59 Best Free Fonts for Infographics
Infographics live or die by type choice as much as by chart design. A typeface that looks elegant in a headline can turn to mush the moment it’s shrunk down to label a pie chart, and a font built for print can feel stiff and lifeless next to bright, flat-color bars and icons. The best free fonts for infographics tend to fall into a few practical categories: clean, neutral sans serifs for body copy and data labels, bold condensed or slab display faces for the big headline statistic, and the occasional monospace for tables of figures that need to line up in tidy columns.
Every recommendation here is free to download on Google Fonts, and the goal is coverage across every job an infographic actually asks a typeface to do, from the giant “73%” at the top of the page down to the source citation in the footer.
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Inter
Global smartphone adoption reached 68 percent this year
Inter
Inter was built for screens, and it shows in the even rhythm of its lowercase letters and the way numerals line up cleanly in a column of figures. It has become close to a default choice for dashboards and data-driven interfaces, staying legible on a chart legend even when squeezed down small.
Because Inter includes proper tabular figures, columns of statistics stay aligned instead of drifting, which matters more in infographic design than almost anything else.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)
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IBM Plex Sans
Quarterly revenue climbed 12 percent across all regions
IBM Plex Sans
Designed in-house at IBM as a free alternative to Helvetica, Plex Sans carries a slightly engineered, technical feel suited to corporate reports and scientific infographics alike. Pair it with IBM Plex Mono for the numbers and the whole piece reads as one coherent system.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Vietnamese
- Styles: 14 styles (7 weights plus italics)
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Work Sans
Renewable energy now powers one in five homes
Work Sans
Work Sans reads as friendly and unforced, with open counters that hold up even when a caption shrinks to make room for a busy chart. It’s a dependable body text choice when the visuals are doing the heavy lifting and the type just needs to stay out of the way.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)
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Source Sans 3
Coffee consumption varies widely by continent
Source Sans 3
Adobe’s first open source typeface remains one of the most neutral, workmanlike sans serifs available for free, exactly what’s needed when labels and captions shouldn’t compete with icons or color-coded bars.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 16 styles (8 weights plus italics)
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Roboto
Mobile traffic overtook desktop five years ago
Roboto
Roboto’s mechanical skeleton with slightly humanist curves stays comfortable at both display size and caption size, which is why it turns up constantly in app-style infographics and dashboard interfaces.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)
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Open Sans
Literacy rates have risen steadily since 1990
Open Sans
Open Sans counts as one of the safest choices in the free font world: wide apertures, a generous x-height, and a businesslike but friendly tone that keeps long explanatory captions readable at a glance.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Hebrew, Vietnamese
- Styles: 12 styles (6 weights plus italics)
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Lato
Urban populations will double by 2050
Lato
Lato carries a warm, slightly rounded feel without tipping into playful territory, a solid pick for infographics aimed at a general audience rather than a technical one.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
- Styles: 10 styles (5 weights plus italics)
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Mulish
Smartphone battery life improved 40 percent
Mulish
Mulish is a low-contrast, minimal grotesque that fades into the background nicely, useful for the small print, sourcing notes, and axis labels every good infographic needs somewhere.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 16 styles (8 weights plus italics)
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Manrope
E-commerce sales spiked during holiday weekends
Manrope
Manrope’s slightly geometric letterforms and generous spacing give it a modern, tech-forward look that pairs well with flat icon sets and bold color blocks.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Vietnamese
- Styles: 7 weights (Extra-Light to Extra-Bold)
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Karla
Water scarcity affects two billion people
Karla
Quirky little details, like the unusual curve of its lowercase ‘a’, give Karla a bit more personality than most neutral grotesques on this list, without ever sacrificing clarity.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
- Styles: 14 styles (7 weights plus italics)
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Jost
Recycling rates climbed across major cities
Jost
Jost borrows its bones from 1920s geometric sans serifs like Kabel, bringing a period design flavor at no cost, useful when the surrounding chart or palette leans retro or Bauhaus-inspired.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic
- Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)
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Poppins
Streaming hours surged among younger audiences
Poppins
Poppins’ perfectly circular bowls give it an approachable, geometric-toy quality that suits lighter, consumer-facing infographics. Its rounded forms can blur together at very small sizes, so it’s better reserved for headings and callouts than dense body text.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Devanagari
- Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)
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Nunito Sans
Plant-based diets grew fastest among Gen Z
Nunito Sans
Nunito Sans softens its rounded cousin Nunito into something more neutral and better suited to body copy, keeping just enough warmth for a wellness or lifestyle-themed chart.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 16 styles (8 weights plus italics)
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Rubik
Electric vehicle sales tripled in five years
Rubik
Rounded corners keep Rubik friendly at large sizes, while its wide, sturdy proportions keep it legible even squeezed into a narrow chart column.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Arabic, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Hebrew
- Styles: 14 styles (7 weights plus italics)
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DM Sans
Remote work adoption stabilized post-pandemic
DM Sans
DM Sans is a low-contrast geometric sans built specifically with screens in mind, tidy and unfussy enough to sit comfortably next to charts, icons, or photography.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
- Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)
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Public Sans
Government spending on infrastructure increased steadily
Public Sans
Public Sans was designed for U.S. federal government websites, built from the ground up for clarity, accessibility, and plain-language communication, values that translate directly into good infographic design.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)
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Barlow
Air quality improved in most major cities
Barlow
Borrowing its proportions from California license plates and highway signage, Barlow carries a slightly official, engineered quality that suits civic and transportation-themed data well.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)
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Archivo
Global internet users surpassed five billion
Archivo
Archivo is a grotesque with real range, running from a fairly restrained text weight up through bold cuts strong enough for headline callouts, so one family can carry both the fine print and the bigger statistics in the same piece.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)
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Sora
Video calls became the default meeting format
Sora
Sora mixes geometric construction with a few soft, almost rounded details, landing somewhere between Poppins and Inter; a solid choice for tech and startup infographics that want to feel current without going cold.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
- Styles: 8 weights (Thin to Extra-Bold)
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Figtree
Solar panel costs dropped 80 percent
Figtree
A newer, understated grotesque, Figtree keeps generous spacing that stops dense data labels from feeling cramped.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
- Styles: 14 styles (7 weights plus italics)
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Outfit
App downloads hit a record high
Outfit
Outfit’s geometric, almost architectural letterforms make it a strong pick for section headers and stat callouts in a minimalist infographic layout.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
- Styles: 9 weights (Thin to Black)
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Space Grotesk
Satellite launches doubled over the last decade
Space Grotesk
A slightly retro-futuristic character in its proportions makes Space Grotesk distinctive enough to give a tech or science infographic real visual identity, rather than blending into generic sans-serif wallpaper.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 5 weights (Light to Bold)
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Plus Jakarta Sans
Digital payments overtook cash transactions worldwide
Plus Jakarta Sans
Plus Jakarta Sans balances geometric bones with humanist warmth, a versatile middle ground when a brief calls for something modern but not severe.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 14 styles (7 weights plus italics)
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Epilogue
Freelance work grew across every industry
Epilogue
A tall x-height and confident weight range let Epilogue do double duty as both header and caption font within the same piece.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)
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Red Hat Display
Cloud computing spending reached new heights
Red Hat Display
Sturdy and slightly condensed, Red Hat Display packs a lot of confidence into big numbers and section titles without needing much horizontal space.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
- Styles: 14 styles (7 weights plus italics)
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Urbanist
City populations shifted toward suburbs again
Urbanist
Urbanist is light-footed and airy, a geometric sans best suited to spacious, minimal layouts where the data has plenty of room to breathe.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
- Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)
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Overpass
Highway congestion eased in most metro areas
Overpass
Structured after U.S. highway signage, Overpass inherits excellent legibility at a distance and at small sizes, both useful traits for dense infographic labeling.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)
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Bebas Neue
TRIPLE DIGIT GROWTH IN FIVE YEARS
Bebas Neue
Bebas Neue is close to a genre unto itself in infographic design: tall, condensed, all caps, and built to make a single statistic feel enormous. It has essentially no practical lowercase use, so save it for short headlines and big numbers rather than body copy, and let a plainer sans handle the explanatory text underneath.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
- Styles: 1 weight (Regular)
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Anton
60 PERCENT SAY THEY WOULD SWITCH
Anton
Heavier and blunter than Bebas Neue, Anton practically shouts from the page, making it ideal for the one headline percentage an infographic is built around.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 1 weight (Regular)
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Oswald
Screen time increased across every age group
Oswald
Oswald reworks the classic Alternate Gothic condensed style for the web, narrow enough to fit long section headers into tight infographic columns without wrapping awkwardly.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 6 weights (Extra-Light to Bold)
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Archivo Black
Nine in ten prefer digital receipts
Archivo Black
A standalone family rather than just a cut of Archivo, Archivo Black functions as a punchy display face for pull quotes and giant stat call-outs, built to be read from across a room.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
- Styles: 1 weight (Regular)
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League Gothic
ONLY 12 PERCENT MET THE TARGET
League Gothic
League Gothic offers a slightly softer, less aggressive condensed alternative to Bebas Neue, good for headline numbers that still need to feel approachable rather than shouted.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 1 weight (Regular)
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Alfa Slab One
RECORD HEAT ACROSS FOUR CONTINENTS
Alfa Slab One
Heavy and chunky, Alfa Slab One is built almost entirely for attention-grabbing headline numbers; use it sparingly since its weight overwhelms anything but the shortest phrases.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 1 weight (Regular)
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Passion One
Half of respondents changed jobs
Passion One
Rounded, friendly heaviness gives Passion One a softer alternative to the sharper condensed display faces elsewhere on this list.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
- Styles: 3 weights (Regular, Bold, Black)
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Fjalla One
Every third household now owns a hybrid
Fjalla One
Condensed but not extreme about it, Fjalla One works as a headline face even in infographics with a more restrained, editorial tone.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 1 weight (Regular)
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Staatliches
ATTENDANCE DOUBLED IN A SINGLE YEAR
Staatliches
An inky, poster-stencil quality gives Staatliches a bit of grit, well suited to sports statistics or event recaps rather than corporate reporting.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
- Styles: 1 weight (Regular)
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Teko
Marathon participation rose year over year
Teko
Narrow and vaguely technical, Teko fits well into dashboard-style headers where horizontal space is at a premium.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Devanagari
- Styles: 5 weights (Light to Bold)
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Barlow Condensed
Public transit ridership fell then recovered
Barlow Condensed
Barlow Condensed shares its parent family’s civic, signage-inspired structure in a narrower cut, handy for axis labels and legends where every character counts.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)
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Roboto Condensed
Housing prices rose in nearly every state
Roboto Condensed
Roboto Condensed keeps Roboto’s mechanical clarity while fitting noticeably more text into the same width, useful for chart labels that would otherwise wrap.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)
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PT Sans Narrow
Vaccination rates increased across all age brackets
PT Sans Narrow
Sturdy and slightly plain, PT Sans Narrow was originally built for multilingual government use, which makes it a reliable narrow workhorse for dense data tables.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended
- Styles: 2 weights (Regular, Bold)
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Yanone Kaffeesatz
Coffee shop visits dropped during work hours
Yanone Kaffeesatz
Light and airy with a bit of personality in its curves, Yanone Kaffeesatz suits friendly, lifestyle-oriented infographics better than formal corporate ones.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 6 weights (Extra-Light to Bold)
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IBM Plex Mono
42.7% 18.3% 9.1% 6.4%
IBM Plex Mono
A data table gets an appropriately technical rhythm from IBM Plex Mono, and it pairs naturally with IBM Plex Sans for a coordinated system across headlines, labels, and figures.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 14 styles (7 weights plus italics)
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JetBrains Mono
1,204 2,880 4,512 7,003
JetBrains Mono
Built for reading code all day, JetBrains Mono makes its numerals and punctuation unusually easy to tell apart, a genuine advantage in an infographic dense with figures.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Vietnamese
- Styles: 16 styles (8 weights plus italics)
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Space Mono
+18% -4% +32% +2%
Space Mono
A quirky, retro-computer personality suits Space Mono to infographics with a playful or nostalgic tech theme rather than a strictly corporate one.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 4 styles (2 weights plus italics)
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Roboto Mono
03:14 08:52 12:07 19:41
Roboto Mono
Roboto Mono is a more neutral monospace option, a safe choice for fixed-width timestamps or figures without adding much extra character.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Vietnamese
- Styles: 14 styles (7 weights plus italics)
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Source Code Pro
1.2M 3.4M 5.7M 9.9M
Source Code Pro
Clean and unobtrusive, Source Code Pro is a dependable monospace for footnotes, citations, or any figure that needs to line up in a neat column.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 16 styles (8 weights plus italics)
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Roboto Slab
Home energy use dropped after the upgrade
Roboto Slab
A sturdy, almost architectural weight gives Roboto Slab presence in headlines, a good match for infographics that want to feel more editorial than a pure sans-serif chart deck.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 9 weights (Thin to Black)
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Zilla Slab
Neighborhood rents varied block by block
Zilla Slab
Warmer, more humanist proportions set Zilla Slab apart from most slabs, keeping it comfortable for longer captions as well as headlines.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
- Styles: 10 styles (5 weights plus italics)
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Bitter
Local farms reported their best season yet
Bitter
Designed specifically for on-screen reading, Bitter’s slab serifs stay crisp at caption size, unlike some slabs that turn heavy and dark once shrunk down.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)
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Arvo
Small businesses drove most new hiring
Arvo
A geometric slab structure gives Arvo a sturdy, confident presence for headline numbers, and its bold weight is where it really earns its keep.
- Language support: Latin
- Styles: 4 styles (2 weights plus italics)
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Rokkitt
Museum attendance rebounded after renovations
Rokkitt
Rounder and friendlier than Arvo or Roboto Slab, Rokkitt fits well in cultural or community-focused data stories.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)
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Quicksand
Kids' screen time habits shifted by age
Quicksand
Rounded geometric letterforms give Quicksand a light, optimistic feel, best reserved for headers in family, education, or wellness infographics rather than dense data tables.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 5 weights (Light to Bold)
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Baloo 2
Reading for pleasure rose among children
Baloo 2
Bouncy and warm, Baloo 2 leans into an almost storybook tone that suits infographics aimed at parents, teachers, or younger audiences.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Devanagari, Vietnamese
- Styles: 5 weights (Regular to Extra-Bold)
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Comfortaa
Meditation app usage grew fastest at night
Comfortaa
Rounded, geometric circles give Comfortaa a calm, understated softness, a nice match for wellness or mindfulness-themed statistics.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Vietnamese
- Styles: 5 weights (Light to Bold)
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Fredoka
Family game night made a comeback
Fredoka
A cheerful, slightly bubbly quality works well for infographics aimed at a casual or younger audience, though Fredoka is best kept to short headlines rather than long passages.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Hebrew
- Styles: 5 weights (Light to Bold)
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Playfair Display
Wine consumption trends shifted by region
Playfair Display
High-contrast, almost editorial elegance makes Playfair Display an unexpected but effective choice for infographics styled after magazine features rather than corporate dashboards, especially when paired with a plain grotesque for the data itself.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Vietnamese
- Styles: 12 styles (6 weights plus italics)
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Merriweather
Public library visits held steady this decade
Merriweather
Built for comfortable long-form reading, Merriweather is a good pick for the denser explanatory paragraphs that sometimes accompany an infographic’s charts.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 14 styles (7 weights plus italics)
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Libre Baskerville
Newspaper subscriptions found new life online
Libre Baskerville
A traditional, trustworthy, almost journalistic tone makes Libre Baskerville well suited to infographics reporting on research or news data.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
- Styles: 8 styles (4 weights plus italics)
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Lora
Independent bookstores saw a modest revival
Lora
Moderate contrast and slightly calligraphic curves give Lora warmth without sacrificing legibility, a solid serif choice for headline text in a more narrative-driven infographic.
- Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
- Styles: 8 styles (4 weights plus italics)
Pairing and using these fonts in infographics
Limit most infographics to two or three fonts at most: one bold display or condensed face for the headline statistic, one neutral sans for labels and captions, and optionally a monospace for tables of figures.
Always test legibility at the actual output size. A font that looks great in a mockup can turn to mush once a chart legend shrinks it down to ten pixels.
Watch contrast carefully when type sits on top of colored bars or photographic backgrounds. A weight that reads fine on white can disappear entirely on a mid-tone fill.
If your infographic includes a lot of numeric data, look for fonts with tabular figures so columns of numbers stay aligned instead of drifting out of line.
With this many solid, genuinely free options on Google Fonts, there’s rarely a reason to reach for a paid alternative when building an infographic. The right combination comes down to matching a font’s personality, whether technical, editorial, or playful, to the story the data is actually telling.