10 Places To Find Free Fonts For Windows And Mac OSX
If you are designer you may frequently want to try and use different fonts in your designs, though there are 1000s of fonts available, not everyone of them are free. Though font usage and download is not just restricted to designers and many people use them in their day to day life too.
Here are some resources for you to find free fonts that you can use without having to pay any royalty for both Windows and Mac OSX. If you are not accustomed to installing fonts, we have a mini guide at the end of the post that will help you do it.
Fawnt – Fawnt is a font resource for designers, developers, and anyone that appreciates the web’s highest quality fonts. It currently has 9348 free fonts you can use and download for Windows and Max OSX.
Abstract Fonts – Abstract Fonts has a listing of 11849 free fonts in their database. The site has a nice navigation and user experience with proper categorization of fonts.
Free Fonts – Free fonts has over 12000 free fonts which you can download and use for Windows or Mac OSX. The site has a clean navigation making it easier to browse the fonts.
Dafont – dafont is another nice site to find free fonts, they list over 10000 fonts, most of which are free to use for personal use on Windows and Mac OSX. Licensing terms are clearly marked above the download buttons.
Urban Fonts – Another site which lists over 8000 free fonts. The fonts are segregated into different easy to find categories, and can also be alphabetically browsed.
Font Reactor – Font Reactor lists freeware fonts in graffiti, gothic font, old English fonts etc. Most of the fonts are freeware, but there is no clear indication before downloading, so this adds to a bit of hassle.
Daily Free Font – Daily Free Font is a site that has over 4500 freeware fonts listed in its directory. The licensing terms for font usage is clearly marked.
Font Freak – Font Freak has a database of 5000 free fonts, they store a mix of both free and commercial fonts, so check the licensing before you download the fonts.
Simply The Best Fonts – This site lists thousands of free fonts in well segregated categories, the licensing if clearly marked, telling you whether a font is free or not.
Free-Fonts – This site is more like a search engine for fonts and lists over 55000 fonts in their database, the only problem with the site is that, there is no option to browse the fonts and you need to remember the names of the font to search for it.
How to Install Fonts?
Unzip the files you have downloaded, then follow the instruction for your OS:
Windows Vista : Right-click on the font files > "Install"
Windows XP: Put the font files into C:\Windows\Fonts
Mac OS X: Double-click the font file > "Install font" button
Susan
September 29th, 2008 at 7:06 am #
Great sites listing. More free truetype fonts at Free Fonts Collection
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Nirmal
September 30th, 2008 at 7:45 am #
Great collection, definitely useful post, Stumbled.
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wm davis
October 1st, 2008 at 2:51 pm #
One of my favorite sites, fontmarketplace.com , just introduced a free font that changes each month. The rest of the site offers really nice fonts at decent prices. Check out the free font here: FontMarketplace Free Font of the Month
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Fabian
October 21st, 2008 at 11:09 am #
Nice roundup!
I wrote an article about this subject too:
http://www.onyx-design.net/weblog2/design/5-best-sources-for-high-quality-free-fonts/
I’ve included some blogs too in my list, because they really review the fonts and I personally find that very useful.
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Medical Billing Guru
December 20th, 2008 at 1:47 am #
You can never have too many free fonts marketing on a shoestring. Nice list — sticky on my bookmark. Thanks!
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Business Man
March 1st, 2009 at 9:14 am #
cool I was looking for somthing like this I will use them …MY site miss alot of this…
I use html font… I will try useing CSS font shape..
out business need spicila fotn..either our web site for good marketing stratagy
Thank you
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rajiv menon
June 12th, 2009 at 6:13 am #
great list. i didn’t know most of them before.
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helena
July 9th, 2009 at 10:15 am #
cool , this is what i call a very interesting post, i was really fed up with my windows xp font, now it looks great , thanks for the tip
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