youth Extras
Simply type any A-Z uppercase character, or a-d lowercase character in this font to generate a ligature.
Licence Details:
– Use resources to create a free end product or product for sale
– Use resources within personal and contracted client projects
– Use resources in multiple projects
Purchase Golden Youth Font Duo
Quickens
Free Font
Quickens is free hand drawn font designed by Graphic Goods. Inspired by old lettering textbooks, Comprising of two styles – Regular and Rough, it has a slightly vintage look but is totally suitable for modern or adventure designs as well.
Licence Details:
Free for personal and commercial use
Historea
Premium Font
Historea is a modern and natural hand lettered font. It is fantastic for logo design, branding, modern advertising design, custom mug, pillow, t-shirts, and any hand-lettered digital projects.
Includes:
Historea comes with 2 versions. Historea Reguler/textured and Historea Solid (.ttf + .otf), both fonts comes with upper and lowercase standard characters, punctuation and numerals. Glyphs variation of the OpenType features such as Standard Ligature, Stylistic Alternate, and Stylistic Set are also included.
PUA Encode Characters, fully accessible without additional design software.
Includes a range of multilingual characters.
Licence Details:
– Commercial Use
– Unlimited Number of Projects
– Unlimited End Products For Sale
Purchase Historea Hand-lettered Font
Forward
Free Font
Forward is a unique handcrafted typeface by Alex Joganic of 1871 Project. It has a distinctly vintage feel and includes 3 styles – Regular, Rough & Rounded, italics for each version as well as a handful of alternate characters to help you customize your type further.
This is a perfect font for creating vintage branding, apparel, labels, badges & mockups.
Licence Details:
Free for personal and commercial use
Corner Deli Font Collection
Premium Font
Corner Deli has three base fonts and four layer options for each and there is a set of extra end swashes for Corner Deli script and layers for them too. Corner Deli is easy to use, just write the same text with different layer-fonts and colors and stack them on top of each other.
Included:
– Corner Deli T (Regular version of the Sans)
– Corner Deli TS (Shadow version for the Sans)
– Corner Deli Tx1 (Inline version for the Sans)
– Corner Deli Tx2 (Dot -inline version for the Sans)
– Corner Deli Sr (Regular version of the Script)
– Corner Deli Srs (Shadow version for the Regular Script)
– Corner Deli Sx1 (Inline version for the Script)
– Corner Deli Sx2 (Dot -inline version for the Script)
– Corner Deli Sb (Bolf version of the Script)
– Corner Deli Sbs (Shadow version for the Bold Script)
– Corner Deli X (Ending Swash for the Script)
– Corner Deli Xx1 (Inline version for the Ending Swash)
– Corner Deli Xx2 (Dot -inline version for the Ending Swash)
Licence Details:
– Use resources to create a free end product or product for sale
– Use resources within personal and contracted client projects
– Use resources in multiple projects
Purchase Corner Deli Font Collection
Maveryk
Free Font
Maveryk is a free industrial serif from Font Forestry! Maveryk is chunky font that features some roughness and uneven edges for a hand drawn vibe. It’s perfect for headlines, labels and branding that requires a strong vintage or industrial aesthetic.
Licence Details:
Free for personal and commercial use
Download Maveryk Industrial Free Font
Grindhaus Sans
Premium Font
Grindhaus Sans by Vintage Type Co is a cross between a geometric & humanist grotesk, inspired by the vintage grotesk typography of the 19th century. A style that was popular on shop windows, book covers, and minimalist labelling.
Included:
5 weights – Thin, Light, Regular, Bold, Black
Licence Details:
– Commercial Use
– Unlimited Number of Projects
– Unlimited End Products For Sale
Quantum
Free Font
Quantum is a bold typeface created by Greg ‘Sesohq’ Ortiz. It has an original slashed & futuristic design that was inspired from use of the shape builder tool and bold accents. This unique typeface is great for anything related to gaming, space, future, Sci-fi, etc. and is excellent for logos, branding & headlines.
Licence Details:
Free for personal and commercial use
Drustic Dialy
Premium Font
Drustic Dialy a stylish rustic font with 4 font combinations including script and halftone, sans, sans condensed and italic, serif plus a bunch of stylistic alternatives that you can combine to create truly unique pieces.
Included:
DrusticDialy Serif, Sans, Script
, Script Halftone, Condensed, Condensed Italic, Catchword
Licence Details:
– Use resources to create a free end product or product for sale
– Use resources within personal and contracted client projects
– Use resources in multiple projects
America
Free Font
America by Alex Joganic is a bold textured script with large dramatic capitals and a natural flowing stroke. It features a full upper & lower case character set along with several alternate characters for creating a custom hand lettered feel in your work.
Licence Details:
Free for personal and commercial use
Funkies
Premium Font
Introducing a new retro bold script called Funkies. Bring back to the 70’s era Funkies inspired by posters and album covers of funk, disco and rockabilly music with bold and fun style. Funkies came with open type features such stylistic alternates, stylistic sets, swash & ligatures good for logotype, poster, badge, book cover, tshirt design, packaging and any more.
Licence Details:
– Commercial Use
– Unlimited Number of Projects
– Unlimited End Products For Sale
Build
Free Font
Build! Typeface is a sans serif that is inspired by German editorial design and their solid fonts. It was created by Daniele Capelli.
It’s perfect for headline strings and logos due to it’s solid geometry and medium bold weight.
Licence Details:
Free for personal and commercial use
Download Build Free Sans Serif Font
Naratif Condensed Typeface
Premium Font
Naratif is a condensed display font based on an early 1900 sans-serifs and gothic faces. Naratif Condensed Typeface has 7 weights and a total of 14 fonts.
With a wide range of language support, and OpenType features such as Small Caps, Fractions, Alternates Character, Inferior and Arrows, this font is great for all of your display needs.
Licence Details:
– Use resources to create a free end product or product for sale
– Use resources within personal and contracted client projects
– Use resources in multiple projects
Purchase Naratif Condensed Typeface
Geizer
Free Font
Geizer from Matt Cole Wilson is a real favourite of mine. It is inspired by horror fiction, heavy metal, and things that go bump in the night
Interesting fact: this font is named after Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath.
Licence Details:
Free for personal and commercial use
Cosmic Lager
Premium Font
Cosmic Lager is a vintage look label font. The typeface includes four font styles for clean version and four font styles for rough version, for sample look at 4th preview.
This font is great for retro design posters, t-shirts and whatever else your imagination comes up with.
Comes with a nice bonus of 3 ready made t-shirt designs.
Licence Details:
– Commercial Use
– Unlimited Number of Projects
– Unlimited End Products For Sale
Purchase Cosmic Lager Vintage Font
Macbeth Free SVG Font
Free Font
Macbeth is a unique new hand drawn OpenType SVG font from Giemons. This new font format allows for amazing authentic detail in each letter. This is an aggressive font with uppercase & lowercase characters as well as numbers, punctuation and a few extra marks. Use this for awesome displays, labeling, clothing, posters, movie titles, album covers, logos, and much more.
Licence Details:
Free for personal and commercial use
Download Macbeth SVG Free Font
Havana Sunset SVG Font Duo
Premium Font
Let your hair down and enjoy the ride with Havana Sunset! Analogue meets digital in this font duo, pairing a care-free & textured script font with a trendy all-caps sans-serif – creating the perfect typography contrast for fun, free & stylish design projects.
This font duo is packed full of extra features; the script font includes a full alternate set of characters, as well as an additional SVG version, containing extra high-resolution textures. The sans font includes both a filled and an outlined version, giving you a variety of layout options. It’s a lot of fun to experiment with!
Licence Details:
– Use resources to create a free end product or product for sale
– Use resources within personal and contracted client projects
– Use resources in multiple projects
Purchase Havana Sunset SVG Font Duo
Hansief Free Vintage Sans Serif Font
Free Font
Hansief is a bold sans serif typeface from Kautsar Rahadi. It features a distinct vintage inspired style and comes in Regular and Rough.
This typeface features great textures and is filled with unique characters. There are also extended latin characters for even broader use.
Licence Details:
Free for personal and commercial use
Download Hanseif Sans Serif Free Font
Pittsbrook Sans
Premium Font
Pittsbrook Sans is a classic typeface that inspired by the letters used in old advertisement and packagings. Its rigid shape gives you strong, sharp and blocky feelings, no curves were harmed in the making of this typeface. Packed with 400+ consistently mouse-crafted characters, Twicolabs Fontdation spent a lot of attention to every details. Suits best for any classic/vintage design project, including logos, liquor/food label, packaging, headline, space-filler, logotype, typographic quote writings and more.
Licence Details:
– Commercial Use
– Unlimited Number of Projects
– Unlimited End Products For Sale
Licensing
Now, before you start downloading fonts all over the place, you might want to check the license terms of the font from the website. Since the terms and conditions for the use of some premium fonts change all the time, always check the source of the font.
Other than licensing, free fonts may cost you your business in that the links provided may be ad-ware spam links that leave you with pesky malware or unwanted programs in your computer. You may also end up with the inferior-bootleg fonts or fakes of originals. These circumstances will eventually cost you.
How about the Royalty Free Fonts?
While these fonts are out there and you can use them freely, they are free-to-use fonts – no paying royalty fees for use – they don’t come with guarantees, and you may be required to pay for the license. Again, check those terms and save a screenshot!
Now that we have that out of the way, I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of this new series of best fonts for your next projects.
