88 Professional Fonts For Your Web Sites And Designs

Everyone wants good looking fonts on their blogs or designs and the importance of typography is design is unavoidable. With the adoption of CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) in the domain of website design, a new era has started where the art of topography underwent complete transformation.

The suitability of various web design fonts makes it easier for the readers and visitors to go through your articles. The correct font with better accuracy, precision and balance can give your letter the elegance and sharpness they deserve.

Font is the key element in the dynamic process of web designing and plays vital role in spreading the true meaning to the words spelled in the web site.A recent psychology study on furniture instructions has shown that font selection is important: the more readable and legible a font is, the more influence it has on a consumer’s perception of how easy or difficult the navigation is.

Here’s an overview of over excellent free fonts that you might want to use in your designs. Some fonts, like Arial, Georgia, Verdana, Trebuchet MS, Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Constantia and Corbel are delivered almost “automatically”.

1. Share : The special font-family, Share, has been developed to advance the TYPO3 identity further and to maintain consistency across communication channels. Having a corporate font means making every print or screen design a completely recognizable product.
   
2. Quicksand Font by Andrew Paglinawan
   
3. Diavlo
   
   
   
4. Fertigo Pro
   
5. Anivers : A robust and rigid font, forgiving, flexible, elegant and also suitable for a broad use: from a stationery to a poster headline. A smashing serif freefont by Jos Buivenga, dedicated to the One-Year-Anniversary of Smashing Magazine.
   
   
   
6. Anomoly
   
7. Audimat : OpenType, Mac, PC, in four weights: regular, italic, bold, bold italic. Freeware, via fontleech
   
8. Auto : Auto is a sans serif typeface which has three different models of italics, each with its own flavour.
   
9. Avenir Standard : Adrian Frutiger designed Avenir in 1988, after years of having an interest in sans serif typefaces.
   
10. Byington : Inspired by the ancient carvings chiselled into Trajan’s column in Rome, Byington pays homage to Trajan’s venerable lines but strips away the subtle nuances usually associated with the classic design.
    
11. Cardo : Cardo is a large Unicode font specifically designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists.
    
    
12. Bitstream Vera
    
13. Justus by Khunrath
    
14. Inconsolata : It is a monospace font, designed for code listings and the like, in print.
    
15. Charlotte Sans : Charlotte Sans™ is a font from Linotype library.
    
16. Chucara : Read in very small bodies, which supports printing on difficult surfaces (such as newsprint), and saving space page.
    
17. COM4t Fine Regular (Free Font
    
18. Day Roman :
    
19. Delicious : Special attention was given to character spacing to obtain a homogenic appearance. With it’s relatively large x-height the Delicious can be used for text in smaller point sizes. The Delicious italic is not a slanted roman, but a true italic. Serif, Mac / PC.
    
    
    
20. Dynasty Font Family
    
21. District Thin :The thinnest weight from GarageFonts’ District family, by Kienan and Dylan Smith. And it’s free! Give it a try.
    
22. Edifice by Dimitri Castrique
    
23. Engel Light Ltd
    
24. Existence Light
    
25. FF Mt : A new face that proves that type designers are a truly unique breed. An official statement tells us that “FF Mt uses up to 50% less paper, screen, and wall space than other text faces without a single condensed letter.”
    
26. Fontin : The Fontin is designed to be used at small sizes. The color is darkish, the spacing loose and the x-height tall. The numbers of the Fontin have a ‘hybrid’ design. They carry the characteristics of medieval numbers, but their size is larger than the x-height. Mac (Type 1), PC (TTF, Opentype).
    
    
27. Fontin Sans : Available weights: regular, italic, bold, bold italic and small caps. It is a sans companion of Fontin and can be downloaded at Mac & PC (OpenType). Fontin Sans is absolutely free for personal and commercial use.
    
    
    
28. FF Reminga : The all-new OpenTypeFF Reminga is an improved version of an underused FontFont classic. Try the bold italic for free.
    
29. Union
    
30. Yanone Kaffeesatz : This “coffee”-font is supposed to be used in headlines and brief text passages; it shouldn’t, however, be used for body copy. The numbers and currency signs are monospaced, which means that they have the same width. This is useful if you’d like to place them on a restaurant menu beneath each other in a table.
    
    
    
31. Amplitude : A successful agate predicts the spread of ink on paper and effectively keeps legibility under less than ideal conditions. Fascinated by the visual aspects of these entirely functional compensations, Christian Schwartz designed Amplitude, an extensive sanserif series for text and display that turns function into style: deep angled cuts keep small sizes readable, while adding character at display sizes.
    
32. Warnock Pro: Warnock Pro Bold font. Fonts.com has the best selection of downloadable, design quality, True Type and PostScript fonts for Mac and Windows.
    
33. Vegur
    
34. Alte Haas Grostek by Yann Le Coroller
    
35. Univers Std : This OpenType font may include small caps, extra glyphs, andotherfeatures.
    
36. Trajan Font Family : In designing Trajan, Carol Twombly was influenced by the style of the chiseled writings of the Romans during the first century AD. Twombly completed the font with numerals and punctuation and added a bolder version for text which should be emphasized. Most importantly, her interpretation of an ancient style resulted in a font whose clarity and beauty come across in modern printed materials.
    
37. TheMix : Designed by Luc(as) de Groot
    
38. Tallys : Tallys is a font that is one degree slanted and has large caps, a small x-height and long ascenders. Only roman style is available.
    
    
    
    
    
39. Syntax Std
    
40. Stella
    
41. Steiner : Gabriele Magurno, the creator of Steiner, recommends the font for logo or decorative use. Steiner lacks a full array of symbols and letters, so the font should not be used in blocks of paragraph text. Steiner ranks as one of the most popular fonts on dafont.com, a free font hosting website.
    
42. Stalemate : This OpenType font may include small caps, extra glyphs, andotherfeatures.
    
43. Spirequal Light (Free Font)
    
44. Baar Sophia Font Free
    
    
45. Seravek : Seravek is a linear sans serif designed for identity, editorial and information design. Five weights spanning Bold to Extra Light with italics and small caps allow for a range of applications both typographic and utilitarian in nature.
    
46. Ronnia : One of the most remarkable characteristic of this humanistic sans serif is its versatility. Ronnia’s personality performs admirably in headlines, but is diffident enough for continuous text and small text alike.
    
47. Romeral : Romeral is designed to produce a noticeable visual impact that invites the audience to the reading due to its sizable thickness. Interestingly enough, the basic idea was to find a way to fill the color titles zone in order to create a comfortable atmosphere for the reading experience.
    
    
    
48. Rockwell : Rockwell font appeared with Monotype Design Studio in 1934, a time which saw the return to popularity of slab serif fonts. Rockwell’s strong and harmonious characters make this font particularly flexible
    
49. Qlassik by Dimitri Castrigue
    
50. Proxima Sans :Proxima Sans (1994) stradles the gap between typefaces like Futura and Akzidenz Grotesk. The oblique styles are optically adjusted, not just slanted versions of the roman.
    
51. Proxima Nova :Proxima Nova (2005) is a complete reworking of Proxima Sans (1994). The original six fonts (three weights with italics) have been expanded to 42 full-featured OpenType fonts.
    
52. Precious Serif : Designed to accompany and complement theSans family, each weight shares the same proportions of x-height, stem thickness and ascender/descender height as its corresponding Sans.
    
53. Precious Sans : In Cooke’s ongoing quest for simplicity and elegance he developed this striking alternative sans family. Starting with a hairline Thin and finishing with Ultra Black, Precious Sans has a comprehensive range of weights, fairly large x-height and open counters for maximum clarity when set in small point sizes.
    
54. Portland LDO
    
55. PMN Caecilia : PMN Caecilia™ is the premiere work of the Dutch designer Peter Matthias Noordzij. He made the first sketches for this slab serif design in 1983 during his third year of study in The Hague, and the full font family was released by Linotype in 1990. The PMN prefix represents the designer’s initials, and Caecilia is his wife’s name. This font has subtle variations of stroke thickness, a tall x-height, open counters, and vivacious true italics. Noordzij combined classical ductus with his own contemporary expression to create a friendly and versatile slab serif family. With numerous weights from light to heavy, and styles including small caps, Old style figures, and Central European characters, PMN Caecilia has all the elements necessary for rich typographic expression.
    
56. Pigiarniq Inuktitut font : Have you ever known about the existence of Nunavut? A small region in Canada with one of the lowest population rate of the world? Probably not. Only 0,01 people live there per km², mostly Eskimo. The citizens of Nunabut speak four languages — French, English, Innuinaqtun and Inuktitut. Nothing spectacular so far, right?Few years ago the government of the region has decided to design a new typeface to enable its 28.000 citizens to use all four languages in a uniform manner. The result is a beautiful, rich and professional sans-serif free font. The family includes a bold, heavy, italic, light and regular weights.
    
    
57. Parisine : Parisine has been designed by Jean François Porchez in 1996 for Ratp to solely fulfil the unique needs of signage legibility. In 1999, the family was revised and extended for use in maps and external communication. Not connected with Ratp, Parisine Plus appeared also in 1999. Much later, Parisine Office was created for Ratp’s internal and external communication.
    
58. Oregon LDO Font by Luke Owens
    
59. ITC Officiana Sans : ITC Officina® Sans is a font from Linotype library.
    
60. Neuzeit® S Std : This is an OpenType font.
    
61. Neo Sans : Both theNeo Sans and the more-minimalistNeo Tech families are available in six weights, ranging from Light to Ultra. Each has a companion italic, andNeo Tech offers a suite of alternate characters.
    
62. Myriad Pro
    
63. Museo : This OpenType font family comes in five weights and offers supports CE languages and even esperanto. Besides ligatures, contextual alternatives, stylistic alternates, fractions and proportional/tabular figures MUSEO also has a ‘case’ feature for case sensative forms.
    
64. Museo Sans : Museo Sans is based on the well-known Museo. It is a sturdy, low contrast, geometric, highly legible sans serif typeface very well suited for any display and text use. Two fonts are absolutely free!
    
    
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66. Morpeth : Hardworking and versatile condensed sans family originally designed for Morpeth Borough’s wayfinding system and thus eminently usable for signage purposes. The 6 weight OpenType family includes discretionary ligatures, small caps, 5 sets of numerals plus coverage for Central European, Baltic and Turkish languages.
    
67. Metanoia Font by Lutz Baar
    
68. Mank Sans : Freefont designed by Manfred Klein.
    
69. Locator
    
70. Lido STF : The typeface is suitable for all periodicals wishing to abandon inconspicuously the hideous system typefaces with their even more hideous accents and to change over to the contemporary level of graphic design. It is also most convenient for everyday work in text editors and office applications.
    
71. Liberation Serif : Public domain / GNU GPL, Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, PC / Mac OS X
    
72. Liberation Sans : Public domain / GNU GPL, Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, PC / Mac OS X
    
73. LeMonde : Designed by Jean François Porchez, Le Monde Sans is a lineale type family—one which has been derived from serifed types—a practice that has now become commonplace.
    
74. Lacuna : To download the font enter the Flash page, click on “Glashaus Fonts” in the navigation menu at the top, in the opened page click on [MAC] or [PC] in the left menu to download the font. [via Typemotion.de]
    
75. Kontrapunkt : Kontrapunkt was awarded the Danish Design Prize for best typeface. The aim has been to develop a distinct font, with regards to both the inidividual character and the overall image as such. The typeface has so far been developed in a light, light italic and bold version.
    
76. Kievit
    
77. KelvinGrove : Kelvingrove is an attractive new small-cap copperplate with alternate swash K, Q and R. A small ampersand is also included. The numerals are perfectly balanced to work with either caps or small caps
    
78. Interstate
    
79. Helvetica Neue Std
    
80. Helvetica Std : Helvetica is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger.
    
81. Guardian : Commissioned by Mark Porter at The Guardian. Designed with Paul Barnes. Will be available for licensing from mid-2008.
    
82. GreyScale Basic Regular
    
83. Glasgow : Re-tooled from the QBF Collection
    
84. Gill Sans Std
    
85. Geo Sans Light : by Manfred Klein
    
86. Gentium : Gentium is a typeface family designed to enable the diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. It supports a wide range of Latin-based alphabets and includes glyphs that correspond to all the Latin ranges of Unicode.
    
87. Gauntlet : Free version available for download here.
    
88. Future Std : Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed between 1924 and 1926 by Paul Renner. It is based on geometric shapes that became representative visual elements of the Bauhaus design style of 1919–1933. A free version of this font, with slight variations are availablehere.
    
89. Frutiger Standard : Frutiger is a series of typefaces named after its designer, Adrian Frutiger. Initially available as a sans serif, it was later expanded to include ornamental and serif typefaces.
    
90. Freight Sans : Freight Sans has 20 fonts available for purchase as a package.
    

Hope you all enjoyed the list and will be useful to you all to make your blog / web site / design much more elegant and expressive.