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There are many free cool fonts out there, complex and different styles, and it can be difficult to choose a font for a project.
How do you actually do that?
Firstly, you will have to imagine the impression of the audience, what they will think about it if it’s appropriate for them and useful in the context of your design and target audience.
Secondly, you can’t forget about the basic things that you should look for in a font, legibility, and readability. The width of the strokes and the presence of the novel type design are aspects that shouldn’t be ignored.
Also, in terms of readability, the type style, size, tracking, leading and other properties must be taken into consideration when choosing a font for your designs.
With more and more designers in the world, cool free fonts are released even quicker than usual which makes us more than happy.
Download these free fonts and you’ll have a rich typography toolbox with which you can make a solid impression in your future designs and projects.
You’ll see that there are various styles in here, from cool fonts to serious and rigid ones to fancy and creative examples of typography.
You should also check out a selection of fonts for headlines. I’m sure this two article will be of great help.
100 cool fonts to download
Kano – Download
“Kano” is an uppercase and lowercase display typeface, with a geometric structure and a sharp edge point, making it one of the best fonts for logos, posters, and other typographic works. Kano is free for personal & commercial use.
Margot
Margot is an adorable type family designed and optimized for its use in large sizes. Margot is vibrant, cheerful, perfectly suited for a great variety of typographical purposes. This makes it one of the great free typefaces for you.
Mosk – Download
Mosk is a typeface family that consists of lowercase letters and edited versions in the uppercase version, for your logos and designs, Mosk makes great display fonts.
Campton
Campton is a cool text which is one of the best free fonts online. It is a simple sans serif with a geometric skeleton, based on the mid to early twentieth-century visual trend of achieving neutrality. Although, there are a lot of typefaces focusing on similar principles, tries to find its niche in the field of anonymous typefaces by combining simplicity with a subtle friendliness.
It is perfectly suited for graphic design application ranging from editorial and corporate design via web and interaction design through to product design.
Moderne Sans
Moderne Sans is a clean sans-serif font style free for you to download, created by Marius Kempken. Inspired by the great 1920s font families.
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Densia Sans
Denisa Sans is an economic sans serif, designed to be used in sizes from 6 to 14 points. Its tall x-height and narrow width make it the best font to use whenever there’s very limited space.
Not only it is space-saving, Denisa Sans features a complete set of 820 glyphs, including small caps, case-sensitive forms, proportional and tabular figures, superiors, inferiors, and fractions. Also, its character set supports over 30 languages.
Duma
DUMA is one of the coolest fonts available. It is characterized with long legs and very extended. Each character was individually made in Illustrator using basic geometric shapes.
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Gaspar
Simplifica
Another one of these cool free fonts is Simplified. It is a slightly condensed sans-serif typeface featured by a uniform and thin line width. Its high positioned caps-height and ascender make it one of the top fonts for legibility. A fine, simple and clear font that you can’t miss.
Source Serif Pro
Source Serif Pro is a cool serif typeface in the transitional style, designed to complement Source Sans. Their close companionship is achieved by a careful match of letter proportions and typographic color.
While designed to harmonize with its serif-less counterpart, Source Serif often takes its own direction, in part because the two are inspired by different historical precedents.
Source Serif is loosely based on the work of Pierre Simon Fournier, and many idiosyncrasies typical to Fournier’s designs (like the bottom serif on the b or the middle serif on the w) are also found in Source Serif. Without being a pure historical revival, Source Serif takes cues from the Fournier model and reworks it for a modern age. Add this great option to your serif font list.
Cocogoose
Quicksand
UGO
Encode Sans
The Encode Sans family is a versatile workhorse. Featuring a huge range of weights and widths, it’s ready for all kind of typographic challenges. It also includes Tabular and Old Style figures, as well as full set of Small Caps and other Open Type features. A good font family for every designer.
Bernier
Bernier is a small but cool type family created by Ryan Pyae. Bernier has three different styles and it is the perfect text font for vintage or old school designs.
Gasalt
Railway
FARRAY
Overpass
Sant Joan Despí
Streetwear
Streetwear is bold and stylish retro inspired script typeface which makes it one of the best fonts for logos, posters, branding, packaging and t-shirt design. It looks like the 1960s and 70s fashion and sport-related typeface, unique and fun at the same time. You can access Streetwear’s alternate characters by using an OpenType savvy programs such as Adobe Illustrator and InDesign. If you want more fonts for logos, you should check out another article of mine.
Rose
Graviola Regular
With semi-rounded terminals, Graviola is a soft and friendly font design. The font contains 533 glyphs, supporting more than 40 languages. Stylistic sets provide alternates in two groupings (a, v, w, y and G, g, &).
Fabiolo
Anurati
Anurati is a cool futuristic font the author worked on during the making of his website. Originally made to be free, this great online text makes way for the creativity of each and every one.
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Fonesia Free Font
Fonesia family comes in three different variants: Light, Regular and Bold. For this initial release, it still carries a standard glyph: uppercase, lowercase, numbers, punctuation and some symbols. This awesome font was created by Arwan Sutanto and makes cool fonts for logos and headers.
Soria
Soria has been created under art nouveau influence and the Didot fonts, as a result, we have a cool letter font that we can use for display texts.
Monopoly
Humblle Rought
Are these cool free fonts enough for you?
No? Read on.
Five
Another one of these cool fonts is Five, a contemporary display mono-weight typeface with a light retro accent. It designed in two styles — Regular and Oblique. The framework of the glyphs gives the opportunity to make a lot of ligatures. I think, Five make good fonts for expressive typography work such as headlines, posters, small texts. it looks excellent in a large size.
Kazmann Sans
Luxia
Lucia is a modern san-serif done with a splash of lavish text characters.
Now Font Family
Now Alt Typeface is a simple geometric typeface by Alfredo Marco Pradil. Now Typeface is open source which makes it one of the cool free fonts to add to your collection. Now Alt is an alternate version of the Now typeface.
Matias
Karmina Bold
Sail
Sail Font is a Didot script for the headline, display, and poster use. A fresh air comes to all the glyphs, its windy uppercases make it one of the great graphic design fonts for display texts and web navigation. Elegant swashes and a clean lowercases also make it suitable for larger paragraphs.
Fina – ultra-thin, modern font
Meet Fina – a beautiful, thin, modern font suited for all kind of creative design works. It’s also a great design font for headlines: capital letters are with dots and points and lowercase is without them.
BONKERS
BONKERS is a strong font which was designed for headlines, poster, title, etc. It’s free for personal use. Commercial options and lowercase will follow in the future.
Caslon OS
Caslon OS is a cool typography recreation and a combination of the old Caslon typefaces in the style and interpretation of Alfredo Marco Pradil.
Ginebra
Hey Brother
Qanelas Soft: 3 Free font weights
This freebie contains great fonts of UltraLight, Medium and ExtraBold weights that you can use for personal and commercial purposes, in accordance with the terms contained into the License Agreement that comes with the package.
Grotesk Light
You should check out the remaining cool free fonts. They’re amazing.
Pifont
Reglo
Reglo Bold is a geometric Sans designed by Sebastien Sanfilippo. This mega cool text was initially designed for the identity of Radio Panik with Open Source Publishing.
Elder Display
Elder is the style of a Transitional font with uppercase, lowercase, old style numbers and some punctuation.
Chau Philomene One
Simple
A new free font called Simple. I realized it inspired by great fonts and I tried to make it the more readable as possible, in simplicity. It has two weights: Regular and light. Simple has a clear and uncluttered appearance, making it a great font for logo designs.
Caja
Gen
Something Wild
This cool fond has a gorgeous handwritten design and a genuine wild spirit. Just the right thing for you if you want to add some raw feeling to your design! The font comes in all popular formats.
Kust
The new Kust is a fancy font with a handwritten appearance, written by Ieva Mezule, the fashion designer, and painter. 80 characters, every letter has a unique structure, with a distorted look. The letters were drawn on hard paper with a thick brush using pure black ink. The presentation was made by images taken by Krisjanis Mezulis, and the painting that’s in the middle was painted by Ieva
Fibon Sans – Regular Weight Free
Fibon Sans is a balanced, low contrast, geometric and highly legible typeface with cool letters well suited for any display or text use. Its curves make it a dynamic typeface, ideal for those who want to add a modern touch to their compositions. Fibon Sans is an excellent choice for logotypes, magazines, blogs, presentations and many more.
Balans
Moderan
Cenotaph Titling
Cenotaph has an engraved-style letter symbol which draws reference from inscriptions done by Eric Gill – most notably in the vertical stem in the ‘U’. In OpenType format, it contains 10 discretionary ligatures useful for stylistic and practical spacing purposes, as well as 3 alternate ampersands and proportional old style numerals.
Diapason
Sk-Modernist
Sk-Modernist is a minimalist and clean typeface which eschews complicated forms. The aim of the typeface was to create an amalgamation of a modern Grotesk, like Helvetica, with a simpler geometric style, like Avant Garde.
Sk-Modernist has been designed specifically for the digital age, each letterform being optically adjusted using a mathematical system rather than the traditional typographer’s eye. This approach has resulted in a typeface that displays exceptionally well in digital mediums. It is one of the best modern fonts for website design.
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Cloud Sans
Cloud, a humanist sans serif typeface with a bit of grotesque structure. These font designs are suited for all purposes. Contains 5 weights with suitable italic. Light & Bold are available for free!
POE Sans Pro
Bender
The Bender font family contains some cool logo fonts. It was created in Russia especially for graphic designers. Thanks to the unique form of signs, fonts of the given family it is possible to type texts, to do logos or headings. Great graphics fonts for every designer.
Ostrich Sans
Sheep Sans
Cabin
The Cabin Font is a humanist sans inspired by Edward Johnston’s and Eric Gill’s typefaces, with a touch of modernism. Cabin’s cool text incorporates modern proportions, optical adjustments, and some elements of the geometric sans.
Pier
Pier is a modern and structured typography. The idea was to create a slightly off geometric text font that would look as well big or very small. It was made to fit your everyday designs and text needs.
Moon
A new FREE rounded, simple, space-ie choice of free font families entitled Moon, with both thin and bold variations, free for personal use only.
Shihan
Shihan is a free font for designer use, created in April 2015 and inspired by Bashkir geometrical ornaments. This is a FREE typeface and it’s authorized to use it for commercial works. Shihan is delivered in an OpenType format and support basic Latin, Cyrillic, and Bashkir character set.
Ailerons
Ailerons were inspired by aircraft models from the 40s. This exciting font was designed for an experimental project of air models and now is available for personal use.
Viga
Viga is a cool font design, sans-serif, with a good performance on screen. Its anatomy gives it a great personality and also makes it useful for reading on screen.
Nickainley Script
Another one of the cool free fancy handwriting fonts from this article is Nickainley. Nickainley is a Monoline Script font. handwriting font with a touch of classic and vintage. in uppercase, lowercase characters, numeral, and punctuation. Can be used for various purposes, such as logos, badges, wedding invitations, t-shirts, letterhead, signage, labels, news, posters, badges etc.
Gen
Geomanist
Germans, a new sans serif font created by fonts designer atipostudio. download regular weight for free.
Mesmerize
Mesmerize is a low x-height sans-serif family of super cool fonts with 80 styles. There are 8 weights, 5 widths, and italics. The capital I will automatically be replaced by a serifed I when followed by a lowercase l. In OpenType savvy applications, you can access old-style numerals, tabular lining numerals, and tabular old-style numerals.
Keep Calm
Keep Calm is a family of fonts developed from the now famous World War 2 poster that was designed in 1939 but never issued, then rediscovered in 2000. As well as the original Keep Calm font, the Medium weight of the poster which can be downloaded free for personal use, three new weights are available from K-Type – Book (regular), Heavy and Light – and each comes with a complementary Italic. It’s a cool bold font which has become very popular in recent years.
Leto Text Sans
Leto Text Sans is transitional sans-serif type family in 9 styles – 4 weights with italics and free Defect style to add to your collection of downloadable cool fonts.
Gidole
Gidole is an open source modern DIN to add to your font lists. It was created by Andreas Larsen in 2015. Currently, only regular weight but more weights are in the pipeline along with full greek + Cyrillic support.
Typo Slab
Modern Serif Eroded
Cathedral
Cathedral can be included in the group of transitional character, indicating the transition from the ancient to the modern Roman. It’s one of the cool typefaces in this article that I like using often.
Chubby
Simply Rounded
Arkhip
Retro
Retro family fonts selection was designed as a result of love for typography and especially in the time of 20th century. As an experimental design, this font is given to the the public for free and for any use.
Blogger Sans
Blogger Sans was designed by Sergiy Tkachenko as the FirstSiteGuide’s custom typeface, created primarily for the use in headlines of the website. This interesting font draws inspiration from the clarity and legibility of the popular font Dosis with an additional support of the lost Cyrillic languages.
The bolder weights are lighter and softer. The following elements (-b-d-h-k-p-q-y-) are shorter, thus the headlines and subheads could be put in the dense line spacing. In addition, the outline of the Blogger Sans is more smooth with better eligibility.
Fabfelt Script
Bakersfield
Bakersfield draws inspiration from 1920s geometric-style typefaces by having clean and highly legible forms constructing the type. The family is characterized by excellent legibility both in print and on the web, a well-finished geometric design, highly precise kerning.
The font’s various weights give it the power to fit in any type of design, web, print, motion graphics, and make it perfect for headlines and corporate design via web and interaction design through to product design. One of the best modern typefaces for business use.
Althea
Althea is a ligature-free, modern upright cursive typeface with proportional lining figures and with cool letters. If you have a passion for interesting fonts, this one is for you.
Drugs font family
Font family Drugs — these amazing fonts are specifically designed for the pharmaceutical industry and for household chemicals. Then to make a text layout for a package of any medicine, toothpaste or laundry detergent? The answer is — Drugs. Font family has a range of unique fonts ranging from thin to black font and can be used on any surface: paper, cardboard, metal, glass, and others.
MAXWELL
MAXWELL make great design fonts, applicable for any type of graphic art. (web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for headlines and logotypes/ wordmarks)
Mexe
Mexe is another one of these amazing strong fonts. It was designed for specific headlines, to comic books and the Cyrillic alphabet containing.
Espacio Novo
Uni Sans
Uni Sans is another one of these cool font styles for Photoshop or Illustrator and you can use it to create cool font designs
Axis
Aventura
Montserrat
Often compared to Proxima Nova for its charming utility, Montserrat is a unique font, loved by many web and UI designers.
Rund-Grotesk
The Rund-Grotesk is a geometrical cool font with some typical classic shapes and characters. With its short descender and a large x-height, it develops a special appearance. Especially the lower case letters support the classical look since some glyphs resemble old blackletter typefaces.
The Rund Grotesk’s character set supports all central and some eastern European languages. Modern glyphs like the @ or the € symbol were added so it fits the today’s usage. With three weights, light, medium and bold and furthermore the italics it is an amazing font for headlines and small paragraphs.
Zona Pro
Besides being one of the cool fonts in this article, Zona Pro is a versatile geometric sans-serif type family of 8 weights plus matching italics. Zona Pro draws inspiration from 1920s geometric-style typefaces by having clean and highly legible forms constructing the type.
The heavier weights feature a slight variance in the stroke widths, resulting in a grotesque-ish and distinctive personality. Zona Pro has been designed to be an elegant, modern and multi-functional typeface which makes it one of the best fonts ever for both editorial and display settings.
Groteskia
Aaram
Aaram is a unique font family, that comes in six gorgeous styles to choose from. Aaram is one of the best typefaces for screen use but it’ll look fantastic in print too.
Rabiola
Cooper Hewitt
Cooper Hewitt, is a contemporary sans serif and one of the cool new fonts in this article, with characters composed of modified-geometric curves and arches. Initially commissioned by Pentagram to evolve his Polaris Condensed typeface, Chester Jenkins created a new digital form to support the newly transformed museum.
Atletico
Eligible
Arkiv
Ahellya
Anders
Hanken
Mockup
Meticulous Ariel
Meticulous Ariel is a fashion font. Meticulous Ariel Typeface is the best font ever for popular fashion magazines and super luxury brands.
Ending thoughts on picking cool free fonts
While a lot of cool fonts are well designed and look quite nice in their presentation image, they can’t be used all over the place, instead, you’ll see that they fit better only in a certain type of designs.
In the end, you’ll see that the personal choice of a cool font is not a personal choice anymore, and the actual concept is minimized. You can’t choose a font just because you like it, your audience must like it too and it must fit into your design flawlessly.
Professional cool free fonts are vitally important in web page design. Precise, accurate, balanced geometric forms give written characters that special clarity, sharpness, and elegance that lifts a web page into another class.
Elegant and professional looking fonts impress viewers, helping your message to achieve its desired effect. There are many excellent cool font styles that will appeal to professional web designers for use in their work.
You should use a font carefully because otherwise, you could look like a newbie designer and very few clients are courageous enough to hire newbie designers.
Choosing cool fonts for your design project is crucial as it can change the whole image projected by the project to its viewers. Cool typography is an art that every designer has to master in order to be great at their work.
The impact of cool letter fonts
Some fonts give more serious feeling to a website/print material, while a playful font can look funnier, more for kids, more personal and every feeling can be emphasized by the art of typography. In fact, by themselves, the fonts can make the difference between a great design that clients will love and failure in delivering what they expected.
Fonts can also have an impact on the general look of a design; a website, for example, can look more classy or friendly solely based on how its writing is done. Since typography has such an important impact on their work, designers usually do pay a lot of attention to the fonts they use in all their designs.
There are so many different fonts available, though, that designers usually decide their favorites for usual situations and use the same group of fonts in all their designs.
It is impossible for anyone to use every one of these cool free fonts. However, new fonts are designed regularly so it becomes very hard to keep up with those new choices.
Some of these cool text fonts could fall into the favorite set of designers if they knew they existed since some of them can be deemed really appropriate in specific circumstances.
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