How to find free Serif fonts for elegant website design

Key quotes:

• "But if you’re starting out, resources like Google Fonts are an ideal way to establish your brand, deliver your copy and even speed up your website."
• "Remember: just because you, a knowledgeable and very attractive designer, prefer a font, doesn’t mean that it’s the right choice for your website."
• "Here are some cool advantages of using Google Fonts on your website: Lato Warsaw-based designer, Łukasz Dziedzic, created Lato to work transparently in body text and also to stand out individually when used in larger-sized titles."
• "Nunito Another Vernon Adams creation, Nunito is a sans-serif font designed as a display font."
• "With 8 different weights available, it’s a versatile, attractive font which we’d recommend using when you want a smart, stylish sans-serif heading."
• "Oswald A reworking of the classic early twentieth century ‘Alternate Gothic’ typeface family, Vernon Adams’s Oswald font is designed for digital use on computers and mobile devices."

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• "Open Sans is one of the most popular web fonts on Google Fonts."
• "It can be used for both title and body text and very compatible with many sans serif and serif fonts."
• "Example: Roboto Slab is another very popular font choice for portfolios by many designers."
• "It’s geometric form and friendly curves make it works really well for both headers and body texts."
• "The black weight of Playfair Display font offers very strong impression in Gabe’s portfolio below."
• "As a great choice for title and headers, it pairs well with most of the popular sans serif fonts for body text."

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• "Google fonts is great not only because it doesn’t require you to download and install files on your machine, but also because each typeface is selected for its design quality, readability and accessibility for a wide range of purposes and devices."
• "Work Sans is based on early Grotesque and is well suited both for print and screen display."
• "Playfair Display is a transitional serif font designed in 2011 but inspired by eighteenth century typefaces."
• "Other than the Mono font, the family includes Sans, Condensed and Serif."
• "Spectral is a beautiful serif typeface that is well suited for text-rich paragraphs — but it is perfect for headlines and titles such as the example website below."
• "Karla is an original grotesque sans serif typeface available in Regular & Bold."

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• "Download here This modern stencil style font designed by Nawras Moneer comes only in one weight in uppercase letters."
• "Download here This modern geometric san font is perfect down to the very detail of its curves."
• "The free demo font is the regular weight and looks great on social media graphics a well as logos and titles."
• "Download here Nothing is more modern — in the classic design sense — than a geometric sans font with clean lines and thick even strokes that sit perfectly against each other."
• "Download here Novelty fonts like Kontanter are great for modern and unique designs that need a real edge and special feel to them."
• "Download here This perfectly geometric and rounded font designed by Milena Brandau is gorgeous and perfect for any sort of modern project."

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Key quotes:

• "by Noemi Stauffer If you’re looking for a useful free font with a bit of an edge, look no further than this collection of modern typefaces."
• "These sleek and versatile fonts are perfect for all sorts of designs, from websites to printed material, and they are all completely free for both personal and commercial use."
• "To facilitate your font picking and pairing process, I’ve included examples of how these typefaces have been put to use recently, and a few pairing ideas."