65 Best Free Fonts for Business Cards

A business card has about two square inches to do the work of a full brand identity: signal professionalism, hint at personality, and stay legible when it is tucked into a wallet or read across a table. Typeface choice carries most of that weight, since there is no room for elaborate layout tricks to compensate for a font that goes muddy at ten points. The good news is that some of the most versatile, well-crafted typefaces for print identity work are free to license through Google Fonts, covering everything from restrained corporate sans-serifs to hand-lettered scripts for boutique studios.

What follows is a wide-ranging survey organized loosely by mood, from classic serif letterforms through modern grotesques, bold wordmark faces, and a few decorative scripts best used sparingly for a name or tagline.

  1. Playfair Display

    Jane Whitfield, Creative Director & Founder

    Playfair Display

    High contrast strokes and a fashion-editorial flair make this a favorite for law firms, boutiques, and anyone who wants their name to look like a headline. It pairs beautifully with a plain grotesque for contact details, since its drama needs a calm partner. At very small sizes the hairlines can thin out on cheap card stock, so reserve it for a name or title rather than a full paragraph.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 12 styles (6 weights plus italics)

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  2. EB Garamond

    Trusted counsel for over twenty-five years

    EB Garamond

    A revival of Claude Garamond’s Renaissance letterforms, this typeface reads as literate and unhurried. It suits attorneys, editors, consultants, and anyone whose card should feel like it belongs on letterhead rather than a flyer.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 10 styles (5 weights plus italics)

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  3. Lora

    Wine, olive oil, and family recipes since 1974

    Lora

    Lora carries just enough calligraphic warmth in its curves to feel personal without tipping into decorative territory. It works well for hospitality, wellness, and food-adjacent brands that want serif credibility with a softer edge.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 8 styles (4 weights plus italics)

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  4. Merriweather

    Building homes and communities you can trust

    Merriweather

    Designed originally for screen reading, Merriweather has sturdy, ink-trap-influenced serifs that hold up remarkably well when printed small. That durability at tiny sizes makes it a dependable pick for cards packed with a title, phone number, and address.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 14 styles (7 weights plus italics)

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  5. Cormorant Garamond

    Bespoke tailoring, fitted by appointment only

    Cormorant Garamond

    Slender and refined, Cormorant Garamond channels old-style print typography with an almost jewelry-catalog delicacy. It shines on cards for fashion, fragrance, or fine jewelry brands, but needs generous spacing and a decent-weight card stock to avoid feeling frail.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 10 styles (5 weights plus italics)

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  6. Libre Baskerville

    Chartered accountants serving businesses since 1998

    Libre Baskerville

    This is a workhorse for anyone wanting classic English serif gravity without licensing the original Baskerville. Its slightly enlarged x-height keeps it readable at business-card scale, which is not true of every Baskerville-style revival.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
    • Styles: 8 styles (4 weights plus italics)

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  7. PT Serif

    Precision engineering for the modern workshop

    PT Serif

    Practical rather than showy, PT Serif was built for long text and government-style documents, which gives it a sober, official quality. It reads as competent and grounded, a good fit for engineering, finance, or municipal-adjacent work.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended
    • Styles: 4 styles (2 weights plus italics)

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  8. Crimson Text

    Independent bookshop and reading room, established 2011

    Crimson Text

    Modeled loosely on old-style book typefaces, Crimson Text has the unhurried rhythm of a well-set novel. Publishers, booksellers, and academics tend to gravitate toward it for that reason.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 6 styles (3 weights plus italics)

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  9. Spectral

    Editorial design and brand strategy studio

    Spectral

    Spectral was commissioned specifically for on-screen reading, so its letterforms are open and even, translating cleanly to print at small sizes too. Its restrained personality makes it an easy, low-risk choice for a studio or agency card that wants to look edited rather than decorated.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 14 styles (7 weights plus italics)

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  10. Bitter

    Coffee roasted in small batches weekly

    Bitter

    A slab serif with rounded, friendly terminals, Bitter splits the difference between a serious serif and a casual display face. It suits independent food and craft businesses that want warmth without looking handmade.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)

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  11. Domine

    Family law, mediation, and estate planning

    Domine

    Domine is a sturdy book serif with a slightly heavier stroke than most Garamond-style faces, giving names and titles a bit more presence on the card without shouting.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
    • Styles: 4 weights (Regular to Bold)

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  12. Vollkorn

    German bakery and coffeehouse since 1952

    Vollkorn

    Originally drawn for German-language books, Vollkorn has a grounded, slightly rustic character that suits artisanal and heritage brands. It is comfortable rather than flashy, which is exactly the point.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 12 styles (6 weights plus italics)

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  13. Alegreya

    Literary agency representing new and established voices

    Alegreya

    Calligraphic in origin, Alegreya has a lively rhythm to its letterforms that keeps a serif card from feeling stiff. Its italic in particular is worth pairing with the roman for a title line.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 12 styles (6 weights plus italics)

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  14. Noto Serif

    Translation and localization services worldwide

    Noto Serif

    Part of Google’s Noto superfamily built for extensive language coverage, this is a practical choice for any business printing cards in multiple scripts or serving international clients.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)

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  15. Frank Ruhl Libre

    Rare books, manuscripts, and archival appraisal

    Frank Ruhl Libre

    Originally a Hebrew type design later expanded to Latin, Frank Ruhl Libre has an antique, almost etched quality to its serifs. It gives a card a distinctly literary, old-world tone that few contemporary revivals manage.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Hebrew
    • Styles: 7 weights (Light to Black)

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  16. Prata

    Fine jewelry, handcrafted in small batches

    Prata

    Prata’s thin, high-contrast serifs feel closer to a fashion logotype than a body text face, so it earns its keep on a single name or brand line rather than dense contact information.

    • Language support: Latin, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 1 weight (Regular)

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  17. Marcellus

    Interior design for discerning homeowners

    Marcellus

    There is a cool, architectural evenness to Marcellus that reads as upscale without leaning on ornament. Interior designers, galleries, and architecture firms use it often for exactly that reason.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
    • Styles: 1 weight (Regular)

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  18. Cinzel

    Classical restoration and fine art conservation

    Cinzel

    Drawing on Roman inscriptional capitals, Cinzel projects permanence and formality. It is most effective set in all caps for a business name, evoking museums, universities, and heritage institutions rather than startups.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
    • Styles: 6 weights (Regular to Black)

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  19. Cormorant

    Perfumery and botanical fragrance house

    Cormorant

    The broader Cormorant family gives Cormorant Garamond’s delicacy a touch more range across weights, useful if a card needs a light display line alongside a slightly heavier title.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 10 styles (5 weights plus italics)

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  20. Cinzel Decorative

    Est. 1887 · Fine Wines & Spirits

    Cinzel Decorative

    This is Cinzel’s ornamented cousin, with flourished terminals suited to a monogram, an establishment date, or a single decorative word. It is not a font for paragraphs of contact details; use it as an accent and let a plain sans-serif carry the rest of the card.

    Where a card needs to look current, efficient, and easy to scan at a glance, a clean sans-serif usually does more work than any serif alternative.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
    • Styles: 3 weights (Regular, Bold, Black)

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  21. Montserrat

    Digital strategy for growing brands

    Montserrat

    Inspired by geometric signage lettering from 1920s Buenos Aires, Montserrat has become something of a default for modern branding, and for good reason: its even geometry looks equally at home on a startup card or a design studio’s. It is worth using thoughtfully rather than reflexively, since its ubiquity means it no longer signals distinctiveness on its own.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)

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  22. Poppins

    App development and product design studio

    Poppins

    Poppins is friendly and rounded thanks to its near-perfect circular letterforms, giving tech and consumer brands a card that feels approachable rather than corporate.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Devanagari
    • Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)

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  23. Raleway

    Architecture, planning, and sustainable design

    Raleway

    Elegant in its thin and regular weights, Raleway carries a fashion-adjacent sophistication that suits design studios and architecture practices well.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)

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  24. Inter

    Software engineering consultancy, San Francisco

    Inter

    Built specifically for user interfaces, Inter has exceptional clarity at small sizes thanks to a tall x-height and carefully tuned spacing. That same screen-tested precision makes it dependable on a printed card, especially for tech and SaaS companies whose brand voice is already digital-first.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)

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  25. Work Sans

    Marketing consultancy for small businesses

    Work Sans

    Work Sans was optimized for mid-size text on screens, which translates into a sans-serif that stays open and legible even when a card is crowded with a title, email, and phone number.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)

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  26. Karla

    Freelance copywriting and brand voice

    Karla

    Slightly quirky in its lowercase letterforms, Karla has enough character to avoid feeling generic while remaining entirely professional. It is a solid, low-drama choice for a freelancer’s card.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
    • Styles: 14 styles (7 weights plus italics)

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  27. Rubik

    Print shop and custom signage

    Rubik

    Rubik’s slightly rounded corners give it a soft, contemporary feel without going full rounded-display. It reads well at a distance, which matters if the card doubles as signage or a booth banner.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Arabic, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Hebrew
    • Styles: 14 styles (7 weights plus italics)

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  28. Jost

    Vintage furniture and home goods

    Jost

    Jost is a geometric sans in the tradition of 1920s Bauhaus-era lettering, close in spirit to Futura but free to use. Its perfectly circular counters give it a confident, retro-modern feel suited to design and lifestyle brands.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic
    • Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)

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  29. Manrope

    Venture capital and growth advisory

    Manrope

    Sharp and efficient, Manrope has a slightly technical edge that suits finance and investment cards wanting a modern, no-nonsense look.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 7 weights (Extra-Light to Extra-Bold)

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  30. Outfit

    Creative direction for emerging brands

    Outfit

    A newer geometric sans with tight, confident spacing, Outfit has quickly become popular for minimalist branding. It looks especially good set in all caps for a short business name.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
    • Styles: 9 weights (Thin to Black)

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  31. DM Sans

    Wellness studio and mindful movement

    DM Sans

    DM Sans is low-key and even-toned, built to disappear into good design rather than announce itself. That restraint makes it a safe, versatile choice when the logo or card layout should carry the personality instead.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
    • Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)

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  32. Sora

    Cloud infrastructure and DevOps consulting

    Sora

    Sora has a slightly squared, technical geometry that reads as contemporary and engineered, a natural fit for software and hardware companies.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
    • Styles: 8 weights (Thin to Extra-Bold)

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  33. Lato

    Financial planning for growing families

    Lato

    Warm despite its geometric bones, Lato was designed to feel serious in text and friendly in display, which is exactly the balance a financial services or healthcare card needs.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
    • Styles: 10 styles (5 weights plus italics)

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  34. Open Sans

    Property management and real estate services

    Open Sans

    Open Sans is about as close as free fonts come to a universal, no-surprises choice: neutral, highly legible, and equally comfortable on a card, a website, or an invoice. Its very familiarity is a trade-off, since a brand chasing distinctiveness may want a less common face for its name.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Hebrew, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 12 styles (6 weights plus italics)

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  35. Source Sans 3

    UX research and product strategy

    Source Sans 3

    Adobe’s first open source typeface remains a dependable, slightly technical sans that suits design and product-adjacent businesses without drawing attention to itself.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 16 styles (8 weights plus italics)

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  36. Roboto

    Mobile app development and support

    Roboto

    As the default voice of Android, Roboto already reads as familiar and digital to most people, making it a natural pick for mobile and tech companies whose card should feel like an extension of their product.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)

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  37. Barlow

    Automotive detailing and restoration services

    Barlow

    Slightly condensed with a road-sign heritage, Barlow has an efficient, industrial quality that suits automotive, logistics, and manufacturing brands.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)

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  38. Archivo

    Structural engineering and building consultancy

    Archivo

    Archivo is a grotesque with real weight and presence in its bolder cuts, giving a business name enough visual anchor to hold its own against a busy logo.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)

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  39. Public Sans

    Civic planning and public policy group

    Public Sans

    Developed for United States government use, Public Sans has an intentionally neutral, institutional clarity. It suits nonprofits, civic organizations, and consultancies that want to look official without looking cold.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 18 styles (9 weights plus italics)

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  40. PT Sans

    Logistics and freight coordination services

    PT Sans

    A companion to PT Serif with the same government-document pedigree, PT Sans is plain, sturdy, and easy to set in tight spaces.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended
    • Styles: 4 styles (2 weights plus italics)

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  41. Space Grotesk

    Product design and hardware prototyping

    Space Grotesk

    Space Grotesk has a distinctive quirk in letters like the lowercase g and capital R, giving otherwise minimal branding a bit of personality. It works especially well for design and technology studios wanting something a step more distinctive than Inter or Work Sans.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 5 weights (Light to Bold)

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  42. IBM Plex Sans

    Enterprise software and systems integration

    IBM Plex Sans

    Commissioned as IBM’s corporate voice, Plex Sans has a slightly humanist warmth under its technical precision, a rare combination in a corporate typeface.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 14 styles (7 weights plus italics)

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  43. Quicksand

    Children's learning center and daycare

    Quicksand

    Rounded terminals give Quicksand a soft, approachable tone appropriate for education, childcare, and family-oriented services. It is not the right choice where a card needs to project financial or legal authority.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 5 weights (Light to Bold)

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  44. Josefin Sans

    Boutique florist and event styling

    Josefin Sans

    Josefin Sans has an Art Deco-inflected geometry, all narrow apertures and elegant proportions, that suits fashion, floral, and event businesses looking for vintage-modern charm.

    When a business name itself needs to function as the logo, a bolder, more graphic letterform often earns its place better than a general-purpose sans-serif.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 14 styles (7 weights plus italics)

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  45. Bebas Neue

    THE CORNER GYM · STRENGTH TRAINING

    Bebas Neue

    Tall, condensed, and unapologetically bold, Bebas Neue has become a go-to for fitness studios, breweries, and streetwear brands wanting a card that reads like a poster. It only comes in one weight, so pair it with a plain sans for supporting details rather than trying to build a full hierarchy from it alone.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
    • Styles: 1 weight (Regular)

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  46. Oswald

    Barber shop, walk-ins welcome daily

    Oswald

    A condensed grotesque descended from early twentieth-century sans gothics, Oswald carries a confident, slightly industrial voice that suits barbershops, workshops, and independent trades.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 6 weights (Extra-Light to Bold)

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  47. Anton

    MOVING & STORAGE SOLUTIONS

    Anton

    Anton is about as heavy and compact as a Latin sans gets, built to shout a short business name from across a room. It is far too dense for anything beyond a name or single word, so keep contact details in a lighter companion font.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 1 weight (Regular)

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  48. Archivo Black

    RECORD LABEL & MUSIC PUBLISHING

    Archivo Black

    Blunt, wide, and confident, Archivo Black gives a wordmark real weight on the card without needing color or texture to back it up.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
    • Styles: 1 weight (Regular)

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  49. League Spartan

    Modern furniture, made to order

    League Spartan

    League Spartan updates the geometric spirit of early twentieth-century sans-serifs with cleaner spacing, giving it a crisp, catalog-ready look for furniture and product design brands.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 9 weights (Thin to Black)

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  50. Fjalla One

    Craft brewery, taproom open nightly

    Fjalla One

    Compact and a little rugged, Fjalla One reads well at small sizes despite its condensed width, making it useful for cards that need a bold name plus a fair amount of text underneath.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 1 weight (Regular)

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  51. Staatliches

    SKATE SHOP · EST. 2015

    Staatliches

    Staatliches borrows its personality from vintage marquee and packaging lettering, giving it an offbeat, slightly worn charm. It suits youth-oriented, music, or streetwear brands far better than anything corporate.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
    • Styles: 1 weight (Regular)

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  52. Abril Fatface

    The Gallery, contemporary art & design

    Abril Fatface

    Abril Fatface takes the high-contrast drama of Playfair Display and pushes it into ultra-bold display territory, ideal for a single striking name on a gallery or fashion card. Its hairlines are extremely fine, so it needs a smooth card stock and a decent print resolution to avoid breaking up.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
    • Styles: 1 weight (Regular)

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  53. Roboto Slab

    Home renovation and general contracting

    Roboto Slab

    A slab-serif companion to Roboto, this typeface trades the original’s neutrality for a bit more structural presence, useful for construction and trade businesses wanting to look established.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 9 weights (Thin to Black)

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  54. Arvo

    Craft carpentry and custom woodwork

    Arvo

    Geometric and boxy, Arvo has a handmade, almost typewritten sturdiness that pairs naturally with woodworking, leathercraft, and other tactile trades.

    • Language support: Latin
    • Styles: 4 styles (2 weights plus italics)

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  55. Zilla Slab

    Design-build studio, Denver, Colorado

    Zilla Slab

    Originally drawn for Mozilla’s Firefox brand, Zilla Slab has warm, slightly irregular serifs that keep it from feeling mechanical. It works nicely as a titling face for architecture and design-build companies.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
    • Styles: 10 styles (5 weights plus italics)

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  56. IBM Plex Mono

    Software developer · Full-stack engineer

    IBM Plex Mono

    Monospaced type on a business card signals code and craft immediately, and Plex Mono does it with more warmth than most typewriter-style faces. It suits developers, technical writers, and engineering-focused studios who want their card to hint at what they actually do.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 14 styles (7 weights plus italics)

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  57. Space Mono

    Independent record label and studio

    Space Mono

    Space Mono has a quirky, slightly retro-futuristic character that reads as creative rather than purely technical, making it a good fit for design agencies and music-related businesses as much as developers.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 4 styles (2 weights plus italics)

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  58. JetBrains Mono

    DevOps consulting and cloud architecture

    JetBrains Mono

    Built specifically to reduce eye strain for programmers reading code, JetBrains Mono is unusually clean for a monospace face, avoiding the cramped feel some coding fonts have at small sizes.

    A script belongs on very few business cards, and even then usually only for a single name, monogram, or short tagline rather than the whole layout.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 16 styles (8 weights plus italics)

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  59. Great Vibes

    Charlotte Bennett Photography

    Great Vibes

    Flowing and continuous like genuine cursive handwriting, Great Vibes gives a name real warmth and personality. Use it sparingly and at a decent size, since its connected strokes blur together fast when scaled down too far.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 1 weight (Regular)

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  60. Pinyon Script

    The Wedding Suite by Aria

    Pinyon Script

    Pinyon Script has an elegant, old-fashioned formality closer to engraved wedding invitations than casual lettering, which suits event planners and stationers particularly well.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 1 weight (Regular)

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  61. Alex Brush

    Sweetleaf Bakery & Confections

    Alex Brush

    Loose and brush-drawn, Alex Brush feels more handmade than formal, a good match for bakeries, florists, and other craft-driven small businesses.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 1 weight (Regular)

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  62. Sacramento

    Studio Nine Hair & Beauty

    Sacramento

    Sacramento is lighter and more casual than most business scripts, closer to a monoline signature than calligraphy, which keeps it legible even at modest sizes.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
    • Styles: 1 weight (Regular)

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  63. Parisienne

    Maison Elodie, Paris

    Parisienne

    There is a distinctly French romance to Parisienne’s looping, upright letterforms, well suited to fragrance, fashion, and boutique hospitality brands chasing that same sensibility.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended
    • Styles: 1 weight (Regular)

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  64. Allura

    Evelyn Marsh, Wedding Planner

    Allura

    Allura sits between formal calligraphy and everyday handwriting, versatile enough for both a bride’s stationer and a personal-brand consultant’s name line.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 1 weight (Regular)

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  65. Dancing Script

    Sunday Supper Club, since 2016

    Dancing Script

    Bouncier and more casual than most business scripts, Dancing Script suits playful food, lifestyle, or event brands better than anything formal or corporate.

    • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese
    • Styles: 4 weights (Regular to Bold)

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Pairing and Using These Fonts on a Business Card

Stick to two typefaces per card wherever possible: one for the business name or logo, one for everything else. A serif and sans pairing, or a bold display face with a plain grotesque, almost always reads cleaner than three competing styles.

Test contact information at actual print size before sending a card to the printer. Many display and script fonts that look great on a screen at 60 points fall apart at the 7 to 9 point sizes typical of a phone number line.

When downloading from Google Fonts, grab only the weights you actually plan to use. It keeps design files lighter and makes it easier to keep formatting consistent across the front and back of the card.

Leave generous letter spacing on all-caps lines, especially with condensed or heavy display faces like Bebas Neue or Anton, since tight caps can feel cramped in print even when they look fine on screen.

Between the classic serifs, efficient sans-serifs, bold wordmark faces, and the handful of scripts worth using in small doses, there is enough range here to match almost any brand personality without spending a cent on licensing. The right choice usually comes down to restraint: pick a typeface that fits the business, set it cleanly, and let the paper and printing do the rest of the work.

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