I love crazy and interesting fonts, especially when I can download them for free. Over the last five years or so I’ve been keeping track of the best free font websites and link lists for free fonts, shareware and dingbats that I came across. Fonts are such a great way to really personalize your website, blog, letters, presentations, or anything you might type out on a computer.
If you’re looking for good Web Sites with Free Fonts or Shareware Fonts, you’ve come to the right place. Check out this list of High quality free fonts, dingbats, shareware fonts, or a combination of these that can be found via the popular Web sites listed below . All (or nearly all) are available for immediate download. You’ll find only good, top quality, well-organized Web sites listed here. None of the crappy links with tons of ads. (At least there weren’t any when I originally put this list together).
List of Friendly FREE Font Links and Websites
1001 Free Fonts – Offers, a large selection of freeware and shareware fonts for the PC or Mac. Offers, a large selection of freeware and shareware fonts for the PC or Mac.
2200+ Free Fonts – Large collection of free fonts, Mac and Windows version of each.
25 Best Free Quality Fonts; Wonderful collection of free, high quality, fonts that are appropriate for professional use. You’ll also find samples of them at the site, links to more information and where they can be downloaded. Fantastic.
A-Z Font Library; from About.com’s Desktop Publishing area, Jacci Howard Bear. About 150 free fonts available through About.com for download. Good collection.
AbstractFonts – 10,000 free fonts, no pop-ups, 50+ categories, dynamic previews, character maps, designers and much more.
Acid Fonts – Download Free Fonts And Dingbats For The Pc And Mac. New Fonts Just Added To Site!
Action Fonts – Over 10,000 free fonts. Site includes a Font Forum.
Best100free.com – Top fonts sites list
Blue Vinyl Free Fonts; Great original fonts, dingbats, and dingfonts here in True Type, Mac, and PostScript (TI), (45+ original fonts with full character sets), free and commercial fonts. Unique, fun, interesting, and high quality. Quickly gaining in popularity (understandably). Some of the names: Trick or Treat BV, Candy Store BV, Eeronauts BV, Webstar BV, Learning Curve BV (cursive handwriting), Princess, Stereo Lab, Sonic Reverb, Print Clearly, 60’s Chic, Pocket Calculator.
Broble: Free Font Sharing – A place where you can share and download free fonts, truetype fonts, windows fonts and mac fonts. http://www.broble.com/
Christmas Holiday Symbol Fonts and Picture Fonts; Lightbox of Christmas fonts, including several free Christmas symbol fonts and picture fonts as well as commercial Christmas holiday fonts. Holly, Santa Clause, gift packages, gift tags, seasons’ greetings symbols, Christmas lights, candles, Christmas ornaments, candy canes, Christmas trees, stockings, reindeer, snowmen, snowflakes, and much more.
Coron’s Sources of Fonts; Stephan Baitz’s font archive of hundreds of fonts. His collection is quite unique, and I found fonts here I’ve never seen anywhere else that are beautiful and interesting. Excellent resource. Categorized, samples of each font or index of names only. “Fantasy fonts (e.g. Tolkien, Ultima), ancient fonts (runes, hieroglyphic, cuneiform), Alien fonts, symbolic fonts, Fraktur, and information about many ancient and exotic scripts.”
Create own fonts – Create your own royalty free fonts with this shareware software.
Creative Spirit Fonts Collection of more than 500+ free fonts, including dingbats, with new fonts added frequently. Organized alphabetically, with dingbats and number fonts listed separately (also alphabetically). Included are graphic examples of each font, font ratings, comments, “Top Fonts,” “New Fonts,” “New since last visit,” and a helpful Search feature.
Dafont – Thousands Of Free Fonts. Well done and extensive (over 6,000!) free fonts collection with examples of each font. For PC and Mac. Browse by category, by alphabetical listings, by themes, by font designer, by “Top 100”. You’ll also find a good collection of bitmap fonts, aka pixel fonts or screen fonts.
Daily Free Fonts – Free font archive updated daily with fresh, new fonts.
Desktop Publisher’s Favorite Website; Postscript (T1) fonts by Dieter Steffmann (AKA Typographer’s Homepage). Wonderfully high quality postscript fonts available. English AND German versions of site.
dincTYPE (girlswhowearglasses.com); Small foundry with dozens of interesting, unique fonts available.
Some are free, and some are shareware. Buy sets or individual fonts, and also available on CD. Made “for people who own computers.” Nice, retro theme for many, but a variety is available.
The Ding Ring; Webring listing of sites with dingbat font pages (many of which are sites of the dingbat font designers offering their dingbat fonts).
Dingbat Crazy; Over 1,000 freeware, shareware dingbat fonts categorically listed with samples. Site by Ozmee.
Dingbat Depot; Well organized site with a large collection of dingbat fonts. Their description: “DingbatDepot.com is the largest archive of free dingbat fonts on the internet today. All fonts are absolutely free and available for immediate download. Organized by alphabetical and by category: Animals, Business, Cartoon, Creative, Cultural, DingFonts, Food, Funky, Holidays, Horror, Machines, Games, Nature, Outer Space, People, Romance, Sport, TV & Movies, Various. Site also includes the following features: Font Forum, Top 10 Dingbats and New Dingbats.”
The Dingbat Pages; Not updated for several years, but still a good source for dingbat fonts. Previously one of the best dingbat font sites out there, and one of the first places to check for dingbats. Many font designers featured here. Extensive collection, well organized by categories. Find font designers listing, lots of links, too. Great site.
Divide by Zero; Because of such fun characters, especially his dingbats and doodles, Tom Murphy’s website, divide by zero, has remained one of my favorite font designers’ sites to visit for quite a long time now. (The graphic to the right is made with several of Tom’s dingbats.) You may recognize such names as Codon, Colophon, Tombats, TomBots, Action Jackson, and many more. The quality of all the fonts I’ve tried have been terrific, too, and in a variety of sizes. Want to smile and laugh while you check out some fun fonts and dingbats with tons of personality? Visit Tom’s fabulous website where you venture into his fonts and many other realms.
Download fonts – Download fonts comprehensive list in TrueType format for windows
EKNP Free Fonts – Free Fonts from eknp.com
Embird fonts – Font links on www.embird.com
Famous Fonts; Fonts from TV shows, movies, music, publications, more.
Font Freak – Font Freak – Over 3000 free fonts and dingbats for your downloading pleasure.
Font Garden – Font Garden Download free fonts Unique Handwriting Fonts. Amazing site!!!!!
Font River; Free, downloadable fonts, font tools. Character maps for each font – fantastic feature! Main categories: New Fonts, Most Popular Fonts, Buy Fonts, Font Tools. Basic Fonts, Dingbats, Fancy Fonts, Foreign Look, Holiday Fonts, Script Fonts, Techno Fonts. “FontRiver’s goal is to provide our visitors with the most popular downloadable fonts and useful font tools for both PC and Mac. This includes offering useful content, easy font finding features and a huge selection of original typefaces and font families recently organized by categories.”
Fontasy Fonts; Site in Germany with over 1,000 freeware fonts. Listed with samples and in alphabetical order. Also listing of new fonts, font rings, links to more font sites, a newsletter (if you can speak German). This site has some fonts that I haven’t seen on US font sites, so it’s worth the visit. Good site, well done.
Fontazm; Over 1,300 TrueType and Type 1 Postscript fonts and dingbat fonts for PC, font utilities.
FontDiner; A delightful Retro display font site with lots of fabulous, high quality fonts since 1996. I’ve watched this site evolve and grow (blossom!). In addition to their commercial fonts, they do offer some free fonts, too. You may recognize Fontdiner.com Sparkly, for example. Great font site.
Fontennium; Categorized, well presented collection of free fonts. Great site and resource.
FontFace; Over 1,000 free fonts available at this very well organized site. They’re organized alphabetically and include images so you can see what they each look like. There’s also a “Top 25” page that shows their most popular font downloads and a “Font of the Day” featured font. You can even subscribe to have the Font of the Day emailed to you each day. In addition, you’ll find links to font tools for font creation, font management, font conversions, and a page with links to more font collections. Well worth a visit! Great Web site. Fonts are for both PC and Mac formats.
Font of the Day – FontFace – Font of the Day
Font Village – Download over 6,000 Free Fonts for Mac and PC
Font Yukle – The biggest font archive
Font Zone – 2000+ free PC fonts available for download.
Font-Finder.com – Looking for a font? Here you can find it.
FONTAREA – Fontarea, Area Of Thousands Of Free Fonts!
FontCatalog – Font Catalog is a Macintosh shareware application to manage and find fonts. Ideal for the graphics professional who needs a visual approach to font usage.
FontLab – Fontlab is the world leader in font software. Our font editor tools let you do anything that is possible to do with a font.
The Fontpool; from Redsun. Over 1,000 categorized fonts (Windows PC and Mac fonts), tutorials, utilities, font management, more.
Fonts & Things; Well done font site and was once one of the very best out there. Definitely a first place to look for fonts. Many font designers featured here, good resource of free fonts, font tools and utilities (including conversion programs), links to designers’ sites and more. New fonts used to be added every month, but at this point the site seems stagnant (June 2007). Well organized site, still worth a visit.
The Fonts Zone; – 2000+ free PC fonts available for download. Good selection of TrueType fonts in the following categories: display fonts, blackletter fonts, handwriting fonts, Star Trek fonts, famous fonts, more.
Freeware Fonts and Dingbats, by Joan M. Mas; A wonderfully unique collection of free fonts and dingbats by Joan M. Mas. Site in Catalan and English. Also has information on typography, type management, freeware and shareware programs to manage and design fonts, links, more.
Free Fonts by Christoph Mueller; Several free fonts here crafted by Christoph Mueller, including Mom’s Typewriter, the font used for the text within the graphic shown to the right.
FontReactor – Download free true type fonts sorted by themes. Preview fonts before downloading
Fonts101.com – The free fonts website with currently 1639 freeware TTF’s to download in 8 Categories
FontSpace – Download over 11,000 free fonts for Windows and Mac
fontsy.com – thousands of free fonts
Free Fonts – large collection of fonts, free fonts, true type fonts, pc fonts, mac fonts.
Free Fonts – Download free fonts, download fonts, calligraphic fonts, 3d fonts, holiday fonts, asian fonts, cartoon fonts for windows.
Free Fonts by Nicole – The font site worth bookmarking…
Free Fonts Download – FFonts is a great new website that allows for the exploration of and download of fonts (for Free!)
Free Windows Font – Free TrueType Font Download
FreeFonts.co.in – One click free fonts downloads huge collection 10 thousand+
GhostlyFonts – Download ghostly, ghouly, spooky, and creepy fonts for Halloween and other occasions.
High Fonts – Download over 3000 free fonts! All fonts has previews that you can view before downloading them. A collection of over 3,000 free fonts available for download. Organized alphabetically, by “Top Downloaded,” “Random,” and “Mac Users.” Site also includes a helpful search feature. They also list over 25,000 commercially available fonts.
Heavenly Fonts; Over 10,000 free fonts, including free dingbat fonts. Find by category or by alphabetical listing. Graphic samples of each font, well organized site.
Mac Fonts.com – Top Macintosh fonts sites
myfont.de – Many nice and helpful true type fonts for free!
PC Fonts.com – Top fonts sites list
Search Free Fonts – Download 13000+ Free Windows and Mac Fonts
Searchfonts.com – Find Fonts – PC, MAC and postscript fonts at searchfonts.com
tattoo fonts – tattoo font downloads
Top20 Free Fonts – Browse our dynamic directory to find the best free fonts, graphics & software related sites online.
topfreefonts.com – Top fonts sites list
TopSitesCentral – Browse huge archives of free fonts available for download.
Urban Fonts; UrbanFonts offers over 8,000 free fonts and dingbats for both PC and MAC, font tools, font articles and much more
Wanted Fonts – Search or browse through a large collection of fonts in a number of ways including categories (Asian,Script,Dingbats,Stencil,etc.).
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And that’s THAT!!!
Enjoy finding your free fonts, and HAPPY FONTING!
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RESOURCES; AND MORE:
Free Fonts List; http://www.free-fonts.com/links/
Best Blog of Website Tips; http://www.websitetips.com
WebsiteTips.com Fonts List; http://websitetips.com/fonts/freeshare/
Reference:
- Free Fonts List; www.free-fonts.com/links/
- Best Blog of Website Tips; www.websitetips.com
- Website Tips.com Fonts List; websitetips.com/fonts/freeshare/
