2015-12-09

Download alright sans free font and much more

We’ve scoured the web to present you with a fine and varied selection of free fonts. Including scripts, serifs, and a range of ligatures, these fonts will give you greater flexibility in your designs, and add to your arsenal of design tools.

This list represents the 60 best free fonts we’ve found in a variety of styles. However, for specialist fonts that won’t cost you a penny, read these:

Some of these free fonts can be used on your web projects, but check the terms. And if you’re looking at a quick primer on using web fonts, we explain all here.

So, without further ado, join us as we present you with 60 of the best free fonts, which you can download and use today. Let us know how you get on!

01. Alright Sans Free Fonts



Alright Sans Free Font is a contemporary sans-serif. Inspired by both grotesque and humanist models, it’s clean and prudent with a warm, friendly tone.

Alright Sans Free Font is a modest design that doesn’t feel at all stiff or bland. It has open apertures and roundabout economy that works exceptionally well across media and at reduced sizes. And with shorter-than-normal capitals and a tall x-height, it’s functional without becoming distracting, goofy, or unprofessional.

Format: TTF

02. Dense

One of our favourite free fonts to recently surface, Dense is a versatile, elegant, geometric and compact sans-serif typeface. Three weights have been created thus far: thin, regular and bold. Created by by Canadian artist Charles Daoud, Regular is currently the only weight available, but Daoud has said that he’ll update his Behance page with news on how to get the other weights in the near future.

FORMAT: TTF

03. Chrome Light

Created by London-based graphic designer Artem Sukhinin, Chrome light is available in two variations, Chrome and Chrome Black, with a full set of letters, numbers and four punctuation marks. This is one of those free fonts that can be used for any type of graphic design – print, web, packaging and more.

FORMAT: TTF

04. Higher

Created by Portugal-based graphic designer Marissa Passos, free font Higher was made as a student project during her time at the University of Porto. The typeface contains a full set of uppercase characters and numbers 0-9. It’s free for both personal and commercial use, and available in OTF and TTF formats.

Format: OTF and TTF

05. Look Up

New York based interactive designer and illustrator Filiz Sahin is quickly becoming known for her free fonts. Often experimenting with an array of different techniques, her fonts are as versatile as her own design style. Look Up is one of the most playful free fonts on our list, with a home-made feel, with little arrows at the edge of each letter.

Format: TTF

06. Woodwarrior

Woodwarrior is a typeface inspired by the north, and the contrast between modern man made structures and untouched nature shaped by wind and ice alone. Created by designer Anton Bohlin, Woodwarrior is one of those free fonts that’s perfect for experimental headlines and eye-catching straps.

Format: TTF

07. Fenix

Graphic designer Fernando Diaz describes this entry to our free fonts as a “serif typeface designed for display and long texts, its foundations are based in calligraphy, with strong serifs and rough strokes. Its proportions seek to gain space in height and width. Fénix is elegant at large sizes and legible at the same time, with a lot of rhythm in small sizes.”

FORMAT: OTF

08. Woodshop

Earlier this year, Pennsylvania-based graphic designer Nick Slater released this Woodshoptypeface, which he generously offers as a free download. The slab font comes complete with a full set of upper and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters.

FORMAT: OTF

09. Quirky nots

Toronto based typographer Amit Jakhu created this fun and playfully unique typeface for his Typography 6 class. He released it as one of the hundreds of free fonts out there, because he wouldn’t have further developed it after finishing college – and we couldn’t thank him enough!

It was a huge learning curve for Jakhu and we think he’s done a great job for a first timer. He’s happy for you to modify it, share it and basically do whatever you want with it. It is fully available to use anywhere; no restrictions!

FORMAT: TTF

10. Vincent

Vincent was developed by graphic and product designer for NBC Universal Ben Suarez. Created at the end of last year, this vintage-inspired design was Suarez’s first fully functioning typeface, and is a great addition to our free fonts.

“Vincent was intended to be used as a title font,” explains Suarez. It was “named after my grandfather who drove a ’76 Chrysler Cordoba and smoked out of an old wooden pipe. He was rad.”

FORMAT: TTF

10. BoB

Inspired by the playful asethics of illustration, Burma-based typographer Zarni has created this cool and characterful font. This kind of typography is perfect for experimentation and will work wonders on posters and headlines.

Coming in capital and lower case letters, BoB also includes numerical symbols as well as a variety of punctuation marks. As free fonts go it has plenty of uses – just be sure to show Zarni some love.

FORMAT: TTF

11. Coco

Coco by French graphic designer and junior art director Hendrick Rolandez is a fashion-oriented type family created back in 2012. Free for commercial use, the design now boasts eight versions of the font with more 209 glyphs for each.

“Coco is a sans-serif type family declined in a set of eight fonts with regular, italic, bold, bold-italic, condensed, condensed-italic, condensed bold & condensed bold-italic, which can be used for several types of projects, from digital to print,” explains Rolandez. “Each font has more than 209 glyphs including small letters, capitals, numbers & special glyphs and punctuation. This family is for all type lovers who would like to emphasize a fashion project.”

FORMAT: TTF

12. Biko

Biko is a design by graphic designer and visual artist Marco Ugolini: “a geometric sans serif with a strong and yet friendly character”. The name is a tribute to Steve Biko: a South African anti-apartheid activist. Perfect for display, copy text and logos, it’s available in regular, and black versions. It’s also one of our free fonts that’s only gratis for use in personal projects, while you can purchase the font for 20 Euros for commercial use. So, what are you waiting for?

FORMAT: TTF

13. Linny

This, one of our cutest free fonts, was designed by Maya aka Linny. It’s based on Maya’s own handwriting and comes in upper and lower case, as well as numbers and punctuation.

FORMAT: TTF

14. Parisish

This is one of the most elegant free fonts, and was created by type designer George Williams; it has the feel of old Paris about it. One of 57 fonts created by the designer, this is one of his most popular, having received over 200,000 downloads. It’s free for both personal and commercial uses.

FORMAT: TTF

15. Brooklyn

Graphic designer Paul Reis developed this font as a result of his calligraphic exercises and doodles. Described as ‘a calligraphy-based typeface that is both sleek and brutal’, Brooklyn is available in both regular and inline versions.

FORMAT: TTF

16. Baron

Created by graphic design student Frank Hemmekam, this is one of many may free fonts designed for display, and Hemmekam describes it as “a free uppercase display typeface inspired by the classic sans serif font families. This typeface is, because of its many alternative options and weights, perfect for usage in posters, logotypes and headlines.” Baron is free for both personal and commerical use.

FORMAT: TTF

17. True Love

Davide Cariani is a UX designer and web developer with a passion for typography, which led to him creating this entry in our free fonts list. True Love was created in his spare time and his first type experiment. Inspired by old-school tattoo fonts, glyphs available include letters, numbers, dash and dot.

FORMAT: TTF

18. Flex Display

Developed by young designer Álvaro Thomáz, this is a thin geometric display font, available for both personal and commercial use, with donations to the author greatfully received. With a passion for typography, Thomáz specialises in font and logo design.

FORMAT: OTF

19. Calendas Plus

Calendas Plus is an improved version of atipo studio’s first typeface, calendas. The team at the Spanish design agency completely redrew the font with new ligatures and includes a full glyph set. You can download this, one of our growing list of free fonts, simply by sharing news of the design on Facebook or Twitter.

FORMAT: TTF

20. GoodDog

A contemporary and decorative font, GoodDog was created by Fonthead Design. The curly typeface is a popular choice, having been download almost a million times since its release. The font comes complete with a full set of upper and lowercase letters, numbers and characters.

FORMAT: OTF

21. Brush Hand New

Brush Hand New is a free brush font based on Flash Bold, a typeface created by Edwin W Shaar in 1939. K-Type‘s New version simplifies, lightens and smoothes out ragged edges. Outlines are improved to remove any remaining harshness, resulting in softer, smoother flowing glyphs ideal for titles and display purposes.

Format: TTF

22. Kilogram

This font was created by KalleGraphics and based on Nick Curtis’ font Anagram. The bold design includes a full set of upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters. Free for personal use.

FORMAT: OTF

23. Construthinvism

Pedro Fernandes and 4838Design are collectively responsible for free font Construthinvism. Fernandes describes the design as being “inspired by the Russian Constructivism, Cyrillic characters and Alexander Rodchenko”.

FORMAT: OTF

24. Molesk

This vintage-style inclusion in our free fonts rundown was designed by communication and multimedia student Pedro Lobo. A slab serif font with shadows on the right, the design includes a full set of upper-case letters, numbers and a selection of special characters.

FORMAT: TTF

25. Bigmouth

What’s that? You want even more free fonts! Well, say hello to Bigmouth: a font by Timo Kuilderof Twelve Twenty. The typeface is available in both regular and bold versions. All the Timo asks for in return for the download is a simple tweet (click the ‘Pay with Tweet’ button on the top right).

FORMAT: OTF

26. Tracks

Tracks type is all caps fonts and alphabet only, inspired with railway tracks slash, static, dynamic, and clean. It was designed by Indonesia-based design student Gumpita Rahayu and is available in two different styles – medium and slanted. This font was designed for display purposes, so will look great when used for headlines.

FORMAT: OTF, TTF

27. Sequi

Sequi is an experimental, personal project by Portuguese designer João Andrade. The name comes from the Latin and includes a total of 360 glyphs. Unlike some free fonts, it’s free in all its weights – light, regular and bold.

FORMAT: OTF

28. Ziamimi

Ziamimi is a gorgeous font that comes in capitals – making it perfect for headers and eye-catching statements. Its sleek finish allows it to really stand out as one of the best free fonts we’ve come across. It also comes with numbers and a few punctuation marks.

FORMAT: OTF

29. Dooodleista

Why Doodle? This question can be answered with two simple words – for fun. This is the first and most important rule that designer Filiz Sahin has set out for anyone that uses one of the quirkiest typefaces in our free fonts list. We love its playful style and doodle art feel.

FORMAT: OTF

30. Klinic

In four weights (and italics), the eight-font Klinic Slab family is one of Lost Type‘s most comprehensive releases to date. A contemporary, versatile slab serif, Klinic is a workhorse that marries personality and functionality. Designed by Joe Prince, it’s free to download, but if you decide to use it then we’d encourage you to make a donation.

FORMAT: OTF

31. Albert

Albert is the latest offering from 22-year-old, London College of Communication design studentWilliam Bayley Suckling. One of many designs created by the talented creative, Albert is a new decorative headline typeface, inspired by Victorian signage and lettering.

FORMAT: TTF

32. Before Breakfast

Recently, designer Simon Stratford discover iPad app iFontMaker and shortly after challenged to create a font with it in under 10 minutes. The result? This hand drawn typeface Before Breakfast. It may not be one of the most considered entries in our free fonts list, but, as Stratford comments online: “It’s a fun, handwritten typeface that probably breaks every rule in typography.”

FORMAT: TTF

33. Yuma

Yuma was developed by Indonesia-based graphic designer Gumpita Rahayu. The designer comments online: “Yuma is an experimental font with straight glyph, inspired with typical Navajo textiles, which have strong geometric patterns.” Available as a free download, all Rahayu asks for in return is a tweet or Facebook post.

FORMAT: TTF

34. Muchacho

Designer Jeff Schreiber describes his typeface Muchacho as “a western-style serif font with quirky legs”. Based in the Netherlands, Schreiber’s design contains all capital letters, numbers, diacritical marks and most punctuation marks. Muchacho is a free version of his Wild West-inspired typeface Gringo.

FORMAT: TTF

35. Cylburn

You can find semi-connected script font Cylburn on Lost Type Co-op. Designed by Dai Foldes, the artist comments on his creation: “Cylburn is a semi-connected script, structurally based on Roundhand but written with a pointed brush and restrained tension that separate it from its traditional roots.” Like many free fonts there is no charge for personal use, but donations are gratefully recieved.

FORMAT: OTF, TTF

36. Lovelo

Designed by Austrian typographer Renzler Design, the Lovelo font is a remake of the originalLovelo Inline. It’s a geometric sans serif typeface with two line versions, making it an eye-catching choice for any large text or headlines. As always, the font is free but there is a donation option if you’d like to show the designer your appreciation.

FORMAT: OTF

37. Iron

Introducing Iron, a new Sans Serif Typeface for you all to download for your free personal use copy. Designed by 22-year-old William Bayley Suckling, Iron is an original and playful font that will be perfect for all your design experiements. You can also purchase the font for commerical use.

FORMAT: TTF

38. Fairview

Fairview is a condensed sans serif, with small cap alternates, inspired by the industrial lettering of the 20th century. Designed by Riley Cran for the Lost Type Co-op, the font comes in uppercase, lowercase, numerals and punctuation. There’s also a donation option with this font, so be generous and show your appreciation!

FORMAT: OTF

39. Zwodrei

Perfect for personal headline use, Zwodrei was designed by 27-year-old German based graphic designer Lukas Bischoff. After graduating from his studies of communication design at the University of Applied Science, Lukas has gone on the create some beautiful typefaces – including this one!

FORMAT: OTF

40. Distractor

Distractor a new typeface designed by London-based graphic designer Simon Stratford. Loosely based on Bevan, the inspiration behind this font was the old letterpress styles and hand printed lettering – a passion of Simon’s. Use for personal projects and be sure to let Simon know what you think of it!

FORMAT: OTF

41. Linux Libertine

Linux Libertine was designed by the Libertine Open Fonts Project and, according to Wikipedia, ‘aims to create free and open alternatives to proprietary typefaces such as Times Roman’. The font is licensed under the GNU General Public License and the SIL Open Font License, and contains more than 2,000 glyphs and includes character sets such as the Greek Alphabet, Cyrillic script, and Hebrew.

FORMAT: TTF, OTF, WOFF

42. PApier Sans

This crafty little handwritten entry in our free fonts list comes to us courtesy of SMeltery, the French independent font factory. Founded in 2002 by Jack Usine, SMeltery hosts a number of fantastic fonts, but this new addition to its library really drew us in (get it?). Coming in regular, italic and bold, this font is free for both personal and commercial work.

FORMAT: OTF

43. Museo Sans 500

This extremely popular font is part of the Museo family of fonts, and you can get both the Sans 500 and Sans 500 Italic versions for free. You can either get one desktop license, one web font license for 500,000 page views, or a combination of the two. Registration is required to access the fonts.

FORMAT: OTF, TTF, EOT, WOFF, SVG

44. Museo Slab 500

If you thought a free Museo sans font was good, we’ve also got two Museo Slab variants to accompany it. If you’re looking for an impactful heading font, this could be it. As with the Sans versions above, you can either get one desktop license, one web font license for 500,000 page views, or a combination of the two. Registration again required to access the fonts.

FORMAT: OTF, TTF, EOT, WOFF, SVG

45. Lobster

We love Font Squirrel. It’s a brilliant resource for free fonts, and this is one of its hottest properties over the last few years. Chances are you’ve seen this font, and never realised that you could use it both on and offline at no cost. Lobster is a compact and legible calligraphy-based script font that works in both upper and lowercase, and can also be used on the web. Definitely one to snap up!

FORMAT: OTF, TTF, EOT, WOFF, SVG

46. Bevan

This is Vernon Adams‘ reimagining of a traditional 1930s slab serif by Heinrich Jost. The letterforms have been digitised, reshaped and optimised for the web, with more open counters and stronger stems to ensure that Bevan functions as an ultra-bold display font that suits modern browsers.

FORMAT: TTF

47. Typode

You’ll either love or hate this experimental new font created by typographer Santiago Ortiz. Typode’s characters are defined by coordinate, which means you can skew, stretch and twist the font to your heart’s content.

FORMAT: TTF

48. Roboto Slab

Google has released a new serif font, Roboto Slab, which it’s using in parts of the mobile version of its new notetaking app, Keep – and has made it available for anyone to download and use in their own projects. The typeface is available in four versions; thin, light, regular and bold.

FORMAT: TTF

49. Sketch Block

This hand-sketched headline font was designed by artist Lukas Bischoff. He comments: “Created solely by me from sketch by hand and then digitized, Sketch Block makes a perfect font to create the hand-made character look, or to supplement illustrations with typography.” Available free for personal use only.

FORMAT: TTF

50. Govote

Craig Ward, a British designer and art director based in New York, is known primarily for his pioneering and experimental typographic works. He created this free font last year in support of the GoVote campaign, which aimed to encourage people to vote in the US presidential election.

FORMAT: TTF

51. Museo Sans

Description: sturdy, geometric, highly legible sans-serif typeface suited for both display and text use; includes regular weight plus matching italic style

52. Museo Slab

Description: friendly slab serif with open letterforms designed to be paired with Museo Sans; includes regular weight plus matching italic style

53. BW Quinta Pro Light

Description: contemporary humanist sans design that’s airy and easy to read

54. Simplifica

Description: simple and clear, slightly condensed sans-serif typeface with a thin, uniform line width and details that enhance legibility

55. Gidole

Description: contemporary, geometric typeface released in 2015; more weights forthcoming here

56. Blogger Sans

Description: created for website headlines with a smooth, clear design; includes four weights and matching italics

57. Gogoia

Description: tall display typeface in all uppercase letters inspired by Brazilian culture; includes an extra, more decorative version

58. Perfograma

Description: inspired by early computing machines with a simplistic, dot-based design

59. Panton

Description: modern, geometric sans serif with good legibility for both print and web; includes light and black weights with matching italics

60. Uni Sans

Description: clean, all-caps sans-serif typeface; includes thin and heavy weights with matching italics

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