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10 Best Figma Fonts For Your Next Design Project

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Creative Market April 25, 2024 · 12 min read
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Have you ever considered the impact that a typeface makes when you’re looking at a document filled with text.

Readability. Legibility. These are both factors that you may not think about, but the designer who crafted the document certainly had to consider. Not taking the time to choose an appropriate font is a mistake – at least from a design perspective – because font styles and typefaces have a huge impact.

They set the tone for communication!

How you perceive a piece of information – be it on screen of via paper – is determined primarily by the font styles being used. Take the Ubuntu font family as an example – it’s a specially designed collection of font combinations that exist to display the unique personality of Ubuntu in every menu and area of the operating system. And it’s for this reason thar you need to focus on choosing the best sans serif fonts to ensure legibility while also giving your pieces that extra flourish that makes them stand out.

Typography is used to communicate and give designs structure and flow. It can aid in defining hierarchy – as well as setting the tone – for the rest of a piece. It’s the art of modifying words within a design while producing compelling content, thus lending that content a pleasing appearance while ensuring it preserves visual value in the sense of offering clarity to the reader.

Ultimately, it’s about tone. Through the tone delivered to your project by your font choice, you deliver a certain look and feel – an aesthetic, if you will – to your website or marketing materials that makes them stand out in a sea of generic fonts. If course, that also means picking the right font can be a major challenge.

But here’s some good news:

You do not need to spend a lot of time searching for font faces. Online apps, such as Figma, come with several hundred fonts and graphic design resources that are ready to use. You can explore Creative Market’s wide array of the best free Figma fonts. We will also be sharing with you some of our personal favorites below. 

What is Figma?

Figma is a vector graphics editor and prototype tool that is mostly web-based, with desktop apps for macOS and Windows enabling additional offline features. Its primary purpose involves the creation of icons and user interface comps, but it can be used in much broader ways.

Figma has been compared to Sketch in that both apps are similarly designed to mimic the UI of a Mac OS. However, Figma was built from the ground up as a cloud-based solution, whereas Sketch relies on Dropbox for file storage and synchronization. In practice, this means that designers using both apps can share files with other team members to facilitate collaboration.

In addition to shared projects, multiple contributors can work on a document in a browser-based interface, with version control managed by the same platform. Designers can save their modifications within Figma or export them to a third-party file format like PSD, JPG, PNG, AI, or SVG once they’re finished. 

Figma is aimed at professional designers in the fields of product design, web design, UX/UI design, graphic design, game design, CAD /CAM (computer-aided manufacturing), architecture, fashion, and illustration. It also has a very beginner-friendly editor where you can create designs from scratch or using pre-made templates. 

Figma is one of the most innovative graphics editing apps now sweeping the creative world. The fact that it is free to use is what makes it so appealing. To start learning Figma, check out a list of the best Figma courses.

How Do You Use Figma?

It can be intimidating to use the platform as a newbie. Fortunately, Figma has created a series of online lessons and in-depth guides that will take you through a quick tour of the design process and help you create a mobile app together.

These tutorials will let you take your initial steps towards User Interface Design (UID) and User Experience Design (UED) by learning to utilize Figma. These abilities are necessary for developing a strong portfolio for yourself and, maybe, your own business. If you’re using Figma in your web browser, you’ll also need a special tool – the Figma Font Installer. With that tool, you can essentially install fonts into your browser so they’re ready to use however you see fit.

List of Best Figma Fonts – From Sans Serif Fonts to More Creative Ideas

No need to google fonts – or sticking with the default fonts you find in your browser – because you’ve got your own personal font picker at Creative Market. Take a look at the 10 fonts below…you may just find the right font for your needs.

1. Lunatoire

Lunatoire is a modern take on the classic serif typeface. It’s a serif font that’s ideal for branding and editorial projects. 

What We Love About Lunatoire

We touched on one of the best things about Lunatoire already – it’s a modern font that draws inspiration from the classic serif family. But adding to that is the story surrounding the font. Inspired by the moon – making it perfect for pieces designed around a night time aesthetic – it’s a great choice for editorial pieces and any designs that need a special little touch.

Lunatoire Modern Serif Font by Oheunola on Creative Market
Lunatoire Modern Serif Font by Oheunola on Creative Market

It’s also multilingual.

Beyond the uppercase and lowercase Latin letters you’d expect from the font, it also has some accented letters that are ideal for French and Spanish writing.

2. Great Sailor

With its curves and cut-ins, Great Sailor is one of the most memorable all-caps fonts in the market. It has both masculine and feminine aspects, making it ideal for fashion branding or editorial design.

What We Love About Great Sailor

The curves that make Great Sailor one of the standout Figma font options are also key to another strength it brings to the table – it’s a perfect typeface for marketing purposes.

Great Sailor Serif Display Font by UICreative on Creative Market
Great Sailor Serif Display Font by UICreative on Creative Market

You can see that from the above image, with the font weight being bold enough to stand out while also having an air of subtlety that ensures it doesn’t look garish when it’s on display. Of course, it also has all of the basics you need from a font – such as punctuation marks – and it uses normal space so it never looks too spread out.

3. Kross Neue Grotesk

Kross Neue Grotesk is a minimalist sans-serif typeface family that focuses on typography’s minimalism and simplicity. This typeface may elevate the aesthetic attractiveness of your creative projects.

What we Love About KROSS NEUE GROTESK

There is always a place at the table for a font selection that’s inspired by the same Grotesque stylings that inspired classic fonts like Helvetica. Here, we see the neo-grotesque style at play – normal spacing and clear lettering make this a great choice for UX design thanks to the clarity it offers.

KROSS NEUE GROTESK - The Font Family by Designova® on Creative Market
KROSS NEUE GROTESK – The Font Family by Designova® on Creative Market

Minimalism is key here, making the font a great choice for big tech companies that want to emphasis product over flash. Plus, you get a choice of 12 font weights – each available separately or purchasable as part of a bundle.

4. Laro

Laro is a modern sans-serif typeface that offers a wide range of possibilities for your project’s design and construction. You can use it to make logos, labels, and advertisements, as well as packaging, branding, book covers and magazines, cosmetics, banners, posters, headlines, and descriptions.

What We Love about the Laro Font Family

It’s versatility all of the way with Laro, aided in no small part by the many weights that are part of the font family. As with KROSS NEUE GROTESK, all of those weights can be bought separately – at a lower price than the entire font family – if you only need a single variation of this typeface.

Laro Font Family by Larin Type Co. on Creative Market
Laro Font Family by Larin Type Co. on Creative Market

Throw in some OpenType features, such as an expanded character set compared to more basic fonts, and you have something that is truly multi-purpose without ever veering over into being generic.

5. Luciano

Luciano Display is a typeface that works excellently in large and small font sizes. It’s ideal for logos, headlines, captions, or just as a classy text overlay on any backdrop image. It features a simple and whimsical design that is nonetheless easy to read.

What We Love About Luciano

There’s something a little devilish about Luciano – you may have picked that up from the above image – making it perfect for design projects and advertising that lean slightly into the darker side of life.

Luciano Typeface by Foxtype on Creative Market
Luciano Typeface by Foxtype on Creative Market

We think it comes down to the large capital letters. They’re at once bold while also featuring an elegant slimline design that gives them a unique visual presence. There’s a quirkiness to the font – it’s always ready to throw up a surprise you might not be expecting as you use it to create documents are in your marketing materials. Throw plenty of accented characters into the mix – as well as the expected basic punctuation – and you have a font that’s really special.

6. Avalon

Avalon is a sans serif that was designed to be legible and easy to read. It is simple and balanced, with a classy touch. Avalon can be used for digital projects or print projects. It is a flexible typeface that will support your work.

What We Love About Avalon

Clarity in design.

Avalon - Multilingual Sans Serif Avalon - Multilingual Sans Serif by Jason Burkholder in on Creative Market
Avalon – Multilingual Sans Serif Avalon – Multilingual Sans Serif by Jason Burkholder in on Creative Market

Avalon screams that concept from the rooftops as it’s one of those font types that refuses to bow to the pressure to get overly “designy” with its style. It’s simple. Elegant. A true nod to the classic sans serifs while throwing in the occasional interesting curve to lend the font its own flavor.

7. Cern & Cern

Cern is designed to be readable both in print and on-screen and the italic variations were created for easy reading and text-setting. This font is a beautifully spaced and kerned typeface that works equally well for text typesetting and display design work.

What We Love About Cern & Cern Display

The sheer size of this font family is its biggest selling point – there are around 40 variations and weights available so you’re sure to find something that fits the design ethos of your latest project.

Cern & Cern Display by Wordshape on Creative Market

And no matter which of the weights you choose, you’re always going to get a font that emphasizes clarity above all else. It’s the perfect on-screen font that’s designed to be legible in any digital setting.

8. Hando Soft; Neo Grotesk

Each letter in Hando Soft features curved strokes, giving it a softer and more relaxed appearance. Its white spaces make it recognizable from a distance, and the curving stresses on the circular letterforms give it a futuristic feel. Its clean and straightforward strokes make it suitable for a wide range of projects.

What We Love About Hando Soft

We come back to the grotesques with Hando, though there are little flourishes of the serifs in the curves you’ll see in some of the lettering with this font. That’s the nod to the neo there – each curve lends a modern sensibility to an otherwise classical font style.

Hando Soft; Neo Grotesk Font Family by Eko Bimantara on Creative Market
Hando Soft; Neo Grotesk Font Family by Eko Bimantara on Creative Market

Then, there are the glyphs. A staggering 440 of them, to be exact, which offer the font broader support for the entire Latin font family.

9. Superclarendon

Superclarendon is a throwback to the original Clarendon of the 19th century, which includes four weights, as well as italics and old-style numerals.

What We Love About Superclarendon

Clarendon may be one of the oldest sans serifs fonts available, but Superclarendon gives it a bold update that shoots it right into the 21st century. For want of a better word, it’s the “chunkiness” that stands out with this font.

Superclarendon by Typodermic Fonts Inc. on Creative Market
Superclarendon by Typodermic Fonts Inc. on Creative Market

It’s just impossible to ignore – though you can lend the font a degree of subtlety with the varying weights – making Superclarendon perfect for posters and websites.

10. Woodman 

Normal, rounded, press, and grunge are the four styles offered by Woodman, offering a wide range of design possibilities for your project.

What We Love About Woodman

The chunkiness we saw in Superclarendon is present and accounted for in Woodman, too, though it comes with its own little design flourishes. You’ll see that in the “Os”, which have a more circular shape compared to the ovals in Superclarendon.

Woodman Slab Serif Font by Graphicdome on Creative Market
Woodman Slab Serif Font by Graphicdome on Creative Market

Still, the font’s boldness makes it just as great a choice for design work – especially for a “down-home” aesthetic – and the multiple weights give you plenty to play with.

Custom Fonts in Figma Made for Creative Market

With the advent of many open-source apps and free typefaces, typography and graphic design have never been so accessible to designers. But while everyone can pick random sans serif fonts or any free Figma fonts, choosing an appropriate one can be a tedious task.

Type design is a deep art with complex rules and concepts that you must understand before making competent choices for your project. As a designer, you don’t want to pick a typeface without considering all of the variables that make it function well with your design. 

Choosing between sans serif fonts, serif fonts or other local fonts can be a challenge, but at Creative Market, we make it easy for you. You can find our collection of Figma icons, graphics, and UI kits here and download the new Creative Market Figma plugin to speed up your design process. Sign up for a Creative Market account today!

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