40 Free Fonts for Creating Beautiful Headlines & Titles

Your choice of font for titles or headlines is a crucial part of the design process, as it creates a visual hierarchy that will help make your content more legible, and as an extension, memorable and impactful.

The font you choose will depend on the style of your design, the intended reader, and how you would like your content to be perceived (professional or other). Typically, they use a larger font size so that they stand out from the main content of a design.

It doesn’t matter if your headline font is serif or sans, thick or thin, or regular or bold. What matters is that the title font is legible, distinguished, and, most importantly, does not overpower your content, page, or design. With the proper application, your title or headline font will add a distinctive and intriguing element to any UI or print design project.

This collection focuses on clean, distinctive, highly-legible, and beautiful free fonts for creating beautiful headlines and titles. Whether you use them on the web or in print, these are the fonts you will need to give your typography the professional impact your readers or users demand.

All fifty fonts have been confirmed to be free to use on personal or commercial projects, but please check the licenses in case they change in the future.

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1. Aleo Font by Alessio Laiso, Free

Aleo is a free headline and title font created by Alessio Laiso. The ligatures are perfect for readability, and you can pick from six styles to craft the perfect title for your next article.

2. Bariol Font Family by Atipo Foundry, Free

Friendly and fun, Bariol is an excellent headline and title font for your next project. This sans-serif will work perfectly if you want to establish a casual tone from the get-go. You’ll get Bariol regular and Bariol italic in the free version, or upgrade to get more.

3. RNS Camelia on Envato Elements

Inspired by typography you would’ve seen on the streets of New York in the 1920s and 1930s, RNS Camelia is a modernized demi-slab typeface. You’ll get 14 styles (from thin to black) to make your headlines and text glamorous and perfectly legible.

4. Calendas Plus by Atipo Foundry, Free

Give your materials a dash of glamour with Calendas Plus, a gorgeous typeface with a classic typography flavor. In the free download, you can get the regular version, notable for its intricate swash and ornate details. It’ll work perfectly for headlines for the web or in print campaigns.

5. Addington CF Serif Font Family on Envato Elements

Addington CF Serif is a font family that’s reliable and graceful. They don’t sacrifice elegance for legibility, so they’re perfect for all kinds of headlines.

6. Fénix Typeface by Fernando Díaz, Free

A serif typeface rooted in calligraphy and elevated by modern legibility standards, Fenix is perfect for your next project. Bold strokes interact with elegant lines to create a beautiful typeface for headlines. You’ll get uppercase and lowercase characters, numerals, punctuation, and other special characters for (mainly) European languages.

7. Cheddar Gothic Font Family on Envato Elements

Hand-drawn and striking, Cheddar Gothic is the perfect typeface for your headlines and display campaigns. The typeface family offers eight fonts, from sans and serif to slab and stencil styles.

8. Municipal Typeface by Sean Coady, Free

There’s nothing commonplace about Municipal, a phenomenal, free typeface for bold headlines. Municipal is a strong take on sans-serif typography. It’s an all-caps typeface, and lowercase characters trigger stylistic alternates with shadows. You’ll also get numerals and punctuation!

9. Marquis Organic Font Duo (+EXTRAS) on Envato Elements

Vintage with a modern flair, Marquis is a bold serif and sans-serif font duo. It offers an organic feel because it was hand-made, and each font has four styles (regular, bold, italic, and outline). It’s perfect for headlines, and you’ll get 12 logo templates, too!

10. Lovelo Font by Fontfabric, Free

Perfect for display campaigns, Lovelo is a bold font family with three free fonts, including black, line bold, and line light.

11. New York Font on Envato Elements

Evoke nostalgia in everyone who sees your design with the New York font family. These typefaces offer eight distinct styles characterized by grungy, distressed texture, from New York regular and grunge to New York shadow line and grunge. It’s perfect for your vintage and retro designs!

12. Promesh Athletic Font by Paul Reis, Free

Create a victorious atmosphere with Promesh Athletic, a display serif font inspired by athletic typography and the mesh texture you would see on LeBron’s jersey.

13. The Douglas Collections on Envato Elements

The Douglas Collection is full of beautiful fonts for your next headline or logo project. You’ll get 12 hand-made fonts with an outdoorsy, vintage vibe, as well as graphic elements and logo templates to help you create something incredible without starting from scratch.

14. Biko Font Family by Marco Ugolini, Free

Biko is a friendly and outspoken sans-serif. Its bold versions work perfectly for headlines, and lighter versions guarantee readability. Biko is free for personal use, and you will get four versions: light, regular, black, and bold.

15. Nexa Font Family by Fontfabric, Free

Simple and futuristic, Nexa is a sans-serif font family that’ll work well for headlines, display campaigns, and even shorter texts. You can download four versions for free: Nexa Bold, Nexa Text Bold, Nexa Light, and Nexa Text Light. It also offers multilingual support (extended Latin and Cyrillic included).

16. Knubi Font by Matt Vergotis, Free

Sleek, lovely, and pristine, Knubi is an excellent choice for your next design. You’ll get uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as special characters, numerals (with fractions), and more if you download Knubi.

17. Palo Alto Font by TypeFaith Fonts, Free

Palo Alto is the personification of the famed Palo Alto, renowned for its tech hubs and innovation. This serif is simple and friendly with its bolder lines, and it offers both uppercase and lowercase characters, numerals, and everything else you’ll need to create stunning headlines and titles.

18. Maven Pro Font by Lost Type Co-op, Free

Maven Pro expands on the original Maven Pro typeface. You’ll get the three lightest weights you might have been missing, giving you more room for experimentation for your next headline or title. It’s free for personal use.

19. Kelson Sans by Fontfabric, Free

Kelson Sans overhauled the original Kelyson font family with a few new twists. This new sans-serif typeface is free to use, and you’ll love the nine distinct styles (bold, light, regular, Bulgarian bold, Bulgarian light, Bulgarian normal, Russian bold, Russian light, and Russian regular). Kelson’s simplicity works wonders!

20. Corporata Font by Advent Font, Free

Strong and versatile, Corporata is a typeface with plenty of options and seven distinct weights. Uppercase characters are bold and perfect for headlines, while the lowercase characters add sleekness to body copy.

21. Myra Font by Fontfabric, Free

Myra is a beautifully decorated sans-serif typeface. Inspired by vintage typography and designed with contemporary trends in mind. Myra’s deco style is perfect for striking headlines, logos, and display campaigns. It’s an all-caps font, but using the lowercase characters gives you character alternates without the curls.

22. Mathlete Font by Mattox, Free

Mathlete is a fun font that’s perfect for friendly and approachable brands that want to evoke childhood nostalgia. You’ll get four interesting font versions: skinny, skinny slant, bulky, and bulky slant. You’ll also get matching numerals and punctuation that mimic the signature handwriting flow.

23. Hammersmith One Font by Sorkin Type Co, Free

A bold sans-serif, Hammersmith is a typeface you can rely on. Its strong lines and exciting twists make it perfect for headlines and titles, but it retains its legibility for longer copy, as well. You’ll get uppercase and lowercase characters, numerals, and punctuation. Hammersmith is the whole package!

24. Fenix Font Family by Fernando Díaz, Free

If you want your brand to radiate elegance, go with Fenix. This typeface is incredibly versatile; it’ll work perfectly for display and print campaigns, as well as website headlines and copy.

25. Manteka Font by Edu Araya, Free

Manteka is a free, bold sans-serif typeface. Its all-caps nature makes it perfect for headlines, be that for the web or print, and you’ll also get numerals and punctuation. Manteka works perfectly for brands that want to emulate tech innovation or show everyone how forward-thinking they are.

26. Homizio Font Family by Álvaro Thomáz, Free

Homizio is a friendly and versatile sans-serif font family that will work perfectly for both web headlines and print campaigns. You’ll get six styles: thin, light, regular, medium, bold, and black to work with. Some styles also have ligatures to make your designs more unique.

27. Mission Script by Lost Type Co-op, Free

Add more loveliness to your headlines with Mission, a gentle script perfect for blog headlines and designs with a refined feminine aesthetic. The author created it to celebrate brush scripts, and it shows. This wonderful font will work wonders for your next campaign (and it’s completely free)!

28. Sreda Font by Fontfabric, Free

Sreda is a striking slab-serif font that will make your next design infinitely more interesting. This slab-serif typeface works great for headlines but retains its legibility if you decide to use it for longer copy. And since the recent update, Sreda also supports Cyrillic characters.

29. Edmondsans Font by Lost Type Co-op, Free

Edmondsans is the perfect workhorse typeface that you can use across your project portfolio. A sans-serif with three weights, Edmondsans is easy to integrate into different designs. You’ll also get stylistic alternates, non-lining figures, and beautifully designed lowercase characters. It’s an excellent addition to your kit!

30. Intro Font by Fontfabric™, Free

Intro is a modern sans-serif with beautifully quirky strokes that will elevate your headlines and make your designs seem more friendly. In the free version, you’ll get four fonts.

31. Verb Font by Yellow Design Studio, Free

Verb is a confident sans-serif that’s perfect for all kinds of projects. Fonts in the family are lively, and you can get two for free: Verb Light and Light Italic. Verb Light also works great for longer paragraphs.

32. Mission Gothic by Lost Type Co-op, Free

Inspired by the era when letters were hand-painted on wood, Mission Gothic is bold and beautiful. You can use it for headlines, web displays, and more! You will get five weights and two styles; you’ll have plenty of options if you add this free font to your kit.

33. Oranienbaum Font by TypeType Foundry, Free

Modern but inspired by elegant vintage typography, Oranienbaum is fantastic for both headlines and body text. This serif has recognizable strokes and ligatures, making it stand out; it’s perfect for refined brands.

34. Abraham Lincoln Font by Lost Type Co-op, Free

Inspired by the man himself, this font is tall and reliable. This humanistic display typeface carefully incorporates serifs into a condensed, legible format. It’ll stand out in headlines and titles and in other print and web campaigns. The Abraham Lincoln typeface is free for personal use.

35. Archive Font by Fontfabric, Free

Archive is the font we all think of when we think of websites and technology. It is a bold sans-serif typeface with strong geometric forms. It’ll stand out in headlines, but you can use it for posters and logos. It’s an all-caps typeface with Cyrillic characters.

36. Kreon Font by Julia Petretta, Free

If you’re looking for a funkier serif, take a look at Kreon. This interesting serif typeface is lively and buoyant, which makes it perfect for friendly brands. You’ll get three fonts: light (great for paragraphs and body copy), regular, and bold (great for headlines and titles).

37. Ostrich Sans by The League of Moveable Type, Free

Tall, sleek, and dynamic, Ostrich Sans is unique. You’ll get over 200 glyphs that make this typeface special, as well as a wide variety of weights, including inline effects for stand-out headlines and posters. The black weight grabs attention, while the inline italic version looks fresh and innovative.

38. Varela Font by Admix Designs, Free

Varela is a simple, single-weight, workhorse sans-serif typeface. Download Varela Sans for free if you want to avoid drawing attention away from your headline and title messaging. This sans-serif has nice curvature, which lends it a friendly feel, but it’s a no-fluff font for no-fluff brands.

39. Muchacho Free Font by Jeff Schreiber, Free

With a unique aesthetic that reminds us of the Wild West, Muchacho is here to win over every spectator. This interesting serif typeface integrates vintage typography with modern trends to create a unique (and free) addition to your design kit. You’ll get three weights: regular, bold, and italic.

40. Novecento Sans Font Family by Synthview, Free

Novecento Sans is a font family that incorporates diverse trends in typography to provide you with unique fonts for headlines and titles. From the wide ultralight version (perfect for elegant designs) to the sturdy wide demibold weight with its Bauhaus aesthetic, Novecento has everything you need to satisfy different tastes.

41. RBNo2 by Fontfabric, Free

This is the droid (or font) you have been looking for! RBNo2 is a modernized gothic sans-serif font family with strong, straight lines. It’s perfect for contemporary designs and headlines, particularly highly technical industries. The free version comes with RBNo2 Light Light and RBNo2 Light Alternative Light.

42. Source Sans Pro by Adobe, Free

Source Sans Pro offers a plethora of fonts for all sorts of projects. They’re all sans-serif fonts, and you’ll have your choice of weights: from the simple extra light for body copy to the ornate, bold italic that will grab everyone’s attention.

43. Governor Font by Lost Type Co-op, Free

Governor is a unique font inspired by art deco typography and Miami Beach apartment signage. It’s wild, vibrant, and fresh. You’ll get uppercase characters without any numerals or punctuation. This makes Governor perfect for friendly, upbeat logo designs and simpler, shorter headlines.

44. Sheep Sans Font by Álvaro Thomáz, Free

Sheep Sans is a friendly, modern sans-serif. It’s a great workhorse font, but it also has the potential to make your headlines more inviting. You’ll get two versions: Sheep Sans Regular and Sheep Sans Bold. In addition to that, Sheep offers special characters, numerals, and punctuation.

45. Infinity Font by Tarin Yuangtrakul, Free

Infinity is a free sans-serif font inspired by the figure 8’s similarity to the infinity symbol. It follows geometric principles to offer perfection in presentation. While Infinity shines when used for headlines, it can also be used for shorter paragraphs.

46. Weston Font by Fontfabric, Free

Weston offers the best of both worlds: vintage typography and futurism. This rounded slab serif is perfect for unique and innovative headlines. You’ll get two free fonts: Weston Light and Weston Regular. Pair it with other fonts for it to truly embody your aesthetic!

47. Foglihten F02 by Gluk Fonts, Free

Foglihten is a beautifully designed script with distinct and elegant ligatures that will take you back in time to the era of Victorian penmanship and love letters. If that suits your brand’s desired aesthetic, you can download Foglihten (with its numerous stylistic, glyph, and ligature alternates) for free.

48. Fanwood Font by The League of Moveable Type, Free

Four hundred seventeen glyphs, numerous options, elegant ligatures… Fanwood is a truly special serif typeface. It’s refined and elegant with four versions: regular, italic, text, and text italic. It’s an excellent font for conveying a glamorous and traditional atmosphere in headlines, as well as longer paragraphs.

49. Movavi Grotesque Black Typeface by Sergiy Tkachenko, Free

Strong and powerful, Movavi is looking for brands with a similar aura. This modern grotesque typeface is perfect for shorter headlines, book cover titles, and more. You will get uppercase and lowercase characters, numerals, punctuation, and basic and extended Latin and Cyrillic characters. Movavi is the real deal!