10 Best Sites to Find and Download Free Fonts For Windows and Mac

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Designers have distinctive need when it comes to fonts. Choosing the right kind of font has become a crucial part of designing, as the visibility and attractiveness of the font plays a very important role in bringing traffic to the site.

Here we have 10 websites that offer a great collection of excellent free fonts for Windows as well as Macintosh.

1. UrbanFonts

Urban Fonts offers more than 8000 free fonts, each of which is very interesting in its own way. The free fonts are all sorted alphabetically, and they can also be searched according to category. The selection of fonts is cool and unique, and you will definitely find what you are looking for here.

2. Abstract Fonts

This website currently has more than 13,460 free fonts to select from, with new fonts being added each week. Abstract Fonts has a very useful collection of calligraphy fonts, and don’t forget to check out the doodle fonts.

3. Fawnt

Fawnt claims to be a font resource for designers, developers, and all those who love free fonts. It has a collection of over 10,000 fonts, most of which are free. The fonts are listed out on the home page in neat little speech bubbles for easy viewing.

4. Dafont

Dafont has more than 8000 free fonts, all of which are very simple to download on Windows and Macintosh. The front page is a bit crowded, but you will have no difficulty in browsing the different types of fonts to find your favourite ones.

5. Fonts2U

This website is perhaps the hugest collection of free fonts for Windows and Mac, with fonts currently numbering more than 45,000. The best part is that they also have a solid offering of fonts in languages apart from English, such as German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. We particularly loved the Movies category, in which the fonts used in movies and their posters are made available to the downloader.

6. Search Free Fonts

The best part about the Search Free Fonts website is its amazing search by keyword option. If you have a vague idea in your mind about the type of font you want, but have no idea how to search for it, you should try this website. For example, we wanted a font in connection with Christmas and Santa. We searched with the keyword Santa, and the site gave us a good number of appropriate fonts. It is a very useful feature if you are looking for a certain type of font.

7. 1001 Free Fonts

Don’t be fooled by the name of this site, it houses way more than just 1001 fonts. More than a million different fonts can be found in this collection, organized alphabetically as well as by category. Apart from fonts, this website also has a host of font related articles, such as How to Create Fonts, and Tools to Identify Fonts.

8. FFonts

Ffonts has an interesting hoard of 3D fonts in multiple colors. Also, there is a good collection  of old era fonts such as 50s fonts and 60s fonts for you to choose from, if your document needs period fonts. Another interesting feature is the What Font feature, which lets you upload any font that you wish to identify, and gives you the name of that font.

9. Fontspace

The Fontspace.com database has some of the most dramatic fonts we could find in our search. With more than 16,700 fonts to choose from, this website lives up to its promise of fulfilling your font requirements. The home page is attractive and user friendly, and as their ever growing fan base can vouch, this site is totally addictive.

10. Fontcubes

Fontcubes.com offers a comprehensive database of free cursive, calligraphy, gothic, handwritten, and kids script fonts. Apart from fonts, it also has a neat selection of dingbats. All the free  fonts are available for both Windows and Mac.