Thousand of freeware fonts are available today. Here are some which are actually recommendable in the category “sans serif”. They have a sufficient number of styles, a sufficient (Latin) character set and an acceptable stylistic and technical quality.
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The best free sans serif font families (2021)
By Ralf Herrmann (edited) | Views: 12011
Alegreya Sans
Alegreya Sans is a humanist sans serif family with a calligraphic feel designed by Juan Pablo del Peral for Huerta Tipográfica.
Latina Essential
Latina Essential is a humanist typeface designed for use in continuous text. The font comes in 4 weights with matching (true) italics. To download the font you need to sign up for the foundry newsletter.
Cooper Hewitt
Initially commissioned by Pentagram to evolve his Polaris Condensed typeface, Chester Jenkins created a new digital form to support the newly transformed museum. The new font can be downloaded free of charge for unrestricted public use under the SIL Open Font License.
FiraGO
Originally designed in 2012 as Fira Sans for Mozilla OS. FiraGO is a new branch of the original project that is actively developed further.
Lato
Lato is a sanserif typeface family designed in the Summer 2010 by Warsaw-based designer Łukasz Dziedzic (“Lato” means “Summer” in Polish). In December 2010 the Lato family was published under the open-source Open Font License by his foundry tyPoland, with support from Google.
Open Sans
Open Sans is a humanist sans serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson, Type Director of Ascender Corp.
Blinker
A free sans-serif font family by Jürgen Huber with 9 upright styles. A variable font is included in the package.
Plex Sans
IBM Plex is a font family designed as corporate typeface for IBM. But from the start it was also made freely available under the Open Font License.
Inter
Inter is a variable typeface carefully crafted & designed for computer screens. Inter features a tall x-height to aid in readability of mixed-case and lower-case text. Several OpenType features are provided as well, like contextual alternates that adjusts punctuation depending on the shape of surrounding glyphs, slashed zero for when you need to disambiguate "0" from "o", tabular numbers, etc.
PT Sans
PT Sans was developed for the project "Public Types of the Russian Federation." The second family of the project, PT Serif, is also freely available.
Ubuntu
The Ubuntu font family are a set of matching libre fonts. The development is being funded by Canonical on behalf the wider Free Software community and the Ubuntu project. The technical font design work and implementation is being undertaken by Dalton Maag.
Adobe Source Sans
Source Sans Pro is a set of OpenType fonts that have been designed to work well in user interface (UI) environments.
Merriweather Sans
Merriweather Sans is a low-contrast semi-condensed sans-serif text family. As of now there are 8 styles: Light, Regular, Bold, and ExtraBold weights in Roman and Italic styles.
Jost*
Jost* aims to keep the attitude of Futura rather than the exact design. Futura was designed to be functional in its day, and in that spirit, Jost* aims to be as functional as possible in the digital era. For that reason it deviates from the exact designs of Paul Renner, favoring, for example, a larger x-height or more balanced capital forms. It also includes some features which would not have been possible in the era of Futura.
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