40 Super Sleek Fonts for Clean Web Design
A few weeks ago, I showed you some of the best fonts for use in grunge style design. Creating grungy designs can be fun, but sometimes a site requires a cleaner approach, one where artsy design elements take a back seat to clear presentation of content. Typography plays a big role in this type of design. If you have been struggling to find the right font for your clean designs, here are 40 of them that are both clean and beautiful.
Museo Sans
Geo Sans Light
Duepuntozero
Oregon LDO
Sansation
Engel Light
Comfortaa
Forgotten Futurist
Walkway
Steiner
Eurofurence
Baar Metanoia
Existence Light
Asenine
Anna
Cicle
Aubrey
Waukegan LDO
Qlassik
Bebas
Mank Sans
Yorkville
Redring 1969
Aldo
Blue Highway
Steelfish
Opticon One
Y2K Neophyte
Jacks Font
Swansea
Vegur
Albertino
Print Clearly
Liberation
Yoxall
Lois Ann
SF Arborcrest Medium
APHont
Fertigo Pro
Anivers
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70 comments
Nokadota
February 10, 2009I already have a good amount of these fonts, although I never heard of “Forgotten Futurist”. Nice list.
Jack F
February 10, 2009Great list, thanks! Are most of those free?
Dainis Graveris
February 10, 2009Great post and findings!
I love these type of modern fonts – thanks, bookmarking!
insic
February 10, 2009nice list. But rockwell is not in the list.
Casey L. Jones
February 10, 2009I too have most of these. Geo Sans Light, Cicle, Asinine, Walkway, Steiner and Museo are probably my favorites of these. Nice collection.
LiiBot
February 10, 2009i’ve always used Arial as a default font for folio word, now “blue highway” and “Steel fish” looks like a cool option
Jordan Henderson
February 10, 2009I think you have ‘Blue Highway’ listed twice, the second time I would infer it needs to be listed as ‘Steelfish’.
There are some interesting and beautiful fonts here.
Hafihz
February 10, 2009Eurofurence is beautiful. Thanks!
enzo
February 10, 2009great take on some classic typefaces. quite a few new ones too. very clean, thanks for these.
any chance of having them collected as a zip somewhere?..
ciao,
‘enzo
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http://twitter.com/_enzo
Pliggs
February 10, 2009Nice font collection. I like Baar Metanoia the most.
Jordan
February 10, 2009Great list, but the typenazi in me has to point out that they’re typefaces, not fonts
I think Museo Sans is probably my favorite recently-developed typeface, which is odd, because I’m definitely not a fan of Museo.
Henry
February 10, 2009@jack F – All of them are free.
Autotelic
February 10, 2009man, i want my last will and testament to be written in Sansation.
Patternhead
February 10, 2009Nice collection of fonts
Timothy
February 10, 2009just go with helvetica
halibuthero
February 10, 2009Nice list! I’ll download some of those.
I’ve been using New Cicle, it’s free on dafont.com
http://www.dafont.com/new-cicle.font
Live Web Studio
February 10, 2009Sansation is very beautiful, allready used for some projects.
Jan Wilson
February 10, 2009Check out http://www.purplefog.com
Chikezie Ejiasi
February 10, 2009I like the Bebas font – reminds me of Trade Gothic, which is my 2nd favorite font to helvetica
Font Squirrel
February 10, 2009Always enjoy lists like this! Unfortunately not all of these are free for commercial use if you read the licenses. I’ve hand-picked a bunch that are and put ‘em up here: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/style/Sans%20Serif
Cam
February 10, 2009great list! I have maybe 7 of these fonts already. Good lookin’ out.
Kenny
February 10, 2009Very nice!!!
Miles
February 10, 2009What the hell, Eurofurence is the name of a furry convention. And it seems like an odd coincidence because Euroference would be a better spelling.
Josh
February 10, 2009A decent selection, but it’s taken for granted that all of them are free. If one were willing to pay, I’m sure there’d be an even greater array of great greatness. It’s a shame that this sort of suggests that all fonts are free. People should be willing to pay a bit to achieve something more extra special.
Carlo Mendoza
February 10, 2009That’s a great collection of fonts. I like the Qlassik font.
brenan
February 10, 2009Nice font collection.
Guys do you have any idea what font-style the logo of this site http://mvcforge.com/ is using ?
I like the ‘MVC’ text part.
inhouse designer
February 11, 2009Blue Highway has been one of my favourites for a long time.
Brilliant collection – nice job!
And yea, a ZIP would be nice
Buzzlair Voufincci
February 11, 2009I like the Bebas font – reminds me of Trade Gothic, which is my 2nd favorite font to helvetica – i like this font too. buy i wonder whats that mean
Jennie
February 11, 2009I don’t get how we can advocate using these fonts for “web design” when none of them are web fonts.
JasonTheDesigner
February 11, 2009I love the fact that WDL offers a lot of free stuff.
However this list… how can you leave out classics like Helvetica, Optima, Futura? Are they too obvious?
@Jenny: I don’ think these are meant to be used as body copy, but rather in large sizes, maybe using sIFR or something similar.
David Leggett
February 11, 2009You had me at Museo
crusher
February 11, 2009Your site is really amazing. Exceptional style. Cool.
ali
February 12, 2009cool list of fonts when looked individually, now coming up with clean design is in the hands of designers on how they are gonna use them
Michael
February 12, 2009Nice list. I agree with JasonTheDesigner, these are definitely not meant to be used as body copy for web design, but probably better suited for large headlines (using sIFR) or traditional static graphics.
Henry
February 12, 2009@Michael – Thanks for pointing that out. You and Jason are exactly right. I never intended to suggest these be used for browser rendered text.
Fernando H.
February 12, 2009a Beautiful Fonts!,.. tks
Peter
February 12, 2009What about the families of Avant Garde (http://www.fonthaus.com/products/fonts/fontfind.cfm?search=avant+garde&submit=FontFind%C2%AE) or Franklin (http://www.fonthaus.com/products/fonts/fontfind.cfm?search=franklin&submit=FontFind%C2%AE), and another classic, Gill sans (http://www.fonthaus.com/products/fonts/fontfind.cfm?search=gill+sans&submit=FontFind%C2%AE)?
Ryuji
February 12, 2009Thanks for the nice list of interesting fonts that show with style. Every time I see cool new design what I get disappointed is that many of them have improper side bearings and kerning, making them look awkward, without first fixing these things using a font editor… I’ve done that several times, what a large volume of work. I think that’s why people like me tend to stick with more established ones…
Hero fo Chaos
February 13, 2009These are great fonts. thanks
Matt Spire
February 13, 2009An elegant font can move a bland design lightyears.
Brad
February 20, 2009Aubrey is an amazing font.
Tobi
February 21, 2009Nice selection, I really love those simple fonts!
nszumowski
February 23, 2009thanks a ton!
Heather Marie Miller
February 23, 2009I’m highly in love with “Aldo”. Thanks once again for another amazing list!
florian
March 1, 2009most of these fonts are not standard web fonts. wouldnt that be a problem for web design? how do you guys approach that stuff? is sifr really a good option for using a non std. font for your entire content?
Einar Lang
March 4, 2009Nice collection There are some interesting and fonts here
zeemiDesign
March 7, 2009I simply love Steiner
Thx for the amazing list.
Silver Firefly
March 17, 2009Thanks for the list, but I was hoping for a list of the best paid typefaces.
Portland Web Designer
April 1, 2009What about web-wide integration? Are we supposed to use Cufon or just use the fonts in graphic files?
Nike1984
May 11, 2009Here is the entire list in one RAR.
Enjoy.
http://rapidshare.com/files/231738559/Fonts.rar
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