80% of good design is typography. It's fact.
Yet, most people settle for generic Google fonts. 🫤
13 sites I use to find true masterpiece free fonts that will help elevate your design from "meh" to extraordinary:
1️⃣ Fontshare
Fontshare is a free fonts service from the Indian Type Foundry (ITF), making quality fonts accessible to all.
fontshare.com
2️⃣ Open Foundry
A new platform for open-source fonts in a noise-free environment, to highlight their beauty, extend functionality and encourage further exploration.
open-foundry.com/fonts
3️⃣ Freefaces
This website is a curated collection of typefaces that are available under a variety of free licences somewhere on the interwebs.
freefaces.gallery
4️⃣ Uncut
UNCUT is a (mostly*) libre typeface catalogue, focusing on somewhat contemporary type. There are currently 138 typefaces featured.
uncut.wtf
5️⃣ Use Modify
Use & Modify is a personal selection of beautiful, classy, punk, professional, incomplete, weird typefaces. Open source licences make them free to use and modify.
usemodify.com
6️⃣ Velvetyne
Velvetyne is a French libre type foundry designing and releasing cutting edge typefaces.
velvetyne.fr
7️⃣ Collletttivo
Collletttivo designs and distributes free Open-Source typefaces.
collletttivo.it
8️⃣ Badass fonts by womxm
This collection aims at giving visibility to libre fonts drawn by womxn designers, who are often underrepresented in the traditionally conservative field of typography.
design-research.be/by-womxn
9️⃣ Tunera Foundry
Tunera is a transnational type foundry, that aims to present new and original typefaces for everyone.
tunera.xyz
1️⃣0️⃣ Death of typography
It's young Singaporean type collective—practicing, researching
and exploring type through creative inquiry and collaboration.
deathoftypography.com
1️⃣1️⃣ Pixel Surplus
Download Free Fonts - Selection of over 1000 free high quality fonts and typefaces
pixelsurplus.com
1️⃣2️⃣ The League of Moveable Type
The first open-source font foundry. Your source for learning how to use & make type, and level up your skills as a designer.
theleagueofmoveabletype.com
1️⃣3️⃣ Fonts in the wild
Find the perfect font from real projects.
fontsinthewild.com
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