25 Free Brilliant Fonts For Logo Design
June 23, 2009 | Thoughts & Words By Sneh Roy | 66 Comments
How far and how long have you gone for that perfect pair of jeans? A lot of you are shaking your head right now, a soft smile starting to play on your lips. Some of you are thinking "A perfect pair of jeans is pure myth!" and some of you lucky ones are thinking "How true! It took me so long but I finally got that pair that makes me look like a million bucks". I am not just talking about girls here but guys too. A few of you are looking up at the browser address bar to make sure you are rightfully on a design blog and have not mistakenly arrived on a fashion rag. Why jeans? I’ll tell you why! I am going to be talking about the importance of typography in a logo today and I felt that the jeans analogy was spot on. Compare the logo to a casually dressed person. Most logos are made up of a "mark" and a "type" just as a person would be dressed in a top and a bottom item of clothing. Now imagine the "mark" to be a tee. It can be sober, funky, playful, muted or bold. It is always visual though just like the creative designs on a tee. Now imagine the "type" to be a pair of jeans. The right pair of jeans would not only emphasize the tee but also make the person look great, the wrong pair on the other hand could make a $100 tee look like a dish rag and in effect make the person look shabby and uninteresting. The right "type" in a logo not only sets the mood for the tone of the business .. casual, formal, playful, corporate; but also enhances the ‘mark" making it very memorable and binding the whole logo in creative brilliance. That is why like jeans enthusiasts, logo designers spend an awful lot of time hunting for the right type to suit the mark they have created. Good fonts are to logo designers what shoes are to some women. You can never have enough. Let us take a look at some amazing free fonts available that would jazz up a logo, making it look extremely creative and professional if used correctly. It is about time designers and list creators broke free from the likes of the same old Fontin, Delicious, Fertigo and Helvetica which are great, but a tad overused.
That rounds up 25 beautiful free fonts that would grace any logo and do it proud. These fonts perform well in all sizes and weights and are not just limited to logo design. What are your favorite free fonts to use when designing a logo? Alternatively, what are your favorite free fonts to use when designing anything else? It would be interesting to know, so share away!
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Nice collection Sneh! I am especially fond of Quicksand. I have been looking for a playful font like that for some time now!
Excellent list! Thanks for sharing
Loved ubuntu type
love anything linux actually 
thanks for the update, Sneh!
Great fonts, thanks!
I really like Museo, I will probably use it a lot. And nice theme you have on this site.
Thanks Keith! Museo is my favorite too, hence at the top of the list!
Thanks John & Jenny!
I have never used it myself Antonea, have you? it looks great!
Great list..
Museo is awesome indeed!
I would definitely add Quicksand to the list, it’s pretty awesome.
Thanks for sharing – great fun fonts! ;-D
I like all fonts, I am going to use all these on my free design logo website. thanks
I like your Fonts mate! nice work Keep it up.
Awesome fonts! Thank you !
Nice list! Can do almost anything with these. Thanks again!
Wonderfull list of fonts for a good logo. I need to change my logo using one of these fonts.
Thank you
Really cool. These are very useful to most of us designers.
Amazing! thanks.. it give me a few hours of searching!!!!
thanks again…Peace..
Awesome collection of logo friendly fonts. The font used on a logo has a big impact on the way it comes across to the audience, like you wouldn’t use the ubunto font for a funeral organizer.
oooh nice!
thanks!!
“london between” def def definitely speaks to me. yaaaaaaaaaaay!!!
I liiikkee…How muuuch?
This font is mine..soon.
Awesome list! Thanks for the inspiring ideas, I’m off to design a new logo right now!
Thanks for sharing such a good blog.
.-= Logo Design´s last blog ..How to write content for my website? (part 1) : - =-.
Many thanks for the list…I already had some of these, but discovered some new ones.
nice collection
Should have come to your blog first, I’ve wasted 30 mins searching around – Sigh* thanks anyway…
MgOpen Moderna looks exactly like Helvetica, don’t you think?
.-= Micah´s last blog ..Spoon Wear =-.
I really like the examples although my German typography professor would call them “garbage.” “All you need is Swiss and Garamond!
Usually I’m a little scared of free fonts because of all the tweaking they require but this is a solid little collection. Thanks so much!
great font i lick it .. this fonts
Beautiful! I like the fonts too…
Great job!
Nice collection, thanks…
.-= ocube´s last blog ..Softly Spoken Album Cover =-.
Very nice this fonts. Thanks.
Hello Excellent selection of fonts! I am surprised at their diversity …
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Nice.. Thanks for sharing..
Thank you so much the most beautiful girl in the world! The fonts helped me so much! THANKS ONCE MORe
Good Collection. Logo design creation is the ultimate design challenge.
.-= Professional Logo Design´s last blog ..Effective Logo Design =-.
Excellent font collection for logo designers.Thank you.
nice article. thanks for posting
Nice fonts. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing! Will definitely be downloading some of the fonts.
Many fonts of your collection are so nice : LONDON BETWEEN, MARKETING SCRIPT, Quicksand… In fact it’s difficult to choose my favorite one.
Thank for sharing this wonderful fonts. It will certainly help me to renovate my brand image.
Thanks Sneh! I needed some nice fonts for my blog banner, I collected some from the above list.
great post man…very useful especially for a full time blogger like myself…keep em coming mate…cheers
Cool collection
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Great fonts..thanks for the post!
beautiful fonts. thank you
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Great list you have over here!
I really like Museo and use it a lot
…also you have a great website I like the clean minimal look 
Great Post!!!
Cheers!!
Thank….Nice collection sneh… I helped alot for me… Thank again…
Thanks.Nice collection
Thank you Sneh, great fonts and thanks for sharing
Thank….Nice collection sneh… I helped alot for me… Thank again
Awesome website. I really find your blog very informative. Because I was searching fonts used by professionals finally I got the fonts name that was always my favorite. Really thanks!!!!!
super fonts, is my favorit SQUARE TYPE B
Been looking for some insteresting fonts to spice up some old sites.
Thanks Sneh.
thanks a lot, you saved my day. Rather browsing 1000 ‘s of free fonts.
I chose vahika for the header. was so easy
thanks