10 Free Contemporary Typefaces for Designers to Download

1. League Mono Sans Serif Open Source Typeface via The League of Moveable Type

League Mono is a mashup of sorts, inspired by some beautiful forms found in both Fira Mono, Libertinus Mono, and Courier. League Mono was created in glyphs using masters for the UltraLight, Regular, and Bold weights, and interpolated instances for the Light and SemiBold weights. Designed by Tyler Finck.

2. Donau Slab Serif Typeface via Fontfabric

The Donau font is named after the German name for the river Danube. It is an art nouveau inspired sans and slab serif typeface, sharing proportions and widths across two weights. One of many beautiful display fonts, it is intended for any kind of display use as well as short amounts of text. Designed by Hans Renzler, Dmitrij Ritter, Igor Labudovic (Renzler Design).

3. Cheque Typeface via Fontfabric

It started as a student project but then grew to its full potential, becoming the gorgeous font that is now. The font is based on geometric shapes and has a very classy vintage look. Cheque looks best when used for headlines or compositions. Designed by Mirela Belova.

4. Neumann Serif Typeface via Typedepot

Didones inspired – sturdy and “mechanical” Neumann. It all started with the idea of a revival of the Quirinus typeface, designed by Alessandro Butti and published by the Italian type foundry Nebiolo back in 1939. We first saw the typeface back in 2012 in the Vasil Ionchev’s book “Шрифтът през вековете” (not translated in English) and instantly fell in love with it – it was a different kind of high-contrast design – way more technical-looking than the other didones. Designed by Alexander Nedelev and Veronika Slavova.

5. Prospectus Serif Typeface via Losttype

The prospectus typeface is a new and bold contemporary serif typeface in 12 styles, designed by Dave Bailey, and available exclusively from The Lost Type Co-op. Designed by Dave Bailey.

6. Shrimp Sans Serif Typeface via Anton Darri Pálmarsson

Shrimp was carefully crafted to form structured, strong and stylish letterform. Shrimp looks perfect for posters, eye-catching headlines, loud messages, and other creative projects. Be charming, be a shrimp! Designed by Anton Darri Pálmarsson.

7. Cobaissi Serif Typeface via Unblast

This is Cobaissi, an elegant serif font that hides quality within its nooks. Provided in 2 formats: OTF and TTF, the multilingual font offers a selection of uppercase letters that are met with a more classic version for those who need to reflect firmness and confidence. You can even use a mix of 2 for a dynamic presentation for your logotypes and branding designs and add Cobaissi to UX and UI projects, invitation cards, posters, and many others.

8. Kate Serif Typeface via Jérémie Gauthier

Kate is an elegant serif typeface inspired by the world of Luxury. Kate typeface includes 3 font weights, awesome ligatures, numerals, and many alternates. This font is perfect for elegant logo design, posters, letterheads, packaging designs and so much more. Designed by Jérémie Gauthier.

9. Okta Neue Typeface via Myfonts

Okta Neue is an extended version of Okta family. It inherits the best traits of Okta—great legibility, simple geometric letters shapes, low contrast across all styles—but also introduces what Okta fell short of extensive language support and enhanced OpenType features. Okta Neueis a neutral typeface that is a great workhorse for designers, typographers, and other font users alike. Designed by Eugene Tantsurin.