101 Awesome Downloadable Fonts for Designers

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 9:06am by The Free Geek

By Jessica Hupp

Despite its prominence, Arial and other de-facto fonts just aren’t attractive enough for most designers. Fortunately, there are a number of foundries that create some truly impressive fonts, and are happy to share them with others. We’ve highlighted 101 of them here, but keep in mind that many request that you provide credit or at least ask for permission for commercial use.

Grunge

These fonts are messy, and they’re not ashamed of it.

  1. Guilty: Guilty is a grunged-out typewriter style face.
  2. Tiza: This font has a nice rubbed-out effect.
  3. Print Error: Print Error has lots of background, resembling exactly what it sounds like-a print error.
  4. El&Font Gohtic!: This font has lots of scratches, X accents, and angel wings.
  5. Dirty Uncle: In true dirty fashion, this font’s outlines give way to scribbles at the bottom.
  6. Astonished: Underneath Astonished’s thin, clean look is a bit of grunge.
  7. Bleeding Cowboys: Last Soundtrack’s Bleeding Cowboys font offers a bit of swirly fla