37 FREE Must-Have Fonts

Again, the title say everything. Here you have 37 FREE must-have fonts.
There are tens of thousands free fonts out there, it’s an hard choice.
Below you’ll find a collection of my favorites… ;)

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About Francesco Mugnai

I'm an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop CS4, i work as Teacher, Graphic Designer and Web Designer. My other websites: Itevenhasawatermark - CSSMachine

115 Comments

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Nice collection of fonts, but it would really save the reader some time to compile a .zip that we can download at the bottom of the page. Unless of course you legally can’t do that or something…
Just a thought.
redbyte June 18, 2008 at 7:07 am
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Oh! I forgot to ask, by free, does that include free for commercial use??
As in, can I use these in my work that I sell to clients?
Cheers :)
redbyte June 18, 2008 at 7:08 am
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Fantastic!
sl37 June 18, 2008 at 12:16 pm
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Great selection!!
Diego June 18, 2008 at 12:51 pm
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nice collection!
John MacMenamin ever-real June 18, 2008 at 2:34 pm
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yeh – the zip file of these ‘must have’ FREE fonts would rock.
Laurence June 18, 2008 at 5:01 pm
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????
xiaou June 18, 2008 at 6:13 pm
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no Chinese language 55.
xiaou June 18, 2008 at 6:15 pm
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Great post! :)
Erika June 18, 2008 at 10:13 pm
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Great hand-picked collection of 37 free must-have fonts for designers.
web design company June 19, 2008 at 4:51 am
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thanks
svg June 20, 2008 at 12:03 am
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Great collection, many thanks.
Mark June 20, 2008 at 1:14 am
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the wonderfull font list
ByDesigner June 20, 2008 at 9:31 am
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I would download these free fonts if they were all in one file. As they are, don’t really care to download each separately. :) I thank you kindly for taking the time to compile the list though. In the future maybe you could compile a .zip file for easy consumptions. kTHNX. bye.
Anon June 20, 2008 at 6:34 pm
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for this collection dude I just can say THANKS!
ph1x June 20, 2008 at 6:39 pm
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Nice selection. I don’t really care about a zip file, but it would have been nice if the list was divided into “free fonts” and “Free for personal use”. I don’t really feel that fonts that can’t be used commercially should be called free…..
Oh well, will look trough ‘em all and look at the license :)
Thomas June 20, 2008 at 7:00 pm
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Lovely free fonts …but where do I click to get ‘em
(I’m brand new here!)
THX
Thunder June 20, 2008 at 7:33 pm
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This post looks familiar.
ms June 21, 2008 at 12:25 am
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@all: Thank you very much for the compliments! :)
A zip file? Why not, maybe in future.
Before I have to read carefully every license….
@Thomas: Nice tip for the next collection. Thx!
@ms: ? There were at least twenty “super famous” fonts (like Delicious or Fertigo). I think it’s normal to find similar resources (in graphic design blogs), specially if you want to choose a selection of the best resources available for free…
Ciao :)
Francesco Mugnai June 21, 2008 at 12:48 am
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Thanks for featuring 5 of my fonts and all the traffic that generates.
To all who request for a zip file: my license does *not* allow it. Site traffic is very important for me, so I hope you can respect that. There’s much you get in return. You can even use my fonts commercially.
Jos Buivenga June 21, 2008 at 3:06 am
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@ redbyte and followers
Man, what a bunch of ingrates. This guy compiles this list of great free fonts, and gets complaints that they’re not zipped into one file? Sheesh.
Ben June 21, 2008 at 2:53 pm
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Nice fonts
thanks
keyneed June 21, 2008 at 4:02 pm
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A very nice list. ^^ There are a few I haven’t seen before that are quite nice, like Nordic. Thank you.
Cel June 21, 2008 at 10:47 pm
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Thanks…
Guney ATABAS June 23, 2008 at 9:06 am
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People are way too used to getting free stuff from the internet. Complaining the fonts aren’t in a zipped file when this dude has gone to all the trouble of finding them in the first place? That’s low.
Very nice list though. I loled at the first ones description
Lara June 25, 2008 at 2:28 am
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Awesome fonts, thanks a lot for posting I needed some solid, free (:o) fonts.
Website Design June 25, 2008 at 6:55 am
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Some really nice fonts, thanks so much for taking the time to hand pick these for us! I imagine this post took quite awhile to put together.
-I cant believe some of you are complaining about it not being in a zip file, I downloaded nearly all of them in a matter of minutes. Quit being ungrateful and give thanks where its due.
Regards,
Drew
Drew Douglass June 25, 2008 at 11:31 am
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good stuff! Thanks!
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Greg June 28, 2008 at 3:12 am
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wow,it’s freee,,,,,,,thanks yaaaaaaaaa,,,,,
poel_dje June 29, 2008 at 8:32 pm
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Why not a zip file?
Because the developers of these fonts have put time and effort into creating the fonts, and the least we who want to use them can do is pay their site a visit in return for the fonts, hmm?
Thank you for the great collection – much appreciated.
Karl Hardisty July 3, 2008 at 12:07 pm
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Thanks for these!
Laine July 4, 2008 at 10:13 pm
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Â¿Y la Ã‘?
MOPE July 9, 2008 at 8:01 pm
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wow! thnx a lot
infods9 July 10, 2008 at 12:02 pm
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please include the letter ‘Ã±’ for spanish people
thanks
manuel July 10, 2008 at 3:52 pm
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Francesco, great great job. I apreciate this post, very much. A lot!.
If some day you travel to Argentina, look for me. I’ll be waiting for you with a giant BEER!. Lol!
Thanks!!!
Flacote July 12, 2008 at 6:12 am
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These are all pretty cool fonts, but I would say that 85-90% of them are directly from Smashing Magazine’s free font postings. Or perhaps it’s just an eerie coincidence…
Derryl July 16, 2008 at 9:20 am
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Great collection! Thanks a lot, mate ;) ;) ;)
Nix July 20, 2008 at 7:25 pm
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Also more free fonts at http://tools.khrido.com/webtools/fonts-collection.aspx with easy download.
Bob July 23, 2008 at 6:26 am
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I’m doing research on an article I’m writing and it seems that almost every font on your list is just a repeat of what Smashing Magazine wrote in their 2007 article 40+ Free Fonts for Professional Design.
Lindsey Lake July 30, 2008 at 2:40 pm
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Dear Lindsey,
I just checked the post you mentioned, and there are no more than 7 or 8 fonts that we have in common. One of the positive points about this (both for me and for Smashing Magazine) is that 5 of thse fonts come from the blog of josbuivenga and have made their way to a good 70-80% of the best design blogs out there. They’re great fonts and deserve as much exposure as possible.
In any case, best of luck on your article, and thanks for taking a look at my blog.
Francesco Mugnai July 30, 2008 at 2:57 pm
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gracias por compartir!!!!…
keeer August 12, 2008 at 11:27 pm
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Nice fonts, do you mind to upload them at http://www.multimedia-stock.com as well? thank you in advance
Goblin September 18, 2008 at 2:34 pm
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Thank you for the great list of fonts!
Sean Mott September 19, 2008 at 4:40 pm
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Muy bueno listado de fuentes… se agradece
Marcelo December 21, 2008 at 8:48 pm
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thank u very much. very beautiful fonts
kurye December 29, 2008 at 4:35 pm
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Thanks for putting this list together. Even some no-free-fonts-advocates would agree these are great :)
WilhelmR February 11, 2009 at 3:52 am
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fond
sanane February 27, 2009 at 6:36 pm
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Thank you for wonderful information.
Please let me refer.
domestic-design March 6, 2009 at 4:38 am
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Excelentes fuentes…y un aservo para nosotros los diseÃ±adores…Saludos y Gracias!!!
GÃ©o NoÃ«l April 1, 2009 at 11:52 pm
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Really nice list! Here’s an article I did on 20 Rockin’ Block fonts: http://bit.ly/57E7Fd.
Midnight Oil January 15, 2010 at 8:42 pm