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This article is from June 3, 2012, and is no longer current.

Free For All: ?Free Fonts Galore (Part 1)

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It’s been a while since Free for All visited our crowd-favorite category of freebies—fonts. As my way of making up for the length of time, here’s the first of two all-free-font Free for All installments. Come back next month for even more free font goodies!

Body Copy and Headline

These typefaces have the clean legibility required for use in high density such as in body copy, or they’re suited for large-size display in headlines.

Ariapenciroman

Chunk

COM4t Fine Regular

Ecofont Vera Sans Regular

Fontin

Geo Sans Light

Legendum

Mayberry Pro Semibold

Museo

Nilland

Raleway

Star Avenue

Titillium Text

Babylon Industrial

Metro

Pirulen

WhoopAss

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.

Ginga

Joybuzzer

VTKS Distress

Handwritten & Handdrawn Fonts

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

aaaiight!

Denise Handwriting

Hellphabet

Jenna Sue

Moody Boys

RABIOHEAD

Veggieburger

Symbols and Dingbats

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

Martin Vogel’s Symbols

Santiago Icono

Symbolix

Eclectics

The following assortment isn’t easily sorted into the other classifications, so I’ve made them their own little group.

Adec

Alt Tiwo

Amputa Bangiz

Kingthings Willow

Maagkramp

Paper Boat

Ripe

Xstitch

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

    Pariah, thanks for this and all your other articles. They make my searching for resources so much easier!

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