The 15 best free fonts for Developers
We’ve scoured the web to present you with a fine and varied selection of free fonts. Including scripts, serifs, and a range of ligatures, these fonts will give you greater flexibility in your designs, and add to your arsenal of design tools.
01. Big John
Spain-based designer Ion is behind this bold typeface. A geometric design, Big John is accompanied by a sister font, Slim Joe, an ultra light version of its bigger brother. Both designs are free for personal and commercial use.
02. Reis
This cool, handwritten design Reis was created by Marcelo Reis Melo. Great for posters, logos and much more, Reis is available free for personal and commercial use, with donations to the author, as always, appreciated.
FORMAT: TTF
03. Jaapokki
Jaapokki was created by Finnish designer Mikko Nuuttila. With clean lines, two alternatives and large set of glyphs, Jaapokki is great for headlines, posters, logos and more.
04. Aventura
Inspired by the outdoors, Aventura was created by graphic designer Jimmy Kalman. With a full set of uppercase letters, numbers and a selection of special characters, Aventura is free for both personal and commercial use.
05. Azedo
Portugal-based graphic designer Pedro Azedo is behind this gorgeous typeface Azedo. A personal project, Azedo was created off the back of the new identity Pedro created for himself.
06. Futuracha
A group of curious design explorers make up høly and are the team behind today’s font of choice Futuracha. They comment on Behance: “The name is the combination of words futura and cucaracha (cockroach in Spanish). “The design is based on the basis of the pf futura book. The letters edges radically extend in a forceful way trying to remind the art deco’s style.
07. AXIS
Developed by New York-based graphic designer Jean M Wojciechowski, AXIS is a sans serif font, inspired by the geometry of the urban environment. The free download includes a full set of upper and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters.
08. Elegant Lux
Elegant Lux was created by designer Florian Paizs. “This is my interpretation and sketching of Hans Möhring’s sketches of Elegant Grotesk from 1929,” he comments. A work-in-progress, Paizs is currently still working on Elegant Lux, correcting kerning issues and developing more weights. But, in the meantime, he’s offering a demo version of his font as free download.
09. Building
Building was created by Italian design student Leonardo Gubbioni. He comments on Behance: “With a strong visual impact, Building’s primary purpose is to capture the attention, in a world where you are constantly assualted by sensory stimuli.”
10. Anders
Geometric design Anders was an experimental project by creative advertising student Tom Anders Watkins. “Using influences from modern font design, I wanted something very minimal and a little unique, here’s the result,” Watkins comments on Behance.
11. Dense
Dense is a versatile, elegant, geometric and compact sans-serif typeface. Three weights have been created thus far: thin, regular and bold. Created by Canadian artist Charles Daoud, Regular is currently the only weight available, but Daoud has said that he’ll update his Behance page with news on how to get the other weights in the near future.
12. Reckoner
Reckoner was created by Sydney-based graphic designer Alex Dale. “Drawing inspiration from popular industrial sans serif typefaces such as Bebas Neue, Alegre Sans & Dharma Gothic, I set out to design a typeface with a modern twist whilst keeping the fundamentals of a traditional font,” Dale comments on Behance.
“The result is Reckoner, a free for commercial and personal use typeface that features a secondary set of characters in the lowercase setting that can be placed in your designs to add a unique touch to certain words.”
13. Higher
Created by Portugal-based graphic designer Marissa Passos, free font Higher was made as a student project during her time at the University of Porto. The typeface contains a full set of uppercase characters and numbers 0-9. It’s free for both personal and commercial use, and available in OTF and TTF formats.
14. Vincent
Vincent was developed by graphic and product designer for NBC Universal Ben Suarez. Created at the end of last year, this vintage-inspired design was Suarez’s first fully functioning typeface, and is a great addition to our list of 100 free fonts.
15. BoB
Inspired by the playful asethics of illustration, Burma-based typographer Zarni has created this cool and characterful font. This kind of typography is perfect for experimentation and will work wonders on posters and headlines.
Originally posted 2014-12-09 18:05:48.