I find it so important as a designer to have an awesome library of fonts at your fingertips. Choosing the correct one can make or break a design. The resources are out there to find some great free fonts, but sometimes the search can be a bit overwhelming. I’ve decided to put together a series of posts that feature my 10 favorite fonts in 5 different major categories.
Series Overview
- 10 Awesome Free Sans Serif Fonts
- 10 Awesome Free Serif Fonts
- 10 Awesome Free Script Fonts
- 10 Awesome Free Handwritten Fonts
- 10 Awesome Free Grunge Fonts
Here Are My Top Ten Free Sans Serif Fonts
1. Aller [ Download ]
2. Aurulent Sans [ Download ]
3. Bitstream Vera Sans [ Download ]
4. Colaborate [ Download ]
5. Fontin [ Download ]
6. Luxi Sans [ Download ]
7. Mayberry Pro [ Download ]
8. Museo Sans [ Download ]
9. Sansation [ Download ]
9. Surface [ Download ]
Final Thoughts
I found all these fonts at my favorite free font site – Font Squirrel. The best part is they are available for commercial use! So what did you think of this list? What are your favorite free sans serif fonts?
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April 19, 2009
Great list, Fontin is one of my favorite fonts, free or otherwise.
Angie Bowen´s last post was… Arbenting’s Inspired Web and Best Of Rundown 1
April 19, 2009
Oh dear! Had to download them all…
Then just had to go to Font Squirrel and see what else I could find.
I agree with Angie — Fontin gets my vote. It’s just lovely.
April 19, 2009
Thanks Andrew. Great fonts greatly appreciate it.
@javierjrdg
April 19, 2009
Nice selection of fonts. Thanks for sharing.
April 19, 2009
Delicious is quite a nice free sans serif font as well.
April 20, 2009
Nice list. One font that should also be on it, is “Lacuna” from Glashaus Design: http://www.glashaus-design.com/
April 20, 2009
Thanks for the list. I love Aller
April 20, 2009
I agree with the people who liked Fontin. The others seem to be just ordinary, no better nor worse than the hundreds of other sans-serif fonts around.
April 20, 2009
very nice collection.
Thank you very much for sharing.
Bookmarked it!
April 20, 2009
@Eli and @maYO Two very nice inclusions! Thanks for adding them. I definitely would say they are worthy of this list, but I wanted to limit it to ten :)
@Bruce – I love the simple sans serif fonts, but you may enjoy some of the others in this series… stay tuned for my top 10 grunge and script fonts.
April 20, 2009
thaks…you….
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April 20, 2009
Great Selection, Thanks
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April 20, 2009
These are awesome Andrew! I’ve loved Museo for a while now, but it’s great to have some other professional looking options.
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April 21, 2009
any alternative to the overused overrated helvetica is nice. dunno… after the movie came out…. it just kinda did it for me as far as ruining it as a font i ever wanna use again. big futura fan, tho.
April 21, 2009
Great list. Some are new to me and I’ll download them now. Thank you.
Franz Jeitz´s last post was… 5 Free Hi-Res Grunge Nebulae Textures
April 21, 2009
Nice list, My favorite is Sensations
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April 21, 2009
hey cool list, but the museo font isnt free or i cant find the download link ?
April 21, 2009
@kevin – On that Museo Sans link, scroll down the page till you see Museo Sans 500. That’s the weight version of this font that is free of charge. Click to add it to the cart and follow through the checkout.
April 22, 2009
I love Luxi Sans.. Nice list !!!!
April 22, 2009
Thanks a lot and font-squirrel is a brilliant site!
April 22, 2009
Cool…great job !
April 23, 2009
thanks andrew.
April 23, 2009
Mayberry and surface are awesome–Thanks for sharing Andrew!
Eli–delicious is a nice one!
P.S. Thanks to @behoff for the tweet a couple days ago on this post..
April 23, 2009
Wow my font list is really getting longer by the day. Thanks for that
April 26, 2009
Very cool !
April 26, 2009
nice collection! and good fonts! they are also in my fav collections :D
April 27, 2009
Museo is the best…nice list…all downloaded…
May 22, 2009
Nice!
I’m a brazillian designer and…
Can I post this on my blog?
tks!
May 22, 2009
@Jhenrique – Thanks for asking! You can show the intro pic and link to this post, but please don’t grab the entire post.
May 26, 2009
I think Fontin looks fantastic but wow, I think it just scrapes in as a sans serif.
I’ve been using the Bitstream in headings for a while now and it’s amazing how many people are asking “what’s that font? – it looks great”.
June 4, 2009
I’ve been using Aller for a while now. Love it! Looks great in all caps.
June 17, 2009
I am so surprised with Surface – it is such a nice one.
Great list! Thank you.
July 23, 2009
fantastic. i love futura and MartinGotURW is a favorite standard. thanks for the info. your blog is new to me, am excited to browse around.
.-= marta´s last blog ..giveaway: paper clocks =-.
September 2, 2009
Just what I’ve been looking for! Thanks for this great list of fonts. I’m always looking for new sites to find free fonts and I will have to bookmark this because I will come back to visit each site.
November 19, 2009
THank you for the great fonts! U saved my assignment!
December 21, 2009
Oops. broken links… Aller file font
January 8, 2010
Nice post :)
btw also nice sans serif fonts http://www.fonts2u.com/category.html?id=15