Typography & Fonts

19 New Free Commercial Fonts for 2021

Adding a new font to your ecommerce site can create a fresh and unique look. Here is a list of fonts released in the last year. All are free for commercial use, though several are from larger premium font families. Before using a font, be sure to verify its terms.

Nano

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Nano

Nano is a futuristic lowercase font. The ultramodern, minimalist design provides an attitude, helpful for branding and logos.

Nera

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Nera

Nera is a display font, designed on a square geometric grid to create high contrast with each letter. Nera heavy is available for free.

Dirga

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Dirga

Dirga is a modern, extra bold font with upper and lower casings. Its angular design is futuristic and a throwback to early computer fonts. Dirga conveys technology and gaming.

Maler

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Maler

Maler is an all-cap brush font that’s suitable for displays and logos.

Jenriv Titling

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Jenriv Titling

Jenriv Titling is a classic serif font. This is the all-cap titling version, available in light, regular, bold, and italics.

Bogart

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Bogart

Bogart is a low-contrast font, inspired by fat-faced designs of the 1920s that found pop culture status in the hippie press of the 1960s and 1970s. The Light Italic and Semi Bold fonts are free.

Halaney

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Halaney

Halaney is a thick script font that has flair while still legible.

Malik

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Malik

Malik is a flared sans serif typeface that bridges classical letterforms with contemporary sans typefaces, resulting in a readable and friendly design. Malik Book is the free version.

Palo

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Palo

Palo has fluid design features without being excessive. Palo Compressed Medium and Palo Wide Light are free.

Hagrid

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Hagrid

Hagrid is designed for editorial and display use, with extreme contrast and unique details. Hagrid has six weights ranging from the monolinear and more traditional thin to the expressive heavy. The free weights are Regular, Italic, Text Regular, and Text Italic.

Stinger

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Stinger

Stinger is a contemporary grotesque typeface with personality — from the calligraphy-styling of the thin weights to the sculptured contrasts of the heavy versions. The free weights are Italic, Bold Italic, Fit Light, and Wide Thin.

Fiorina

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Fiorina

Fiorina is a modern serif font family. The typeface comes in 18 styles and four weights, providing plenty of flexibility. Text Light and Text Light Italic are free.

A Antara Distance

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A Antara Distance

A Antara Distance is another script font. It’s thin and elegant, with measured flair.

Garbata

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Garbata

Garbata takes its skeleton from old style typefaces, keeping the quirky sloped shapes of some letters and adding a flat brush calligraphic.

Gontserrat

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Gontserrat

Gontserrat is a clean and structural sans serif font with 18 weights, suitable for headers and branding.

Mondia

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Mondia

Mondia is a modern serif font family, inspired by transitional and contemporary typefaces. Mondia has a high-contrast character ratio for an elegant feel. The Thin and Thin Italic fonts are free.

Skaters

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Skaters

Skaters is a simple and chunky modern display font — for logos, headers, branding, and street design.

Amagro

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Amagro

Amagro is a contrasting serif font. Designed for newspaper headlines, it’s handy for tiles, logotype, and branding.

Vendura

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Vendura

Vendura is an elegant serif with a modern touch. Inspired by the high-contrast typefaces from the 18th and 19th centuries, Vendura shows design details that provide personality.

See “16 New Commercial Fonts for 2022.”

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