Choosing a font for your project is as important as picking the color and layout. Font is a subtle element in a design, but one that draws the eye and creates part of the overall theme. Choosing a creative, unique (and readable!) font is a good way to enhance your next project. Here are five sources of creative, original and free font sets for use and inspiration for your next project.

Beautiful Life offers a collection of unusual fonts, including this green font, perfect for environmentally-friendly projects.

Fontspace found this image-based design.

Fonts101 offers an unusual take on italics which spice up your projects.

Creative Nerds brings this unusual, visual 3-D reflective font.

How about font collections that are entirely clip-art? FontsnThings brings these fun designs!

We hope these fonts are inspiring and that they’ll find their way into your designs!

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