I’ve been wanting to compile this list for awhile, so here it finally is! I tried to get a wide range of sources in here so that if you like fonts as much as I do, you can spend time at every one of them. Some of these took a lot of digging for me to find, and some of them have been posted and reposted but were just too good for me to resist. And of course, more than a few are from Dafont because I couldn’t help it, I could spend all day on that site. And a bunch of them are from foundries that occasionally release free fonts that are just as good as their pay fonts (I love when they do that!)

So, enjoy! And click the photo to go to the website where you can download the font.

Samba

Museo

Diavlo

Delicious

Fontin Sans

Fontin

Birra Stout

Porcelain

Megalopolis

Geo Sans Light

Anivers

Advent

Fertigo

Ginga

Panhead

Nilland

Romeral

Qlassik

Union

Audimat

Sansation

Nevis

Freebooter Script

The King & Queen Font

My favorite font ever is Brothers, created by John Downer in 1999. Normally I wouldn’t say I have only ONE favorite font, there are so many options, but somehow Brothers is just my style exactly. It’s old and antique looking and yet somehow fresh and new, though I can’t say what exactly about it makes it new looking too. It’s dynamic and blocky without being too loud. I saw it on the “Taco Tuesdays” ad at El Torito recently, and it’s also famous for being the “O Brother Where Art Thou” font, and I used it for my own portfolio website. Without this font, I would have had SUCH a hard time choosing between all the other fonts I love for the website. Here’s a great example of the font, from the Emigre site:

Also this font below, by Ned Wright, was inspired by Brothers–or rather, it was created because of how much people are using Brothers, and I adore this font as well but it doesn’t seem to be available. But here’s my vote for making it available, I’d buy it! Same antique quality but with a weird steampunk-ish look, too. It has a lot of personality, I like them both!

But as far as other fonts go, there are just endless great ones. Gotham, which is the font that Obama’s designers use, has been one of my favorites (even before Obama too! But it is used very elegantly in all of his websites/etc). Gotham looks strong yet sleek and is versatile enough to be used for essentially anything. I love anything made by Letterhead Fonts or Misprinted Type, and I also love Filosofia, Chennai, Fling, Estilo Affair, Bree, and so many others. Browsing Dafont has always been a way to spend more than a few hours for me. There are so many fonts and each one says something different, sometimes it does get confusing for me when designing a project, to figure out what all that font is saying, the can say so many things at the same time. It’s always a worthwhile challenge, though, when you find the perfect one.