Free Fonts for Programmers, Webmasters & Designers
Fonts for your documents, website, pictures, software
Free Fonts for Programmers, Webmasters and Designers
This page lists free fonts that you can use in your documents, pictures, website, and computer software. Most of the sites listed here are general fonts sites, although there are a few sites here that only distribute a particular type of font. If you are a web designer or a programmer, you might also want to check the section Free Monospace Fonts on this page. Monospace fonts are useful when dealing with ASCII text files and if you are editing HTML code or programming source code, a good monospace font designed for programmers and webmasters can improve your productivity.
Since there appears to be many "free fonts" sites on the Internet, not all of which are genuine, and some of which may even be scams, I have tried to verify that all the sites listed here are the real thing. However, you should take your own precautions as well, and check each site out carefully. If you should find that any of the sites listed here are merely fronts to sell commercial fonts or the like, please let me know. It's possible that a listed site was legitimate when I checked it, but was changed by the webmaster at some later date.
If you want professional high quality fonts with proper hinting and with all characters in the character set available, you may have to use commercial
font sites like
ITC Fonts
and
Fonts.com's Font Libraries & Collections
Font-making software is listed separately on its own page: Free Font Editors and Free Online Font Creation Sites.
Terminology
In case, you get lost in the terminology used below, loosely speaking, faces and typefaces refer to the name of the font. For example, Arial and Helvetica are typefaces. While I use "font" on this page interchangeably with "typeface", this is technically not correct, since the word "font" refers to more than just the typeface: it includes the size, spacing and pitch of the particular typeface. Serif fonts are the fonts where each character has extra short lines at the end of each stroke. For example, both the Times Roman font and the Times New Roman font are serif fonts. Sans-serif faces are those fonts that do not have the extra lines at the end of each stroke. Examples of sans-serif fonts include Helvetica and Arial.
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Disclaimer
The information provided on this page comes without any warranty whatsoever. Use it at your own risk. Just because a program, book, document or service is listed here or has a good review does not mean that I endorse or approve of the program or of any of its contents. All the other standard disclaimers also apply.
Free Fonts
- Acid Fonts - Download Free Fonts
This site lists a wide variety of fonts, sorted by category, including 3D fonts, Christmas fonts, Dingbats, Graffiti, Grunge, Halloween, Horror, LCD, Mac, Number, Portland, Outlined, Retro, Sci-Fi, Stencil and Valentine.
- DaFont
This site provides a variety of free True Type and OpenType fonts, including fancy fonts, techno fonts, dingbats, etc. There are also bitmapped fonts available. The fonts are organised according to category, which makes the site easy to use, since if you are looking for, say, cartoon fonts, you can simply go to the cartoon section. You can see a sample of the appearance of the font. Note that not all the links to the fonts work.
- Famous Fonts
This sites lists True Type fonts that have been used in TV shows, movies, publications and other media and products. Note: not all fonts listed are available for free download.
- 1001 Free Fonts
This free fonts site provides a wide variety of True Type and Open Type fonts. The fonts are organised alphabetically according to the font name. Sample text using the font is given.
- Webpage Publicity Free Fonts
Free True Type fonts are listed here alphabetically. Sample text for each typeface is given.
- Lumos Font
The lumos font is a recreation of the font that is used as the typeface for the Harry Potter books.
- Microsoft Core Fonts
Some time ago, Microsoft distributed a free set of "core fonts" including Arial, Comic Sans, Impact, Times New Roman, Verdana, Webdings and Trebuchet so that web designers could create pages that appear the same way regardless of the operating system they used. If you use Windows, you already have these fonts, or updated versions of them. This site includes the same free fonts in an RPM package for use on Linux systems that support it. (It is supposedly packaged in a way that does not violate the Microsoft free distribution license.)
Free Programmer Fonts: Monospace Fonts for Programmers, Webmasters, Designers
Monospace fonts, as opposed to proportionally-spaced fonts, are particularly useful if you work with ASCII text, HTML code or programming source code. While proportionally-spaced fonts have different widths for different characters, for example, a "w" is wider than an "i", monospace fonts have the same width regardless of the character displayed. Because some of the monospace fonts listed below are designed for programmers, the number zero ("0"), often has a diagonal stroke cutting across it to distinguish it from the letter "O". This helps programmers avoid hard-to-spot errors like wrongly using the letter "O" for a zero and vice versa. Note that the use of monospace fonts is not restricted to programming - it is useful in all sorts of places where you need every character to have the same width.
- Inconsolata (Programmer Font)
Inconsolata is an OpenType monospaced font designed for source code listings in print. It is a sans serif face, inspired by Microsoft's Consolas font. It has slashed zeros. It works with or without ClearType enabled on Windows.
- Envy Code R
Envy Code R is a programmer font (fixed pitch font designed to display code). This TrueType font that works best with ClearType enabled. It has an optimal point size of 10 on Windows and 13 on Mac OS X and Java. It has slashed zeros.
- Raize Font
Raize is a monospaced sans-serif font sutiable for programming, scripting, HTML writing, etc. It supports 10, 12 and 14 point sizes. It has slashed zeros. Versions of this font are available for Windows and Linux. Note that this is a bitmap font.
- Bitstream Vera Fonts
The Bitstream Vera fonts are TrueType monospace fonts. Included are four sans serif faces - normal, oblique, bold and bold oblique, as well as two serif faces - normal and bold. The fonts are free to use but you may not sell it by itself. (Read the licence agreement and the FAQ for more information about this if you're planning to sell it). The zero ("0") in this font has a dot in the centre to distinguish it from the letter "O".
- DejaVu Fonts
The DejaVu fonts are modifications of the Bitstream Vera True Type fonts to include more characters in Unicode. It currently includes Basic Latin, Latin-1, IPA and phonetic extensions, Greek and Coptic, Cyrillic, combining diacritical marks, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, NKo, Thai, Lao, Georgian, Unified Canadian Aborginal Syllabics, superscripts and subscripts, mathematical operators and symbols, geometric shapes, arrows, number forms, dingbats, etc. Included families are DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Sans Mono, DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Serif, DejaVu Serif Condensed. This is an ongoing project - that is, more character sets are continually being added to it and improvements made.
- UCS Outline Fonts
These Truetype fonts contain a subset of the Universal Character Set (UCS).
- Microsoft Consolas Font Pack
This is, in my opinion, one of the best monospace fonts for programmers and webmasters. It works well in screens with a high dpi (dots per inch) such as high resolution screens but looks horrible in lower resolution screens. It is however, only free for people who use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. I'm not sure if it will install if you use the free Microsoft Visual C++ Express. The zero ("0") character in this font has a diagonal stroke across it, a useful feature that distinguishes it from the letter "O". Update: the Consolas fonts also come with the free Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2007.
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