Photoshop Friday! Font-o-licious! 24 FREE fonts

I totally LOVE fonts. LOVE them. Collect them. Gaze lovingly upon them. I do find myself coming back to a shortened list over and over, for their pure deliciousness and utter perfection.

This is a list of the downloadable fonts I use the most often (by downloadable I mean aside from the standards like Century Gothic, Garamond, Myriad). I think you should go pick these up, if you don’t have them already. And I think you should throw away that one you have that has letters shaped like a picket fence. You know the one.

The first 24 are absolutely FREE. The last 3 are a couple bucks each, and I’ve found them to be totally worth it.

Font Download/Install Tutorial

Need some help downloading and installing fonts? Click here for a tutorial.

I hope you enjoy these, and please feel free to add your favorites in the comments!  I would also love to know, how many fonts do you own?

The Fonts!

Ready for the Font-o-licious? Here it is!

 Diesel

 

You Are Loved

Downcome

 

Sidewalk

Ginga

 

Marcelle

 Ma Sexy

 Porcelain

One Fell Swoop

 

Pushkin

 

VNI-HLThuphap (scroll down)

Texas Hero

Lainie Day

 Retro Rock Poster

 

 Georg

 Tallys

Times and Times Again

VT Portable Remington

 

Fluoxetine

 VTKS No Name

 

 Steelfish

(pair this one with Steelfish Outline, below)

 

Steelfish Outline
 

Freebooter Script

 

 Pea Jay  (among some other very nice free handwriting fonts)

 

Almost Free!

And here are some fonts that cost a couple bucks each. I have found these to be worth it. :)

SP Purkage

 

2Peas Tasklist

 

2peas Stop Sign

 

How’s that? Pretty awesome, hey? Feel free to add to this list if you’ve got some go-to fonts you’d like to share! Have a super, Phabulous Photoshop Phriday and a great weekend!

 

Comments

[jenna]

Thank you for sharing these wonderful fonts!!! I am sure that the 20 million others won't mind more friends. ;)

[Deirdre]

Love this post, and especially the line about the picket fence font:-)

[Lynnette]

Hah - never thought to count before. My magic number is 330. Of course it will be going up now that I'm off to download the few of these I don't already have! Thanks

[bl]

Thanks so much. Texas Hero has always been one of my favorites!

[Laurie]

But I like my picket fence font! It is the one I used on my "cut the crop out" shirt! LOL! ;) Love these fonts!!!Thanks, Jess!

[Tracy]

Is it good or bad news that I already have about 5 of these?!! Off to download more. Also, I have 2peas favorite things that looks very much like stop sign :) I know this because I am a TOTAL geek!

[Amy]

thanks for all the links!

[Michelle V.]

Thanks!! There are some I already have & love. I will definitely downloading the others. I'll add those to the over 700 fonts I already have.

[Heather]

Thanks for putting all this together with the links. They are most lovely!

[wendyf209]

I was just thinking to myself that I wish someone would post a good list of "scrapbbook friendly" fonts because I already spend so much time looking/shopping and not actually scrapbooking!!! So I am so glad that I don't have to waste more time finding good fonts on my own! THank you thank you thank you!
oh............ what is the picket fence one?????

[Heather]

do you know of a program that will print a sample of all your fonts? i guess i'm lazy and don't want to try and print a sample of them all separately.

[Jen-abcmomof4]

I have way to many to count and not enough patience. My dh calls me the font junky and jokes I could fill an entire ehd with just fonts. Maybe I should start deleting ones I don't use (like the picket fence font I'll NEVER use-hehe) Off to get more!!! Love these!!

[Laurie]

font love -

http://www.dafont.com/cantabile.font
http://www.dafont.com/fontleroy-brown.font

[Tasha]

Awesome! Thanks for creating this list. I come from a DTP background and fonts are something I notice on every advertisement. I even use "What the Font" on MyFonts.com to find out what some mystery fonts are.

I love Sue Fisher's The Font Thing because you don't have to install all the fonts. Also I learned from your ACDSee class that it previews fonts there too.

Thanks,
Tasha

[Ginny]

Okay, so who plays World of Warcraft!? lol....gamer me noticed that on this tutorial.

Uh, sorry back to the fonts...great fonts, thanks so much for sharing! Totally love Ma Sexy!

[Laura]

Sure.... Just feed my addiction! You are such an enabler! These are some great fonts and they will be assimilated into the collective! (oops my sci-fi side just jumped out there for a minute!) I have over 5,000 fonts (not all installed mind you) and I just keep adding and adding and adding....

[Di]

Could you get any more wonderful? Thanks for taking the time to share these in amongst your busy day! And give Jared a hug for us when he passes his test!

[Becky]

So fun to see some fonts I actually don't have! Thanks for sharing your list of favorites!

[Amanda Mac]

I was convinced that I had every cool font out there. Obviously, I was wrong! Thanks for the awesome list!

[Laura]

"Okay, so who plays World of Warcraft!? lol....gamer me noticed that on this tutorial.

Uh, sorry back to the fonts...great fonts, thanks so much for sharing! Totally love Ma Sexy!"

K I had to go check this out too! I am addicted to WoW too! lol

[Shelley]

Could you refresh me on how to download these fonts to my font collection?! Thanks! Shelley Haganman

[Sara]

Oh man, this may be the proudest moment of my life. I have all those fonts... does that make me a real scrapbooker??? Or just a font-hoarder that needs to go on Oprah? :)

I actually had my handwriting created for the growing "Pea" collection ... it's the Pea Frankie ( http://www.kevinandamanda.com/scrapbook/fonts/fontsforpeas/index4.html ). Probably the only time in my life I'll get to brag, so there you go...

sara
http://www.gitzengirl.blogspot.com

[Lois]

Thanks Jessica.....love the fonts & the coupon! Now to be one of the 1st in line for DID! Can't wait.

[cassie-in-texas]

Love your taste in fonts! I picked up a couple new ones, but I've already got most of these and have used them (the important part!) I've got about 2000 fonts in my collection, but am always adding. As addictions go, this one is pretty cheap, lol. Love that fonts for peas website, I adore that style of fonts. Had to download them all!

[Mel]

I love these-and have a couple already, but heading off to download the rest.

My only font addition that I use constantly is good old Scriptina!

[Jana]

Oh this is super to have so many fonts already picked out by you & so easy to download! Thank you, thank you Jessica! You & Jared enjoy your steak dinner tonigt!

[Maria in Tulsa]

How awesome is this...Coincidentally, I've been on a font frenzy for the past few days, and some of these are JUST what I needed! Thnks for an awesome post!

[Maria in Tulsa]

Forgot to say...I have 841 fonts which is WAY too many! plan to cull out some of those picket fences and christmas lights later today!

[SandraC]

Since you've asked, I've got exactly 503 fonts, not counting the standards. Thanks for giving me some extra LOL
Is it true too many fonts will slow down Photoshop? I would like to remove most of them, but I'm afraid I'm gonna uninstall some standards. Do you have any tips on how to that and font management? Is The Font Thing the program you can load the fonts without installing them?

[noreen stack]

Thanks for the fonts Jessica. I have 646 but did download a couple!
For Heather and anyone else interested, there is a neat little program that I have had for years called akfontviewer. I use it all the time shows your words in all your fonts at the same time.
http://www.aksoft.net/progs/akfontviewer/index.html