Typefaces are everywhere: banners, brochures, posters, logos, applications, web pages… Any graphic design job that contains text involves making use of typefaces, and sometimes finding the right one for each project can become a chore. quite complicated.

And it is that choosing the right font can help us convey emotions, differentiate the brand from the competition, create impact or simply help the message to be transmitted better. This implies being clear about the objectives of the piece that we are designing, knowing the recipient of the design well and, of course, investing some time in researching and looking for the typeface that best suits what we want to convey.

To make this last task a little easier, today I wanted to round up some of my favorite fonts that I’ve found and used over the past few months. All of them have a free version for personal use and some require a license for commercial use, although in general it is usually quite affordable (and even more so if you use it for a project for which they are paying you).

I leave them here and I hope you like them 🙂

Miju

This typeface, designed by Jérémie Gauthier (France), is inspired by Japanese culture. It has letters full of contrast that make it a typography as original as it is impressive. It’s free for personal use and licenses for commercial use start at $20.

Download miju

soul craft

Massimo Studio (Brazil) are responsible for this variable typeface that allows you to change the width and slant of each character individually. As they say, this “allows to replicate some peculiar characteristics found in the use of sans-serif letters in street signs and walls, giving an energetic and dynamic feeling to the compositions”. It is free for personal and commercial use and they have a space to donate if you want to thank them for their work.

Download soul craft

LERTY

Over here we have a curious typography created by Kai Javier. The wavy and irregular shapes of it give it an organic and fun touch, perfect for great headlines. It is free for personal and commercial use.

Download LERTY

SK Concrete

This experimental typeface designed by Tikhon Reztcov and Andrey Karter (Russia) is “inspired by the works of great masters of type design, such as Adrian Frutiger, Eric Spickerman or Claude Garamon”. The result is a typeface steeped in the “spirit of modernism and monumentalism.” You can download it for free for personal use, for commercial use licenses start at 8 dollars.

Download SK Concrete

trap*

Aayush Mayank (India) is the author of this san serif font that is designed to work well at both large sizes and smaller texts. This typeface was free, but currently the designer uses the formula of “pay what you want for it” starting with a dollar (come on, for a dollar -for commercial and personal use- it is as if they gave it to you anyway).

Download trap*

N. T. Wagner

Let’s go now with this retro typeface created by Artem Nevsky (Russia), ideal to add a nostalgic touch to your design. It’s free for personal use and commercial licenses start at $18.

Download NT Wagner

S.K. Pupok

SK Pupok is “a decorative typeface with smooth, rounded shapes, perfect for experimenting with compositions and typographic styles.” It’s designed by Valentina Zigangirova and is free for personal use (for commercial use, licenses start at $8).

Download sk pupok

Onekta

This typeface was designed to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Flúor Studio Design Advisors (Lisbon) and they have made it freely available to the public. The shapes of the letters are formed “by rectilinear lines that contrast with marked and elegant curves.”

Download Onekta

Daily Offer

Over here we have a nice typography inspired by the price signs that we can find in some markets and traditional stores. Its designer is Eduardo Ramalho and it is free for commercial and personal use.

Download Daily Offer

Publisher New

An elegant typeface “designed for large text” by Mathieu Desjardins for Pangram Pangram. As its author explains, “it is perfect to give your designs a retro touch from the mid-90s while remaining contemporary”. It’s free for personal use and commercial licenses start at $30.

Download Editorial New

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I could not count how many times a mockup has saved my life. And like me, millions of designers around the world. But if you are not very into the world of graphic design, that word may sound like Chinese to you, so I’m going to tell you a bit about what it is about.

Mockups are a kind of photomontage that allows designers to show a preview of how your designs would look applied to different formats. For example, let’s say you are commissioned to design an illustration for a mug and when you have it finished, the client wants to see how the design would look on the mug. Well, instead of having to print a real mug (with the consequent expense that this entails), with a mockup you can make a virtual montage that allows you to see roughly how the illustration would look on the mug.

If you are still studying, mockups can also be a good way to show your work in your portfolio. This gives a more professional appearance and can help you bring your designs to life, putting them in context so that they are much better understood.

There are many types of mockups ranging from business cards, brochures, books, posters, t-shirts, billboards … But if you don’t know where to look for them, here are my favorite places where you can find free and quality mockups .

Hope you find it useful!

GraphicBurger

This is one of my favorite sites to download free mockups. The only bad thing is that they are not categorized and you have to go looking around the web to find what you are looking for. However, the quality of the mockups and that they are free for personal and commercial use, makes it worth the effort.

Go to GraphicBurger

Behance

Behance can also be a good place to find free mockups. And is that many designers use this platform to upload their photomontages and thus make them available to anyone who wants to use them. Of course, take a good look before downloading if they are suitable for personal or commercial use.

Go to Behance

Freepik

I have spoken to you Freepik several times already, but it is a page that I use a lot in my day to day. Among other things, here you can also find mockups, so it is worth taking a look. On the positive side, it has a fairly powerful search engine (and in Spanish!) And a wide variety of resources. The bad thing is that in the free version (it has a premium that can be paid monthly or annually) it has the condition of use to mention the author.

Go to Freepik

Mockup Planet

Mockup Planet is a website that collects free mock-ups and has a fairly extensive catalog. You also have them sorted by categories, although the bad part is that if you want to download one, it makes you share it on social networks before or wait 30 seconds. I don’t use it too much for that, but it is an option that you can take into account if you do not find what you are looking for in the previous ones.

Go to Mockup Planet

Dribbble

With Dribbble it happens a bit like with Behance. Despite not being a platform designed for this, there are many users who share their free mockups with the community so that whoever wants to can use them freely.

Go to Dibbble

Free Design Resources

This is a very interesting website that collects resources for graphic designers. In addition to mockups, they also have fonts, templates and vectors, so I would bookmark them if you dedicate yourself to design.

Go to Free Design Resources

MockupFree

Although I don’t like the design of this page very much (it is full of advertising) and that Some of the mockups they have seem a bit old, I also wanted to include MockupFree in this list because they have a pretty big catalog. It depends on what you are looking for, it may be useful for you.

Go to Mockupfree

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Mockups are a good way to show a design applied to different formats without actually producing them. They are a kind of easy-to-edit photomontages that allow you to show how your work would look to the client so that he can get an idea of ​​what the final result will be.

As finding templates of this type on the net can be a complicated task (in the end there are so many sources that you can go crazy), I have compiled here a collection of mockups of free business cards that I think are quite good . You will see that there are different models, from some more traditional to others more modern and striking.

They are all free and once you download them, just edit the corresponding layer and add your design for the magic to work. By the way, if you are looking for other types of templates.

Perspective business card mockup

This perspective mockup is a good way to show your business card design, especially if you have different designs. In this way you will be able to show different versions in a single image in a simple and visual way.

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Minimal and colorful business card mockup

What I like most about this mockup is that it allows you to change the colors of the table and the background, in this way you can better combine it with the design of the card you want show.

Download

Falling business card mockup

This mockup gives a point of dynamism to the presentation of business cards thanks to the “zero gravity” effect that simulates that the cards are flying.

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Plastic business card mockup

Plastic business cards are an alternative to traditional ones and achieve a greater impact due to their peculiarity. This mockup includes different positions to show how it would look from different angles.

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Mockup of business cards scattered on the table

A very fun and informal mockup, ideal for displaying different variations of business card design. It also allows you to change the background color to match different creatives.

Download

Vertical business card mockup

If your card design is vertical, you can take a look at this mockup. Very minimal and elegant, it fits perfectly with all styles and types of companies.

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Business card mockup with colored border

If you plan to design cards with a colored border, this mockup will help you capture your idea in a very visual way as it combines individual cards with piles to better appreciate the colored edges.

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Tidy business card mockup

I personally like business card mockups like this one. They create a very beautiful visual pattern that can be a hit for our clients.

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Mockup of a hand holding business cards

Although I personally don’t like it very much, around here you have another option to show the design of your business cards: with one hand holding them. You can get a pretty cool effect by adding a blurred image to the background.

Download

Business card mockups in piles

Another way to display business cards is with this mockup that includes different piles in perspective. The truth is that the effect is very cool, don’t you think?

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Mockup of business cards on a wooden table

The wooden back is a classic that never fails. In this mockup, the cards are presented in two piles, one larger and one smaller, so that you can show the front and back of the design.

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Photorealistic business card mockup

This mockup follows a photorealistic aesthetic to show the design of the business card hooked on a metal clip. An elegant and minimal result that can look great.

Download

Mockup business cards in pastel colors

A fun and minimal mockup to show off your business card designs in a lighthearted way. You can customize the backgrounds to better suit your work.

Download

Pyramid-shaped business card mockup

This is probably one of the funniest and most original business card mockups I’ve ever seen. Instead of showing your design in a conventional way, why not do it in the form of a pyramid of playing cards?

Download

Business card mockup on a desk

We finish with this business card mockup on a desk with Scandinavian style. The file includes three different scenes with different backgrounds so that you can choose the one that convinces you the most.

Download

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During these days you will surely have had to design a poster related to COVID-19: what if instructions to wash your hands, recommendations for hygiene, safety measures … From Iconfinder they have thought of contributing their bit and have made available to all creatives more than 300 vector icons to help in the fight against the spread of the virus.

The icons are available in PNG, SVG (a vector format), and IconJar completely free of charge. In total there are 11 collections from 11 different designers that deal with topics such as hand washing, symptoms of the disease, safety recommendations and other designs related to COVID-19.

You can download them all from this page special that Iconfinder has created for the occasion. However, remember that they are shared under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license (they can be shared and adapted to your liking as long as credit is given to the author).

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