15 sites where you can download fonts for free and legally

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Large and beautiful collections in which it is easy to find what you need.

1. Google Fonts

A selection of fonts from Google. Yes, it is not very large in comparison with other libraries: there are only 888 families here. But on the other hand, you can be sure that all fonts are distributed under a free license. That is, you can use them however you want. In addition, there is a very convenient filtration system.

The download mechanism is somewhat non-obvious, which is strange for a Google product. First you need to select one or more font families by clicking on the +. Then - open the panel that appears at the bottom of the screen and click on the download button. All selected fonts will be downloaded from the archive.

2. FontSpace

This collection is much richer, with over 36,000 free fonts to be found. They can be sorted by category, choosing, for example, retro, futuristic or national flair.

On the page of the font it is written how it can be used: only for personal or also for commercial purposes.

3.1001 Free Fonts

Despite the name, this collection contains about 10,000 fonts. They can be sorted by style, title, and novelty.

Most fonts are free to use for any purpose. For some, you will have to buy a commercial license. However, for $ 20, you can download the entire collection at once.

4. Font Squirrel

Most of the fonts here are free for personal and commercial use. If there are not enough of them, go to the section of discounts. The prices are very low there.

Filtering in Font Squirrel is very handy. You can sort fonts by style, language, popularity, and newness.

In addition, Font Squirrel provides a couple of handy and useful tools: a Webfont Generator for creating your own web fonts and a Font Identifier that can recognize fonts in images you upload and find identical fonts in the Font Squirrel library.

5. FontStruct

FontStruct is a handy online tool for creating TrueType fonts. There is a visual editor for this, which is easy to understand.

In addition, there is a gallery with over 47,000 fonts from users of the platform. These fonts are freely available and you can use them however you like. Including as a basis for their own.

Most of the fonts presented here are quite extravagant.

6. DaFont

Another popular collection of 3,500 free fonts. Most of them are for personal use only.

The nice thing about DaFont is the category system. You can select fonts in the style of comics, video games, vintage or stylized Japanese characters.

7. Urban Fonts

A large collection of different fonts. Select any, and you will see a page with detailed information about it.

There are many free fonts, they are highlighted in a special section. There are also enough commercial ones, and there are constant discounts on them.

The sorting system on Urban Fonts is quite flexible and user-friendly.

8. Abstract Fonts

A library with a simple and clean interface and approximately 14,000 fonts. The collection is constantly updated, so there will be plenty to choose from.

The only drawback is that it is not so easy to find fonts with Cyrillic letters in all this variety. This is because there is no language filtering.

9. Fontspring

Fontspring sells expensive fonts for commercial use. But almost every font family has 1-2 free fonts that you can use for your own personal use. In addition, there is a separate section with free fonts.

The collection is very rich. But you will have to carefully study the license information for a particular font before downloading.

10. Behance

If DeviantArt is a social network for artists, then Behance is the same for designers. A huge number of projects are located here, of which fonts are far from the main thing.

A quick search on Behance for free font brings up a lot of cool authoring fonts. Most of them are free to download.

11. Acid Fonts

A selection of 7,500 fonts with unusual styles. As the name of the site suggests, they look acidic.

Unfortunately, the collection has not been updated for a long time. But perhaps here you will find what you need.

12. Font Freak

This site hosts about 9,000 free and over 125,000 paid fonts from 400 designers. For $ 9, you can download an archive of 5,000 fonts.

True, the interface, of course, came from the past.

13. Creative Market

A marketplace for fonts, vectors, and other designer gizmos. The fonts here are of very high quality - of course, because they are not cheap.

But every week Creative Market offers to download some of the products for free. And there is one font among them.

14. Fontasy

There are over 1,000 free fonts collected here. True, there are not enough Cyrillic ones among them.

Fontasy has a user-friendly interface and a fairly large selection of styles. If you would like to use the fonts posted here for commercial purposes, please ask their authors for permission.

15. The League of Moveable Type

A small but beautiful collection of fonts hosted on GitHub. All fonts can be used for both personal and commercial purposes.