A Collection Of 10 Open-Source And Free Fonts For Headlines

Thanks to Google Fonts and other platforms, finding free fonts has never been so easy. However, open-source and free fonts for headlines can be harder to detect if you are looking for high-quality typefaces. In this post, we selected ten awesome headline fonts for designers.

1. Space Grotesk

Space Grotesk is a proportional sans-serif typeface variant based on Colophon Foundry’s fixed-width Space Mono family. Originally designed by Florian Karsten in 2018, Space Grotesk retains the monospace’s idiosyncratic details while optimizing for improved readability at non-display sizes. It supports a wide range of languages.

Although Space Grotesk wasn’t designed with titling in mind, its bold version looks wonderful at large sizes and could be used as a header font anytime.

2. Ostrich Sans & Ostrich Sans Inline

With its narrow and elegant style, Ostrich Sans is an amazing typeface for headlines. Its main feature is probably the large number of styles. It comes with the following variants: Dashed (thin), Rounded (medium), Ultra light Normal Bold (race track style double lines), Black Inline (with italics), and Heavy (round). It can be downloaded from this page on Github.

3. Puffy

Puffy is a bubble display font that mimics the look of bubbles or round circles to create an eye-catching and playful display. The font consists of letters, numbers, and symbols that are designed to appear as if they are inflated or made up of multiple small bubbles. You can download it from Fontesk.

4. League Gothic

League Gothic is a revival of an old classic, Alternate Gothic #1. It was originally designed by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders Company in 1903. The company went bankrupt in 1993, and since the original typeface was created over 95 years ago, the typeface is in the public domain, which allowed the League of Movable Type to create a digitalized version of it: League Gothic. In all caps, it gives your designs a clean and dense look-and-feel for your headlines.

5. Object Sans

Object Sans is a contemporary type family that puts together the best qualities of Swiss neo-grotesks and geometric fonts. It’s a multifunctional workhorse designed to work best in any printed and on-screen contexts, including logo design, brand identities, websites, packaging, posters and headlines; regular weight is carefully tuned for small sized body text. The typeface comes in 7 weights, upright and slanted each. Object Sans is an evolved and improved version of Objectivity typeface.

6. Nouveau

Nouveau is an Art Nouveau inspired revival of a type specimen found in several issues of a local colonial-era publication, Straits Times Annual in the 1900s. Nouveau’s idiosyncratic typographical flairs speculate how Singapore’s typographic history can be reinterpreted through the practice of type design. Download it for free on Fontesk.

7. Pixelcastle

With an unusual combination of pixel art and old-school letters, Pixelcastle could be an interesting choice as a font for headlines.

8. Nabla

Nabla is an isometric color font that showcases unprecedented possibilities and customization, allowing you to create bold and vibrant designs. Inspired by vintage computer games and using the isometric cube as a starting point, it goes beyond pixel-lettering, creating new lettershapes suitable for the technology of today. You can download it from this Typearture mini-site.

9. Fatbrush Script

If you need a headline font that looks a bit more organic and messy, look no further, Fatbrush Script is here for you. This unique and simple handwritten font with special characters can be downloaded here.

10. Sunday Paper

Sunday Masthead, as its name suggests, was designed as the font for headlines of the Sunday Paper. It has a limited number of characters, but it comes with plenty of other fonts as part of the Sunday Paper fonts.