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Top 20 Free Fonts for Distinctive Headlines and Titles

February 24, 2010 by peterolexa Fonts, Graphic Design, Resources

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Whether you are reading a printed magazine or a web article it is very rarely the content that draws you in at first, the hook is always the title or the headline. A well written and thought out title or headline are fundamental, it has to not only describe with very few words the articles content but also has to be formatted in a way that it draws the attention of your readers – a difficult combination to achieve.

There are many ways of of making your headlines that little bit more distinctive, none as important as choosing the correct font. Most fonts can be big and bold, but finding one with a little bit of character that helps emphasize and describe the title and the content can be difficult.

With that in mind, Peter Olexa from Fonts2u has put together this article of his top 20 beautiful, professional and distinctive free fonts you shouldn’t be missing from your font library.

01 Diavolo

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

02 Fertigo

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

03 Museo

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

04 Comfortaa

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

05 Raspoutine Demi Bold

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

06 Gauntlet Classic

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

07 DuePuntoZero

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

08 Arista

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

09 Celeste Sans

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

10 HVD Bodedo

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

11 HVD Poster

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

12 F2U Scratch

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

13 Spin Cycle

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

14 Little Trouble Girl

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

15 Bola

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

16 Tiza

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

17 Aldo

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

18 Butter

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

19 Sad Films

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

20 You’re Gone

Free Fonts for Logos
Free Fonts for Logos

Downloads and Samples Page

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Author: peterolexa (1 Posts)

Peter Olexa is a freelance graphic designer born in Bratislava, Slovakia with over 15 years of experience in corporate identity and web site design. He currently runs the huge font repository Fonts2u were all of the fonts in this article can also be found. You can follow him on Twitter, on Facebook or you can send him an email: oli@vilordsmedia.com

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  • Charles

    Utterly awesome typefaces! Thank you so much for taking the time to post and share with the rest of us.

    I just want to add, that an excellent typography website with an unbelievable amount of typefaces and typography information can be found at http://www.pilo.me it is definintely worth checking out, although, I think it is invitation only.

    Thank you again!

  • http://www.twentyonegunsphoto.wordpress.com tografix

    great fonts, thanks

  • http://www.cmstheme.net CMS Themes

    Awesome looking fonts! Will download some of them now.

  • http://www.codesquid.co.uk Codesquid

    Nice round up, although I have to say 14 and 15 are terrible! 15 is almost completely unreadable!

  • http://www.twitter.com/snarphblat SnarphBlat

    This is great! I am actually designing my firstm magazine for a client and this is an excellent resource for me. Thanks so much!

  • http://www.w3wall.com lokendra

    nice and cute fonts :)

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  • http://starkvaliant.com valiant

    Wow! Quite a few gems in here. The fonts higher on the list have a lot of varations and bonuses, which makes their beauty all the more enticing. Thanks!

  • http://www.mortenjonassen.dk mackmen

    Very nice collection of fonts.

    Thanks

  • http://www.decabeza.es alberto

    nice! thanks!

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  • http://www.searchoneweb.com searchoneweb

    Really nice collection, thanks.
    My fav is Museo so far.

  • http://www.nopun.com Noel Wiggins

    Great typography is such a challenging goal in great website design.

    The combination of the fonts you choose for the design is one of the key elements.

    What I like about this collection is the variety of audiences that these “headline” fonts could work for.

    –

    Thanks and Regards

    Noel for Nopun.com
    a graphic design studio

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  • http://www.klassicweb.com sam

    very very awesome fonts, it will be very useful for me, thanks a lot.

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  • http://catatan-ruslan.blogspot.com aska

    great font..! Thanks a lot…

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  • http://x360s-world.de Andreas Rauscher

    HVD Poster looks great.
    thx for sharing this list

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    I love the Comfortaa! Thanks for sharing! :D

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  • http://www.snilesh.com neel

    Thanks for sharing this great font list. for using them in heading and title. i will use them in my next projects

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  • pinky

    Wonderful collections i just love the font ‘Sad films’:)

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    great post, really dig the fonts. Keep up the great posts.

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    great fonts. I personally liked #16 Tiza.
    Tampa SEO

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    great fonts – thx for sharing

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  • KK

    Thank you!!!

  • http://www.vaporizerreviewsource.com vaporizers

    nobody really appreciates how cool and creative fonts are.  thank you so much for sharing these free ones with us

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    I needed this so bad for a project im doing, thank you so much

  • http://www.facebook.com/AshishCMSingh Ashish Singh

    Awesome fonts but some download links are not working…

  • Shasha

    i love Tiza fonts!

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