11 Google Fonts for your next design
Google Fonts offers designers a wide variety of typefaces to use for all their design purposes.
As of May 2019, there are more than 900 fonts to choose from—which means you could spend days choosing the right one.
As of May 2019, there are more than 900 fonts to choose from—which means you could spend days choosing the right one.
We’ve highlighted 11 of them and showcased how they look in the wild. But it’s worth noting: the right typeface is contextual. Consider this a starting point for navigating the massive list of options in Google Fonts.
And later, we’ll show you how you can use Google Fonts on your website.
11 Google Fonts for your next design
With each, we’ve also included a sample of how each design could look in all of its different styles, as well as who designed it.
Let’s jump in:
1. Roboto
Designed by: Christian Robertson
Styles: 12
With more than 5 trillion (that’s with a “t”) total views, Roboto is the most popular and downloaded font in Google’s typeface library by far.
Styles: 12
With more than 5 trillion (that’s with a “t”) total views, Roboto is the most popular and downloaded font in Google’s typeface library by far.
It’s a font first developed by Christian Robertson as the default for all of Google’s in-house typeface of choice.
2. Oswald
Designed by: Vernon Adams
Styles: 6
Oswald is an homage to the Alternate Gothic typeface family. Created by type designer Vernon Adams, the font was continually updated by the designer up until 2014 when he was involved in a tragic accident that ultimately claimed his life.
Styles: 6
Oswald is an homage to the Alternate Gothic typeface family. Created by type designer Vernon Adams, the font was continually updated by the designer up until 2014 when he was involved in a tragic accident that ultimately claimed his life.
3. Open Sans
Designed by: Steve Matteson
Styles: 10
Open Sans comes from the humanist family of typefaces: fonts that were inspired and based on Renaissance calligraphy reminiscent of human handwriting.
Styles: 10
Open Sans comes from the humanist family of typefaces: fonts that were inspired and based on Renaissance calligraphy reminiscent of human handwriting.
4. Lato
Designed by: Łukasz Dziedzic
Styles: 10
Another sans serif typeface, this time from Warsaw-based designer Łukasz Dziedzic. With updates as recent as 2014, Lato features slightly rounded strokes which gives it a “feeling of warmth,” according to the designer. That’s reflected in its name: “Lato” is Polish for summer.
5. Poppins
Designed by: Indian Type Foundry
Styles: 18
Poppins is a geometric sans serif font with influence and support from the Devanagari and Latin writing systems—which is cool because the Devanagari system is used in more than 120 Indo-Aryan languages, including Hindi, Nepali, Sanskrit, and Urdu.
Styles: 18
Poppins is a geometric sans serif font with influence and support from the Devanagari and Latin writing systems—which is cool because the Devanagari system is used in more than 120 Indo-Aryan languages, including Hindi, Nepali, Sanskrit, and Urdu.
6. Lora
Designed by: Cyreal
Styles: 4
Lora is a popular serif font influenced by calligraphy. According to the designer, “[The] overall typographic voice of Lora perfectly conveys the mood of a modern-day story, or an art essay.”
Lora is a popular serif font influenced by calligraphy. According to the designer, “[The] overall typographic voice of Lora perfectly conveys the mood of a modern-day story, or an art essay.”
7. Rubik
Designed by: Philipp Hubert and Sebastian Fischer
Styles: 10
Rubik’s rounded edges and large counters give it a friendly feel. Originally, this typeface was designed by Philipp Hubert and Sebastian Fischer at Hubert & Fischer for Google’s Chrome Cube Lab project.
Styles: 10
Rubik’s rounded edges and large counters give it a friendly feel. Originally, this typeface was designed by Philipp Hubert and Sebastian Fischer at Hubert & Fischer for Google’s Chrome Cube Lab project.
It got a redesign for Hebrew in 2015 by Meir Sadan, followed by a Cyrillic redesign by Alexei Vanyashin in 2016.
8. Monstserrat
Designed by: Julieta Ulanovsky
Styles: 18
Montserrat is a sans serif last updated in 2017. Birthed from a Kickstarter project, the typeface was inspired by the urban typography found in posters and signs found in the Julieta Ulanovsky’s home in the Montserrat neighborhood in Buenos Aires.
Styles: 18
Montserrat is a sans serif last updated in 2017. Birthed from a Kickstarter project, the typeface was inspired by the urban typography found in posters and signs found in the Julieta Ulanovsky’s home in the Montserrat neighborhood in Buenos Aires.
It’s a love letter to the early-20th century typefaces that used to be found all over the South American city.
9. Source Sans Pro
Designed by: Paul D. Hunt
Styles: 12Source Sans Pro is a sans serif and also has the distinction of being Adobe’s first open source typeface for use in user interfaces. The font is also an incredibly popular one with more than 4.3 million websites leveraging the typeface.
Styles: 12Source Sans Pro is a sans serif and also has the distinction of being Adobe’s first open source typeface for use in user interfaces. The font is also an incredibly popular one with more than 4.3 million websites leveraging the typeface.
10. PT Sans
Designed by: ParaType
Styles: 4
This sans serif was originally developed as part of the “Public Types of Russian Federation,” a project dedicated to the 300th anniversary of Peter the Great’s Bulavin Rebellion—because nothing says “Russia’s violent, blood-soaked history” quite like a handsome typeface. The typeface comes in both Latin and Cyrillic styles.
Styles: 4
This sans serif was originally developed as part of the “Public Types of Russian Federation,” a project dedicated to the 300th anniversary of Peter the Great’s Bulavin Rebellion—because nothing says “Russia’s violent, blood-soaked history” quite like a handsome typeface. The typeface comes in both Latin and Cyrillic styles.
11. Karla
Designed by: Jonny Pinhorn
Styles: 4
Karla is a grotesque sans serif font that supports both Latin and Tamil scripts.
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How to use Google Fonts
The ways you use Google Fonts can be endless, but there are only a few ways you can actually get the fonts to use them.
We’re going to walk you through two common ways of doing it. Here they are:
We’re going to walk you through two common ways of doing it. Here they are:
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