22 Most Used Free Fonts By Professional Designers
As we already know that the fonts are one of the most important parts of every web Project and choosing them is quit a difficult job for a web designer if his understanding of Typography is low. Our Last post 21 Most Used Fonts By Professional Designers helps you to get familiar with most used fonts which is not freely available.
After getting several requests about professional fonts which is most famous and freely available for download in our last post in same series we again look around and end up with a list of 22 Most Used Free Fonts By Professional Designers on the basis of their usability and popularity.
This list is a combined effort of professional web designers and art directors to speeding up your project development time so you can save money and focus on making great applications. All the screenshots again made in usual way so there is no confusion in checking the actual preview and corresponding font types.
The basic purpose behind this post is to show popular and professional free font types to save your time searching online. This time direct download link available for all the font. You can also find some related free references at the end of the post. Just make sure to read the license agreements carefully as they can change from time to time.
1. Delicious
2. Gentium
3. Tallys
4. Lido STF
5. Mg Open
5 (a). MgOpenCanonica
5 (b). MgOpenCosmetica
5 (c). MgOpenModata
5 (d). MgOpenModerna
6. Cardo
7. Day Roman
8. Yanone Kaffeesatz
9. Union
10. Fontin Family
10 (a). Fontin
10 (b). Fontin Sans
11. Fertigo Pro
12. Droid Font Family
13. M+ Outline Family
13 (a). M+ Outline 1C
13 (b). M+ Outline 1M
13 (c). M+ Outline 1P
13 (d). M+ Outline 2P
14. Luxi Family
14 (a). Luxi Mono
or download using OpenOffice.org’s FontOOo wizard.
14 (b). Luxi Sans
or download using OpenOffice.org’s FontOOo wizard.
14 (c). Luxi Serif
or download using OpenOffice.org’s FontOOo wizard.
15. Ambrosia
16. Lacuna
17. Liberation Family
17 (a). Liberation Sans
17 (b). Liberation Serif
18. Advent Pro
19. ATF Antique
20. Mank Sans
21. Diavlo
22. Cicle
Other References For Free Fonts
- www.dafont.com
- www.1001freefonts.com
- www.exljbris.com
- www.deviantart.com/resources/fonts
- apostrophiclab.pedroreina.net
- scripts.sil.org
Good work, thanks!
Nice work. Freebies.
Thanks man, keep them coming.
Check more fonts for free download at tools.khrido.com/webtools/fonts-collection.aspx
thanks
Great stuff thanks
thanks, this font is great
awesome post! cool! thanks!
Thanks for the roundup of these good fonts!
Thank you very much…I’ve been trying to put something like this together for a while now (for myself), and know what a tedious work it is.
This is very useful and much appreciated :) Thanks again.
Thanks for the fonts and the download links they are great
Nice Collection and great effort in collecting the same.
Thanks,
Vivek [http://www.developersnippets.com]
Maybe i’m missing something, but none of these fonts are safe to use for a web design, as none of them are ubiquitous.
Awesome post, I used most of these fonts weekly!
Thanks for the article! Delicious it!
Great list. Thanks!
cool…
it’s always good to be ahead of the pack!
thanks for the post!
David
eh… too bad they won’t just work in browsers. :/
Saying these are the top “pro” fonts is false. Many of these fonts are fake copies of letter-forms used in popular web2.0 logos. They are mostly used due to the popularity of those sites and because they are free. Most “pros” would custom illustrate letterforms for a company logo either from scratch or as a slight mod to a base, established font.
Since these are not web friendly fonts, I’m assuming these are being used for logos and graphic headers/titles. Judging from how many of these are designed, these would not be suitable for use in smaller point sizes and are not optimized for use in large amounts of body copy or for reading on the screen (or print for that matter… issues with kerning, clumping due to variance in weight between letterforms, ect.)
This article should be renamed to “22 Most Used Free Fonts on the Web.”
great post! downloading all of them for future projects.
Yum, it’s like being at an office supply store-good stuff!
Almost a note-for-note list of Smashing Magazine’s Best Free Fonts from about a year ago. Not surprised, though, if I were making a list these would be on it.
Thanx alot, keep up the good work
great stuff. thanks.
My only criticism would be that you provide an archived file of all the fonts.
Great post!
@Mark Sanborn – We can put an archived file of all the fonts but the only reason why we didn’t because we don’t want to stole Traffic of official source. They also deserve their share!
This is a pretty nice compilation of typefaces, but some of them are not free for commercial use, which makes them useless for professional designers.
your link to the article about the 21 fonts includes the word “free” in it which makes it very confusing what you are talking about
@Goldwing Guy — Our Bad… Things corrected now :)
It’s a great line of typefaces
DO you guys know this source typetester.org/! Ut helps me all the time to choose right typeface and style to use in particular project.
Hope it helps
Talk t you soon
Thanks :)
Thanks, this is a great resource. Bookmarked :)
Thanks for that nice collection. Greetz Jonas
Cool, liking Diavlo v much, used it already!! thanks
beautiful fonts appreciate your passion shared
Thanks for sharing… super stuff!
Muy, Muy, Muy hermosas fuentes :) Mil Gracias!
Thanks for the article!
Thanks. I’d have never found these on my own.
It’s cool to see new resources like this to help identify the many types out there. Any suggestions if something is a custom font? That could get tricky. Thanks for the list, lists are awesome.
Your article is a nice post. I like the most of Identifont
Nice font collection, Thanks .
I love these fonts. So simple and contemporary.
Awesome list of resources! Thank you for sharing.
I would just like to add one more set of typography resources and that is the forum of http://www.pilo.me
It is a private typography forum with an unbelievable amount of free fonts, premium fonts and exclusive typefaces. I think it was voted the best typography forum of 2009. If you are a font lover/addict, check it out. Like I said though, it is either private or invite only. I have never seen a typography site like it with all it has to offer. Anyhow, check it out, pilo.me
Anyhow, great article, I definitely will be referring to these time to time.
Thank you bery nice post !
hmm.good thanks..
hmm. Thanks for share
What a great collection of fonts.
Can;t live without Advent Pro, it’s my favorite
If you are looking for free fonts, check http://www.fonts2u.com. Discovered it just few days ago. Their
character map search is awesome! Saved some time when looking for specific character maps supported.
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Very good thanks
nice list, keep in update
these are great. thank you for sharing
We’re of the opinion that most pros could use a time saving font site, so we create SendFont
I’ve been trying to put something like this together for a while now (for myself), and know what a tedious work it is.
Since these are not web friendly fonts, I’m assuming these are being used for logos and graphic headers/titles. Judging from how many of these are designed, these would not be suitable for use in smaller point sizes and are not optimized for use in large amounts of body copy or for reading on the scree
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thank you for posted
thanks for desingers stils list.
thanks for desingers stils list
ty post
Thanks for sharing this great collections of fonts.
wow..its a really fantastic and awesome font, its can be very use full for to make my design.
wow..its a really fantastic and awesome font, its can be very use full for to make my design.
Yeah, really good fonts, it is always a problem to find a good font for your project!
These choices seem almost too obvious to me…
Nice list…….Thanks…………..more useful to me….I dont know most about ththe font………
This is a great mix of goodie good fonts
thanks good post good web site
Oh, I love Cardo font, the font looks thin and display good with a big font size
You are definitely a skilled writer. You definitely know how to write to keep the audience engaged. Cheers
Great article here.
thanks for sharing these useful sites with us. As i’m search of some good fonts and just landed here from google.
nice fonts.. thank you for post..
Nice list…….Thanks…………..more useful to me….I dont know most about ththe font…
The Cheese7
looking through these collections.
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thats great fonts really i will use thanks
This was so informative bro! I thought that the list was informative and good to know.
Hello.
Our designs were really beautiful. Waiting for More of your research. good work
Is an interesting post
great fonts
thI’ve been trying to put something like this together for a while now (for myself), and know what a tedious work it is.
thanks fo share this font
Nice list…….Thanks…………..more useful to me….I dont know most about ththe font………
great fonts. thanks..
Great Fonts….
nice info
i apreciate your info
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It’s a great line of typefaces
Many thanks for the fonts! Great list!
great fonts thanks for sharing
Very great type of fonts!
cool..
thanks
I raise my kids has been for them to pretty much mind their own darned business
excellent collection of resources for graphic designers…thanks
Thanks, this is a great resource. Bookmarked
thanks it is really nice information
nice collection DKumar but why are there 2 posts on same topic?
nice fonts.. thank you for sharing.. sharing is beautiful…:)
Wauw many thanx!
I was just starting to learn how to swim in the ocean of typograpy.
These are some really nice fonts…thanx again
nice fonts….thanks for sharing
thats great fonts really
Its Really a Great Font List…
Thanks for sharing the fonts….
My vote is for Luxi
These fonts are looking great. Thanks for sharing it
Great Collection of fonts… Thanks for sharing it
I would like a Evo Pro and AG Book font for my project anyone could help me on this.
Thanks alot.
Amazing stuff! biggUps!
can anyone tell me about that how can i get this font mgOpen modata?
In here, http://pub.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen/index.en.html .
I spent at least half an hour to find the font for download. But all sources are collapsed or closed. At last, found it in here.
Good stuff! Very usefull. Thanks for sharing its.
This is a amazing package with how many fonts excelents
Great font resource!