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A guest post by Brian Morris who writes for the PsPrint Design & Printing Blog.
Your choice of font can make or break your design. A great font helps the rest of your design set a mood, elicit emotion, and motivate action; while a poor font distracts from your message and can ruin your entire design. If you’re creating a design that has a decidedly modern tone, the following 10 fonts can usher your artwork into modernity marvelously. Best of all, each modern font listed here is free to download!
1. Sansation
This versatile font can be used for headlines, subheads, and even body copy on both print and digital media.
http://www.dafont.com/sansation.font
2. Magalopolis
Your poster can’t be ignored when you use this bold, heavy, and exciting font.
http://www.smeltery.net/fonts/megalopolis-extra
3. Quicksand
Quicksand is clean and modern, with evident rounding on heavier weights, which means it will work well in print and digital designs, either as a headline or body copy.
http://www.typophile.com/node/50437
4. Carbon
Want to add a splash of elegance to big, bold headlines? Carbon is the solution. It’s perfect for large web sales headers!
http://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/Carbon.htm
5. Tondu Beta
If you’re seeking a bold, modern alternative to Helvetica, Tondu Beta is a great option that combines classic elements with modern touches.
http://www.fontspace.com/jonathan-hill/tondu-beta
6. FoglihtenNo04
Choose FoglihtenNo04 for style; it’s perfect for event announcements, greeting cards, and posters that must include a certain level of sophistication without sacrificing the fun factor.
http://www.fontspace.com/gluk/foglihtenno04
7. Ice Cream Soda
Ice cream soda combines a retro feel with modern touches and is distinctive enough to be used as part of a brand logo.
http://www.fontm.com/ice-cream-soda-font/
8. Wireframe
Any web designer will understand the basis for this font, but its use isn’t limited to designs that feature the web. Clean, modern, and bold, the Wireframe font would make a great headline typeface, but should be avoided for body copy.
http://www.fontm.com/wireframe-font/
9. Joe Hand 2
Many designs incorporate handwritten fonts to convey a sense of a personal touch. Joe Hand 2 is a perfect font for adding those personal accents to your websites, brochures, and even business cards.
http://www.dafont.com/joehand-2.font
10. Pincoya Black
Pincoya Black is a fun, bold font that could be used for poster and web-based headlines. It’s attention-getting and energetic, memorable and entertaining.
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Pincoya-Black-Typeface/496023
Have you used these fonts in any of your designs? If so, share them with us in the comments below! We’d love to see how you applied styles to modern fonts in your own graphic designs.
Author’s Bio: Brian Morris writes for the PsPrint Design & Printing Blog. PsPrint is an online commercial printing company. Follow PsPrint on Twitter @PsPrint and Facebook.
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29 Comments
Quicksand is new to me that I think we should try their fonts on our next projects because of their clean designs that will blend well on our contemporary website concepts.
Nice collection. I’ve also found the Lost Type Co-op also worthwhile bookmarking: http://www.losttype.com/
Wow I have just fallen in love with Sansation! Thanks for sharing these fonts Tara
Quick sand font is best out of all them!
I love the Tondu font, thanks for sharing!
Love some off these fonts, would go great on some of my work. I must say Quicksand looks to be the best in my eye’s, I like the edgy look :p
Thanks for the great post
I like Sansation and Carbon the most as they are quite elegant. They are simple and may be considered basic, but they have the curvy design that most people perceive as being modern. Another example of curvy modern design would be sports cars.
Quite like the Joe Hand and the Pincoya Black, the wireframe one made my eyes go funny, I suspect you’d need to be very careful where it was used.
Nice post though.
Thanks, Love the FoglihtenNo04 one, Ill be saving it for use soon. Many thabks, will be following.
Really love all of these but especially the Quicksand font. There are so many things it could be used on.
Gorgeous collection of freebies thanks. I like Sansation and I’m going to use that tonight on a project I’ve just picked up. Wireframe does nothing for me at all and actually makes me feel dizzy.
Quicksand really is lovely, so clean – as Libby said it can be used in so many different ways. Got a couple of uses for Pincoya Black as well – thanks very much.
Fantastic fonts, thank you so much for sharing. I’m thinking of using Quicksand for my new infographic.
Proxima Nova is one of the best fonts out right now.
Nice collection. Thanks for sharing!
I really like WireFrame.
Some others are good too, like Magalopolis, FoglihtenNo04 and Joe Hand 2.
Joe Hand 2 can be used to develop great design and artwork.
Nice collection. I still think fonts and typography should be on more “2013 Web Design Trends” lists. See if I’m not right when 2014 rolls around.
I think am in love with sensation, I will give it a try.
all of these fonts look great, I am overwhelmed, i dont know which one to choos as a favorite.
thanks for sharing such a collection of fonts. i am a new to the graphic designer field so it was very useful for me..
Sansation is a lovely font! Quicksand looks great too, going to try that out now.
Quick sand looks quite cool but the spacement sucks.
THanks for sharing the fonts! I just feel in love with FoglihtenNo04
Sansation gets my vote. Nice round up of typefaces Brian.
Number 6 looks congested and overly done. I love quick sand. Thanks for sharing.
Wow I have just fallen in love with Sansation! Thanks for sharing these fonts, Tara.
Awesome fonts, I can’t even choose a favorite, though I’m leaning towards sensation. Thanks for sharing!
I love the ice cream soda font. It’s very retro cool. Thanks a million for the share.
very good font collection. Would surely be using them in my next web project some of them…
and would like to share them as well to all who need good and selected fonts
Yes, I used Carbon a few years ago on a logo design!
Behold – http://www.trulyace.com/images/geniusretail.jpg I designed that in 2008.