20 Fonts Ideal for Big and Powerful Headings
Headings play a major role in the way users digest content. Through size and style, they help establish a hierarchy and make text easy to scan. Headings also help establish the mood created by a design. So it’s important to choose the right font to compliment the website’s style.
For this article, we’ve rounded up 20 fonts that are ideal for creating big and powerful headings for your web designs.
Franchise
Bebas
Insolent
Nevis
Molot
Gnuolane
Fertigo Pro
Alte Haas Grotesk
Vollkorn
Mido
Telegrafico
Steinem
League Gothic
Forque
Romeral
Tertre
Bitstream
Communist
Old Sans Black
Sling
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40 comments
insic
January 27, 2010Cool fonts and its free. Nice list!
Daniel Long
January 27, 2010There are some really nice fonts in this post that can give a massive impact when first arriving on a website. I especially like League Gothic. To work along side these great headings you need good typography throughout. A good post that i looked through for this is – 28 Free High Quality Fonts to Boost Your Typography.
Vish
January 27, 2010There are some really nice fonts
PelFusion
January 27, 2010nice collection
Edgar Leijs
January 27, 2010I’ve used League Gothic on a few project in @font-face and in large headers… and yes it has great impact…
Thanks for the list!
Smashing Share
January 27, 2010Nice fonts. Wish these fonts to be web safe fonts
Brow
January 27, 2010Awesome line-up. I often like to change up my font library or add to and this helps a ton. Thanks!
Matt
January 27, 2010Excellent list, thanks.
Alejandro
January 27, 2010Awesome list, thanks for sharing. Another good place to check out to get these types of fonts is http://www.pilo.me
walidmrealtor
January 27, 2010Great list! Can’t wait to try some of these out…thanks!
Web Design Maidstone
January 27, 2010some nice fonts, thanks for the info
Jordan Walker
January 27, 2010I really like the diversity of fonts.
Andy Sowards
January 27, 2010Excellent list!
I am always looking for bold headlines!
These should do for a while
Keep up the great work Henry!
julio Rivera
January 27, 2010awesome post I do have must of them but will be downloading the fonts that i don’t have asap.
Michael Kak Varley
January 27, 2010Great collection. Really like the Fertigo Pro.
saurabh shah
January 27, 2010nice font collection…. Thanks for sharing…
Web Design Cambridgeshire
January 27, 2010Great font collection – they all work well. Thanks.
Alex Flueras
January 28, 2010Really nice font collection. I especially like Alte Haas, Vollkorn and Telegrafico. Thanks for sharing!
Indialike
January 28, 2010Very nice and useful for web designers,
Thanks for posting.
Myo Han Htun
January 28, 2010Thanks for your post. I really appreciate for it. Because I am preparing for typography lessons. The fonts that you mentioned above are very suitable for me. Thanks you so much again.
nikhil
January 28, 2010nice collection of fonts …thanx for sharing.
remonatrix
January 28, 2010Kewl choice of fonts !
This is the “type” of information that is very usefull to people who are in the web creation and banner creation business …
Thanks for making the research.
Joe
January 29, 2010Great collection. Grabbing most of these. Thanks!
Tutorijali HDonWEB
January 29, 2010Cool fonts list
Prashant
January 30, 2010Thanks for sharing this
Patrick
January 31, 2010Nice collection of useful fonts. Especially for great website designs.
Jozef Benko
February 1, 2010Nice list, thanks for the tips, just purchased few of them.
Besides those above listed, I like ITC Officina (both Sans & Serif) for big headings.
Luke Sheppard
February 2, 2010A strange mix maybe but there are some REALLY slick looking fonts in amongst them. Thanks!
Jeremy
February 2, 2010Always looking for new BIG fonts. Thanks!!
logoziner
February 3, 2010nice collection of fonts! i really like this!
aerial
February 4, 2010Good one
Damien
February 5, 2010great list. Thanx!
Murilo Pruner
February 16, 2010Great list! Thank for posting.
Jason
March 4, 2010The “Steinem” font link does not work anymore. I found a working version of it here: http://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/Steinem.htm
Update the link reference if you want.
Coastal Retreats Northumberland
April 1, 2010Some of the gothics are commercial quality. Good resource. Thanks.
Julio Flores
April 12, 2010Wooow! I just discovered that It´s not only me finding the “League Gothic” a very nice tipography. I used it recently in a CD cover (a demo) and simply works very well.
Oh! and it´s unfortunate that (for now) it´s a pain to use some fonts on web (talking about licenses). I really hope this issue be solved someday.
Luke
October 5, 2010Great selection of fonts, look forward to trying a few out!
iphone 5 cases
December 30, 2011Agreed. An awesome selection of fonts to be used as our best shots
Bharat Chowdary
May 3, 2012Great collection, Fertigo Pro is my all time favorite font.
Raj
May 16, 2012Molot, Tertre, Telegrafico, Alte Haas Grotesk are my personal favorites..
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