40 Super Sleek Fonts for Clean Web Design

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73 Comments

1. Nokadota February 10, 2009 at 2:34 AM Reply

   I already have a good amount of these fonts, although I never heard of “Forgotten Futurist”. Nice list.

2. Jack F February 10, 2009 at 5:08 AM Reply

   Great list, thanks! Are most of those free?

3. Dainis Graveris February 10, 2009 at 5:17 AM Reply

   Great post and findings!

   I love these type of modern fonts – thanks, bookmarking! 🙂

4. insic February 10, 2009 at 5:39 AM Reply

   nice list. But rockwell is not in the list.

5. Casey L. Jones February 10, 2009 at 7:52 AM Reply

   I too have most of these. Geo Sans Light, Cicle, Asinine, Walkway, Steiner and Museo are probably my favorites of these. Nice collection.

6. LiiBot February 10, 2009 at 8:13 AM Reply

   i’ve always used Arial as a default font for folio word, now “blue highway” and “Steel fish” looks like a cool option

7. Jordan Henderson February 10, 2009 at 8:31 AM Reply

   I think you have ‘Blue Highway’ listed twice, the second time I would infer it needs to be listed as ‘Steelfish’.

   There are some interesting and beautiful fonts here.

8. enzo February 10, 2009 at 9:49 AM Reply

   great take on some classic typefaces. quite a few new ones too. very clean, thanks for these.

   any chance of having them collected as a zip somewhere?..

   ciao,
   ‘enzo
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   http://twitter.com/_enzo

9. Pliggs February 10, 2009 at 9:52 AM Reply

   Nice font collection. I like Baar Metanoia the most.

10. Jordan February 10, 2009 at 10:50 AM Reply

    Great list, but the typenazi in me has to point out that they’re typefaces, not fonts 😉

    I think Museo Sans is probably my favorite recently-developed typeface, which is odd, because I’m definitely not a fan of Museo.

11. Henry February 10, 2009 at 11:18 AM Reply

    @jack F – All of them are free.

12. Autotelic February 10, 2009 at 11:49 AM Reply

    man, i want my last will and testament to be written in Sansation.

13. Patternhead February 10, 2009 at 12:27 PM Reply

    Nice collection of fonts 🙂

14. Timothy February 10, 2009 at 12:30 PM Reply

    just go with helvetica

15. Hafihz February 10, 2009 at 9:34 AM Reply

    Eurofurence is beautiful. Thanks!

16. halibuthero February 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM Reply

    Nice list! I’ll download some of those.
    I’ve been using New Cicle, it’s free on dafont.com
    http://www.dafont.com/new-cicle.font

17. Chikezie Ejiasi February 10, 2009 at 1:23 PM Reply

    I like the Bebas font – reminds me of Trade Gothic, which is my 2nd favorite font to helvetica 😉

18. Font Squirrel February 10, 2009 at 2:11 PM Reply

    Always enjoy lists like this! Unfortunately not all of these are free for commercial use if you read the licenses. I’ve hand-picked a bunch that are and put ’em up here: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/style/Sans%20Serif

19. Cam February 10, 2009 at 3:15 PM Reply

    great list! I have maybe 7 of these fonts already. Good lookin’ out.

20. Kenny February 10, 2009 at 3:57 PM Reply

    Very nice!!!

21. Live Web Studio February 10, 2009 at 1:19 PM Reply

    Sansation is very beautiful, allready used for some projects.

22. Jan Wilson February 10, 2009 at 1:20 PM Reply

    Check out http://www.purplefog.com

23. Miles February 10, 2009 at 4:25 PM Reply

    What the hell, Eurofurence is the name of a furry convention. And it seems like an odd coincidence because Euroference would be a better spelling.

24. Josh February 10, 2009 at 5:09 PM Reply

    A decent selection, but it’s taken for granted that all of them are free. If one were willing to pay, I’m sure there’d be an even greater array of great greatness. It’s a shame that this sort of suggests that all fonts are free. People should be willing to pay a bit to achieve something more extra special.

25. Carlo Mendoza February 10, 2009 at 10:36 PM Reply

    That’s a great collection of fonts. I like the Qlassik font.

26. brenan February 10, 2009 at 11:23 PM Reply

    Nice font collection.
    Guys do you have any idea what font-style the logo of this site http://mvcforge.com/ is using ?
    I like the ‘MVC’ text part.

27. inhouse designer February 11, 2009 at 12:34 AM Reply

    Blue Highway has been one of my favourites for a long time.
    Brilliant collection – nice job!

    And yea, a ZIP would be nice 😀

28. Buzzlair Voufincci February 11, 2009 at 7:47 AM Reply

    I like the Bebas font – reminds me of Trade Gothic, which is my 2nd favorite font to helvetica – i like this font too. buy i wonder whats that mean

29. Jennie February 11, 2009 at 4:42 PM Reply

    I don’t get how we can advocate using these fonts for “web design” when none of them are web fonts.

30. JasonTheDesigner February 11, 2009 at 6:15 PM Reply

    I love the fact that WDL offers a lot of free stuff.

    However this list… how can you leave out classics like Helvetica, Optima, Futura? Are they too obvious?

    @Jenny: I don’ think these are meant to be used as body copy, but rather in large sizes, maybe using sIFR or something similar.

31. David Leggett February 11, 2009 at 6:53 PM Reply

    You had me at Museo 🙂

32. crusher February 11, 2009 at 9:33 PM Reply

    Your site is really amazing. Exceptional style. Cool.

33. ali February 12, 2009 at 5:31 AM Reply

    cool list of fonts when looked individually, now coming up with clean design is in the hands of designers on how they are gonna use them

34. Michael February 12, 2009 at 10:10 AM Reply

    Nice list. I agree with JasonTheDesigner, these are definitely not meant to be used as body copy for web design, but probably better suited for large headlines (using sIFR) or traditional static graphics.

35. Henry February 12, 2009 at 10:14 AM Reply

    @Michael – Thanks for pointing that out. You and Jason are exactly right. I never intended to suggest these be used for browser rendered text.

36. Fernando H. February 12, 2009 at 11:46 AM Reply

    a Beautiful Fonts!,.. tks

37. Peter February 12, 2009 at 2:42 PM Reply

    What about the families of Avant Garde (http://www.fonthaus.com/products/fonts/fontfind.cfm?search=avant+garde&submit=FontFind%C2%AE) or Franklin (http://www.fonthaus.com/products/fonts/fontfind.cfm?search=franklin&submit=FontFind%C2%AE), and another classic, Gill sans (http://www.fonthaus.com/products/fonts/fontfind.cfm?search=gill+sans&submit=FontFind%C2%AE)?

38. Ryuji February 12, 2009 at 4:15 PM Reply

    Thanks for the nice list of interesting fonts that show with style. Every time I see cool new design what I get disappointed is that many of them have improper side bearings and kerning, making them look awkward, without first fixing these things using a font editor… I’ve done that several times, what a large volume of work. I think that’s why people like me tend to stick with more established ones…

39. Hero fo Chaos February 13, 2009 at 12:54 PM Reply

    These are great fonts. thanks

40. Matt Spire February 13, 2009 at 6:08 PM Reply

    An elegant font can move a bland design lightyears.

41. Brad February 20, 2009 at 5:41 PM Reply

    Aubrey is an amazing font.

42. Tobi February 21, 2009 at 5:40 AM Reply

    Nice selection, I really love those simple fonts!

43. nszumowski February 23, 2009 at 2:54 PM Reply

    thanks a ton!

44. Heather Marie Miller February 23, 2009 at 6:58 PM Reply

    I’m highly in love with “Aldo”. Thanks once again for another amazing list!

45. florian March 1, 2009 at 5:45 PM Reply

    most of these fonts are not standard web fonts. wouldnt that be a problem for web design? how do you guys approach that stuff? is sifr really a good option for using a non std. font for your entire content?

46. Einar Lang March 4, 2009 at 2:26 PM Reply

    Nice collection There are some interesting and fonts here

47. zeemiDesign March 7, 2009 at 5:47 AM Reply

    I simply love Steiner 😀
    Thx for the amazing list.

48. Silver Firefly March 17, 2009 at 9:10 AM Reply

    Thanks for the list, but I was hoping for a list of the best paid typefaces.

49. Portland Web Designer April 1, 2009 at 2:30 AM Reply

    What about web-wide integration? Are we supposed to use Cufon or just use the fonts in graphic files?

50. Nike1984 May 11, 2009 at 11:06 AM Reply

    Here is the entire list in one RAR.
    Enjoy.
    http://rapidshare.com/files/231738559/Fonts.rar

51. Bismal May 12, 2009 at 6:39 AM Reply

    Great list, many thanks for rapidshare RAR!

52. sam_khrap May 15, 2009 at 5:57 AM Reply

    wow Nike1984 thanks for that link. I hope there is nothing with it too. Thanks for the list.

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    sam_khrap
    http://ww.suhails.com

53. Lori at Quite the Site June 2, 2009 at 9:17 AM Reply

    Great list. It will save me a lot of time searching through the regular list of ho-hum fonts.

54. kikilala June 7, 2009 at 5:20 AM Reply

    Hey thank you so much Henry Jones for selecting out the best fonts, it saves me lots of time searching it.

    You and this site rock.

55. J. Millington June 9, 2009 at 11:20 AM Reply

    the grand majority of these are just plain terrible. :/~~~

56. praveen July 4, 2009 at 5:34 AM Reply

    In my opinion, Fertigo Pro tops the list followed by Aubrey. They are simply awesome!!

57. Jake Rocheleau July 5, 2009 at 11:51 AM Reply

    Wow these are great, awesome collection of fonts

58. Kiara Realty July 9, 2009 at 7:31 AM Reply

    Awesome list of beautiful fonts!

59. Qurrat August 23, 2009 at 1:58 PM Reply

    Kindly check the link for freedom, it does not seem to be working

60. kixvix August 28, 2009 at 6:06 AM Reply

    I love Bebas. It’s my favorite!

61. Sam Logan September 3, 2009 at 5:20 PM Reply

    Great set of fonts guys, I think I’m to refer back to this article many times. Thanks for putting them together.

62. webmasterdubai September 12, 2009 at 8:32 PM Reply

    really nice fonts and bookmarked love some fonts from it.

63. Géo Noël November 17, 2009 at 4:13 AM Reply

    Thanks for the fonts…they are so nice

64. Jeux December 16, 2009 at 4:07 AM Reply

    Kindly check the link for freedom, it does not seem to be working

65. Web Catch February 15, 2010 at 12:49 PM Reply

    Henry Jones this rocks, thank you for taking the time to put these fonts together. Very handy!!

66. Anil February 17, 2010 at 9:45 AM Reply

    Awww….the rapidshare link doesn’t work 🙁

67. fontnewbie February 19, 2010 at 5:10 PM Reply

    how can i use these fonts?

68. Joe May 4, 2011 at 9:30 AM Reply

    Great post! Love these clean fonts, don’t know what it is but Geo Sans Light is a fav of mine used that a few times now. Thanks Again 🙂

69. William Imhoff January 31, 2012 at 8:25 PM Reply

    Thanks so much, great fonts. Thanks for sharing.

70. Adam Urban July 18, 2012 at 4:03 PM Reply

    A bit late 😉 Thanks a lot!

71. novo.media July 11, 2016 at 5:20 AM Reply

    Great selection. Thanks a lot!

72. Bob July 14, 2016 at 5:58 AM Reply

    really nice fonts and bookmarked love some fonts from it

73. Mert Salih Kaplan August 16, 2016 at 6:10 PM Reply

    good achive