30 Free Fonts for Video Marketing in 2019
Check out top 30 free fonts of 2019 that can help you stand out in video marketing in social media.
Text videos are getting really popular in social media, thanks to the trend set by Facebook’s mute video watching behavior and other platforms like LinkedIn following the suit now. Today, almost all digital media publishers (including news channels like BBC, CNN and pure content companies like BuzzFeed) are working hard to build their presence in social media with the help of short snack-able text videos. This is where type-faces or the fonts that you use in your videos become significant. With video becoming an important content delivery format on the Internet (reference: video is the new HTML by Benedict Evans), it’s important to ensure that the video content becomes a great place to help build mind-share for your brand and the right font selection will play a very important role making your video brand-compliant.
Few weeks back I came across Muzli’s article about the top 30 free fonts to check out in 2019. You can find the article here. It was a great collection of fonts and I thought it would be awesome to try them out in different contexts of social media video marketing for your brand and here they are:
1. MORGANITE
Morganite is a font family designed by Rajesh Rajput. As illustrated beautifully by the creator on the font page, the different styles of the font will cover most use-cases that could come up for a brand or a company ranging from a social media poster title to a brochure listing text. You can download the font here — link. Let’s see how Morganites plays out on a video:
2. THE CIRCUS DISPLAY
Out of all display fonts, this hand-drawn typeface is something very unique, related to vintage & classic styles. We always hear the circus orchestra playing while looking at The Circus Display font, honestly. This rough typeface, designed by 24Design Studios, has a strong charisma, appealing to the audience. Coming in two different styles (regular and striped one), it gives a chance to freely edit the degree of its “vintageness”. The font will fit any purpose: from logos, labels, posters to web design projects and banners.
3. ARKIPELAGO
Arkipelago, from Nasir Udin, a wet inky brush script font that has a traditional vibe with its imperfect handwriting. It contains extra alternate letters and several ligatures to make your designs look even more naturally handwritten.
4. TRADESMITH
Tradesmith is a brand new vintage font from 1871 Project. This font is the perfect balance of vintage and industrial with squared characters and angled corners — suitable for pairing with other fonts to create authentic branding, logos, lockups & more. It includes 4 styles: Regular, Round, Rough & Stamp, which means you’ll be able to get the perfect character your project needs.
5. COLUS
Colus is a free display font, whose designer Stan Partalev was inspired by stone and wooden carved letter inscriptions. With a classical appearance and mature characteristics, this typeface family is appropriate for impressive headlines, remarkable logos, and beautiful signs.
6. COLORTUBE
ColorTube is the first FREE colored* font by Ivan Filipov. He started working on it a few years after he created Multicolore. The typeface is constructed following geometric principles. Also, notice that not all endings or crossings are following the “color overlay” logic — as Ivan says himself he did some changes to make it more appealing. For now, ColorTube supports Basic Latin character set.
*ColorTube requires Adobe CC 2018 to work properly as a color font and color fonts are not supported on Typito. However, I was not able to get the font working with Adobe CC as well. I will update the image with a video preview when I get it working. For now, you can find above an image preview of ColorTube.
7. BRIBERRA
Briberra is hand lettering script font that contains stylistic alternates & swashes that will help to create your own customized designs. You can use this font for quotes, t-shirt designs, branding, plus plenty of other projects. This font contains multi lingual characters, supports PUA and is available in OTF and TTF formats.
8. ALOJA
Aloja handwriting font was drawn by Ieva Mezule and put together by Krisjanis Mezulis. Aloja font can be used for — Big titles, events, posters, invitations and website, since there is also a .woff version. It is easy to read and features a fresh and easy feel. Every single letter is hand drawn with a thin brush on acrylic paper, this making the typeface visually unique. The playful letter bounces make it stand out from the crowd.
9. CUNIA
Cunia is a sans serif font with slightly rounded corners designed by Alejo Bergmann. It contains all capital letters, numerals and symbols. This font is perfectly suited for a variety of display purposes, including logotypes, badges and labels, headlines and banners, prints and much more.
10. SPACE GROTESK
In 2017, Florian Karsten were commissioned to modify Colophon’s open-source typeface Space Mono. The result was Space TIC, a three weight proportional version of the original Space Mono, which proved to be a solid display typeface. Space TIC was later complemented with a single weight text version (Space TIC Text), which created a baseline for Space Grotesk. Space Grotesk supports Latin Extended-A character set and several OpenType features.
11. HORIZON
Horizon is a new free script font from TJ Creative shop — It’s a new fresh handmade font that features an authentic natural stroke. Very suitable for greeting cards, branding materials, quotes, posters and advertisements.
12. BUCKWHEAT
The Buckwheat SVG font collection, created by Tom Chalky, includes three unique Opentype SVG fonts featuring an entirely hand-painted, multilingual glyph range with high-quality and authentic textures built in, with zero extra work required! Much like real paint, the textures are transparent, enhancing the overall effect.
13. FREE FAT FONT
Free Fat Font was created by Thom Niessink, and is exactly what you’d expect. It’s Fat and it’s free. This font has an extremely heavy weight and many unique characters. Perfect for big titles, advertising, labelling, packaging and anything that needs a big impactful typeface. It also features multilingual characters for increased usability.
14. UNDERSTOCK
Understock is the latest vintage creation from 1871 Project. This font is a unique take on a vintage serif featuring a ton of cool characters that will set your designs apart. It includes 3 styles: Regular, Rough & Round, so you’ll be able to fit the exact style of your project.
15. FINLAND
Finland Rounded Font Family by Craft Supply Co., has been crafted from scratch with a structural logic of its own: a fusion of pure geometry and optical balance. Finland Rounded font family comes with 6 Styles, Regular, Italic, Thin, Thin Italic, Bold, Bold Italic. By combining a variety of styles Finland Rounded Font Family is suitable for logos, greeting cards, book titles, quotes, posters, branding, stationery etc.
16. ACRYLIC HAND THICK
The Acrylic Hand Font Collection, created by Tom Chalky, includes four SVG fonts with an entirely hand painted, multilingual glyph range featuring realistic and high-quality textures throughout. The textures are exactly as they appear in the preview images (no extra work required!).
17. SERICO
Serico is a free calligraphy style font from Stefano Giliberti. It comes with 390 glyphs and is multilingual.
18. BOBBY JONES
Bobby Jones Font Collection, created by Tom Chalky has 16 quirky handcrafted fonts, oozing with personality, ripe and ready to take center stage within a variety of creative and fun design projects. If you’re looking to grab eyeballs with an ad campaign, a logo design, apparel, printed stationery, and all that other good stuff, then worry not — Bobby has you covered.
19. PUZZLED
Puzzled, from Dmitriy Chirkov is a modern trendy script that has been attentively written with gentle curves to produce a font thats completely distinctive and original. It contains a full set of lower & uppercase letters, a large range of punctuation, numerals and multilingual support. Perfect for adding a elegant and unique touch to your creative projects.
20. ANODINA
Anodina, created by Stefano Giliberti, is a font family with human features but symmetric in it’s soul. It includes 5 weights from Extra Light to Extra Bold. This font family is great for logo design, posters, basic text, headlines, and much more.
21. OBJECT SANS
Object Sans is a contemporary type family that puts together the best qualities of Swiss neo-grotesks and geometric fonts. It’s a multifunctional workhorse designed to work best in any printed and on-screen contexts, including logo design, brand identities, websites, packaging, posters and headlines; regular weight is carefully tuned for small sized body text. The typeface comes in 7 weights, upright and slanted each.
22. BRIPOKUS STENCIL FONT
Bripokus, from Ahsancomp Studio, is a Bold Condensed Stencil Typeface. It’s best to be used on Poster, Web Header, Book Cover, Packaging and other design that needs strong and bold feels. It’s a regular style.
23. HANSIEF
Hansief is a bold sans serif typeface from Kautsar Rahadi. It features a distinct vintage inspired style and comes with 2 styles — Regular and Rough. This typeface features great textures and is filled with unique characters. There are also extended latin characters for even broader use.
24. TUESDAY NIGHT
Tuesday Night is a brand new free signature script from Font Forestry. It is a handcrafted script font made for many different applications & styles to personalize your products. Tuesday night features extra large capitals for a unique signature style that is perfect for wedding invitations, logos, apparel, decorative quotes, prints, scrap booking and much more!
25. MINDFULLY
Mindfully is a signature font from Sinikka Li that has been made to give your text a beautiful & calligraphic look. Each letter has been created with lots of thought and love. If you’re looking for an elegant yet cute typeface for projects such as logos, printed quotes, invitation cards, social media headers, product packaging, posters and more — this is font is the perfect fit!
26. RUSTICO
Rustico is a brand new free font from Hustle Supply Co. It is an all-caps typeface that is bold and features authentic brush texture and an italicized stance. This font is a great way to make a statement in your apparel, branding, marketing and web design, among many other uses.
27. AILERON
Aileron provide free typefaces of 16 weights published and provided by TipoType Underground collection.
28. BIG JOHN / SLIM JOE
Big John Slim Joe is a free sans serif typeface with a useful usually needed contrast between thick John and slime Joe specially in headings & poster designs.
29. DISCLAIMER
Disclaimer is a module-based display font coming in two variations : Plain and Classic. It is designed by Boris Bonev and published on Fontfabric.
30. FIXER
Fixer is an elaborate free layered type system from William Suckling. It features a total of 7 fonts that come together beautifully for creating bold headlines, branding, signage etc. It will function great for you, whether you are trying to achieve a clean modern look, or even a traditional vintage style making it an incredibly versatile typeface.
About the writer
Matthew is CEO and co-founder of Typito (Canva for videos) — an online video creation tool for marketers, digital journalists and media houses. Typito makes it easy to create videos for social media with 1-click motion graphic templates.
Hope you loved the top 30 fonts on video. Please let Matthew know of other fonts you’d love to see featured on videos in 2019.
