Every graphic designer needs a little help now and again, so here are some free assets to speed up your projects.
We all love free fonts but there are so many around on the web these days, it’s hard to keep up. Here are 10 cool new fonts that have come to our attention in recent months, all of which are free to download for your design projects at the time of writing.
Complement your design work with this unique and stylish calligraphy typeface. Including 351 glyphs, you can use this font for wedding Invitations, greeting cards, posters, wall hangings, gifts and more. It’s free to download if you log in to the Font Bundles site via Facebook and give them a ‘Like’.
Miller and Salt Script scripts can be used together or separately
Designed by Mellow Design Lab, Miller Salt is a set of two hand-written, dry brush scripts that can be used together or separately. They're ideal for branding, wedding invitations, logos, book covers, stationery, marketing, magazines and more.
This hand-written font set created by Faisal Tanjung contains a full set of lower and uppercase letters, a large range of punctuation, numerals, and multilingual support. To access the alternate glyphs, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Photoshop CC, Adobe Indesign or CorelDRAW.
Graphic designer Matt Cole Wilson has created this modern typeface featuring A-Z in caps and lowercase, 0-9, punctuation and common glyphs, and three weights. It’s available as a free download via Google Drive.
A hand-knitted typeface for use in your design projects
The creation of designer Nitish Kumar of India's Webkul HQ, Peenu is a 'hand-knitted' typeface inspired by Sharp Paper Cuts. It’s free to use in your design projects without the need for formal attribution.
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This font is free to download in exchange for your email address
Based on Interstate Regular Compressed, designed by Tobias Frere-Jones, Umhlanga Sans is Graham Paterson’s first foray into type design and is free for personal use. At present the typeface contains the regular font weight, all uppercase and lowercase characters and numerals. It’s free to download in exchange for your email address.
This free font is perfect for headlines, logos and typographic compositions
Designed by Plamen Motev, Akrobat is a modern sans serif font with condensed proportions. The typeface comes in eight weights with a geometric aesthetic. Its narrow proportions make it perfect for headlines, logos, typographic compositions and short paragraphs of text, and it contains more than 500 glyphs with a wide range of languages. It’s free for both personal and commercial use.
Monti is a new sans-serif, minimal font that’s useful for creating minimal logos, branding, street signs, posters and more. Currently limited to lowercase letters (although there are plans to upgrade with uppercase alphabets soon), it’s free to download for both personal and commercial use as long as you register for free membership of the site.
A numeric font designed for use in your poster projects
This numerals-only font has been created to give maximum impact to your poster designs. The work of Portuguese designer Pedro Azedo, the shadow version of this font is free to download.
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Tom May is an award-winning journalist and editor specialising in design, photography and technology. Author of the Amazon #1 bestseller Great TED Talks: Creativity, published by Pavilion Books, Tom was previously editor of Professional Photography magazine, associate editor at Creative Bloq, and deputy editor at net magazine. Today, he is a regular contributor to Creative Bloq and its sister sites Digital Camera World, T3.com and Tech Radar. He also writes for Creative Boom and works on content marketing projects.
