Top 10 Websites to Find the Best Online Fonts

I gathered into a single article all useful resources that you can use as a web designer, to find the best fonts to create web sites for yourself or for your clients. In this mini-guide, you will find 10 search engines and services for finding fonts. Ever wondered where to find the right fonts for your project? The list you see below will provide all the answers you need.

# 1: Dafont

The best-known search engine for finding fonts is for free and chargeable. Personally, I have used the service a lot in the past. Now, I am beginning to exploit the potential of the Google font directory.

Rating: 8/10

# 2: Google Web Fonts

I appreciate this service for the following reasons:

• Search is extremely easy and fast;
• There is a choice of selected characters and high quality;
• APIs directory Google offer the possibility of adding the chosen font on any website;
• All fonts are open source;
• You can add your favorite fonts and share them with your fellow web designers.

Rating: 9/10

# 3: Creamundo

This is a good starting point for finding fonts that are organized and also free to use.

Rating: 6/10

# 4: ShowFont

ShowFont has an extensive collection of free fonts of all kinds. Personally, I think its navigation is old-fashioned.  It has the least cared for and updated the layout and navigation of all the above-listed sources.

Rating: 5/10

# 5: Urban Fonts

This site is easy to navigate and the presence of advertising is not too invasive. You can choose from a wide collection of free fonts in alphabetical order and can divide into categories. Furthermore, you can also enter text to be displayed in a single character. The site offers a section of the last font inserted, divided per week and per month thereby making it easy to view the 100 most downloaded fonts in a specific time period. If you have made a particular character, you can also add it within the site. It offers an interesting opportunity to comment on the individual fonts, and read the opinion of other graphic and web designers.

Rating: 8/10

# 6: SimplyTheBest

This site presents a number of categories that are easy to read. You can browse through the lists of characters or categories to see what fonts are available for free. Each character has a full-page preview with specific properties. You can also check out a preview of each selected character.

Rating: 7/10

# 7: Typetester

Typetester does not work for all fonts, but it is extremely useful to give you an idea of ​​what you will get for each type of character. The site also has a  good navigational structure that allows users to speed up their process of choosing the desired font.

Rating: 7/10

# 8: 1001 Free Fonts

This site has been online since 1998 and it shows, because the layout has remained more or less the same. Since the launch of the service, fonts have been downloaded freely over 3 million times.

Rating: 6/10

# 9: Sil

Although sil.org is not a search engine, it provides a font package of quality that is optimized for readability and is dedicated especially for printing. This package, called “Charis SIL”, also includes a complete set of the most common font formats (regular, italic, bold, bold italic) that are useful for the publishing industry in general. Users can also download their chosen fonts in zip format for Windows, Linux and/or Mac.

Rating: 7/10

# 10: MyFonts

This site offers a collection of selected fonts for commercial use. Therefore, to download the font you have to buy it. MyFont also has a special feature compared to all other sites reported above. It offers a free service that lets you find out which font belongs to a specific logo. If you happen to find no useful result in their database, you can choose to consult the experts on their online forum (in English) for help. Moreover, it is possible to insert different image formats such as Gif, Jpeg, Tiff and Bmp, while conducting a search. Once you insert the logo image in the search form, you will see the image preview. Each letter of the logo is then treated as a character that cannot be erased or changed. If some characters are too small or difficult to find, they will not be recognized. For each individual character is present, you will be provided with

• the image, and
• the font name with a link to the section relating to the purchase.

Rating: 8/10