Best Free Font Resources

Posted by: Che Cooper in Web Design

Tagged in: web design , css

Che Cooper

Below you will find a list of the best free font resources that you can use to add a touch of creativity to your web pages!

Search Free Fonts
http://www.searchfreefonts.com/
Search Free Font’s has an impressive archive of over 13,000 fonts! The sections are well categorised, with the added option to browse by letter. With every font style you have the ability to type your own text to generate a preview of how it renders, which is a nice way to test before you download. There is also the option to rate and review each font style.


DaFont
http://www.dafont.com
An extensive resource of fonts with various licensing options. I like DaFont for it’s clear layout and navigation which allows you to browse fonts with ease. DaFont has a strong user base with new fonts being added regularly, you also get to make comments and also browse fonts by author. You can preview each font style before you download by adding your own custom text and checking whether it’s suitable or not.


1001 Free Fonts
http://www.1001freefonts.com/
A popular resource of free fonts, each with a large preview of the typeface. 1001 Free Fonts has always been a great resource, but it’s starting to get overshadowed by newer font libraries. If you’d prefer not to spend countless hours downloading fonts, 1001 Free Fonts allows you to download the entire library for $19.99.


Identifying Fonts – What The Font?!
http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
This is my favourite tool for helping to identify font sets that otherwise would go unfound. What makes it so good is it’s complete ease of use and impressive accuracy on the results. You simply upload an image/screenshot of the font (the clearer the better) and What The Font!? will work it’s magic and tell you what that font set is or its closest match and also how to get it.


Embedding Fonts

http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr/
Use sIFR to embed font’s into your webpage, this method uses modern technologies to replace short passages of plain browser text with text rendered in thetypeface of choice, regardless of whether or not your users have that font installed on their systems. Great if you wan’t to add a touch of creativity to your h1 tags!