The number of Google Fonts is ever increasing, but finding high quality fonts on the site is as difficult as ever. You want a font that works as body text, and that comes in multiple weights and styles. If you also want the font to be of a certain kind, like Slab serif fonts, the Google Font site really doesn’t cut the mustard. That is why I created this list — I hope you will find it useful.
Sans Serif
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Humanist
Sans serif fonts with hints of calligraphic influence.
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Cabin
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Open Sans
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Raleway
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Alegreya Sans
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Merriweather Sans
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PT Sans
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Distinctive
Fonts with stronger personalities, to some extent at the cost of legibility and familiarity. Good choice if you want something that stands out.
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Signika
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Yanone Kaffeesatz
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Amaranth
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Clean
High quality modern fonts, made to ensure legibility in all kinds of sizes, displays, and languages. Great fonts for user interfaces.
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Source Sans Pro
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Droid Sans
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Ubuntu
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Oxygen
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Geometric
Fonts that rely on geometrical shapes, like circlular ‘o’ letters. Generally give a more mechanical/neutral/cold feeling than humanist fonts.
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Lato
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Exo 2
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Roboto
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Josefin Sans
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Montserrat
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Muli
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Titillium Web
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Jura
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Orbitron
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Karla
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Rounded
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Dosis
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Varela Round
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Nunito
Serif
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Old style
Old style fonts have strong calligraphic influence, most notable in the leaning axis of the letters (look at the ‘o’s).
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Cardo
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Alegreya
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Vollkorn
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Gentium Book Basic
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Almendra
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Transitional
Transitional fonts have a less strong calipgraphic influence, as can be seen it that the letters are now completely upright (look at the o’s and e’s. Also known as Neoclassical or Realist.
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Merriweather
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PT Serif
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Droid Serif
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Domine
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Libre Baskerville
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Old Standard TT
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Neuton
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Didone
Didone fonts have extreme stroke contrasts, between the thinnest and and the thickest parts of the letters.
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Playfair Display
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Rufina
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Slab Serif
Slab serif fonts have prominent straight lined serifs at the ends of many letters.
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Josefin Slab
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Lora
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Rokkitt
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Roboto Slab
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Arvo
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Podkova
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Arbutus Slab
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Bitter
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Kreon
That’s all for now! I intend to keep this post updated, so please let me know if you think I’m missing any hiqh quality font.