I have just started to try out their Grid as an alternative to Foundation (my usual) or Bootstrap (we can all spot a Bootstrap site a million miles off!). Its a set of resources that not many designers will be aware of. Large parts of the BBC style book are Open Source via github, and quite rightly so, since they are a publicly funded organisation in the UK. You can find the “Style Book” at and includes their own CSS Framework, Reith fonts, and some excellent design articles. I think it would make a great case study in a design blog, about how to solve an incredibly complex design brief and create a coherent, flexible and very beautiful font family.Īnother good topic for a design blog is to look at the BBC and their work in recent years. I agree on Reforma, it is a stunning piece of font design, both in the way it looks, and in its complexity and scope. I’m a simple coder, I take my design inspirations where I can find them and a really good font can hide many of my creative shortfalls!īitter is just such a “really good font”, block serif, so it is “on trend”, but not too blocky it is distinctive, but not too idiosyncratic. That can give you an idea on how it looks on a website but also a preview of each font family. Each typeface has its own section in which the typeface presented is also the one used for the text. Next you will see all of the font families that have made in on our best free google fonts list. I have focused on font families that are probably not that popular, but still really well designed and should be included in each designer’s toolbox. Raleway by Matt McInerney, Pablo Impallari, Rodrigo Fuenzalida.Poppins by Indian Type Foundry & Jonny Pinhorn.Montserrat by Julieta Ulanovsky, Sol Matas, Juan Pablo del Peral & Jacques Le Bailly.

I have skipped some of the obvious and most popular free google fonts choices that now every designer has probably used, and have been over used in the past years (but still pretty cool though), like: That was the main criteria for each typeface that made the list: to be able to use it from logo design and marketing materials, to website and app text or at least headlines. In this article I have put together 17+ best free Google fonts that you can use on websites, but also for logo design and branding projects.

Best google font for logo