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Choosing the right font can completely change the vibe you give off to your clients, perspective job opportunities, and anyone that you want your content to be seen by. Use this list of 12 free commercial use fonts to spruce up your resume, small business advertising, and more. Explore brand diversity and catch more people’s attention!

1. Valencia

“Valencia Typeface is a bold script type font. This font is themed vintage and retro style and of course this font is perfect for a variety of other themes such as modern, and the addition of swash will be visible more interesting. This font is perfect for use in logos, posters, typography, cover books, clothing, branding designs, product packaging, and more”

Download it on Creative Market.

2. Kristi

The Kristi typeface is a bit more casual and would be great to use to evoke a handwritten look.

Download it on Font Squirrel.

3. Briberra

“Introducing Briberra, a rough bold script designed by Sarid Ezra!

Briberra is hand lettering script font that contains stylistic alternates & swashes that will help to create your own customized designs. You can use this font for quotes, t-shirt designs, branding, plus plenty of other projects. This font contains multi lingual characters, supports PUA and is available in OTF and TTF formats.

To add an underline to any word just type underscore + number (from 1 to 5). For example, Brib_3erra in the main preview.”

Download it on Pixelsurplus.

4. Champignon

Champignon is great free commercial use fonts for invitations, placeholders, thank yous, or titles. It is a classical looking font and is best used for headers rather than paragraph text.

Download it on Dafont.

5. Australis

“Introducing, Australis typeface created by Alice Whales. This font is beautifully made with a natural hand writing. As you can see the flow of the bold and thin lines creates a perfect hand lettering just by typing on your keyboard! This typeface is based on manual handwriting which is very suitable for any design needs you have especially for invitation project, wedding, fashion, etc.”

Download it on Behance.

6. Kely Rose

“Kely Rose is an accumulation of the ideas from a trend on the internet about handlettering style. Comes with the fancy style and made to give you ease in accomplishing the work of typography such as logotype, poster, headline, and other creative projects. Kely Rose comes with usability to use for Logotype, Letterhead, Poster, Apparel Design, Label and etc.”

Download it on Font Bundles.

7. Bukhari

“Bukhari Script is a bold monoline cursive font.
And also I called this face as a “Mouse Lettering Typeface”, because it’s start created from a bold line with a computer mouse.

Very usefull for various design projects, for web or printing, such as a Logotype, Posters, Badges, Signage, Business Card, T-shirt Design, or it can be anything. Bukhari Script contains almost 380 glyphs with several OpenType Features; Contextual Alternate, Stylistic Alternate, Standard Ligature & Fraction.”

Download it on Fontfabric.

8. Balqis

“Balqis is a feminine striped-rough calligraphy typeface that presents casual and natural feeling. It has a high contrast and very legible as a script font. Suitable for wedding invitations, greeting card designs, logos, or everything you may think it suits. Balqis Free Font available in OTF and TTF format.”

Download it on FDR.

9. Sophia

“Sophia a handlettered script font made by the super-talented Emily Spadoni. This font is sweet, saucy, and a little shabby. A new hand-lettered brush style typeface.”

Download it on Creativebooster.

10. Pinyon

“Pinyon Script is a romantic round hand script style font. It also sports swashes which are confident and showy somehow giving the type a feeling suggestive of the American west. Perhaps this is why, despite refinement and aristocratic style; Pinyon Script manages to feel so friendly. Pinyon Script uses a high stroke contrast and is very slanted making it most suitable for use at larger sizes.”

Download it on 1001fonts.

11. Learning Curve

“Learning Curve mimics traditional cursive lettering practice worksheets, but with a modern style that I developed from my handwriting.”

Download it on Font Squirrel.

12. Miss Katherine

“Miss Katherine script is a graceful, feminine, calligraphic handwritten script font. Its charming elegant style makes it perfect for use in your wedding invitations design, monograms, blog headlines or cards. Also, it will look great in gorgeous wedding stationery, typographic designs, posters and much more.”

Download it on Creative Market.

Use these free commercial use fonts to help build your advertising, brand strength, and catch people’s eye.