Home > 5 Outstanding Websites to Download Free Commercial-Use Fonts
After you have read our latest posts about Typography, I am sure you are ready to get out there and start practicing and coming up with new Typography concepts for use in your designs. Now that you understand the difference between Serif and Sans Serif fonts, Kerning, Leading and Tracking and the principals of choosing fonts, we want to offer you a collection of websites that serve or link to [free] commercial-use fonts. The following 5 websites carry a vast array of fonts that you can use freely in both personal or commercial projects.
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Great Collection of 100% Free Commercial-use Fonts. They also offer free @font-face kits and a free @font-face kit Generator. Filter by TrueType or OpenType and browse by font style.
Beautiful layout, contains both commercial-use and personal-use fonts which you can filter with the flick of a checkbox. Customize with your own text to preview the font. Great Browse function to discover new fonts.
Very clean layout, contains many free fonts for commercial or personal use. Type in your text to preview the font. Allows for comments for each font. Login to save favorites. Offers free and commercial font editing software.
User-friendly website has a collection that contains over 13,000 free fonts and over 91,000 commercial fonts. Easy to navigate via categories and alphabetically.
Admirable collection of “Well crafted (free) fonts by Jos Buivenga”. Although a small collection, these font families are perfect for a variety of uses, clean and professional as is the website itself.
Remember, sharing is caring! Please feel free to link to your own typography tutorials or graphics that you made using fonts from the sites mentioned here today. Other designers may benefit or be inspired by your work so please share.
Excellent … FontSpace and SearchFreeFonts are cool findings … On FontSpace you can easily add your own fonts and check stats for each of them … I did so, I highly recommended for font freaks and also fonts publishers 😉
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7 Comments
Kreativ Font
November 5, 2013Excellent … FontSpace and SearchFreeFonts are cool findings … On FontSpace you can easily add your own fonts and check stats for each of them … I did so, I highly recommended for font freaks and also fonts publishers 😉
Giovanni
November 8, 2013Thanks for sharing!
Jonas
July 13, 2013This one is worth mentioning too: http://fontcab.com and it’s not bloated as some of the ones listed above.
Schmoove
September 20, 2012No offense, you forgot to mention my site 😉
Giovanni
September 21, 2012Great site Max! I’ll make sure to include your site in the next free for commercial use font related post
Theraisa K
March 13, 2012Excellent. I’ve been looking for some new font sources other than dafont.com and fontsquirrel.com. Thanks for sharing these!
Giovanni
March 14, 2012Thank you for your comment Theraisa, glad our font source list was helpful!
And thanks for following us on Twitter! We constantly tweet good resources we find for designers. Let us know if there’s anything specific you would like to see covered on our blog.