Fonts

Experimenting and exploring new typefaces provides you a lot of design possibilities that can improve your design in terms of aesthetics. That is why having a great collection of fonts is a necessity for us designers.

Chalkboard fonts are a classic font type that evokes ideas of school days long gone and quaint cafe menu boards. But not all chalkboard fonts are alike. The different fonts below each communicate something different and some may pair better with other fonts in your design.
This particular collection features 20 amazing chalkboard fonts you can download for free.  Check them out below or bookmark this page for future reference. Load up your font collection and enjoy!
ERASER | Download

DK Crayon Crumble | Download
PencilPete | Download
Drawing Guides | Download
Colored Crayon | Download
Rudiment | Download
Whatever it takes | Download
Smudgie Crayon | Download
Chalkline Outline | Download
Mskitokilla | Download
Rob Graves | Download
Chalk Hand Lettering Shaded | Download
KG Ten Thousand Reasons | Download
Chalkboard | Download
Clouds of Despair | Download
FFF TUSJ | Download 
Urban Sketch | Download
Rechtman| Download
Return To Sender | Download
Grutch | Download
KG Second Chances| Download


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Nothing can surpass the artistic quality of hand made works. Every stroke made by one’s hand using  instruments such as a brush creates a different artistic style with natural look and feel.

Oftentimes seen on movie titles, postcard designs and posters, this kind of natural element is achieved when a hand drawn type is used on a particular design.
Fortunately, many creative folks out there have transformed the magical brush strokes we often see on paper into awesome font styles anyone can enjoy. We have compiled some of them to help you out in your next creative project. Check them out below or bookmark this page for your future reference. Enjoy
Sticky Things | Download Source
The Best Night | Download Source
Levi Brush | Download Source
Aquiline Two| Download Source
Lasting Love | Download Source
Face Your Fears | Download Source
Texas | Download Source
EDO | Download Source
Rain Forest | Download Source
Imagination Station | Download Source
Stencil Brush | Download Source
Abandoned Treasure | Download Source 
WC Mano Negra | Download Source
Silkroad | Download Source
Brushtip Texe | Download Source
Olivia Brush | Download Source
Brush Strokes | Download Source
Brushtip Travis | Download Source
Dead Island | Download Source


Wolf’s Rain | Download Source


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 The love month is officially on and for sure as graphic designers, most of you are busy working on your Valentine’s Day-related designs such as postcards, greeting cards, posters, flyers, etc. So today in You The Designer, we give you another amazing collection of freebies showcasing some of the most beautiful and playful fonts just perfect for the Valentine-themed projects you might be working on!

We collected 20 adorable free fonts accompanied by some interesting quotes to celebrate the season of love. Check them out below or bookmark this page for your future reference. Share the love and enjoy!
lovingyou | Download Source
Cupid de Locke | Download Source
Tangerine | Download Source
Calligraffiti | Download Source
LoveNess | Download Source
Precious | Download Source
Allura | Download Source
Arizonia | Download Source
LT Chickenhawk | Download Source
ALex Brush | Download Source
CAC Champagne | Download Source
Great Vibes | Download Source
heartfont | Download Source
Lovers Quarrel | Download Source
Mutlu | Download Source
Black Rose | Download Source
I Love What You Do!! | Download Source
Aquiline | Download Source

SC Manipulative Lovers | Download Source
Qwigley | Download Source
NOTE: Please take time to read the terms and usage of each featured font in their respective download pages. Some of them are free to use both for personal and commercial while some are for personal use only.



Which of the fonts is your most favorite? Tell us your thoughts as well as your suggestions by commenting below. Stay in love and awesome everyone!

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12 Best Fonts for Websites and Blogs for Better Readability.

The choice of fonts for websites and blogs is critical for an engaging online presence and brand building. The visual choice of a reader varies with every person but as a website or blog owner, you need to consider every aspect and web font is one such aspect.

List of 12 Best Fonts for Websites and Blogs

These are some of the top fonts we have seen on various big sites. You can combine them and start using on your blogs.

1) Oswald

One of the first of Google Web Fonts, Oswald has better kerning and extended character sets. Vernon Adams is the font creator and the font is a reworking of classic Alternate Gothic sans-serif. The font is excellent for captions and headlines.
Check Google font here.

2) Stalemate

Jim Lynes is the creator. The Stalemate font offers an accented display and is good for displaying personal messages or announcements.
Check Google font here.

3) Gravitas One

The font is modeled on ‘UK fat face’, which was a term used during England’s industrial revolution to identify heavy advertising text. Riccardo De Franceschi is the creator. The font is recommended for titles, headers and tabs.
Check Google font here.

4) Jura

Based on the Roman Kayah Li glyphs, Jura is an alternate version created by Daniel Johnson. Later, the font included graphs from Greek and Cyrillic alphabets. The font is light and good for wide layout pages.
Check Google font here.

5) Fjord

Originally used in book printing to display large content in small sizes, the Fjord is a serif-typeface and recommended for blogs and websites because we create longer content for the web. The Fjord font will offer long elegant ascenders and better modulation.
Check Google font here.

6) Amaranth

Amaranth comes with 3 styles. It has an italic upright design, with distinctive curves and contrast which is better suited for creative blogs and websites. The letters are well spaced out and makes for distinctive reading.
Check Google font here.

7) Gentium Basic

The Gentium Basic by Victor Gaultney is a combination of Greek, Latin and Cyrillic scripts. It is released under SIL Open Font License. They are free fonts but restricted with Latin character sets. The free font is good for blog content as the spacing of letters will make for interesting and engaged reading.
Check Google font here.

8) Arvo

Arvo is suitable for both web and print publication. It is developed by Anton Koovit.  The font has uniform strokes and enhances the onscreen readability of texts. It is available in bold italic, roman bold, italic and roman slab serif.
Check Google font here.

9) Droid Sans

Droid Sans is a typical font focusing on digital readability. Developed by Steve Mattson, the Droid Sans is good for mobile screens. Since web readership is moving towards smartphones, the Droid Sans will be a recommend font for websites and blogs. The font looks cool and readable even in small size.
Check Google font here.

10) Vollkorn

Created by Friedrich Althausen in first attempt, the Vollkorn font is a multi-purpose serif suitable for large texts, headlines and titles.
Check Google font here.

11) EB Garamond

This serif font has its roots in the 16th century and is an often used font. The EB version is part of the open source project by Georg Duffner. The font gives web content a smooth layout and readers doesn’t need to have squinty eyes to read better.
Check Google font here.

12) Ubuntu


The Ubuntu is a distinctive sans-serif web font created by Dalton Maag, a London-based foundry from funding with Canonical Ltd. The web font displays beautifully on desktop and smartphone screens.
Check Google font here.
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In this freshly updated free fonts for designers post, we bring you the world's best free fonts. We've filtered out the jewels from the thousands of less perfectly designed free fonts available online, so you can use them in your designs and illustrations.

01. Bitter 


This serif font is designed to work well on screens
This serif font is designed to work well on screens
Sans-serif fonts tend to work better for screen use, but this free slab serif typeface has been specially designed to provide a comfortable reading experience on screens. Bitter was designed by Sol Matas, and is available through Argentinian type collaborative Huerta Tipográfica. It combines generous x-heights with minimal variation in stroke weight. 

02. Playfair Display


This free font family is an open source project
This free font family is an open source project
This free serif display font takes inspiration from the late 18th century European Enlightenment and the work of type designer John Baskerville. The high-contract letterforms have delicate hairlines, relating to the rise in popularity of pointed steel pens, which took over from the previous broad nib quills during this period.
The typeface design is a project led designed by Dutch designer Claus Eggers Sørensen. It's development is open source, and can be found on GitHub here. 

03. Lora


Brushed curves contrast with driving serifs in this free font
Brushed curves contrast with driving serifs in this free font
Lora is a free font that has its roots in calligraphy. It was originally designed for type foundry Cyreal in 2011, with a Cyrillic extension added in 2013, and comes in four styles: regular, bold, italic, and bold italic. 
Brushed curves contrast with driving serifs to give this free font a well-balanced, contemporary feel. Although Lora is technically optimised for use on the web, it also works well in print projects.

04. Butler

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Free font Butler brings a sense of modernism to the serif
Free font Butler brings a sense of modernism to the serif


Free font Butler brings a sense of modernism to the serif
Free font Butler brings a sense of modernism to the serif
Inspired by both Dala Floda and the Bodoni family, Butler is a free font designed by Fabian De Smet. His aim was to bring a bit of modernism to serif fonts by working on the curves of classical serif fonts, and adding an extra stencil family.
The Butler family contains 334 characters, seven regular weights and seven stencil weights, and includes text figures, ligatures and fractions. It also suits many different languages with its added glyphs. De Smet suggests it would work well for “posters, very big titles, books and fancy stuff.”

05. Arvo


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A superior geometric slab-serif, Arvo is one of our favourite free fonts
Arvo is a geometric slab-serif font family that’s suitable for both screen and print use. Designed for legibility, it was created by Anton Koovit and published in the Google Font directory as a free open font (OFL). Unlike many slab serifs on Google Fonts, Arvo contains normal, italic, bold and bold italic styles.
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Today, you can design a banner in just a few minutes and use one of the thousands of banner fonts available for all design tools, to adjust your message and make it sell your story. There are no limits when it comes to banner design beside your own inspiration and intuition.

How to choose to best fonts for banners, when there are so many options available today? Well, this article will try to help you make a quick and inspired choice by choosing from a list of a top 10 cool banner fonts available now.

1. Volkhov

Our first font in this list is Volkov, a Serif typeface with a robust design, legible and prominent, suitable for complex texts. You can use it as a title in your banner designs but it will be more suitable as a message bearer font. Unlike other Serif fonts, Volkov looks elegant in a modern design and features a natural flow that makes it readable.

2. Source Serif Pro

Source Serif Pro is yet another great example of a Serif-based font. It’s thinner than Volkov but similar in style. Also, it makes the perfect choice for a banner that relays a message based on more than a short sentence. It works well, however, with any kind of copy text, regardless of its length. It’s elegant and easily readable.

3. Advent pro

Advent Pro is our first Sans Serif entry on this list of great looking banner fonts. It’s a modern looking typeface with a thin design that makes it perfect for banners with basic monochromic backgrounds. However, it comes in 7 different modes, thin, extra-light, light, regular, medium, semi-bold and bold. This is why it can be adjusted to suit any banner regardless of its design.

4. Allura

We like Allura because, although it is a Script-type font, it looks not only stylish but also easy to read and therefore, perfect for a banner design. Allura is designed by Rob Leuschke and comes from a wide family of fonts which includes non-Scripts as well.

5. Open Sans

If you are looking for a free banner font that will give your banner a clean and readable look at the same time, take a look at Open Sans. The font is optimized for both print and web but it also looks great on mobile. If you are preparing a marketing campaign, the way the banner looks on mobile devices is very important, since a wide range of your audience already has at least a smartphone. Another important fact is that Open Sans contains a complete 897 characters set which makes it available in almost all languages including Greek and Cyrillic.

6. Playfair Display

Our list of the 20 best fonts for banners continues with yet another typeface we can use as the main choice for our banner titles. Playfair, even though it is not a traditional Display font, it bears this name due to the fact that it was designed especially for large size usage. If you like it, however, you can also use the Regular style for body texts.

7. Rock Salt

Another great banner font is Rock Salt, a typeface that will give your banners a personal and out of the box look. It was designed with felt-tip markers and it certainly looks like it. It is available in just one style, Regular and only in uppercase. In many ways, it looks very similar to the texts of the comic books.

8. Sacramento

Sacramento is a free banner font that falls into the Script category. In other words, it mimics the handwriting. It does it quite well, however, being one of the most accurate Script typefaces available today. The fonts are round, stylish looking, easy to read and they are connected, just as they should be in a traditional handwriting style. If you are looking for such a font to complement your title or your text body, Sacramento may be the perfect solution.

9. Ultra

Ultra is a free banner font that falls into the Display category. It’s a wood type style with bold letters but very easy to read. It’s perfect for a power headline that gives impact to your banner and a strong and dramatic look. If you are looking for a traditional-looking headline, this may be exactly what you needed. Pay attention however, that it may take some space and if you intend to squeeze in a longer message, it may not be suitable.

10. Veteran Typewriter


Veteran Typewriter is another display font that may be easily confused with a Serif font, due to the fact that it mimics perfectly the typewriter letters. However, although it bears a Serif looking typeface, this font is recommended for titles only and maybe, but only maybe, to calls to action. You can try it right away. It may not convince you at a first look but we assure you it is quite readable and stylish looking when you use it on the right banner.

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