Best free fonts for your next project
Finding the perfect font can transform a project, but you don’t need a big budget to make a big impact. This curated list showcases the best free options across styles—sans serifs for versatility, serifs for sophistication, and display fonts for a touch of personality—all ready to elevate your design.
Sans serif
Host Grotesk
Host Grotesk is a uniwidth sans serif variable font tailored by Element Type for modern user interfaces. It features uniform letter widths and spacing across all weights and corresponding italics, ensuring seamless adaptability without compromising layout consistency.
Be Vietnam Pro
Be Vietnam Pro is a Neo Grotesk which is well suited to technology companies and startups. We have refined Vietnamese letterforms with diacritics adaptive forms and engineered them for the best readability.
Satoshi
Satoshi is a modernist sans serif typeface. Its design combines typically grotesk-style letterforms, with some characters that are quite geometrically-designed. In terms of its appearance, Satoshi was inspired by Industrial-Era typographic design.
Funnel Sans
Funnel Sans is a modern sans serif typeface with both clarity and character, originally developed by NORD ID and Kristian Möller for Funnel. It’s functional yet personal, featuring both square and circular shapes in its letterforms.
Serif
Besley
Besley is an antique slab serif inspired by Robert Besley’s Clarendon. It features a full range of weights and matching italics, making it suitable for a variety of uses. A slight rounding of the corners gives a subtle warmth, and OpenType features such as ligatures and contextual substitutions perfect for the finer details.
Zodiak
Zodiak is a family of fonts with sturdy serifs. Several of the weights in the family are optimal for setting large amounts of running texts; the extreme light and heavy fonts, on the other hand, work great together in display applications.
Newsreader
Imagining the wants and needs of readers of news streams and publishing platforms, a text family was designed by Production Type that could be elegant, sturdy, contemporary and bookish—all without diminishing personality.
Playfair
Playfair is a transitional typeface inspired by the late 18th century shift to pointed steel pens and advancements in printing, enabling high-contrast, delicate letterforms. Originally released for primarily display purposes, it has since been updated and revised to suit a wider range of typesetting needs.
Display
Fraunces
Fraunces is a display, "Old Style" soft-serif typeface inspired by the mannerisms of early 20th century typefaces such as Windsor, Souvenir, and the Cooper Series. Fraunces was designed by Phaedra Charles and Flavia Zimbardi, partners at Undercase Type.
Bricolage Grotesque
Bricolage Grotesque is a blend of historical influences, technical decisions, and personal expression. Initially based on Jérémy Landes’ Mayenne Sans, it evolved by drawing on French and British typographic styles—combining the quirky energy of Grotesque Nº9, the confident tone of Antique Olive, and modern sans serif elements like exaggerated ink traps.
Staatliches
Staatliches is a clean cut display face with charmingly unconventional proportions. The alphabet was designed in response to Herbert Bayer’s title lettering on the cover of the first Bauhaus exhibition catalogue, which was published in 1923.
Honourable mentions
Mort Modern
A serif typeface in 56 styles designed by Riley Cran, inspired by the lettering work of Mortimer Leach. While it’s available for free, their “pay what you want” model is only for personal use.
GT Walsheim
Inspired by the lettering of Swiss poster designer legend Otto Baumberger from the 1930s, GT Walsheim is a friendly but precise typeface. Although a premium option, you can test out a reduced character set version, along with the rest of their library, by downloading their trial fonts before having to make any decisions.