The best free fonts: 50 quality type options for creatives

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High-quality typefaces often come with a hefty price tag, but these days, the best free fonts are surprisingly capable, so you can get something for nothing. In our comprehensive roundup, we've curated the 50 best available today, spanning a wide range of styles and use cases.

From elegant serifs to modern sans-serifs, playful scripts to robust display fonts, each font in this list has been carefully chosen for its quality, versatility, and unique character. So whether you're designing a sleek corporate website, a quirky album cover, or anything in between, you'll find the perfect typeface to elevate your project.

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Tom May

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. 

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