50+ Fonts for Big, Bold Headlines

By Steven Snell | Published July 21st, 2008 in Resources

Font selection for headlines on websites can be critical to achieving the right look and drawing the proper attention with the headlines. Here is a look at more than 50 fonts that will give you some options for creating strong headlines that communicate a message. Some of these fonts you probably already have, some of them can be downloaded for free, and others can be purchased. Each font is linked to a page where it can be downloaded or purchased.

UPDATE: We recently launched a gallery site to showcase the best sources of typography inspiration – TypeInspire.

Fonts for Big, Bold Headlines:

Headlines

Nevis

Nevis

Frutiger 95 Ultra Black

Frutiger

Proxima Nova Condensed Extrabold

Proxima Nova

Franklin Gothic Heavy

Franklin Gothic

Rockwell Extra Bold

Rockwell Extra Bold

Gnuolane

Gnuolane

Bebas

Bebas

Museo

Museo

Sling Bold

Sling

Delicious Heavy

Delicious

Mido

Mido

Fontin

Fontin

Liberation Serif

Liberation Serif

Liberation Sans

Liberation Sans

Colaborate

Colaborate

Coolvetica

Coolvetica

Syntax Bold

Syntax Bold

Neue Helvetica 85 Heavyw

Neue Helvetica

EF TV Nord Black

EF TV Nord Black

Warnock Pro Semi Bold

Warnock Semi Pro

Stella Lining Bold

Stella Lining Bold

PMN Caecilia 85 Heav

PMN Caecilia

Felbridge Extra Bold

Felbridge Extra Bold

Tuffy Bold

Tuffy Bold

Blue Highway

Blue Highway

Alte Haas Grotesk

Alte Haas Grotesk

Steelfish

Steelfish

Headline

Headline

Old Sans Black

Old Sans Black

Hit the Road

Hit the Road

Kenyan Coffee

Kenyan Coffee

Tall Dark and Handsome

Tall Dark and Handsome

Engebrechtre

Engelbrechtre

Portishead Dummy

Portishead Dummy

Optimus Princeps

Optimus

Episode 1

Episode1

Mashburn

Mashburn

Boris Black Bloxx

Boris Black Bloxx

Long Tall Sally

Long Tall Sally

Media Gothic

Media Gothic

Phrixus

Phrixus

Old Republic

Old Republic

Angleterre Book

Angleterre Book

Imperator

Imperator

River Avenue

River Avenue

Arial Blac

Arial Black

Impact

Impact

Myriad Pro Black

Myriad Pro Black

Placard MT Condensed Bold

Placard MT Condensed Bold

Walkway Black

Walkway Black

Telegrafico

Telegrafico


124 Comments
  1. Felix Widjaja on July 22nd, 2008

    Great list! Bookmarked definitely.
    I just love serif fonts on bold.

    Btw. I want to add Romeral to the list, http://www.typies.blogspot.com/2006/12/romeral-display-typeface.html

  2. promotional card printing on July 22nd, 2008

    Lovely fonts. We mostly used sarif bold fonts as heading in print media. the list have many compelling fonts for headings. thanks.

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  4. Digitalmail on July 22nd, 2008

    Nice collection buddy , actually i was looking for some good collection for banners text and i got it here .

  5. Dan Collins on July 22nd, 2008

    Wow, this is an amazing collection.
    I have downloaded most of the free ones.
    Grazi!

  6. Andrew on July 22nd, 2008

    Really nice collection. I found a bunch that I downloaded. Thanks.

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  9. liam on July 22nd, 2008

    Very impressive collection, a truly great idea and some truly amazing fonts, thanks for sharing.

  10. tero on July 22nd, 2008

    I was not aware that anything else than IMPACT was necessary.

  11. Grafiko on July 22nd, 2008

    very nice collection

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  13. Bob on July 22nd, 2008

    A great collection. ‘Boris Black Bloxx’ looks different with some fogginess. Other resources with great collection of free fonts to download : http://tools.khrido.com/webtools/fonts-collection.aspx

  14. Dalia on July 22nd, 2008

    Thanks so much for expanding my font horizons!

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  16. fontuser99 on July 22nd, 2008

    I like the list, except for a few fonts, including “Hit the Road”, that are blatant ripoff’s of originals, this one being Font Bureau’s “Interstate”.

    Just to make it clear though, a lot of the typefaces on here are legit. (Fruitger,Impact,Myriad Pro,etc…) And I love all your Vandelay website stuff :)

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  18. Steven Snell on July 22nd, 2008

    fontuser99,
    I have to admit that I’m not familiar with Interstate. I apologize if I posted a ripoff. Thanks for the feedback!

    Felix,
    Yes, I like Romeral. The reason I didn’t include it was that the only way I could find to download it was to email the creator.

    Thanks everyone else for the comments. Your feedback is appreciated.

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    Great list! It is always difficult to find some interesting font, every time am spending hours on it… Have bookmarked and will be coming back from time to time:)

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  66. rajiv menon on June 12th, 2009

    great list. i didn’t know most of them before.

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    Beautiful fonts with varieties….Soooooo happy……

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    Fantastic list and resource. Definitely bookmarked. Thanks.

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    So many charactor to download…

  71. Philipp on July 31st, 2009

    Great! Rockwell is one of my favourites…

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    Thanks for the help!

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  81. Danny Maireroa on October 12th, 2009

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    Too easy.
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  82. Private Label Rights on October 12th, 2009

    Was looking around for new fonts, so I can use to make new websites with. Thanks for sharing these, this is a good find :)

  83. cool designs on October 17th, 2009

    thnks i too find the list very good……….! thnks a lot.

  84. Color Offset Printing on November 4th, 2009

    Wow very nice roundup of heading fonts, just what I need for this flyer design I am working on! I think I am going to use that Museo font.

  85. weberica on November 13th, 2009

    I like FUTURA , like in my logo

  86. Roger Chasteauneuf on November 16th, 2009

    wow what a great list, thanks so much. I so love coolvetica. Makes me laugh as well. Be great to get your thoughts on my list…
    http://www.freddesign.co.uk/2009/11/archive/great-thick-headline-fonts/
    let me know what you think.

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    this is just awesome,i never thought about such a thing as having a unique font for my blog.
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  92. gayathri on December 26th, 2009

    Nice list …thanks for collections……………

  93. Just Press Print | Fonts on January 3rd, 2010

    Great new collection of fonts I think i’m going to use mashburn on my next flyer.

  94. avinash on January 5th, 2010

    thanks for this type of article.after a along surfing i got this one now using Tuffy Bold font..thanks again.

  95. iMatt on January 10th, 2010

    Very very nice collection! Will definetly come in handy! Tnx

  96. Everest on February 3rd, 2010

    ust what I’ve been looking for! Thanks for this great list of fonts. I’m always looking for new sites to find free fonts and I will have to bookmark this because I will come back to visit each site.

  97. Everest on February 3rd, 2010

    nice collection, thanks for your sharing….

  98. matematik on February 23rd, 2010

    Thanks a lot for nice sharing.
    Regards…

  99. Modo on March 3rd, 2010

    Not a bad list overall, but Impact belongs with Papyrus and Comic Sans on a list of typefaces to never use for anything ever. Also Arial should only be used if Helvetica is unavailable.

  100. Club Penguin on March 6th, 2010

    I found a font to use for my new site! Thanks for the suggestions.

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  104. Kate on May 1st, 2010

    Blue Highway was not designed for headlines. It is for easy-to-read small clear letters, such as on business cards and notebook inserts, calendars, etc.

    At large sizes, it just doesn’t look right.

  105. Naveen on May 24th, 2010

    Very very useful fonts.
    Thanks for sharing……

  106. seeli on May 26th, 2010

    nice collection. . .

  107. PSD web templates on June 15th, 2010

    Was searching around for some new fonts, so I cud use to make new website with. Thanks for sharing these.

  108. Adlo on June 16th, 2010

    Great list of BOLD fonts

  109. Jocurica on June 24th, 2010

    Great collection. I’m planning to use it on my future projects.

  110. free club penguin on July 8th, 2010

    Coolvetica is probably my favorite. Nice collection

  111. Website design chennai on July 12th, 2010

    Excellent collection here about the fonts…really stuff website. i recommend to my friends and all…thanks for sharing..Very helpfull for brochure designers…

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    wow what a great list, thanks so much. I so love coolvetica. Makes me laugh as well. Be great to get your thoughts on my list…

  113. Adam Cooper on July 24th, 2010

    This is a great list of fonts. I love it.

  114. Jocurica on August 6th, 2010

    I love the last one :)