15 sites where you can download fonts for free and legally

1. google Fonts

A selection of Google Fonts. Yes, it is not very large compared to other libraries: here only 888 families. But you can be sure that all fonts are distributed under a free license. That is, you can use them as you wish. In addition, there is a very convenient filtering system.

Mechanism downloading more is not obvious, which is strange for a Google product. First you need to select one or more font families, by clicking on the +. Then - to open the screen that appears at the bottom of the panel and click on the download button. All selected fonts will be downloaded in the archive.

Google Fonts →

2. FontSpace

This collection is much richer: it can find more than 36 000 free fonts. They can be sorted by category, by choosing, for example, the style of retro, futuristic and with the national colors.

On the font page is written, it can be used: Only for personal or even for commercial purposes.

FontSpace →

3. 1001 Free Fonts

Despite the name, this collection of about 10,000 fonts. They can be sorted by style name and novelty.

Most fonts can be used free of charge for any purpose. Some will have to purchase a commercial license. However, for $ 20 you can download your entire collection.

1001 Free Fonts →

4. font Squirrel

Most of the fonts are free for personal and commercial use. If they are missing, go to the discount section. The prices are very low.

Filtering in the Font Squirrel is very convenient. You can sort the fonts in style, language, popularity and novelty.

In addition, Font Squirrel offers a couple of handy and useful tools: Webfont Generator to create your own Web Fonts and Font Identifier, which can recognize fonts that you have downloaded the pictures and find identical in the library Font Squirrel.

Font Squirrel →

5. FontStruct

FontStruct - is a handy online tool to create fonts in TrueType format. To do this, there is a visual editor that is easy to understand.

In addition, there is a gallery with more than 47,000 fonts from the users of the platform. These fonts are freely available, and you can use them as you wish. Including as a basis for their own.

Most of the fonts presented here is quite extravagant.

FontStruct →

6. DaFont

Another popular collection of 3500 free fonts. Most of them are designed only for private use.

A nice feature DaFont - this system of categories. You can select font style comics, Video games, or vintage stylized Japanese characters.

DaFont →

7. Urban Fonts

Big collection of different fonts. Choose any, and you will see a page with detailed information about it.

Free fonts much, they are highlighted in a special section. Commercial, too short, and they are constantly discounts.

sorting system at Urban Fonts is quite flexible and convenient.

Urban Fonts →

8. abstract Fonts

Library with a simple and clean interface, and about 14,000 fonts. The collection is constantly updated, so you will be plenty to choose from.

The only negative - found in all this variety of fonts with Cyrillic letters is not so simple. And all because there is no filtering by language.

Abstract Fonts →

9. Fontspring

On Fontspring sell expensive fonts for commercial use. But in virtually every family has 1-2 free fonts that can be used for personal purposes. In addition, there is a separate section with free fonts.

The collection is very rich. But you will have to carefully study the information on the license to a particular font before downloading.

FontSpring →

10. Behance

If DeviantArt - a social network for artists, the Behance - the same for designers. Here are the huge number of projects, of which fonts is not important.

A quick search on the Behance free font request brings a lot of cool fonts copyright. Most of them are available for free.

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11. Acid Fonts

A selection of 7500 fonts with unusual tracings. As follows from the name of the site, they look like an acid.

Unfortunately, the collection for a long time not been updated. But perhaps, here you will find what you need.

Acid Fonts →

12. font Freak

On this site, located about 9000 of free and paid more than 125,000 fonts from 400 designers. For $ 9, you can download an archive of 5000 fonts.

However, the interface is, of course, came from the past.

Font Freak →

13. Creative Market

The site, which sells fonts, vector schedule and other gizmos for designers. Fonts are very high quality - yet, after all they are not cheap.

But Creative Market each week offering free download of the catalog. And among them one font.

Creative Market →

14. Fontasy

It collected more than 1000 free fonts. However, Cyrillic among them is not enough.

In Fontasy user-friendly interface and a fairly large selection of styles. If you want to use the fonts placed here for commercial purposes, ask the permission of their authors.

Fontasy →

15. The League of Moveable Type

A small but beautiful collection of fonts posted on GitHub. All fonts can be used both for personal and commercial purposes.

The League of Moveable Type →

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