When it comes to design, choosing the right font can be just as important as choosing the right images, icons etc. The right font can help convey your message, set the tone for your project, and make your content more engaging and easy to read. There are many different types of fonts present in the market that you can buy. But not every designer can afford to buy them, especially when you are just a beginner and the client have a small budget. The mentioned fonts are free to download and use.
1. Roboto
Roboto is the first contender on this list. As per Google Fonts API, Roboto is featured on more than 680,000,000 websites. It has 12 styles, that makes it a versatile font. Roboto can be used for headlines, paragraphs. It is an extremely popular font among designers due to its shape. It is widely used on many different mediums such as websites, documents, and on computer or phone screens.
These fonts are licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
2. Work Sans
Work Sans is featured on more than 1,100,000 websites. It is a typeface that is based loosely on early Grotesques, such as those by Stephenson Blake, Miller & Richard and Bauerschen Giesserei. It has about 18 different styles and weights that gives a lot of options to the designers. So, It can be used in a variety of contexts, including headlines, body text, and user interfaces.
These fonts are licensed under the Open Font License.
3. Inter Tight
Inter Tight is a specialized version of Inter with tighter spacing, for display usage. This version also has Roman and Italic styles. Inter Tight font family is made up of 18 different styles and weights. Thus, it can be used in many different ways, like body paragraph, headline etc. And as of now, It is being featured on more than 660 websites.
These fonts are licensed under the Open Font License.
4. Public Sans
Public Sans is featured on more than 80,000 websites around the world. Based on Libre Franklin, Public Sans is a strong, neutral typeface for interfaces, text, and headings. It was Developed by the United States Web Design System.
These fonts are licensed under the Open Font License.
5. Poppins
Poppins is a modern font that has been used on more than 9,700,000 websites. It supports Devanagari and Latin writing systems. Because of its geometric shapes, legibility, and a wide range of styles and weight, it can used for Titles, typography, logos etc. Its modern and clean look is also another factor that makes it in demand among designers.
These fonts are licensed under the Open Font License.
6. Noto Sans
Noto Sans is featured in more than 4,000,000 websites. This modern font is an unmodulated (“sans serif”) design for texts in the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts, which is also suitable as the complementary choice for other script-specific Noto Sans fonts. It comes with 18 different styles and weights.
These fonts are licensed under the Open Font License.
7. PT Sans
PT Sans is featured in more than 4,800,000 websites. This sans-serif font was developed for the project “Public Types of Russian Federation.” The second family of the project, PT Serif, is also available.
These fonts are licensed under the Open Font License.
8. Barlow
Barlow is featured in more than 860,000 websites. It is a slightly rounded, low-contrast, Grotesk type family. Drawing from the visual style of the California public, Barlow shares qualities with the state’s car plates, highway signs, and trains.
These fonts are licensed under the Open Font License.
9. Manrope
Manrope is featured in more than 140,000 websites. It is another open-source modern sans-serif font family, designed by Mikhail Sharanda in 2018. In 2019, Mirko Velimirovic worked with Mikhail Sharanda to convert Manrope into a variable font.
These fonts are licensed under the Open Font License.
10. Oxygen
Oxygen is featured in more than 5,500,000 websites. The Oxygen typeface family is created as part of the KDE Project, a libre desktop for the GNU+Linux operating system. The design is optimized for the FreeType font rendering system and works well in all graphical user interfaces, desktops and devices.
These fonts are licensed under the Open Font License.
To conclude, firstly these 10 sans-serif fonts are free to download and can be used for personal and commercial projects. Secondly, these fonts can be used in various ways like headlines, body text, etc. Last but not the least, these fonts are legible on small screens, desktops and print media.
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