15 Places to Find Great Fonts
April 13, 2009 by Joel Reyes · 7 Comments 
Free fonts are used in a wide variety of areas such as web design, graphic design, print based work and more. They can come in very handy at times when you’re caught between the desire to free yourself from the stock fonts your PC arrives with.
The art of creative font usage is called Typography. Whether you’re creating a website, blog, business card, flyer or illustration, you can use fonts to artistically embed creativity into your design. There are sites that are gorgeous even without images, because they make use of excellent typography to get the point across.
Finding quality fonts can be a bit of a task at times. You may find a site with totally free fonts, however, the level of quality and variation may not be up-to-par with what you need. Here are 15 sites for finding top quality fonts.
15 Sites to Search for Free Fonts
dafont.com is one of the largest sites that provide free fonts. Here you’ll be able to search over 8,000+ fonts in categories such as themes, top 100, and new fonts. You can also submit a font and become an author as well.
This site has a good record of over 1 million unique downloads per month. Currently they offer 11,000+ free fonts. Each of the fonts has a customizable string preview, character map, member comments, similar fonts as well as a font info tab with all kinds of helpful information about the font.
1001freefonts doesn’t have the full variety of fonts that Dafont offers; however, it does have a more creative approach to its listing. 1001 Free Fonts also offers a font preview pane, which allows you to see what a few words will look like in each and every specific font.
This website has a nice searchable layout. It helps you find free fonts by category and keywords. All free fonts have been manually categorized for easy navigation for the best free font searching experience.
MyFont.com is a nicely organized website that allows you to upload a file on the font you’re looking for. Once finished it will find you the closest match they have in their database. If for some reason WhatTheFont can’t figure it out, you can submit your image to the WhatTheFont Forum where very useful font enthusiasts from around the world will quickly help you out.
NeatFonts gives you the freedom of searching through all of their fonts at the left side of the home page. Quickly and easily download any font in a matter of clicks.
BetterFonts has over 10,000 searchable free fonts. The site features easy downloading and a preview pane so that you’re able to “test drive” your fonts before you download them.
ddfont brings simplicity and character to downloading fonts. As soon as you enter the site you’re showered with free fonts that are embedded onto the front page for easy and quick access. However, the search functionality is a bit inconvenient because you have to search for the first letter of the font’s name.
This site has a great collection of free fonts. You’ll have an easy time searching through their 8,000+ archive as well as through their collection of free dingbats.
Font Diner offers 36 free fonts that are usually not found on the bigger font sites. The site displays a variety of excellent fonts nicely organized.
Typepaheses offers an amazing collection of pictorial fonts and text fonts. Most of their fonts are free, however, there are those that need to be bought. Every font entails an incredible preview that shows you how to utilize the font in different ways.
Blue Vinyl Fonts is a heart-warming site that captures your eye’s attention immediately as you enter the site. It has an incredible variation of fonts and dingbats for free and downloading the fonts is fairly simple.
High Fonts is a good site to search for fonts from all over the net. If they don’t have the font on their site, then you can take advantage of their helpful commodity and search through one of their partners sites listed to the right side of the page.
This font site gives you access to over 1,000 free fonts with new additional fonts added on a daily basis. The only fonts found on the sites are fonts that are found on the Font of the Day page.
Fonts500.com offers a large archive of the webs top 500 free fonts. Use the easy and simple custom preview that turns every font on the entire page into any set of words you type in. You can also save time as the site offers a feature that allows you to download all of the fonts on the site at once.
Once you have your awesome new fonts, continue reading to find out how to install fonts.
for me i find dafont to have the best variety of top quality fonts. i’d say 50% of all of the fonts aren’t worth bothering with but i first found bleeding cowboys on there a year or 2 back, now its everywhere! Fonts500 is also a great resource.
regards,
gaz.
I believe typography plays as important role as the selection of colors, layout, and design; Unfortunately this fact is usually ignored. I’ve been looking for fonts to fit into my projects and I had problems finding the appropriate ones. After reading this article, I decided to visit the websites mentioned here, and I found them worthwhile, I found some great fonts. A good posting I must say.
Sweet thanks, great sites.
Thanks for the great resources! I’m a huge typography fan and can’t wait to check some of these free font sites out. Thanks for sharing!
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great!..the font is very nice..thanks
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