50 High-Quality Free Fonts for Professional Design

By Steven Snell | Published December 7th, 2009 in Resources

Designers love to have a lot of quality fonts available to them, and fortunately there are some very good free fonts out there. In this post we’ll feature some of the best free fonts that can be used in your commercial designs. If you’re looking for a place to find more free fonts that can be used for commercial projects, I highly recommend Font Squirrel.

League Gothic

League Gothic

Chunk

Chunk

Junction

Junction

Calluna Regular

Calluna Regular

ITC Chino – Pro Black Italic

ITC Chino - Pro Black Italic

Sovereign Regular

Sovereign Regular

Ripe

Ripe

Tiza

Tiza

Sorts Mill Goudy

Sorts Mill Goudy

Miso

Miso

Akashi

Akashi

Birra Stout

Birra Stout

Mayberry Pro Semibold

Mayberry Pro Semibold

Sansation

Sansation

Fertigo Pro

Fertigo Pro

Anivers

Anivers

Walkway

Walkway

Nevis

Nevis

Jura

Jura

FF Celeste

FF Celeste

Diavlo

Diavlo

Museo

Museo

Museo Sans

Museo Sans

Delicious

Delicious

Fontin Sans

Fontin Sans

Mido

Mido

Tallys

Tallys

Cantarell

Cantarell

Andron Freefont

Andron Freefont

DejaVu Serif

DejaVu Serif

Imperator

Imperator

New Athena Unicode

New Athena Unicode

Liberation Serif

Liberation Serif

Liberation Sans

Liberation Sans

Sling

Sling

Vollkorn

Vollkorn

Bebas

Bebas

Bitstream Vera Sans

Bitstream Vera Sans

Bitstream Vera Serif

Bitstream Vera Serif

Cicle

Cicle

New Cicle

New Cicle

Existence Light

Existence Light

Folks-Light

Folks-Light

Qlassik

Qlassik

Sansumi

Sansumi

Teen

Teen

Titillium

Titillium

Vegur

Vegur

Alexandria

Alexandria

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99 Comments
  1. Cameron Sweeney on December 7th, 2009

    Awesome list! Thanks for featuring my Ripe font!

  2. Design Informer on December 7th, 2009

    Nice fonts. League Gothic is still one of my favorite free fonts!

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  4. Kerch on December 7th, 2009

    This is an awesome collection of pro fonts. Thanks!

  5. andy on December 7th, 2009
  6. Jenna on December 7th, 2009

    Great list of fonts, Thanks!

  7. theComplex on December 7th, 2009

    Fantastic list! I can’t wait to work with some of these.

  8. Damon Bauer on December 7th, 2009

    This is a great list… thanks for the good roundup!

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  10. Adam on December 7th, 2009

    Nice to see more serifed typefaces getting released.

  11. Alex on December 7th, 2009

    Quicksand is free for non-commercial use only, meaning that it is NOT free for _professional_ design. You guys should really pay close attention to the licensing terms, I’m sure Quicksand is not alone of its kind on this list.

  12. Jacob Gube on December 7th, 2009

    Awesome font collection here Steven, just what I needed to get me out of this font rut.

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  14. MattS on December 8th, 2009

    Sansation is my favorite free font in this list. I always start out with that one in a design to see if it works out or not. And it usually does.

  15. Ajay on December 8th, 2009

    Awesome font list, Thanks!

  16. Boothy on December 8th, 2009

    This list is great until you try to download a font.

    Broken links and links to paid font sites abound.

  17. LukeSF on December 8th, 2009

    Awesome set! Found some new and interesting fonts. Great contribution to anyone’s fonts collection.

  18. Bojan on December 8th, 2009

    Great list, thanks. I’ll be using League Gothic for sure.

  19. Nik Gill on December 8th, 2009

    Brilliant list, some beauties…. tho ITC Chino doesn’t seem to be free, the link goes through to a shopping cart with the font in the basket?

  20. Podveg Razvedcheka on December 8th, 2009

    Chino font is not FREE!

  21. Look on December 8th, 2009

    Nice set! Thanks!

  22. yavamospillaos on December 8th, 2009

    Just a lot of thanks!!!!
    Awesome collection!!!!

    I love San Serif fonts!

  23. Steven Snell on December 8th, 2009

    Alex,
    Quicksand has been removed from the list. The license data at Font Squirrel is not real clear. But you’re right, I searched and found another site that said it was for personal use.

    Boothy,
    If you can be more specific about broken links I can get that fixed. The page has no broken links at this time. Yes, some of the links point to paid font sites, but those sites do give away some fonts (at least in some weights) for free.

    Nik and Podveg,
    That link was wrong, but it’s fixed now. ITC Chino Black Italic is free, the other weights are not free. If you click on the link now you will see that you can download black italic for free.

  24. Font Squirrel on December 8th, 2009

    Steven-

    Quicksand is indeed free for commercial use. I just updated the license on our site. The author states in the typophile forum here: http://www.typophile.com/node/50437#comment-346232 that commercial use is ok.

    And, thanks for all the links! Enjoy the fonts….

    Ethan

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  26. fontie on December 8th, 2009

    thanks a lot :)

  27. john gaiser on December 8th, 2009

    Chino link is still bad…

    Teaches you to post a freebie :)

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  29. Steven Snell on December 8th, 2009

    John,
    Sorry about that. Seems to be an issue with a re-direct. I changed the link again, you can try this URL – http://www.linotype.com/cart/641203/itcchinoblackitalic.html?noRedirect=1

  30. Ben on December 8th, 2009

    Excellent resources to reference! Thank you for researching these and posting them.
    Another fantastic typography site / forum to find exclusive / new and foundry fonts is http://www.pilo.me
    It is the best typography forum for graphic designers / typographers on the internet. I believe it is an invite only site, similar to ffffound and behance, but a little more homegrown, personal and underground, but the content they have available is amazing. Simply Amazing.
    Thank you again, I will definitely be bookmarking this!

  31. Creative Ideas on December 8th, 2009

    Awesome fonts. Thanks for work

  32. web design york on December 8th, 2009

    Some really good and useful fonts there. I will experiment with them in my next designs.

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  34. Ed on December 8th, 2009

    Awesome list. Thanks!

  35. D. on December 8th, 2009

    Thanks! Good stuff here.

  36. Moises De Ocampo on December 9th, 2009

    great fonts…

  37. Gbloggt on December 9th, 2009

    A great resource with a collection of nice font.
    Thanks for this list.

  38. Andrew Kelsall on December 9th, 2009

    That’s a great list, thanks.

    I use the free font: Delicious myself, as can be seen on my website branding :)

  39. serenine on December 9th, 2009

    Awesome list! Thank you for sharing..

  40. Boyd Dames on December 9th, 2009

    Great list, thank you!

  41. Matt B on December 9th, 2009

    Great list! This will be first on my font resource list from now on.

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  45. Spud on December 10th, 2009

    Would be alot easier if you just packed in all in 1 file so we don’t have to manually downloading 50 files…

  46. Steven Snell on December 10th, 2009

    Spud,
    Yes, it would be easier, but it would also violate the licenses of each font because I would be re-distributing them.

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  50. Mario on December 12th, 2009

    Awesome list!! What a great resource,

    Thanks,

    M

  51. Future Webs on December 14th, 2009

    These are some really great fonts, i will definitely be using one of these! Thanks.

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    Amazing collection of fonts here. Lots I can download and use for my projects. Thanks for sharing these with us.

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    Some really nice fonts!
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  63. Media Designer on December 28th, 2009

    Thank you *burp*. You can never have enough well designer and usable serif fonts, with a bunch of sans-serifs thrown in there too. There are way too many junk fonts out there that are utterly useless for anything except a kids party poster.
    Thanks for making me look good!

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  64. Ishlah on December 29th, 2009

    nice collection, I like it, thanks for sharing…^^

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  82. Carmia on March 28th, 2010

    Thank you for this list! I have downloaded Fontin, DejaVu and Delicious before. I like them a lot. Jura looks really nice too. Can’t wait to use the rest of these in my designs!

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    Thanks a lot! UI wish i find this post sooner before creating my logo, i remember spending 30mn to find the best font…

  85. Galen on May 3rd, 2010

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