Whether you’re looking for free fonts for Pinterest pin design (like me), or for an entirely different project, these three places really have the coolest wide variety of free fonts out there!
Things to Know Before You Download
1. Know how to install fonts.
It’s really simple to download and install new fonts on your computer, but I know I had no idea how to do it when I was starting out! Here are instructions for Mac users, and for Windows users.
2. Pay attention to fonts’ licensing.
Not all free fonts out there are legal to use commercially, or for business purposes like blogging. Usually the site offering the font for download will let you know whether you’re allowed to use it commercially. Other times when you download the font there is a file in the zip folder that outlines the legal ways you can use the font.
3. Know some basic font terms.
In order to find the kind of font you’re looking for, you might want to know a few of these terms:
Sans-Serif: This is the plainest, easiest to read font. The letters don’t have extra lines in the corners.
Serif: Serif fonts are printed (not cursive), but have the extra lines extending off the letters.
Script: Script fonts are usually more fluid, like cursive. They can also look more handwritten.
Display: Display fonts are the really creative and unique fonts meant for large printed headings and displays (obviously).
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Using Free Fonts as A Blogger on Pinterest
As a new blogger on Pinterest, I had absolutely no experience with graphic design. The thought of having to design hundreds (eventually thousands) of pins for Pinterest was overwhelming to me. I didn’t know where to begin!
Thankfully, by breaking things down one step at a time, I learned a system that works for me of creating pins that bring me lots of traffic using PicMonkey. PicMonkey is an online graphic design tool that has a lot of functionality, but is easy to get the hang of. It costs $7.99 per month if billed monthly, or $5.99 per month if billed annually. If you’re a blogger starting out on Pinterest, I highly recommend trying out PicMonkey’s seven day free trial. In the near future, I plan to publish a post covering a lot more information about PicMonkey and how to use it to design high-quality pins. Stay tuned for that.
Anyway, that was a side note! The real purpose of this post is to talk about free fonts! The reason I mention PicMonkey, is because while they do have over 250 fonts available for you to use, chances are you’ll probably still want to also add some of your own fonts to add originality and variety to your pins. (I know I have!)
The great news is, there are hundreds of really cool free fonts out there for you to use! You just have to know where to look.
The 3 Best Places to Find Free Fonts
1. Font Squirrel
Font Squirrel is a site with a database of high quality free fonts that are licensed for commercial work. (That means you can use them for things like blogging and business promotions.) Font Squirrel pulls quality free fonts from other places on the web and compiles them together into one place. This is why when you go to download a font, it will probably redirect you to another site. Hint: Search Font Squirrel by font category using the filters on the right side. You might have to scroll down to see them.
2. Creative Market
At first look on this site’s homepage, it looks like you’ll have to pay for any of the fonts, graphics, and templates on their site. But that is not the case! Creative Market has a “Free Goods of the Week” section of their website! On this page you will find six new free goods every week (including fonts, graphics, and templates). I signed up for their email newsletter so that they automatically remind me each week when their new free fonts become available. The weekly free fonts are really unique and high quality – and they normally cost money to download, so snatch them up while they’re free!
3. Font Bundles
Similarly to Creative Market, Font Bundles primarily sells fonts on their site, but there is a free fonts section! Font Bundles adds a new free font to their collection every week. These fonts are really creative and cool! I would also recommend signing up for their email newsletter so that you remember to hop over whenever there’s a new download available. You do need to set up a Font Bundles account to download them, but the account is entirely free. You never have to purchase anything from them to have access to the freebies.
My recommendation:
Head over to Font Squirrel to download some fonts to get you started. Then, keep close tabs on Creative Market and Font Bundles to build your font collection over time. I keep a note in Evernote of all the fonts I’ve downloaded, marking the ones that are my favorites to keep track.
