# Where can I get some free fonts?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-some-free-fonts/569341
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 28, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-some-free-fonts/569341 "2011-01-28T22:19:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-some-free-fonts/569341/1 "2011-01-28T22:19:17Z")
Before I searched, I didn’t know a lot of these are sold. In some of my older computers, they came with Windows, but mine doesn’t seem to have some of the nifty ones that I like to mess with. Can anyone recommend some free font download sites?
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-some-free-fonts/569341/2 "2011-01-28T23:01:51Z")
[dafont.com](http://dafont.com) is pretty good - otherwise, just try googling _free fonts categories_ (adding ‘categories’ to your google search here will find you some of the more useful free font sites (out of the hundreds or thousands of free font sites that are out there).
Don’t install too many though - because it’s one of the things that can make Windows quite sluggish, especially during booting.
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### Author:  [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2011, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-some-free-fonts/569341/3 "2011-01-29T00:30:30Z")
I like this one. There are a lot of really good ones, also a lot of very niche-market ones.
> **[1001 Free Fonts | Download 90000 Fonts](https://www.1001freefonts.com/)**
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> Download 90000 free fonts for Windows and Mac. Browse categories such as calligraphy, handwriting, script, serif and more. New fonts added daily.
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### Author:  [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2011, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-some-free-fonts/569341/4 "2011-01-29T01:08:10Z")
[fontsquirrel](http://www.fontsquirrel.com/) is another
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### Author:  [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-some-free-fonts/569341/5 "2011-01-29T01:09:07Z")
As far as specific free fonts, [Gentium](http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=gentium) gets a lot of love and [Code2000](http://www.fonts2u.com/code2000.font) has absolutely _massive_ Unicode coverage.
[Or you could use Comic Sans.](http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07052007) (Mildly NSFW language in a webcomic.)
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-some-free-fonts/569341/6 "2011-01-29T01:16:08Z")
[Abstract Fonts](http://www.abstractfonts.com/)
[Font Face](http://www.fontface.com/main.html)
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### Author:  [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2011, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-some-free-fonts/569341/7 "2011-01-29T05:02:15Z")
Just Googling “free fonts” will give you more free fonts than you can shake a stick at.
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### Author:  [@BorgHunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BorgHunter)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-some-free-fonts/569341/8 "2011-01-29T14:19:09Z")
> [@Derleth](#):
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> As far as specific free fonts, [Gentium](http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=gentium) gets a lot of love and [Code2000](http://www.fonts2u.com/code2000.font) has absolutely _massive_ Unicode coverage.
Yech, Code2000 is hideous. As far as free fonts go, I don’t think it gets much better than the [DejaVu family](http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page) (known in prior iterations as Bitstream Vera).There is some debate about monospace fonts; some prefer [Inconsolata](http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html), but my preference for programming and such is still DejaVu Sans Mono.