20 Spectacular and Free Fonts

We all love design and many of us like to design posters for social issues, or illustrations for our self-design ego. We also love to use beautiful typography into our designs and since these are not for commercial use, we like to try new fonts, preferable FREE. In the meantime, there are so many fantastic designers out there that love to experiment and create new font faces and even better, they love to share them with us for free! Searching for some new typography inspirations, I found myself many such fonts for all kind of tastes. So, here I present to you 20 of those that inspired me more. Enjoy and share!

Aroly Font by Arvind Kumar

Aroly Font is a polygonal heading font. Since polygon made a huge trend, Aroly font was planned to be adaptable in all devices. First of all, high poly font with trigonal lines was created.
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/21763159/AROLY-(-FREE-FONT-)

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Anders Font by Tom Anders Watkins

This is an experimental project. Tom Anders wanted to create something he could give to everyone, almost as a thank you to the overwhelming support he has received of his work. Using influences from modern font design, Tom wanted something very minimal and a little unique, here’s the result.
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/18068463/Anders-(Free-Font)

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Accent Font by Nelson Balaban

Accent is a free for commercial use display typeface designed by Nelson Balaban.
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/2624657/Accent-(Free)-Display-Typeface

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BARON Font by Fontfabric and Frank Hemmekam

Baron is an uppercase display typeface inspired by the classic sans serif font family’s. This typeface is, because of his many alternative options, perfect for usage in posters and headlines. Free for personal usage!
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/9537663/BARON-(Free-typefamily)

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Billy font by Claire Joines

Billy’ is a free font that i initially designed to use on Claire Joines’s own art and for use in comics etc. since she’s uploaded it, it’s exceeded her expectations in the amount of interest it’s got.
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/16190081/billy-typeface-(free)

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Carioca font by Tano Veron and Yai Salinas

Experimental type. Cool & refreshing as fresh fruit. Free Download. Hope you like it!
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/22212463/CARIOCA-FONT-Free-Font

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Delicate font by FAAK&PAAT Studio

Delicate is a free download & available Typeface based on different Slab whithout thin strokes. Use it for elegant style.
Make your own, free for commercial and personal use.
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/21610837/Delicate-free-typeface

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Gagalin font by Iordanis Passas

A 100% free comic font.
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/21358665/Gagalin-Free-Font

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Global font by Anthony James

Global typefamily is a clean and concise serif font, perfect for editorials and commerical use.
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/16320775/Global-Font

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Gogóia font by Alan de Sousa

Gogóia is a yummi juicy font inspired by brazilian tropicalism. It is also a very thorn fruit that grows on a dry weather. And guess what: gogóia is also a song very known on gal costa’s voice. This font is available for free under creative commons license, and you can use it for both personal and commercial projects.
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/24260799/GOGOIA-TYPEFACE

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Gokú font by Anthony James

Gokú is a multilingual typeface, initially designed as a stencil font for the Basel & Geneva Watch Launch Event for Watches of Switzerland.
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/17837985/Goku-Font

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Finos font by Iordanis Passas and Anastasia Dimitriadi

Finos is a display typeface inspired by Greek retro cinema. It works perfect with open type support applications.The font is delivered in two weights Regular & Bold and in Open Type format. It supports Western European and Greek languages with lowercase and uppercase letters.
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/24435183/Finos-font

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Jaapokki font by Mikko Nuuttila

Jaapokki is free font with 2 alternatives and large set of glyphs.
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/19084983/Jaapokki-Free-Font

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KINO 40 font by les83machines

Is a free for commercial and personal use, inspired in the old cinema handwrite style by les83machines
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/21891945/KINO-40-(free-font)

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Metropolis 1920 font by Josip Kelava

Metropolis 1920 comes from the industrial movement of the 1920’s where skyscrapers where born. Using a double line technique, Josip Kelava wanted to create his own Art Deco style font that represented this era. The result is a bold, bumptious typeface with a stolidly calm disposition.
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/3244285/Metropolis-1920

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Moon Font by Jack Harvatt

A free rounded, simple, space-ie typeface family entitled Moon, with both thin and bold variations, free for personal use only.
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/23468357/Moon-Free-Font

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Neptune Font

Neptune is a typeface inspired by the aesthetics of the violence of Ancient Rome with contemporary influences.
It features two variants: a standard set which is a clean and clear sans serif, and an alternative who merged the two influences to create a sophisticated contemporary look. Perfect for usage in posters/logotypes and headlines.
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/17625495/NEPTUNE-FREE-Typeface

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Parker font by James Lafuente

Parker is a handmade vintage inspired font. It works great for vintage design, t-shirts, logo, posters and more. Free for personal use.
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/18632037/Parker-Font-(Free)

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Sunn – Free Handwriting Font by Gatis Vilaks and Krišjānis Mežulis

A free Handrwriting font, created by Rit Creative team – Gatis Vilaks and Krišjānis Mežulis who wanted to create a handwriting font which would still be a little bit “clumsy” but with a strong construction underneath. This is a great decorative font for headlines, names and short descriptions.
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/20799205/SUNN-Free-Handwriting-Font

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Voga typeface by Charles Daoud

Voga is a condensed modern Didone typeface with three weights; Regular, medium and bold. Charles Daoud’s aim was to create a very elegant and “sexy” typeface with some unique letterforms based on the principle of contrast – curves vs. strong straight lines – thin hairlines vs. thick stems – ball terminals vs. geometric serifs. These caracteristics shape it into a glamourous display font primarily used for titles and large typography settings. Voga was inspired by iconic typefaces such as Bodoni and Didot. It has an extensive glyph set that supports languages for the Americas and most of Europe.
Visit and download @ https://www.behance.net/gallery/19360047/Voga-typeface

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Maria Papaefstathiou

VISUAL DESIGNER since 1996 and blogger since 2010. Living in Athens, Greece. She has been focusing her research on poster design and particularly on social poster design and portrait design. Her main poster project is a series of posters celebrating great personalities of traditional and popular culture in Greece and Jamaica. These include actors, singers, musicians, poets etc. This is an ongoing project. “I believe that design is a powerful tool that we designers can use to spark enthusiasm, change mindsets and bring positive actions to our world and our culture”. FOUNDER AND EDITOR OF GRAPHICART-NEWS.COM BLOG. She carefully curates high-quality designs, illustrations, and art, from all over the world that will teach and provoke other designers. Many consider her blog to be an exceptional educational tool. CO-FOUNDER OF THE INTERNATIONAL REGGAE POSTER CONTEST which was launched on December 2011, partnering, the creative activist Michael Thompson aka Freestylee. (www.reggaepostercontest.com)

One comment

  • Venkatesh Ramasamy says:

    Accent, Billy, Gagalin, Global, Gokú are Great..
    Moon font looks similar to “Arial Rounded MT Bold”.

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