My Favorite Free Fonts
January 2024 [updated 2026]
There are so many wonderful free fonts in the world. The below are my favorites. They are all so good I sort-of can’t believe they’re free. Truly, we live in a wondrous world.
- Brill
- Charter (and XCharter)
- Classico, a clone of Optima by the original designer
- EB Garamond
- IBM Plex Family
- Inter
- JetBrains Mono
- Libre Franklin
- Libre Baskerville
- Monaspace
- P052 (Palladio), a clone of Palatino by the original designer
- Source Serif 4
- Utopia (info) also: Erewhon
Some noteable fonts included in macOS Tahoe (You’ll have to explicitly download some of these):