Free Fonts - An Enormous List
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Before I get into the free fonts themselves I have to mention a very useful tool called What The Font. If I ever need to find out what font was used in a particular design I go straight here. For the record, I wish I did, but I have no association with this site whatsoever.
Upload a Jpeg image and Whatthefont will give you it’s best guesses as to what the font is. It usually gives you 4 to 10 good suggestions, which is useful if the original is out of your budget and you think you can get away with another more affordable font. Best of all, it also tends to be very accurate.
In the example above, it may not have gotten the exact font but it was close enough for my purposes and a lot faster than I would have been had I searched through my available fonts.
If you want to identify a font in ‘20 questions’ style, try Identifont which will ask you a series of questions about the font characters.
While all the fonts listed below this top section are free (check the license to be sure) You can’t always be assured of their quality and most only come in one flavour (No lowercase, no Italic, etc) If you want to be sure you are getting a good quality font that will behave as you expect it to, MyFonts.com is a great place to purchase professional fonts, as are Fonts.com, ITCFonts.com, Linotype.com and ITCFonts.com
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And now…. Links to TENS of thousands of fonts…
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9 Beautifully designed professional fonts by Jos Buivenga free for commercial and professional use. Highly readable and very useful multipurpose fonts.
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The Font Diner has a Nice collection of free Mac and PC fonts as well as quality pay fonts.
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34 Free Fonts from Jason Ramirez
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Nice free chunky fonts from Nils von Blanc
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16 Free Fonts from Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute
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20 Free fonts from fontbros.com
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Currently offering 8316 fonts. Sorted by style, look, dingbats, etc. Also searchable.
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1001 Fonts has, well, probably a lot more than that. Nicely sorted into about 40 categories including:
Brandname,Calligraphic, Gothic,Caps Only,Comic, Cartoon, Decorative, Fancy, Digital, Pixelated, Dingbat, Symbol, Dingfont, Letterbat, Foreign Imitation, Frames, Border, Graffiti, Scribbled, Grunge, Eroded, Handwritten,Hard to Read, Holiday, Seasonal, Horror, Scary, Hot, Cold, Monospaced, Movie, Television, Music, Outlined, Retro, Romantic, Cute, Sans Serif, Science-Fiction, Script, Serif, Shadowed, 3D, Stenciled, Techno, Futuristic, Typewritten, Warped, Distorted Western, New & Fresh, Most Popular, Top Rated, Most Talked About
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63 hand picked Grunge Fonts
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A selected collection of nice free fonts
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Image themed fonts (Animals, Cartoons, Comic (some seen above) Christmas Fonts (also above) Decorative, Easter, etc)
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3 nice and free, professionally designed fonts from Fontshop.com for Mac and PC
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9,000 free downloadable fonts from Fontspace
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28 Free Fonts from Douglas Vitkauskas of VTKS design
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4 Hand Drawn fonts designed by Eric Wiryanata
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8276 different fonts categorized by type from dafont.com. Allows you to do a customized preview of the fonts (as seen above)
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16 Useful, free Dingbat fonts from bittbox.com
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Over 5,000 free fonts. Many Dingbat fonts as well. Download singles or pay a $7 fee to download all of them in one file
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Thousands of free fonts by category. Dingbats seen above.
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8,000 freeware fonts
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More than five thousand fonts for both PC and Mac
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The beautiful and classic Greyscale font
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Thousands of PC and Mac fonts.
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Over 13,000 free fonts. Particularly good source of script fonts.
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60 or more free fonts from Divide By Zero
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40 old school video game themed bitmap style fonts from Freaky Fonts
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100s of free fonts from Iconian.com
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Thousands of free fonts sorted alphabetically.
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11,920 free fonts and counting. Sorted in various ways including most popular. They also have a downloadable PDF catalog should you wish to browse offline or print a catalog of available fonts.
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17,626 free fonts. Really? Well that’s what they say. There are certainly too many to count. Sorted alphabetically and by theme.
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Mostly ‘themed’ fonts, but lots of them
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So That’s it for now. Bookmark this page as it will be updated periodically.
I hope you enjoyed this list of free fonts. Please leave a comment to let us know your favourite source of free fonts.
3 Comments
Bob 
on October 18th, 2008
Handwritten scripts are great
Dutch Schultz 
on October 19th, 2008
Thank you so much for putting this out there. I will be using what the font allot as I have run into this before and could never find a site like this to help me out.
Bob
on October 18th, 2008
Check out more fonts for free download at http://tools.khrido.com/webtools/fonts-collection.aspx