This 400ml typeface was designed and created by student Marco Terre. Currently completing his degree in communication design at the university of applied sciences in Berlin, Marco's aim was to create a clean and little playful type and is based on the idea of combining graffiti glyphs with graphic glyphs.
The font comes in four styles: regular, bold, regular italic and bold italic. It's perfect for almost any type of use, including poster work, web design and illustration.
FORMAT: OTF
2. Johanna
Johanna is a modular typeface based on six basic modules and as a result, there are 147 glyphs of versatility in each style. It was created by Spanish graphic designer Adrià Gómez and also comes in an italic version.
We love the slight vintage feel to this one and think it could be used best in web design. The colours that Adrià has used to showcase the font are also a brilliant touch.
FORMAT: TTF
3. Silverfake
Silverfake is a new contemporary slab serif wide free font designed Alexey Frolov, aka MRfrukta. This vintage font is presented in contemporary curves that make the font applicable for both retro and modern designs.
Silverfake contains only capital letters but also some alternate characters are also included. Check back to Alexey's site regularly, as he has a host of free fonts up for grabs.
FORMAT: OTF
4. Typometry
This quirky font was crafted by Emil Kozole for a university project. A lover of 'pretty colours', Emil manages to encorporate quite a surrealist style into this type face. Typometry will be a great font to experiment with in a number of projects.
The font is now a pro version with two weights, four styles and more than 220 glyphs that are available in both TFF and OTF format.
FORMAT: TFF & OTF
5. Che's Bone
This gorgeous font was created by Filiz Sahin. She says of the font, "My dog loves bones. I experimented with this font for Che and other dog lovers. It has round edges and condensed skinny forms.
"The corner of each letter has a bone shape which is Che's favorite part. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!" It is free for personal and commercial use and Filiz would be grateful for credits!
FORMAT: EPS
6. Mood Type
This is another brilliant design from Filiz Sahin. The project was inspired by Modern Swedish Furniture, print mechanical instructions - crops, bleeds, and registration marks - as well as pop influenced '70s fonts.
This is an eps font for display font purposes only, at the moment. There are no PostScript or OpenType versions available. Please do some nice and clean work.
FORMAT: EPS
7. Homestead
An evocative yet forward thinking slab, Homestead is another stunning creation from the guys at Lost Type. Inspired by their desire and need to explore, Homestead represents the ways in which we are always searching for the place to call home.
Designed by Luke Lisi, Homestead comes in uppercase only with numerals and punctuation.
FORMAT: TTF
8. Habana
Habana is a geometric sans-serif inspired by Cuba's capital city. Available only in uppercase, this curvy offering was designed by New York based designer Bonnie Clas.
What's more, Bonnie didn't only design the font but she also crafted the sultry illustration that showcases the typeface. That's one talented lady right there!
FORMAT: TTF
9. CODE Pro
Code Pro is a font family inspired by the original Sans Serif fonts like Avant Garde or Futura, but with a modern twist. It is clean, elegant, and straight-to-the-point.
Code font is applicable for any type of graphic design - web, print, motion graphics, etc - and perfect for t-shirts and other items like posters and logos. It also comes in a number of languages!
FORMAT: OTF
10. Adamas Regular
Created by Romanian graphic designer Octavian Belintan, the Adamas style was first used by Greek and Latin writers for a stone of impenetrable hardness.
Adamas only comes in upper case but we think it's a great free font to experiment with!
FORMAT: OTF
11. Jura
This gorgeous font was created by designer Ed Merritt and is available on Ten by Twenty. A designer and front-end web developer, Ed hails from Bournemouth and regularly works for website developing company Headscape.
This new release of the Jura family includes regular, italic, bold and bold-italic fonts. Each variant includes 241 characters with a couple of ligatures thrown in. What's more, it maintains legibility even at small sizes, unlike other serif fonts. Ed built the metrics and kerning from scratch too!
FORMAT: TTF
12. Tikal Sans
Designed by typographer Miguel Hernández, Tikal Sans is a beautifully designed type that's part of the new font family Latinotype. Miguel also works as a graphic designer, illustrator and typography teacher and currently resides in Santiago, Chile. In 2008, Miguel won the award for Chile Sans & Cadena Black Typography in the Bienal de Tipos Latinos.
The font comes in 20 variations, including Ultra Italic, Bold and Extra Light - sadly, you only receive the Medium and Italic in the free package. You can however, pay $329 for all 20 fonts.
Tikal-Sans offers a functional look with a contemporary large x-height with opentype contextual alternate letters. The light, regular and medium weights are well suited for longer textual work whilst the Thin and Black weights are great performers in display sizes.
FORMAT: OTF
13. Open Baskerville
Open Baskerville is an open source project focused on creating a digital revival of the famous 'Baskerville' typefaces. It's based on Fry’s Baskerville; a Baskerville-inspired derivative created by Isaac Moore, the punchcutter who worked for the type foundry of Joseph Fry.
The team at Open Baskerville are dedicated to bringing you typefaces that will actually make an impact on your design work and continue to be useful to you. With thousands of fonts available, it's refreshing to see Open Baskerville putting so much passion into typography.
FORMAT: GIT
14. Fabrica
Created by Canadian designer Alvin Kwan, Fabrica was designed with one thing in mind: to create the most legible typeface for mobile screens. Kwan says: "Fabrica is a deceptively simple sans serif typeface optimised for screen display on handheld devices. With its optimal quality and legibility, Fabrica proves to be highly efficient for small screens. Its details are drawn from the more systematic constructed Neo-Grotesques, giving it a neutral tone of voice."
In a world where people read more text on their smartphones and tablets, rather than on actual paper, Fabrica is a typeface that's well worth looking in to. Although the download is free for all, you can also donate however much money you would like to Alvin for his work.
FORMAT: OTF
15. The Fell Types
Italian designer Igino Marini has been creating and advancing the Fell types for over ten years. The typeface is named after John Fell, a Bishop of Oxford dating back to the 17th Century. Marini was inspired Fell's unique collection of printing types and the Bishop's creativity and adventure when it came to the art of typography.
Igino also runs iKern, a service for autospacing and autokerning digital typefaces based on a mathematical model and programs he has developed since 2002. Phew! It sounds like the man definitely knows his typography. We think The Fell Types are classically styled typefaces that every designer could use in their collection.
FORMAT: OTF
16. Infinity
Thai graphic designer Tarin Yuangtrakul mainly focuses his work on illustration, which has been exhibited in Bangkok, South Carolina and New York City. At the tender age of 20, Tarin is already making waves on the design circuit. Here, Tarin turns his hand to typography to create Infinity.
What made Tarin call the font Infinity? He says that "the name comes from guides for creating: they are similar to the number 8 and the infinity symbol. I really like the number 8 because it's my birth date and because of my lineage in China, the word for number 8 sounds similar to the word meaning 'prosper' or 'wealth.' The number 8 is viewed as such an auspicious number that even being assigned a number with several eights is very lucky."
FORMAT: TTF
17. Rex
This three-weight font type is brought to you by the folks at Fontfabric. Designer Svetoslav Simov, who is based in Sofia, Bulgaria, founded the independent type foundry back in 2008. Their goal is to create high-quality fonts that stand in a unique class of their own, and can serve as a decent base for any designer project whether it be web, print or clothes design.
Every week, a typeface is rolled out of production and is put up on the site to download absolutely free. Rex is one of those fonts, designed in three weights: light, bold and bold inline. It’s a caps font, but there is a difference between both caps and small caps, which can be seen in the examples on the website. It's available for both personal and commercial use.
FORMAT: OTF
18. Haymaker
Designer Trevor Baum created this vintage-inspired typeface. Proclaiming a love of bicycles, type and Jewish deli's, Trevor wanted to create a font that was both rugged and refined, and we think he's got the balance spot on.
The inspiration for the typography design came from the workmanship, lettering and baseball jerseys of the 1930s and 1940s. The font comes in uppercase, lowercase, numerals and also contains punctuation.
FORMAT: TTF
19. Carton
Here's another awesome find on Lost Type, the typography co-op that ensures its designers receive 100 per cent of the donations given for their fonts. This time, the typeface comes from talented Newcastle based graphic designer Nick McCosker.
Nick claims that Carton is 'best served chilled', whilst describing it as 'a strong yet sensitive slab-serif inspired by letterpress'. It only comes in uppercase but we think that that's all a typeface of this kind needs. It's immediately striking to the eye and will work really well with any titled-based designs; possibly less so in body text.
FORMAT: OTF
20. Josefin Sans & Slab
Santiago Orozco created this typeface, with the goal of making it geometric, elegant and kind of vintage - especially for titling. It's based on Rudolf Koch's Kabel (1927), Rudolf Wolf's Memphis (1930) and Paul Renner's Futura (1927).
Orocozo says that the idea was to 'draw something with good style, that reflects Swedish design and their passion for a good lifestyle, and by default all other Scandinavian styles.'
The x-height is half way from baseline to caps height, unlike any other modern typeface. Santiago wanted to do something different with the ampersand, so he made three and will include them in later versions of the Josefin Sans. It took Santiago around a month to draw the total of 373 glyphs.
FORMAT: OTF
21. Nevis
Nevis is another fantastic typeface brought to you by Ed Merritt of Ten by Twenty. The website description is spot on: "Nevis is a strong, angular typeface and is ideal for headings, text, buttons and everything in between. It's assertive and bold, but manages to retain a friendly tone, and looks especially good when used in all caps."
The font can be used for both personal and commercial purposes but it cannot be redistributed or sold. Although you can download the font for free, Ten by Twenty say they always appreciate a donation, however small. If you can't do that, a link back to the site is hugely appreciated!
FORMAT: TTF
22. PLSTK
This font was created by Christian del Moral and Luis Armesilla. Both Madrid-based designers, Luis mainly focuses on motion and graphic design, but has a special interest in typography and lettering. Christian is heavily influenced by music and tends to illustrate in a child-like old school way.
The designers happy for you to use the font in any way that you wish. All they ask is that you send them an image of your work once you're done with it! Take a look at this awesome video the guys created to showcase PLSTK's capabilities.
FORMAT: TTF
23. Abraham Lincoln
There are no vampire hunters in sight, we're afraid; just an awesome font created by designer Frances MacLeod. Originally from Wichita, Kansas, Frances creates stunning typography and has worked with book covers, leaflets, posters and more.
She created this Abraham Lincoln font to resolve a constant search for a condensed serif. The promotional specimen featurrs the font in use and folds out to a poster of Abraham Lincoln's address to the 166th Ohio Regiment in 1864 on the reverse. You can see the examples on herpersonal website.
FORMAT: TTF
24. Fat Frank
Fat Frank is a fun typographic design from graphic designer, illustrator and typographer Jeff Schreiber. The font is a big-boned and funky font with all digits, some diacritical marks, most punctuation marks and money signs that matter. Jeff also states that those who use this in Photoshop should make sure that the kerning is set to "Metrics" not "Optical". Otherwise the kerning doesn't work. You'll find it in the Character window.
We think Fat Frank would look stunning on print design - especially titles. It may be a bit too chunky for normal body text. It's been doing incredibly well on Behance and rightly so; this typeface is as fun as it gets and will brighten up any design project!
FORMAT: TTF
25. Ostrich Sans
And finally, we have this superb typeface created by New Yorker Tyler Finck. Tyler has created a number of fonts and regularly allows designers to download them for free. He describes Ostrich Sans as an open source font family that he's very happy to offer for free from The League of Moveable Type.
The typeface comes in six styles, including Sans Light, Sans Regular, Sans Bold and Sans Rounded. It only comes in caps but we think that it's the perfect font to make an instant impact.
FORMAT: TTF
26: Nougatine
First up in our list of best free fonts is Nougatine. Designed by 25-year-old Frenchman Fabien Laborie, the graphic designer describes Nougatine as "a titling font inspired by the smell of freshly baked cookies."
Believing that design must not be aesthetic, Fabien continues to strive for fonts that surpass their limits. Delivered with 380 glyphs, a host of varying ligatures and a panel of alternative letters, it enables the power of versatility.
Used for editorial and commercial purposes, Nougatine is a great all-rounder.
FORMAT: TTF
27: Valentina
Produced by Spanish typographer Pedro Arilla, Valentina is described as a sincere tribute to his grandmother; which is where the name also stems from.
A self-professed minimalist, Pedro created Valentina as a classic didone. Incorportating many antique Spanish techniques with influences of Bodoni, Valentina is great for editorial purposes.
It is compiled of 457 glyphs, with 125 alternative lower cases or the 46 ligatures. With that flexibility, it really is up there with the best free fonts available.
FORMAT: OTF
28: Chunkfive
Chunkfive derives from the team at The League of Moveable Type. With a motto of providing only the best fonts within the interweb, Chunkfive is a perfect example of their high standards.
An ultra-bold slab serif, Chunkfive has all the ingredients for great headings and titles. The fact that it also contains lower case means that it could also work in body set text.
If you're looking for a vintage Americana feel, then Chunkfive is your guy.
FORMAT: OTF
29: Nomed
Created by Medness, Nomad is one of the most unusual fonts we've seen at CreativeBloQ. Based on a geometric triangle, Nomed really packs a punch when layered.
The font is perfect for compositions and comes in simple selections of capital and lower case lettering. If you're looking for a way to standout, Nomed may be the font for you.
FORMAT: OTF
30: Forum
Designed by Russian graphic designer Denis Masharov, 'Forum' is just one of the many fonts this man is responsible for. Currently working for Time Out Moscow, Denis has been a professional typographer since 2008.
The font's intended use is for headings and titles (but we're sure it would look great in set body text too!) It's classic feel is clear to see, with its clever arches and direct lines.
If you love this font, we suggest you check out the rest of Denis' creations. The man's a genius!
FORMAT: Google Web Font
31: Cassannet
Released earlier this year, Cassannet is a gorgeous addition to our best free fonts list, which captures the essence of vintage Cassandre posters. The art deco typeface is available in bold, regular and outline weights.
Containing ligatures, capitals, numbers, small capitals and also titling alternates, the font will be perfect for any purpose. You can be really nice and offer a donation to the makers or simply repay them with a tweet.
FORMAT: OTF and TTF
32: Accent
Brazilian graphic designer Nelson Balaban is known for his outlandish style and fun approach to typography. Accent is just one example of his exemplary work that has been featured in many editorial and commercial campaigns.
Instantly eye-catching, this font could do wonders for your designs. On first impression, Accent could look a tad on the hipster side but we love it and we think you should too.
If you end up using the font, all Nelson asks is that you don't alter it, give credit where it's due and use it to create some 'kick-ass work.' Off you go then!
FORMAT: TTF
33: League Script
Brought to you once again by those folks over at The League of Moveable type comes League Script. A gorgeous rendition of teenage girl's endless diary entries, League Script offers a sweet alternative to boring body text.
Designed by Haley Fiege, it includes ligatures and will act as the framework for future script designs. It's popularity is apparent; having been downloaded a whopping 71,000 times.
How will you use it?
FORMAT: OTF
34: Henry
We at Creative Bloq love a blast from the past and this Henry font couldn't be more retro if it tried. Created by Polish graphic designerMarta Podkowi?ska, the font was named after Henry Ford and inspired by all things 60's.
Marta mainly cites the fonts major influence from vintage cars, which can be seen in its glorious curvature. Although the font only comes in capital letters, we think it would be a great chance to test your design abilities.
Perfect for headings and titles, Henry is an exquisite nod to the trailblazers of graphic design, and a worthy member of our best free fonts list.
FORMAT: TTF
35: Bobber
More vintage? You bet! Bobber is a classic font developed by Brazilian typograher Lucas Perdido and Russian graphic designer Dmitry Goloub.
Described as an 'alternative slab serif', the font is totally free and the guys are happy for you to use it for commercial purposes. We think it'd look create on an illustration portfolio, for those of you that love all things vintage!
FORMAT: Ai
36: Lavanderia
Created by designer James T. Edmondson, Lavaderia is a charming font that takes influence from the Laundromat windows of San Francisco's Mission District.
It comes in a range of open type features and three weights. Working as a script font, Lavanderia will really work well as a heading type as well as being able to slot nicely into the set body text.
FORMAT: OTF
37: Sketchtik Light
This cute font is taking us back to our school days. Designed by Hiekka Graphics founder Ossi Gustafsson, the graphic design agency is quickly becoming well-known for their innovative ideas.
Sketchtik echoes chalk boards from the classroom without looking immature. It'll give a sense of fun to any design, which could work well for portfolios or branding.
The font comes in light, regular, bold and black so there's plenty of versatility for titles, headings and set body text. (You only get the Light version for free.)
FORMAT: OTF and TTF
38: Metropolis
It's no wonder this font has become so popular, thanks to its modern twist on a vintage style. Designed by Australian graphic designer Josip Kelava, Metropolis is influenced by the industrial movement of the 1920s.
Kelava wanted to create his own Art Deco font without being too much of a copycat. The result was this bold and daring typeface, perfect for catching your user's eye.
It only comes as capital letters, so it won't be relevant for set body text. It does however, look amazing on a poster or homepage!
FORMAT: OTF
39: Alphageometry
Since we've given you plenty of capital letter fonts, we thought we'd delve a little deeper and focus on the little guys. Alphageometry is a set of simple yet effective decorative typefaces created by Canadian designer Markie Darkie (a.k.a. Ferdinand Mark Basa.)
Letterforms were designed using simple geometric shapes in a 10x10 square grid structure guide. Please note that the font is in vector format, which means each letterform will need to be hand set and composed.
Who knew lower case letters could be so powerful?!
FORMAT: EPS and Ai
40: GRN Burgy
Created by Italian designer Marco Goran Romano, GRN Burgy is a fun take on early American graffiti. Another big influence on the font is fast food culture, which is reiterated in the 'shiny' effects used.
If you don't want to take yourself too seriously, have a go with GRN Burgy. The direct lines combined with extreme curves makes the font ooze creativity.
GRN Burgy only comes in capital letters, so it's only really useful for titles and headings on homepages or posters.
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