5 Popular free Google fonts for UI and graphic designers.
At the time that we’re writing this article, there are 915 different Google Font families available for free. That’s a lot of choices! Which is why you might be looking for someone to help you find that needle in a haystack with a list of the best Google Fonts for UI and Graphic Designers.
We curated 5 popular Google fonts for. Here we go:
1. Poppins
Geometric sans serif typefaces have been a popular design tool ever since these actors took to the world’s stage. Poppins is one of the newcomers to this long tradition. With support for the Devanagari and Latin writing systems, it is an internationalist take on the genre.
Designer: Indian Type Foundry
Category: Geometric
Types: 18 Typefaces
Download / Source: fonts.google.com
2. Merriweather
Merriweather was designed to be a text face that is pleasant to read on screens. It features a very large x-height, slightly condensed letterforms, mild diagonal stress, sturdy serifs, and open forms.
There is also Merriweather Sans, a sans-serif version which closely harmonizes with the weights and styles of this serif family.
The Merriweather project is led by Sorkin Type, a type design foundry based in Western Massachaussets, USA.
Designer: Sorkin Type
Category: Serif
Types: 8 Typefaces
Download / Source: fonts.google.com
3. Montserrat
Julieta is a graphic designer and owner of ZkySky, a design studio which she co-founded in 1989 after earning a degree in Typeface Design. She lives and works in Montserrat, the first and oldest neighborhood in Buenos Aires. Julieta admires many type designers including Harald Geisler, and fellow Argentines Juan Pablo del Peral and Alejandro Paul. She is currently developing new variants of Montserrat — italics, plus new weights and styles — and dreams that it will soon become a large, extended family.
Designer: Julieta Ulanovsky
Category: Sans-Serif
Types: 18 Typefaces
Download / Source: fonts.google.com
4. Playfair Display
Playfair is a transitional design. In the European Enlightenment in the late 18th century, broad nib quills were replaced by pointed steel pens as the popular writing tool of the day. Together with developments in printing technology, ink, and paper making, it became to print letterforms of high contrast and delicate hairlines that were increasingly detached from the written letterforms.
This design lends itself to this period, and while it is not a revival of any particular design, it takes influence from the designs of John Baskerville and from ‘Scotch Roman’ designs. Being a Display (large size) design in the transitional genre, functionally and stylistically it can accompany Georgia for body text.
Designer: Claus Eggers Sørensen
Category: Serif
Types: 6 Typefaces
Download / Source: fonts.google.com
5. Josefin Sans
The idea of this typeface is to be geometric, elegant, with a vintage feeling, for use at larger sizes. It is inspired by geometric sans serif designs from the 1920s. The x-height is half way from baseline to cap height, an unusual proportion.
Designer: Santiago Orozco
Category: Geometric
Types: 10 Typefaces
Download / Source: fonts.google.com
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