Typography plays a huge role in current design trends and aesthetic vision. Designers use typefaces and fonts in web design, illustrations, 3D projects as well as good old prints. Thanks to the latest progressive improvements on the web, such as Variable Fonts, FlexBox, CSS Shapes, CSS Grids paved new ways to work with typography on the web. And we collected the best free fonts that fit perfectly in your creative process in 2022.
Design aesthetics changes but in 2022 everything looks more abstract and interconnected. When musicians are working on new music, they always think about 15 sec snippets that might turn into a TikTok craze. Or writers have to use certain words and phrases in certain sections of the text, in this case is best free fonts. New tools and digitalization changes the way we operate. And designers also have to adjust themselves to these changes. But not everything is restrictive and oppressive. Some of the technological developments actually improve the quality of the creative process.
There are some efforts to create a compelling SEO-friendly collection as you can see. But I am trying to break the 4th wall. And we are all aware that these texts aren’t impactful as the images, title and the quality of the collection. So I can go on and on about the best free fonts on this year or next year. We do this by heart. We put our efforts into doing some good in the community. Therefore we handpicked the fonts and typefaces that we believe will suit you best.
In this collection, you can find many fonts with different types and styles. Some of them are futuristic, and some are abstract. Some of them have many variations, but others only come with one style. If you believe we should extend this list with more free fonts, let us know by mailing us or dm us on Instagram.
*Every description about the fonts taken from original download pages and descriptions. And fonts are sorted by name for consistency.
Best free fonts of 2022
1. Agnes
Agnes is a font created by Dominik Szabó. It is inspired by his own handwriting. It supports special characters, numbers and hungarian language too.
2. Apologue
Apologue is a new font created by Phillip Block. This free font is a 1970’s-meets-art-nouveau display font, a lower case set with ligatures and punctuation
3. AtilAgg
Handwriting of Turkey based architecture and designer Atıl Aggündüz.
4. Basteleur
A bit more than a year after its original release, Keussel adds a new sharp thinner weight to the pre-existing soft bold weight of Basteleur.
5. baunk
BAUNK is a new free sans serif font created by Reza Rasenda. Baunk is a futuristic modern font that features upper & lowercase characters, multilingual, numbers & punctuation.
6. Boris
Boris is a script/display typeface designed and developed for fun by Giulia Boggio.
7. Brassia
Brassia is a typeface that was originally designed for teaching vector tracing by Ariel Martín Pérez.
8. Calfine
This is a bold serif font featuring classic glyphs developed in a modern and classy style. Calfine provided by Letterhend.
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9. Centrion
Centrion is the new Futurism Typeface created by Dirtyline. inspired by visual of futuristic and techno-based design from the latest and upcoming trends.
10. CH Bold
CH Bold is a commanding free display font from Chokun Choinw.
11. Coconat
Coconat is a two style non-conventional type family: a flared fair-proportioned regular style which changes its impact in the extended bold version completely. Coconat was created by Collletttivo.
12. Faglia
This font is a super quirky serif type created by Natalia Timea Szabo, with a touch of elegance, perfect for your favorite projects.
13. Fraunces
Fraunces was designed by Phaedra Charles and Flavia Zimbardi, with contributions by Ethan Cohen, and Andy Clymer.
14. “Free Fat Font”
“Free Fat Font” was created by Thom Niessink
15. Gerbil
Gerbil is a geometric sans serif font created by Abdul Artega and YUKITA CREATIVE.
16. HC Gleam
HC Gleam is a display font by Mitch Proctor that is inspired by the guiding light all around us.
17. Honey
Honey, an all-caps display typeface, designed by Melina Sweet, is an exploration in type design inspired by the honeysuckle flower.
18. Kobata
Kobata is an experimental typeface, designed by Ariel Martín Pérez, based on some simple rules; firstly, the only possible shapes are rectangles and circles.
Secondly, rectangles can’t touch each other on their sides to create more complex shapes, they can only meet by their corners. Lastly, Circles are the only shape of which the size can be optically corrected by diverting from the 50*50 UPM grid.
19. Kyltyrë
KYLTYRË Display Font is a dynamic and rugged vintage font created by Leonit Gashi, inspired by western typefaces.
20. Ladi
Ladi is an asymmetric typeface created by Milena Leimig, based on liquid forms, as to display a high contrast in its imbalance and uncertain curves.
21. Lagosi
Lagosi is a pointed serif typeface from Jetsmax Studio that was inspired by the features on the lagosi fabric found in wajo.
22. Lerty
LERTY is a free wavy display font created by Kai Javier.
23. Lobular
Lobular is a typeface, created by Ariel Martín Pérez, that looks like cross-sections of kidneys or the transversal section of an intestinal tract.
24. Degheest: Louise
After discovering Ange Degheest’s archives at the Rennes School of Fine Arts; Velvetyne decided to put together an exhibition that attempted to finally give the designer the full recognition she deserves. Louise created by Ange Degheest, Luna Delabre, Camille Depalle.
25. Lucky
Digitization of the font Lucky, designed by André Pless (Mecanorma) in 1972. Digitalization made by Andrea Bianchi.
26. Malebolge
Malebolge is a typeface created by Ariel Martín Pérez, named after the eighth circle of Dante’s hell, which is reserved for minor fraudsters, and which is divided in ditches.
27. Maragsa
Maragsâ is a typeface created by John David Maza, that owes its form to one of the accent marks used as a guide to the correct pronunciation of Filipino words—the pakupyâ accent—whose tapered tips heralded the sharp edges, hastily-flowing strokes, and abrupt cuts in the characters, similar to the manner words with the stress should be spoken.
28. Marinfold
Marinford Display Font is a bold, unique, fashionable, luxurious, modern and elegant serif with lots of ties and alternatives that will make your presentation more amazing and stand out!. It’s designed and shared by Andika Fez.
29. Mazius
Mazius is a high contrast serif typeface with old style proportions and a strong calligraphic feel. Influenced by chancery hands, it features two italics, each one with distinct personality. Mazius was created by Collletttivo.
30. Monor
The Monor is an attempt at typeface, created by Cédric Rossignol-Brunet which, through a systematic construction, tries to reconcile and bring together the trace of a calligraphic design with the rigidity of a monospaced typeface.
31. Neue Metana
Neue Metana is a modern minimalist design typeface with geometric type and more feature alternative character. The typeface created by Dirtyline.
32. Newake
Newake Font is a sans-serif font made by the Indieground Team. The slightly rounded corners of the letters give an elegant line to your text and quotes. A font with a minimal atmosphere that will give a cool style and weight to all your artistic compositions.
33. Nighty
This is a display font created by Dharmas Studio with sharp and beautiful letters that create fonts that are modern, trendy and elegant. It brings back the 70s vibes with a groovy, retro and unique typeface
34. Ouroboros
The Ouroboros or uroborus is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. Ouroboros is also a font created by Ariel Martín Pérez, for alchemists, witches, heretics, outsiders and curious people in general. It’s inspired by early art-nouveau styles, which were sometimes used in relation with magical themes and symbolism, so it comes together with a set of alchemical and astronomical symbols.
35. pangram sans rounded
This is a rounded geometric font family. Made by font designer named Pangram Pangram. It remains a powerful and extensive geometric workhorse with 144 styles but a more approachable side.
Download PP Pangram Sans, alternative link
36. Picaflor
Picaflor is a hybrid display typeface with calligraphic details – French didone meet Spanish vernacular exuberance. Picaflor was created by Ariel Martín Pérez for the 9th issue of the Cercle magazine, which was dedicated to flowers.
37. PicNic
PicNic is an organic typeface created by Marielle Nils, inhabiting a cloud of contextual ligatures and inclusive ligatures, substituting for the midpoint automatically.
38. Raider
Raider is a bold and creative typeface created by Ilya Zakharov inspired by flames.
39. Ribes
Ribes Black is a reverse-stress typeface with mixed proportions and bipolar disorder. Borrowing from the Fifties and Funk aesthetics, Ribes has one softer personality — with solid strokes and warm curves — struggling against its cursive variant — tense, un-stable, twisted. Ribes was created by Collletttivo.
40. Scalter
Scalter is a serif with a strong style, a dancing baseline, created by Dirtyline.
41. Sundai
Sundai is inspired by the graphics of the “Hebrew” and added a Hebrew-influenced cursive language to the Latin script. Created by Atıl Aggündüz for Dirtybarn.
41. Teranoptia
Teranoptia is created by Ariel Martín Pérez, a typeface without letters, a peculiar contraption that allows you to imagine chimeric creatures just by typing letters with your keyboard. Its design has been inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, medieval illustrations, and children’s books.
42. Trap Sans
Trap is a contemporary sans serif typeface designed to be used in all sizes, the deep ink traps help with legibility at lower sizes while also making it elegant at display sizes. Trap created by Aayush Mayank.
43. Trickster
According to Wikipedia, in mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphic creature), which exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge, and which uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and conventional behaviour. So that’s the origin of the name of this typeface, designed by Jean-Baptiste Morizot.
44. wagon
Wagon Free Display Typeface is part of a strong and modern display family, which is created by Dirtyline. This typeface is both impressive at display sizes and easily readable in text size, while the sharp shapes of the triangular serifs and the distinctive letter shapes show their strength in logo design and impressive editorial use.
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