San serif fonts are one of my favorite go-to fonts when designing because of its clean lines and simplicity. This in turn allows the design it accompanies to shine through instead of overpowering it. Here are a few new san serif fonts that are worth looking into and adding to your font vault for 2014.
Adam | Download from Source
ADAM is an All Caps, Sans-Serif typeface inspired by Futura. The sharp, clean appearance makes it a suitable typeface for headlines, posters, titles and captions. It consists of 227 glyphs and is free for both personal and commercial use.
Aileron | Download Source
Aileron is a sans-serif font with reference to the font that is classified as neo-grotesque operations, including Helvetica, summarizing added the interpretation of their own. The font family comes in eight weights: UltraLight, Thin, Light, Regular, SemiBold, Bold, Heavy, Black.
Aqua Grotesque | Download Source
Arca Majora | Download Source
ARCA MAJORA is a font that started out as an uppercase latin alphabet drawing exercise. It is a simple, heavy-weight, uppercase-only and geometric sans-serif font
Attach Bold | Download Source
Attach Bold is a free font. It was designed as a display type for titles, headlines, and posters.
Axis | Download Source
Aventura | Download Source
A free uppercase display font.
Bebas Neue | Download Source
Bebas Neue is a sans serif font family based on the original Bebas Neue free font by Ryoichi Tsunekawa. It has grown in popularity and become something like the “Helvetica of the free fonts.” Now the family has four new members – Thin, Light, Book, and Regular. The new weights stay true to the style and grace of Bebas with the familiar clean lines, elegant shapes, a blend of technical straightforwardness and simple warmth which make it uniformly proper for web, print, commerce and art. Free five fonts download.
Borg | Download from Source
Borg is a geometric typeface with a curved incision. The designer’s inspiration came from Swedish furniture.
Bravo | Download Source
Bravo is a narrow accidental grotesque font, which includes 3 tracings: normal, small caps and screen. It contains more than 600 characters in each face. A variety of alternate glyphs, ordinals, ligatures help to make the text personality.
Building | Download Source
Building is designed as a font character title with a strong visual impact. The type is free for personal use only.
Code Pro | Download Source
Code Pro is a font family inspired by the original Sans Serif fonts like Avant Garde or Futura, but with a modern twist. It is clean, elegant and straight-to-the-point. Code font is applicable for any type of graphic design—web, print, motion graphics, etc.—and perfect for t-shirts and other items like posters and logos. Download two free weights. The rest of the family is available starting at $16.
Cooper Hewitt | Download Source
Cooper Hewitt, is a contemporary sans serif, with characters composed of modified-geometric curves and arches. The font comes in 14 styles and is free for both personal and commercial use.
Dekar | Download Source
Dekar free font is applicable for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items like posters, logos. It is free font.
Disclaimer | Download Source
Disclaimer is module-based display font coming in two variations : Plain and Classic.
Dolce Vita | Download from Source
The Dolce Vita font is a clean and simple sans serif font. It is free for both personal and commercial use.
Elegant Lux | Download from Source
The font is an interpretation of Hans Möhring’s skeches of Elegant Grotesk. For personal use.
Fabrica | Download from Source
Fabrica is a deceptively simple sans serif typeface optimized for screen display on handheld devices. With its optimal quality and legibility, Fabrica proves to be highly efficient for small screens. Its details are drawn from the more systematic constructed Neo-Grotesques, giving it a neutral tone of voice. Above all, Fabrica’s beauty is found in its functionality. Although Fabrica was developed primarily for mobile screen, the typeface is suitable in any applications, large or small sizes.
Facile Sans | Download from Source
An all caps sans-serif with bold and geometric shapes.
Glober | Download from Source
The Glober font family includes 18 weights – nine uprights with nine italics. It is characterized by excellent legibility in both – web & print design areas, well-finished geometric designs, optimized kerning, excellent web-font performance and legibility etc. Two free fonts for download. The full version is also available from $29.
Hanken Round | Download from Source
Hanken Round™ regular & bold weight is a free and open source geometric sans-serif font for the guys at Hanken Design Co.
Hero | Download from Source
HERO free font is applicable for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items like posters, logos.
Intro Condescend | Download from Source
The Intro type system consists of 50 unique font styles and weights. The family is characterized by excellent legibility both in print and on the web, a well-finished geometric design, optimized kerning, etc. Intro is most suitable for headlines of all sizes, but it does well in a variety of text lengths as well. The font’s various styles give it the versatility necessary to meet any type of graphic design challenge — web, print, motion graphics, etc. — and make it perfect for t-shirts, posters, and logos. Two weights available for free download. The full version is also available from $29.
Kirvy | Download from Source
KIRVY Font Family is a simple sans serif font family (Thin, Light, Regular & Bold). It is available for free download for personal or commercial use.
Klima | Download from Source
Klima was drawn from scratch, but the design was influenced by DIN 1451, a German typeface from 1931. DIN is now an open standard that’s the basis for a number of typefaces (FF DIN, DIN Next, DIN Round, Parachute’s DIN Text, and more). Klima’s proportions are wider and the curves are more relaxed than DIN, secondary characters like punctuation marks were drawn with a more humanistic style (the ampersand (&) and ‘at’ sign (@), for example), and quirks like the the tail on the lowercase ‘l’ have been removed for a more plainspoken feel. It is only for non-commercial use.
Komoda | Download from Source
Komoda is a display, sans serif typeface suitable for headlines, editorial and poster design. This font is free for personal and commercial use.
Langdon | Download from Source
Langdon is developed as a typeface that is solid, serious and dependable. It is available as a free download for personal and commercial use.
Luzern | Download from Source
The typefaces comes with five weights, from light to extra bold, plus matching italics in each weights. And Luzern Typefaces is loaded with OpenType features such as some stylistic alternates in uppercase, case-sensitive forms, fractions, and another numerals features such as super and subscript characters, tabular figures, numerator-denominator, etc. It’s highly usable for display text. Free with a social post.
Modern Sans | Download from Source
Moderne Sans is a clean sans-serif typeface designed by Marius Kempken. It is a font inspired by 1920s typography. The font is free for download.
Mohave | Download from Source
Mohave is all caps display typefaces, built with smooth height and dynamic glyph. This typefaces is designed for large points setting, contains three weights, it’s regular, semi bold, and bold plus italics. This new version has improved glyph shapes, some difference alternates in the uppercase and lowercase, adding more latin diacritcs and punctuation. Mohave Typefaces is good for display type such as headlines, poster, title, etc. Pay with a tweet/post or pay $10.
Neris | Download from Source
A display sans for one paragraph (or shorter) length text: quotes, openings, titles, etc. Sure, you could use it for body copy and get away with it, but that’s not where the typeface shines.
The font has many, many languages and features. Stuff like small caps punctuation or Bulgarian/Serbian alternates. There is an instructional PDF included. Neris is the name of my city’s river. While it doesn’t really translate into anything meaningful, it looks good in both Lithuanian and English while showcasing most of the distinct features: slanted /e, semi-serif /i, stylized ink traps, curved sharp joints.
Made with Glyphs – a great app. Commercial and webfont use is allowed.
Norwester | Download from Source
A condensed geometric sans serif with uppercase, small caps, numbers & an assortment of symbols. Free download.
Odin Rounded | Download from Source
It is an experimental font by Frank Hemmekam. It comes in three different styles (regular, bold and light) support for lower case, uppercase and kerning too. The webfont is also available.
Ostrich Sans | Download from Source
Ostrich Sans is a free font, which has been recently updated. Medium style has been improved and a new Heavy style has been included.
Overpass | Download from Source
Overpass comes in two weights: regular and bold. It is free for both personal and commercial use.
Uni Sans | Download from Source
Two font weights are free for download. The entire family is available for $179.
Zona Pro | Download from Source
Zona Pro is a versatile geometric sans-serif type family of 8 weights plus matching italics. The heavier weights feature a slight variance in the stroke widths, resulting in a grotesque-ish and distinctive personality. Zona Pro has be designed to be an elegant, modern and multi-functional typeface that will preform equally as well in editorial settings as it does in display settings. Two fonts free for download. Full version available starting from $10.
