Free dafont fonts. Every licence verified.

No. DaFontFonts is an independent font library with no connection to dafont.com or any other font archive, and we do not mirror anyone's uploads. The difference is the rule we run on: every one of these 15,598 styles across 4,562 families carries an open licence verified against its authoritative source, so all of them are free for commercial use, not just personal use.

Yes, every single one. The catalog only accepts fonts under the SIL Open Font License, Apache 2.0, the Ubuntu Font Licence, MIT or CC0. All five permit client work, logos, trademarks, merchandise, print-on-demand, and web and app embedding, with no royalties and no credit required in your finished design. The licence and what it permits are printed on every font page above the download button.

Two separate risks are worth separating. Font files are data rather than programs, so the files themselves are usually fine as long as you avoid mirror sites and bundled download-manager installers. The risk that actually costs money is licensing: on any large user-upload archive, free often means free for personal use only, and the real terms sit in a readme inside the zip. That is the gap this site closes by verifying the licence before a font is ever listed.

Three routes work here. Search the catalog by name if you know it, browse by style if you only know the look, or read our guide on how to identify a font, which covers reverse-image tools and the letterform details that give a typeface away. The style route runs through cursive, gothic, tattoo, pixel, retro and around fifty other curated categories.

Arial Narrow is a Monotype typeface bundled with Microsoft Office, not a free font, so any archive offering it as a free download is distributing it without a licence. The safe route is an open alternative: Liberation Sans is drawn to Arial metrics, and Archivo Narrow, Roboto Condensed and Barlow Condensed all set narrow. Our Arial alternatives page compares them side by side.

No. Starborn is an archive-exclusive novelty face whose terms we cannot verify from an authoritative source, and unverifiable licences do not enter this catalog. If you want that condensed retro-futuristic feel with a licence you can rely on, start with the futuristic and retro categories.

ITC Benguiat, a commercial ITC typeface, so no free archive can hand it to you legally no matter how a listing is labelled. The closest open-licensed work sits in the retro and horror categories, which hold the heavy serif display faces that give the same 1980s paperback look.

Yes. If you want styled text for an Instagram bio, a Discord name or a TikTok caption, an installed font will not help, because those apps render their own. Our text generators output Unicode characters that already look fancy, cursive, bold, gothic, bubbled or glitched, so you copy the result and paste it as plain text anywhere.

Nothing to install. The whole site is static HTML that runs in your browser on phone and desktop alike: previews render locally, favourites are stored in your own browser, and there is no account, sign-up or email collection at any point.

Hundreds of families, from formal copperplate and calligraphic scripts to loose brush lettering and casual handwriting. The cursive category is the place to start, with calligraphy, script, brush and handwriting as neighbouring lists. All of them are commercial-use safe, which matters for wedding suites, logo signatures and Cricut work.

The dripping and melting display look lives mostly in the horror and graffiti categories here: streetwear, poster and Halloween lettering with liquid terminals. As with everything else on the site, each one carries a verified open licence, so a dripping headline can go on merchandise you sell.

Preview it in the real words first. Type your own text into the preview bar rather than judging a font on a stock sentence, because a name or a headline exposes spacing problems that Handgloves hides. Then compare your shortlist side by side and check the licence, since tattoos and logos are exactly the commercial uses that personal-use fonts forbid. The logo and tattoo categories are curated for this.

Not in your artwork. None of the five licences here require attribution in a design, on a product or in an app interface. Some ask that the licence text travel with the font files if you redistribute the font itself, which is a different thing from using it. Every designer is credited on their font page regardless, and the licences page explains the fine print.

Open any font page and press Download. You get a zip containing the font files plus the licence text, straight from this domain with no wait timer, no redirect and no download manager. Unzip it wherever you like: on Windows right-click the zip and choose Extract All, on macOS double-click it, on iPhone or Android tap the file in Files or your downloads folder. The .ttf or .otf files inside are what you install.

On Windows, unzip first, then right-click each .ttf or .otf file and choose Install, or Install for all users if the font needs to be visible to every account. On macOS, double-click the file and press Install Font in Font Book. On iPhone or iPad you need a font-installer app such as iFont or AnyFont, which installs the font as a configuration profile you then approve in Settings. On Android, most launchers cannot install system fonts without root, so use an app that supports importing font files directly instead. One rule everywhere: install from the unzipped folder, not from inside the zip, or the font may appear to install and then vanish.

Cricut Design Space does not have an upload box for fonts. It reads whatever fonts are installed on your computer, so the sequence is download, unzip, install to the system, then restart Design Space. After the restart, open a text layer, click the font dropdown and switch the filter from Cricut Fonts to System Fonts, and your new font is listed there alphabetically. That single flow is the answer to every version of this question, whether you searched for downloading, adding, uploading or getting fonts into Cricut.

Four causes account for almost all of it. You installed the font from inside the zip rather than from the unzipped folder, so nothing actually reached the system font folder. You did not fully quit and reopen Design Space, which only reads the font list at startup. You are looking at the Cricut Fonts filter instead of System Fonts. Or you are searching for the file name rather than the font family name, which are often different. Working through those four in order fixes it nearly every time.

The iOS version of Design Space reads fonts installed on the device itself, so install the font first with a font-manager app such as iFont or AnyFont, approve the configuration profile in Settings, then force-close Design Space and reopen it. Your font appears under System Fonts on the text layer. On Android the picture is less reliable, since custom system fonts generally are not installable without root, so cutting from a desktop is the dependable route there.

Google Docs cannot import a font file at all, so no downloaded .ttf will ever appear in it. What it can do is load any family from the Google Fonts library: open the font dropdown, click More fonts at the top, then search and tick the family you want to add it to your list permanently. This works out well here, because a large share of this catalog is drawn from the Google Fonts open-source collection, so many fonts you preview on this site are available in Docs under exactly the same name. For a family that is not in that library, set the text in a design tool and place it in the document as an image.

Identically to Docs: the font dropdown, then More fonts, then search the Google Fonts library and tick what you want. Slides shares its font list with the rest of Google Workspace, so a family you add in Docs shows up in Slides too. Custom font file uploads are not supported, so for a family outside the Google Fonts library the practical route is to set the headline as an image and insert that on the slide, which also guarantees the layout survives on someone else’s machine.

Word, Photoshop and Illustrator all read your system font list, so once the font is installed and the application has been restarted, it simply appears in the font menu. Canva works differently because it runs in the browser: use Brand Kit and upload the font file there, which is available on Canva Pro. Every font on this site carries a licence permitting exactly this kind of embedding and commercial use, so there is nothing to check before you ship the file.

Yes, always unzip before installing. Inside you will find the font files themselves as .ttf or .otf, one per style, plus the full licence text as OFL.txt, LICENSE.txt or similar. Variable font families ship a single file that contains the whole weight range rather than one file per weight. Keep the licence file with your project archive if you plan to redistribute the font itself, though you never need it just to use the font in a design.