Fonts
Choosing the right font can make-or-break any design project. Explore hundreds of free and premium fonts. Everything from classic, vintage typefaces to bold, modern fonts that pack a contemporary punch. Find the perfect font for your next project.
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Aguero Serif Clean & Elegant Font
Aguero is a great example of a luxury font that features a set of tall and narrow letters. This font is perfect for designing logos for luxury watch b...
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Brooklyn Pirates Baseball Team Font
If you’re working on a logo design or a badge design for a baseball team, this font is a great choice to supercharge your design. It comes with ...
Learn About Fonts
How Do I Add Fonts to Photoshop?
Learn how to add fonts and start working with them quickly.
What Is a Font License?
Learn the ins and outs of what type of font license you need for your project.
Where Can I Find Free Fonts?
Our pick of the greatest free sources for typefaces online.
How Should I Pair and Combine Fonts?
Tips and tricks for combining stylish fonts in unique and interesting ways.
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Boston Baseball Script Font
Boston is a stylish baseball script font that features a beautifully flowing letter design. It’s ideal for baseball T-shirts, caps, and various ...
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Groningen Modern Clean Fonts
Groningen is a clean modern font for elegant designs. It’s perfect for crafting website headers for business websites, logos for luxury brands, ...
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JUST Sans Clean Modern Font Family
Just Sans is a stylishly modern font that comes with an entire collection of font styles for you to choose from. It has 7 different font weights rangi...
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LUPINES Cute Skinny Handwriting Font
The cute skinny letter design gives this handwriting font a very unique look and feel. It’s perfect for greeting card designs and title designs....
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Auvelle Minimal Clean Hairline Font
Auvelle is a minimal hairline font with a clean design. It features letters with a unique design that will fit in nicely with modern product packaging...
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Cambridge Bold Medieval Gothic Font
Gothic-style typography was a commonly used look in the old ages. It not only adds beautiful decorative elements to typography but also give a strong ...
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Herald Font
Many of the invitations and TV shows of the Mid-Century era featured fun serif fonts. Herald is a font that’s very close to the originals being ...
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San Marino Font
This Mid-Century font comes in four styles, including regular, outline, and italic versions. Most geometric mid-century modern font numbers have the s...
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Broadley Script Mid Century Font
Boardley Script is a script-style display font in two layers. Boardley Script was the result of an exploration of mid-century American and European bo...
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Sevastian Layered Shadow Font
Sevastian is one of the best shadow fonts you’ll find on our list. It features a very unique shadow effect that creates a realistic 3D effect. S...
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He Loves Me Sweet Skinny Font
The tall and skinny design of this font makes it perfect for crafting titles for simple and romantic designs, such as Valentine’s day cards, ann...
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Lawless Retro Old West Font
Lawless is a retro-vintage western font that has a classic letter design inspired by old west movies. This font comes in 4 different styles for you to...
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The Foldnick Vintage Decorative Font
If you’re thinking about using a serif font with a creative project, it’s the perfect excuse to use a decorative serif font. This decorati...
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Airy Decorative Logo Font
Airy is another colorful font you can use to design everything from attractive titles to logo designs and more. The font features a creative letter de...
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Advio Decorative Logo Font
Advio is another decorative font unlike any other on our list. It features a very unusual style of letter design that makes it a perfect choice for lo...
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Leah Gaviota Casual Decorative Font
Leah Gaviota is a fun and casual family of fonts that can help you create a range of artistic designs from greeting cards, badges, stickers, to logos,...
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Moalang Pro Vintage Font & Ornaments
An elegant vintage font that features a unique design that will allow you to create logos, badges, signage, and labels that stand out from the crowd. ...
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Kohm Modern-Vintage Font
Kohn is a unique vintage font with a design of its own. The great thing about this font is that even though it has a rough vintage design, it will ble...
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Gibsons Vintage Font Collection
Gibsons is a collection of vintage fonts featuring a tall and narrow design. The bundle includes a total of 20 different typefaces in 4 different styl...
FAQs About Fonts
What are the different types of fonts?
Fonts can be divided into several categories based on their characteristics. The most common categories include Serif fonts, Sans Serif fonts, Script fonts, and Display fonts. Serif fonts have small lines or strokes attached to the ends of larger strokes in a letter or symbol. Examples include Times New Roman and Georgia. Sans Serif fonts, such as Arial and Helvetica, do not have these extra strokes.
Script fonts mimic handwriting and calligraphy. They can range from formal types like Old English style to more casual styles like Brush script. Display fonts are typically used for headers or logos rather than body text, as they can be a bit extravagant for regular reading. They come in a large variety of styles and are often used to convey a specific mood or theme.
What is a web font and how does it differ from a desktop font?
A web font is a font that is used on a website or a web application. Unlike desktop fonts, they are designed to be used on a web platform and to be compatible with different browsers and devices. A web font is hosted on a server and loaded into the user's web browser as needed, thus allowing websites to use typefaces that aren't installed on visitors' computers.
Desktop fonts, on the other hand, are fonts that you install directly onto your computer or workstation. They can be used in any application on your computer like Word, PowerPoint, or Photoshop. Unlike web fonts, they are not designed to be used on a web platform. Each type has its specific uses, and the main difference between them is where and how they are used.
How do I install a font on my computer?
Installing a font on your computer is typically straightforward. First, you download a font file from a trusted source. The downloaded file would usually be in .ttf or .otf format. On a Windows computer, you just right-click on the downloaded font file and select 'Install'. Alternatively, you can go to the 'Fonts' folder in the Control Panel and then drag and drop the font file there.
On a Mac, you open the downloaded font file, which should open in Font Book. From there, you simply select 'Install Font'. For both Windows and Mac, after installing the font, it should be available for use in your applications. Note that some applications may require a restart to register the newly installed font.
Why does a font matter in design?
Fonts play a crucial role in design as they help establish the mood, evoke emotion, and set the tone of the message. The typography you choose can make your design appear serious, comedic, light-hearted, professional, or even whimsical. An inappropriate font can miscommunicate the intended message and put off your audience. Ensuring you choose the right font can create a strong impression and enhance the impact of a design, whether it's a website, poster, or business card.
Moreover, fonts are significant for readability and legibility. Some fonts are more readable than others and make the text easy to scan at a glance. For example, for longer text, it's usually better to use a Serif or Sans Serif font. On the other hand, Script or Display fonts are typically suited for headlines or short pieces of text.
What is kerning and why is it important in font usage?
Kerning refers to the adjustment of space between individual letter pairs in a typeface. Not to be confused with tracking, which adjusts the spacing uniformly over a range of characters, kerning is specific to pairs of letters that may create an awkward or irregular visual space, for example 'AV' or 'WA'. Effective kerning ensures better legibility and aesthetic outcomes in typography. Without proper kerning, a word can look unbalanced, which can affect readability.
This procedure is particularly important in logo design and headlines, where type is at a large size, and kerning issues are more noticeable. While most software offers automatic kerning, often manual adjustments need to be made. Remember, the goal is not to create equal space between letters but to create the illusion of evenly distributed space, making the word visually pleasing and easy to read.