Amazing Free Display Fonts

A selection of 25 amazing free display fonts, examples and download links given.

Amazing Free Display Fonts

Display fonts are necessary for drawing attention to a piece of content, whether it is on your website, in a magazine, for posters or flyers. Display fonts are generally larger and bolder and do not need to be so clear to read as content text. This can give your imagination wings! There is no limit to how creative you can be with display fonts. So I have found 25 amazing free display fonts to feed your creativity. I hope you like them.

Foglihten & Foglihten No07

This serif font is quite condensed for a display font, although the other styles are wider. There are 4 styles included, they are:

• Foglihten Regular
• Foglihten Black Petite Caps
• Foglihten No01
• Foglihten No03

Two of the styles are outline, but this is like four different fonts. Each style has a different amount of glyphs, but they all include letters, numbers, most punctuation marks and accented letters.

Download from Font Squirrel

Foglihten No07 is a very curly serif font with 1039 glyphs, including upper and lower case letters, numbers, punctuation marks and accented letters, as well as a huge amount of ligatures.

Download from Font Squirrel

The image below shows all styles in 72pt, except Foglihten Black Petite Caps which is in 60pt

Hominis

Hominis is an all-caps, retro display font with a hatch pattern shadow. There are 81 glyphs, including letters, numbers and some punctuation marks.

Download from Font Squirrel

The example below shows Hominis font at 120pt and 60pt.

Milka

Milka is a hugely chunky stencil display font. There are 721 glyphs, so as you can imagine, just about everything you may require is available!

Download from FreeFontsDownload

The image below shows Milka font at 120pt and the arrows are 100pt.

Air America

An italic all-caps sans serif font with some style. The free download has 208 glyphs, including letters, numbers, most punctuation marks and some accented characters.

Download from Font Squirrel

The example below shows Air America font at 150pt. The text style used is from my Comic Styles set.

Coolvetica

Coolvetica is a sans serif font inspired by logotypes from the 1970s, an era where everyone was modifying Helvetica into outlandish mods.

There are 5 styles included in this download, they are:

• Coolvetica Regular
• Coolvetica Regular Italic
• Coolvetica Condensed
• Coolvetica Compressed
• Coolvetica Crammed

There are 166 glyphs, including upper and lower case letters, numbers, punctuation marks and accented letters.

Download from DaFont

The image below shows all the styles at 72px.

SF Sports Night

A square, techno, large, all-caps display font aimed at sporting headlines. There are 8 styles included, they are:

• SF Sports Night
• SF Sports Night Upright
• SF Sports Night NS
• SF Sports Night NS Upright
• SF Sports Night Alternate
• SF Sports Night AltUpright
• SF Sports Night NS Alternate
• SF Sports Night NS AltUpright

The font has 81 glyphs, including letters, numbers and some punctuation marks.

Download from DaFont

The image below shows all 8 styles in a variety of sizes: 72px, 60px and 48px.

Alfa Slab

A very heavy serif font with 264 glyphs, including upper and lower case letters, numbers, all punctuation marks and many accented letters.

Download from Font Squirrel

The example below shows Alfa Slab font at 120pt.

Background image credit: Michael Schwarzenberger on Pixabay

Mexcellent

Mexcellent is a tri-linear stripe, all-caps font. There are 2 styles included in the download. They are:

• Mexcellent Regular
• Mexcellent 3D

Each style has 369 glyphs including letters, numbers, punctuation marks and accented letters.

There are 3 premium styles available that allow you to build the font so you can easily have different coloured stripes. They are:

• Mexcellent Middle
• Mexcellent Outside
• Mexcellent Back

These are available from Fontspring

The free version is available from 1001Fonts

The image below shows both styles of Mexcellent font at 110px.

Background from my Winter Gradients set

Runy Tunes Revisited NF

I am fascinated by this font. It has a retro look about it, but as the developers say:

An odd combination of Art Nouveau and Old Norse runes, suitable for something, although I’m not sure what.

There are 215 glyphs, including letters, numbers, punctuation marks and accented letters.

Download from 1001Fonts

The image below shows Runy Tunes Revisited NF font at 150pt and 60pt.

Background texture credit: Gerd Altmann on Pixabay

Baloo

Baloo is a rounded, almost comic sans serif display font. With 1408 glyphs, this font caters for many languages. The developers state:

The Baloo project develops ten separate fonts with unique local names for each of the ten Indic Scripts. Each font supports one Indic subset plus Latin, Latin Extended, and Vietnamese.

Download from Font Squirrel

In this example, the top line is 150pt, the diamond shapes are 60pt, and the quote is 100pt.

Image credit: brands amon on Pixabay

Carbon Black

Carbon Black is a rounded sans serif, monocase display font. There are 2 free styles, they are:

• Carbon Black Regular
• Carbon Phyber

Each style has 406 glyphs, including letters, numbers, punctuation marks and accented letters.

There are 14 premium styles available, they are:

• Ultralight & Ultralight Italic
• Extralight & Extralight Italic
• Light & Light Italic
• Book & Book Italic
• Regular & Regular Italic
• Bold & Bold Italic
• Black Italic
• Carbon Fence

These premium styles are available from Fontspring

The free version is available from 1001Fonts

The example below shows Carbon Black at 120pt and 72pt and Carbon Phyber at 120pt.

Amerika

Amerika is a very stylised serif and sans serif display font. This download includes 3 styles:

• Amerika Regular
• Amerika Alternates
• Amerika Sans Regular

The glyphs include upper and lower case letters, most punctuation marks and accented letters for both the serif and sans serif versions. The Alternates include 71 decorated letters and ligatures.

Download from Font Squirrel

The image below shows Amerika Regular and Amerika Sans Regular at 90pt, and a selections of Amerika Alternates at 60pt.

Background gradient from my Sunrise and Sky Gradients set

Betty Noir

Betty Noir is a seriously Art Nouveau style display font. The lowercase letters are smaller versions of the uppercase ones. There are 89 glyphs, including upper and lower case letters, numbers and some punctuation marks.

Download from 1001Fonts

The example below shows Betty Noir font at 130pt and 72pt.

Image credit: Ornament by Gordon Johnson on Pixabay

SF Collegiate

This is a…. collegiate, all-caps font, the file includes 2 styles:

• SF Collegiate Regular
• SF Collegiate Solid Regular

There are 104 glyphs for each style, including letters, numbers and some punctuation marks.

Download from Font Squirrel

SF Collegiate font is shown at 120pt and 72pt. SF Collegiate Solid is shown at 100pt.

Vanilla Whale

A western style display font that has a line above and below the lower case letters. There are 467 glyphs, including upper and lower case letters, numbers, punctuation marks, accented letters and some ligatures.

Download from 1001Fonts

The image below shows Vanilla Whale font at 130pt and 100pt. As you can see, the best effect is achieved by using an uppercase letter at the beginning and end of each word.

Image credit: jim on Pixabay

Ricks American NF

This font is an outlined and drop-shadowed deco style. There are 215 glyphs, including upper and lower case letters, numbers, punctuation marks and accented letters.

Download from 1001Fonts

Here I show Ricks American NF font in 130pt, 72pt and 150pt:

Old Stamper Regular

This stamped style font has lines above and below each letter, and you use the square brackets or curly brackets to start and finish your text to achieve the box.

There are 104 characters, including letters, numbers and some punctuation marks.

Download from 1001Fonts

Here, Old Stamper font is shown in 100pt and 80pt.

Image credit: Texture from mariesmolej on Pixabay

Diplomata

Diplomata is distinct serif display font. It has the appearance of being wider than it is high. It is a very beautiful and useful font for stylising with Photoshop blending options. The font has 246 glyphs including upper and lower case letters, numbers, most punctuation marks and accented letters.

Download from Font Squirrel

The image below shows Diplomata font in 72pt and 120pt. The styles applied are from my Text Styles 4 set.

Kinkie

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I felt compelled to include this font, full of love hearts!

There are 234 glyphs, including upper and lower case letters, numbers, punctuation marks, accented letters and a couple of ligatures.

Download from 1001Fonts

Kinkie font is shown below at 150pt and 100pt.

Image credit: Background from Jill Wellington on Pixabay

Drive-Thru

A retro, outlined and underlined, all-caps display font. There are 77 glyphs, including letters, numbers, some punctuation marks and some accented letters. Note: There are no lowercase glyphs, so you have to type your text in uppercase.

Download from DaFont

The image below shows Drive-Thru font at 100pt.

SF Distant Galaxy

A bold, large, sci-fi, techno, all-caps font family of 10 styles. The styles are:

• SF Distant Galaxy & Italic
• SF Distant Galaxy Outline & Italic
• SF Distant Galaxy Alternate & Italic
• SF Distant Galaxy AltOutline & Italic
• SF Distant Galaxy Symbols & Italic

Each text style has 198 glyphs, and for the fonts they include letters, numbers, punctuation marks and accented letters.

The symbol styles have 79 glyphs, including some Star Wars logos and some rather strange, techno shapes.

Download from DaFont

The example below shows SF Distant Galaxy font at 72px, and the Alt styles at 60pt. The selection of symbols I chose are all Star Wars logos in regular and italic.

Image credit: Background from ZhSol on Pixabay

Quantum Font Family

Even though there are not many glyphs included in this set of font files, I thought as a headline text it has a lot to offer, so that’s why it’s included.

There are 5 styles included in the download. They are:

• Quantum Flat
• Quantum Round
• Quantum Taper
• Quantum Flat Hollow
• Quantum Round Hollow

Each style has 66 glyphs, including upper and lower case letters, numbers and the following punctuation marks:

• Exclamation mark
• Comma
• Full stop/period
• Question mark

Download from 1001Fonts

The image below shows the 5 styles of the Quantum Font Family at 72pt.

Image credit: Background from Gerd Altmann on Pixabay

Dubtronic

This is a seriously heavy, fat font. Really only useful for short headlines, but a true attention grabber! There are 2 styles included, each with 79 glyphs, including letters, numbers and some punctuation marks.

The styles are:

• Dubtronic Inline Regular
• Dubtronic Solid

Download from Font Squirrel

The example below shows Dubtronic font at 110pt.

Image credits: Denim Texture from Pexels on Pixabay Plaster Texture from PIRO on Pixabay

Brian James

A bold, very tidy and stylish serif display font. There are 2 styles included in the download. They are:

• Brian James Condensed Bold
• Brian James Contour

Each style has 219 glyphs, including upper and lower case letters, numbers, punctuation marks, accented letters and a couple of ligatures.

Download from 1001Fonts

The image below shows the 2 styles of Brian James font at 110pt.

Image credit: Background from Sylvie SHENG on Pixabay

Bungee Font Family

A huge bundle of 13 font files. These files enable you to build the font to your chosen design. The styles are:

• Bungee Regular
• Bungee Inline
• Bungee Hairline
• Bungee Outline
• Bungee Shade
• Bungee Layers Regular
• Bungee Layers Inline
• Bungee Layers Outline
• Bungee Layers Shade
• Bungee Layers Rotated Regular
• Bungee Layers Rotated Inline
• Bungee Layers Rotated Outline
• Bungee Layers Rotated Shade

The first 9 styles above each have 1075 glyphs, including letters, numbers, punctuation marks, accented letters and some dingbats and shapes.

The Rotated styles have 562 glyphs, including the same categories as above, just fewer of them.

Download from Font Squirrel

The first 4 Bungee styles in the list above are shown individually, the Bungee Layers styles and Bungee Layers Rotated styles are shown built into one style. I used clashing colours so you can see the layers. All are shown at 110pt.

Background gradient from my Autumn Gradients set.

If you want all of these fonts to add to your library, I have created a .zip file containing all the .zip file downloads. I have left them in that format because all the licensing information and creator’s notes are included.