Finding the right font is the most important part of book design. It not only plays a key role in improving readability but also helps make your book look more professional.
In this collection, we’re featuring some of the best fonts you can use to design books. It’s always good practice to use at least two different fonts for your titles and body text. Of course, the cover design requires an entirely different font as well.
We made sure to cover all these aspects in this collection by listing fonts for covers, titles, and body text.
Sans-serif fonts are proven to improve readability. It’s ideal to use a sans font for body text. For titles, you can use both serif and sans fonts. However, there are times you may want to mix and match. We’ll leave it up to you to decide.
Morton is another modern font family that comes with 9 different font weights. This font can be used as both a title font or for body text. It features a condensed and grotesque style of design that gives it a classic look and feel. The font is ideal for professional and non-fiction book designs.
RNS Sanz is a clean and minimalist sans-serif font family you can use with business and corporate books and magazines. This font includes 7 different font weights ranging from light to bold and black. Making it a suitable choice for designing both titles and body text.
Remember that big blocky text you see on the signs in industrial zones and on the sides of large containers. This is a font inspired by those industrial fonts. It has a very geometric design and it’s perfect for crafting titles for many different types of books. The font features 9 weights and includes glyphs as well.
Even though sans-serif fonts are perfect for all kinds of book designs, we can’t leave out the elegance of serif fonts. Addington CF is a professional serif font you can use with your business-related and non-fiction book designs. The font comes in 7 weights including italic sets.
You can use this beautiful font for free with your various book design projects. It actually comes with a license that allows you to use it with commercial projects as well. The font includes 12 different weights featuring both uppercase and lowercase letters.
Landasans is another free font you can use with your personal projects. This font comes with a tall and narrow design that makes it most suitable for book cover and title designs.
You can create a bold and stylish book cover and titles using this creative font. Flix is a modern display font that features a set of unique letters with rounded edges. This is an all-caps font so it can only be used to design titles and covers.
Ace Sans is a modern font family that comes with multiple styles. It includes 8 different weights with light to extra bold and black styles. This wide variety of font styles makes this a great choice for crafting both titles and body text for your book projects.
This is another modern font featuring a total of 12 fonts. Orion Pro is available in 6 different weights and each style has an italic version as well. The font design is inspired by Swiss fonts and it’s perfect for book body text design.
Check out Sumo, a fun, and playful typeface perfect for kids’ books, and comics. It comes with 273 ligatures, standard uppercase, and lowercase characters, and seamless multilingual support. Do try this out for your upcoming book title.
Here we have Maxwell, a neat, condensed sans-serif font that will take you back to the 50s without a time machine. It can very well be used as a headline, or body text, and comes with a range of customization features to keep you busy.
Created with attention to detail, Benja is a dialogue font perfectly suited for comic books. It features a range of glyphs, international characters, and multilingual support. You can get your hands on Benja without having to spend a penny.
Fonseca is a beautiful font family with a design inspired by classic art deco from the early 20th century. This font is simply perfect for designing book cover titles and headings. The font includes a total of 16 typefaces including 8 weights with obliques, alternates, and with more than 340 glyphs.
If you’re looking for a big and bold font to design an attractive cover for a book or even design titles for pages, this font is perfect for you. Frank is a bold sans-serif font that comes in 5 different weights featuring each weight in 4 different styles including oblique and rough styles. It also has more than 300 glyphs as well.
A stylish and bold font that’s ideal for making titles and headings. This free version includes one font style from the font family. You can use it for free with your personal projects.
Just as the name suggests, this free font features a stylish italic letter design. You can use it to design titles and headings for books and magazines. The font is free to use with your personal projects.
The clean and minimal design of the letters makes this font quite attractive. If you aim to make your book easily readable, this font will help you achieve that goal. Mriya Grotesk features a total of 8 fonts including 4 font weights such as bold, regular, light, and heavy. As well as 4 italic versions.
Designing a cover for a non-fiction or business book? This font will come in handy. Wensley is an elegant and modern serif font that comes in multiple styles ranging from light to bold. It also includes multilingual support and both uppercase and lowercase letters.
Storytime is a clean, and modern book font that will make the kids feel right at home. The readability is thoughtful, making the children engage with the content, and trust the story and message the book has to offer.
If you are looking for a simple and sweet font for your book title, look no further than Christmas Heart. It has an adorable design that instantly catches the eye and comes packed with uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, symbols, and multilingual support.
Visby is a beautiful and clean sans-serif font that features an elegant and rounded letter design. This font is perfect for designing body text in all kinds of books and magazines. The font comes in 8 different weights including obliques as well as both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets.
This font will come in handy for designers who prefer the old-school style of serif fonts. CA Texteron is a serif font featuring a classic design that you normally see on official documents and manuals. This font includes 6 different weights and includes italics as well.
Helios is a great font you can use to design titles for various fiction and non-fiction books. The futuristic look of the font makes it most suitable for designing covers for science fiction novels and magazines. It’s an all-caps font that includes many alternates.
A clean and modern font that can be used for both title and body text designs. This font has a minimal geometric design that stands out from the crowd. It’s free to use with personal projects.
Grifter Bold is a thick and bold font that’s most suitable for crafting attention-grabbing titles for book covers. This font includes both uppercase and lowercase letters. And it’s free to use with personal and commercial projects.
You may also want to check out our best title and headline fonts collection for more inspiration.
Font Collections
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