Whether on the web or in print, clean fonts are fantastic for communicating complex information as they convey a sense of simplicity. They are also ideal for bringing a sense of professionalism, making them perfect for legal documents, resumes, business memos, and presentations.

The font you choose will depend on the specific requirements of your project. But by prioritizing legibility, simplicity, and versatility, the clean font you select will need to ensure that your content or project is easy to read, understand, and visually appealing.

In this collection, we have fifty free fonts that will hopefully help to make your search easier. You can use the free fonts in this collection in your personal projects, with some also allowing for commercial use. Also, please check the licenses of each font before usage, as they have been known to change from time to time.

Remember that typography plays a critical role in how a user interacts with your project, so when it comes to selecting your clean font, please “choose wisely.”

What is a Clean Font?

A clean font is a type of font that looks simple and easy to read. It’s like writing with a plain, straight pen without fancy curls or decorations. They have clear lines and don’t have extra bits added to the letters. Because of this, they look elegant and uncluttered.

Clean fonts are perfect when you want people to read something easily, like on a sign, website, or book. They’re also great when you have a block of text and want to ensure people can read it quickly without distractions.

The best part about clean fonts is that they’re timeless. They don’t go out of style because their simplicity makes them always look modern. Whether making a poster, a report, or designing something cool, a clean font can help your words look great and easy to understand.

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These fonts may be the best fonts for you, but are they actually good for general coding? I would never tell you which font is good (currently, I am using Ubuntu Mono Regular) or bad, as there is no way to categorically measure it. It does come down to each coder’s preference. But there are certain fonts freely available designed purely with programmers and coders in mind, which you may like to consider.

With this post, I just wanted to highlight some of the best free monospaced fonts that have been optimized for programming and also offer some basic pointers for selecting a particular font.

So what should you be looking for in a good monospaced programming font? For starters, it has to be clear and highly readable, proportionally spaced, and for obvious reasons, needs to come packaged with an extended character set with distinguishable glyphs. And perhaps more importantly than legibility, the 1, i & l and o, 0 & O have to be clearly identifiable as different characters.

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One of the key perks of using an icon font is its scalability. They can be resized without losing quality, making them perfect for responsive web design, as they can be scaled – with CSS media queries – up for desktop or down for mobile. On top of that, icon fonts are fully customizable, allowing you to easily adjust the size and edit the color to fit the layout and color scheme of a particular UI design.

Icon fonts are incredibly easy to add to any web design or mobile app project using CSS. You load the font file using @font-face, and using standard CSS rules, you can set the font-size, color, padding, margin, or other properties.

Although very popular, icon fonts do also have their pitfalls. Ian Feather has discussed his reasons for switching from an icon font to SVG, and CSS Tricks have outlined some considerations when choosing between icon fonts or SVG icons. Both favor SVG.

As a counter-argument, Pictonic has said that icon fonts are 10% faster than SVG. These are just things you should consider before you use icon fonts.

To ensure that your icons always load correctly and have reliable fallbacks for browsers that don’t support @fontface, you should take a look at the guidelines set out by the Filament Group, Bulletproof Accessible Icon Fonts.

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And it’s a good thing that free web fonts have come along. Typography on the web used to be incredibly boring. It started out with the limitation that a specific font had to be on a user’s system in order to be viewed correctly in a browser. Eventually, @font-face brought more options to the table. But licensing issues were often difficult to deal with (if dealt with at all).

The brilliance of Google Fonts is the flexibility you have with where and how you use it. You can load fonts via Google’s service or download them to place on your own server or device. Plus, they receive contributions from font artists worldwide. That has led to an incredible variety of available styles.

Of course, some fonts tend to be more popular than others. Thanks to the openness of the library, Google provides a nifty analytics page that breaks down how much usage each font receives. Let’s take a look at ten of the most used fonts in the library. Note that, in some cases, multiple members of the same font family are separate entries on Google’s list. We’ll avoid repeating ourselves in those instances.

Top Google Fonts for UI Designers

Open Sans by Steve Matteson

It’s probably not much of a surprise that Open Sans leads the way as you tend to see it all over the place. WordPress even used it as the default dashboard font at one point. It’s clean, easy-to-read and comes in an abundance of styles. The condensed version also ranks as one of Google’s more popular choices.

Roboto by Christian Robertson

Again, we Google Fonts fanatics love our sans-serif type. This one is great for body text as it lends itself well to reading at smaller sizes. The look is also very modern and matches up nicely with more minimalist designs. It also saw a massive 65% jump in usage from February 2017-18. Also note that the condensed version is the sixth most-used font as well.

Lato by Łukasz Dziedzic

Did I mention the obsession with sans-serifs? Lato is one that I do find myself using a lot. As with its mates in the top three, it comes in a variety of styles and is a jack-of-all-trades. I think that helps to explain its popularity, along with the fact that it fits in with modern design trends.

Slabo 27px by John Hudson

Finally, a serif in sight! What makes Slabo 27px a bit unique is that both it and its sister font (Slabo 13px) are optimized for viewing at the pixel size reflected in its name. This flavor is a great choice for producing clear, readable headlines.

Oswald by Vernon Adams, Kalapi Gajjar and Cyreal