Design Resources
Google Fonts
A free library of over 1,400 web fonts with straightforward licensing. The quality varies, but top-tier fonts like Inter, Roboto, and Playfair Display are production-ready and load fast via the CDN.
Google Fonts is a free font hosting service and library maintained by Google. It provides over 1,400 font families that can be embedded in websites via a simple link tag or API call, with no cost and no attribution requirement. The fonts are served from Google's CDN, which means fast load times globally.
The library quality is uneven, but the top tier includes genuinely excellent typefaces. Inter has become one of the most widely used UI fonts on the web. Roboto is the default Android font. Playfair Display is a reliable choice for editorial headings. These are not compromises they are fonts that would cost money on other platforms.
For web developers, Google Fonts is the default choice for adding custom typography to a project. The implementation is a single link tag in the HTML head, and the font is served from Google's CDN with appropriate caching headers. The performance impact is minimal for well-chosen fonts.
For designers, the ability to download fonts for local use means you can use the same typefaces in Figma that you will use in production, ensuring design-to-implementation consistency. Variable font support is increasingly useful for performance-conscious projects.
Completely free. All fonts are available under open source licenses, mostly the SIL Open Font License, that permit use in commercial projects.