Google fonts are open source fonts and the most important thing is that it is available with a zero-cost price tag, which allows you to select and use any Google font-face for free of charge.
As it’s necessary for a song to have a good rhythm, just like that good looking font is needed to make any website beautiful.
Google fonts allow the browser to connect to google fonts and access them even if it is not already pre-installed on your computer.
In this article, we will talk about some free Google fonts which are popular as well as the designer’s favourite.
Let’s plunge –
Roboto
Roboto was developed by Google as the system font for Android but now it also famous in web designers and comes with 12 styles with different appearances. It is the most popular font. Roboto is free to use. It has a dual nature one is a mechanical skeleton and the other is geometric.
This font has some key points which are as follows-
Designer: Christian Robertson
Creation: 2011
Category: Sans-serif
Classification: Neo-grotesque
License: Apache License 2.0
Best pairing font: Open Sans, Noto Sans JP, Lato
Lato
Lato font is the most unique and interesting. It is used on more than 9.6 million websites, third-most served font on Google Fonts and it can be used without any limitations for commercial and non-commercial purposes. It is available in 9 weights with distinct italic variants and supports all Latin alphabets, along with Cyrillic, Greek.
This font has some key points which are as follows-
Designer: Lukasz Dziedzic
Creation: 2010
Category: Sans Serif
Classification: Grotesque
License: Open Font License
Best pairing font: Roboto, Open Sans, Raleway, Oswald, Source Sans Pro
Oswald
Oswald is one of the most popular and used fonts on the web today with consisting of 4 fonts that are Oswald-Regular, Oswald-Light. Oswald-Bold, Oswald-Stencil. It is a free, open-source sans-serif typeface available through Google Fonts.
This font has some key points which are as follows-
Designer: Vernon Adams
Creation: 2011
Category: Sans Serif
Classification: Grotesque
License: Open Font License
Best pairing font: Open Sans, Roboto, Lato, Montserrat, Raleway
Montserrat
Montserrat is useful and very famous among web and UI designers. You can use it in any design project. It is available via an open-source license that’s why people use it free of cost. people use it commercially and non commercially both.
This font has some key points which are as follows-
Designer: Julieta Ulanovs
Creation: 2014
Category: Sans Serif
Classification: Grotesque
License Open Font License
Best pairing font Roboto, Montserrat, Roboto, Open Sans, Raleway, Lato, Oswald.
Open Sans
Open Sans is a flat design-style web design and used Google’s web pages, print, and web advertisements. It has 5 weights Light, Normal, Semi-Bold, Bold, and Extra Bold, each of them comes in italic version. Open sans has a friendly appearance and It was optimized for print, web, and mobile interfaces, etc.
This font has some key points which are as follows-
Designer: Steve Matteson
Creation: 2010
Category: Sans-serif
Classification: Humanist
License: Apache License 2.0
Best pairing font: Roboto, Lato, Montserrat, Oswald, Raleway
Raleway
Raleway is an elegant sans-serif typeface family with 9 weight with a range from Extra Light to Heavy If you are a fan of Gotham, you’ll like this one. It also includes geometric sans-serif typefaces. It also has a sister family, Raleway Dots.
This font has some key points which are as follows-
Designer: Matt McInerney
Creation: 2010
Category: Sans Serif
Classification: Neo-grotesque
License: Open Font License
Best pairing font: Open Sans, Roboto, Lato, Montserrat, Oswald
PT Sans
PT Sans font family consists of 8 styles: 4 basic styles, 2 captions styles for small sizes, and 2 narrows styles for economic type setting. It is based on Russian sans serif types. PT sans include standard Western, Central European, and Cyrillic code pages and characters of every title language in the Russian Federation which makes it a unique and very important tool for modern digital communications.
This font has some key points which are as follows-
Designer: Alexandra Korolkova
Creation: 2010
Category: Sans-serif;
License: Open Font License
Best pairing font: Roboto, Open Sans, Lato, Montserrat, PT Serif
Nunito Sans
Nunito is an attractive and versatile sans-serif font with 8 different weights .and 2 versions. It has an open front license so you can use it freely. Nunito Sans Font Family – Is a family of fonts that include 14 fonts posted on google fonts.
This font has some key points which are as follows-
Designer: Vernon Adams
Creation: 2013
Category: Sans Serif
Classification Grotesque
License Open Font License
Best pairing font Roboto, Montserrat, Open Sans, Lato, Raleway
Poppins
Poppins comes with support for the Devanagari and Latin writing systems. It is free and accessible for anyone with good readability and helps to create awesome text-based images, logos with different colors, and also gives hundreds of text effects.
This font has some key points which are as follows-
Designer: Indian Type Foundry
Creation: 2014
Category: Sans Serif
License: Open Font License
Best pairing font: Roboto, Open Sans, Raleway, Roboto Slab
Rubik
Rubik is a sans serif font family with a slightly rounded corner and has 5 weight family with Roman and Italic styles. It has a monospaced variation of the Black roman design.
This font has some key points which are as follows-
Designer: Hubert and Fischer
Creation: 2015
Category: Sans Serif
Classification: Grotesque
License: Open Font License
Best pairing font: Roboto, Open Sans, Montserrat, Lato, Raleway
All the above-mentioned fonts are very popular and used by millions of websites so far.
These fonts can be used on your website by embedding them into the <head> of your HTML.
Please comment if this article helped you find some awesome fonts also let us know which font you like the most.
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