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 and is a seemingly must read – a difficult combination to achieve.
There are many ways of of making your headlines that little bit more distinctive, none are 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
02 Fertigo
03 Museo
04 Comfortaa
05 Raspoutine Demi Bold
06 Gauntlet Classic
07 DuePuntoZero
08 Arista
09 Celeste Sans
10 HVD Bodedo
11 HVD Poster
12 F2U Scratch
13 Spin Cycle
14 Little Trouble Girl
15 Bola
16 Tiza
17 Aldo
18 Butter
19 Sad Films
20 You’re Gone
About the Author
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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24 Feb, 2010
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!
24 Feb, 2010
great fonts, thanks
24 Feb, 2010
Awesome looking fonts! Will download some of them now.
24 Feb, 2010
Nice round up, although I have to say 14 and 15 are terrible! 15 is almost completely unreadable!
24 Feb, 2010
This is great! I am actually designing my firstm magazine for a client and this is an excellent resource for me. Thanks so much!
24 Feb, 2010
nice and cute fonts :)
24 Feb, 2010
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!
24 Feb, 2010
Very nice collection of fonts.
Thanks
24 Feb, 2010
nice! thanks!
24 Feb, 2010
Really nice collection, thanks.
My fav is Museo so far.
25 Feb, 2010
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.
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Thanks and Regards
Noel for Nopun.com
a graphic design studio
26 Feb, 2010
very very awesome fonts, it will be very useful for me, thanks a lot.
4 Mar, 2010
great font..! Thanks a lot…
6 Mar, 2010
HVD Poster looks great.
thx for sharing this list
11 Mar, 2010
I love the Comfortaa! Thanks for sharing! :D
19 Mar, 2010
Thanks for sharing this great font list. for using them in heading and title. i will use them in my next projects
25 Jun, 2010
Wonderful collections i just love the font ‘Sad films’:)
13 Jul, 2010
great post, really dig the fonts. Keep up the great posts.