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Free For All: Free Fonts Galore (Part 2)

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Industrial Fonts

Always one of my favorite classifications of typefaces, industrial is clean, sharp, and dually futuristic and retrograde at the same time.

Aldo

Days

Dekar

Dynomite (4 fonts)

Franchise

Greyscale

Groovy Fast

Ignis et Glacies Sharp (4 fonts)

Libel Suit

Neuropol X Regular

Orbitron

Techno Overload

Telegrama

Ultra Condensed Sans Serif

You’re Gone

Grunge Fonts

Grimy, worn, torn, and stepped on best describe the feeling evoked by grunge typefaces, making them perfect for any project that isn’t gleaming, new, refined, or uppercrust.

84 Rock!

Angelic War

AntiGlare

Birth of a Hero

Dirty and Classic

Laundromat 1967

Times New Yorker

Handwritten & Handdrawn Fonts

Nothing conveys that personal, homemade touch quite like handdrawn type and fonts created directly from real people’s handwriting.

FFF Tusj

Hand of Sean

Honey Script

Joe Hand 2

Memos Hand

Note This

Philippe

Script of Sheep

Umberette

Walt Disney Hand

What Do We Do All Day

Symbols and Dingbats

The irony of symbols and dingbats presented in font form is that a pictogram is often worth a thousand words.

AIGA Symbol Signs (EPS and GIF format)

Dingbests

Hazard

Pictogramz

Symbol Signs

Wash Care Symbols


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Pariah S. Burke is the author of many books and articles that empower, inform, and connect creative professionals.
  • Anonymous says:

    All the “free” fonts I looked at included the stipulation, “No commercial use.” — So, not useful to me at all.

    How about only showing fonts that are actually free for all uses?

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