If you are in the market for the greatest free fonts to use commercially, here are 10 places to check out, plus two bonuses to enhance your web design Selangor experience.
BMNIX (Brandon Nickerson Studio)
Brandon Nickerson offers free fonts on a regular basis before selling them later. If you go to his site and scroll down, he more often than not has a new free font up and ready.
For instance, “Nokio” this week is free, and he usually puts out three to four fonts every month.
You just put the free font in your cart and download. It’s really worth setting a reminder to check weekly since these limited-time freebies are so unique – often display faces perfect for that creative project.
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Current Club
Current Club is another great resource, but it’s a bit of hit or miss with what’s free. However, if you hit Command + F and search the term “sale,” you can find quite a few fonts on sale for free.
Their releases include some really cool, quirky display fonts such as “Bubble Shack” and “Jazz Hands.” They also offer other design resources, but fonts are their bread and butter.
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Velvetyne
This French foundry provides a wide range of high-quality display fonts, all cleared for commercial use. The likes of “Pillow Lava” and “Outward” are particularly popular; both carry very different personalities.
You may have already seen their designs in action, with such font faces being extremely popular and ideal for adding a bold, funky touch to your projects.
The League of Movable Type
As one of the original free, open-source type foundries, The League of Movable Type boasts a stellar library of well-designed fonts.
Standouts include the striking ligature “Neue Black,” “Railway” being one of the more popular typefaces taken on by many of my clients as a brand font, and “Sniglet,” a rounded display face.
Their open-source library grants access to professional-grade fonts for any project easily.
Font Share
Unlike everything else in this list, Font Share is not a foundry but rather a collective that distributes free commercial fonts from various foundries. The Indian Type Foundry predominates, although several other foundries also participate.
Notable mentions are “Clash Display” and “Panchayan,” both showing aesthetic variety and enterprise quality. If you’re into wide or condensed fonts, Font Share is your place.
Font Fabric
While not all their fonts are free, Font Fabric does have an area of free fonts available. A few of the most popular include “Gwen,” a font with 14 variable styles, and “Code Next,” one requested for them by many clients. “Intro” is another very popular option, playful, yet clean.
TypeType's Free Fonts Project
TypeType has a selection of free fonts available, most of which are only one style. They can still be very functional for particular projects. Samples like “Days” and “Iranian Balm” show off both their fun and serious fonts that are well-suited for commercial use.
Open Foundry
Open Foundry hosts some of the most well known free fonts. “Inter” is an excellent sans serif workhorse; while “Bagnard” and “Poppins” offer excellent choices for logos and branding with clean lines and rounded forms.
Their library is long, so you are more than likely to find a few options that work with your design needs.
Google Fonts
I don’t think I need to introduce Google Fonts, as it is one of the most well-known free font sources. “Roboto”, “Open Sans”, and “Montserrat” are some of the popular ones which are widely used in web design, branding, and UI/UX projects. This is a great resource, especially when clients have little or no budget for fonts.
Use & Modify
With 25 pages of fonts that are free to use commercially, this marketplace has a very deep catalog of really unique and sometimes highly customizable fonts.
Examples of standout pieces are “Heal the Web” and “Ferrite Core”, both offering bold, unique personalities; they’re quite perfect for creating attention-grabbing designs with a personal touch.
Bonus 1: Abubabords.com
It hosts many free fonts, but you have to check each license for its availability in commercial use. Most of them are available for free personal use, though their commercial licensing is really cheap, thus making it a very good source for personal and low-budget commercial projects.
Bonus 2: Behance
Another great creative platform from Adobe, Behance also harbors a cool collection of free fonts. A search for “free fonts” produces a handful of both personal and commercial-use fonts.
It’s regularly updated, so is one of those resources that’s worth checking out periodically to see what’s new and what could work for you.
All of these resources provide so many free resources that can really enhance a design without having to break the bank. Always make sure to check the licensing on each font, especially for commercial projects.
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