Chunk Open
Source Typeface [ Download
the .zip-package ]
Chunk is an ultra-bold slab serif typeface
that is reminiscent of old American Western woodcuts, broadsides, and
newspaper headlines. Used mainly for display, the fat block lettering is
unreserved yet refined for contemporary use. OpenType. Designed by
Meredith Mandel. (via Graham
Smith).
Titilium [ Download
the .zip-package ]
A very legible, beautiful academic typeface
that perfectly fits to every corporate identity design, magazines and
headlines of corporate web-sites. The typeface is available in various
weights: text version, title version, extra-black version and
full-version.
Amputa
Bangiz Standard TTF [ Download
the .zip-package ]
An original retro/grungy-font, designed by
Quiccs and available for free download and use in private and commercial
projects. Includes some basic non-alphanumeric characters as well.
Serif Beta [ specimen | Download the
.zip-package ]
Serif Beta is a very legible large serif family
of free fonts, including 3 fontspacks with the optic weights 6, 12 und
72 (overall 14 weights). The family includes swash-glyphs and
black-weights. Each font has 274 glyphs. Free for personal and
commercial use, feedback is appreciated. (via dersven).
Quatro
To receive a beta version of Quatro please email the author of the post
(see the link above) with the subject line Quatro. Please include your
full name, where you work/title and a current email address and I will
supply a compressed postscript typeface shortly there after.
Rough Draft Regular
A legendary TrueType typeface by Harold Lohner. Contains 189 characters
in 9 ranges. For $5 you can buy the complete set which includes
separate Outline, Clean Fill, and Solid Fill fonts.
Comfortaa
[ Download
the .zip-package ]
Comfortaa is a simple, modern, legible true
type font with 466 different characters and symbols (incl. European
accents). Available in three weights: Regular, Bold and Thin. The
typeface has smooth, rounded edges, Absolutely free for personal and
commercial projects. Designed by Johan Aakerlund from Denmark.
MOD�� font [ Download the .zip-package
]
Mod is an original, experimental font that is applicable for any
type of graphic design – Web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for
T-shirts and other items like logos, pictograms. Designed by Svetoslav
Simov from Sofia, Bulgaria.
Reminder (aka Featured in previous posts)
Droid
Font Family
Google’s Android project, an open platform for
mobile devices, includes the Droid font family, which was designed to
provide optimal quality and comfort on a mobile handset when rendered in
application menus, web browsers and for other screen text.
The Droid family of fonts consists of Droid Sans, Droid Sans Mono and Droid Serif. Each contains extensive character set coverage including Western Europe, Eastern/Central Europe, Baltic, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish support. Description with a specimen. You can find concrete instruction of how you can use the fonts in this article.
Nilland
A beautiful slab-serif typeface, designed by Manfred Klein. The family
consists of 6 weights, regular, bold, extra bold, black, small caps and
small caps bold (link and images via DerSven.de).
Aller Sans [ Specimen
| License
| Download
]
Dalton Maag design team designed a beautiful sans-serif Aller
Sans, sponsored by Danish publishing company Aller (hence the name). The
typeface was designed as part of the Danish School of Media and
Journalisms new CI and is now available for free use and download (via).
M+
Outline
These fonts are free software. Unlimited permission is
granted to use, copy, and distribute it, with or without modification,
either commercially and noncommercially. Designed by Morishita Coji. The
fonts are regulary updated, work in progress. Caution: Japanese
language.
Goudy
Bookletter 1911
A serif old-style OpenType font. You need to
scroll the frame to find the download link. [via derSven]
Andale Mono
Andale Mono is a highly legible monospaced font which
was originally distributed as part of the Internet Explorer 4.0 add-ons
page as Monotype.com. It distinguishes well between the zero, and the O.
You can find 4 further monospaced fonts in Hamish Macpherson’s article The
Typography of Code.

Credits: Hamish
Macpherson
Junction
[ Download
the .zip-package ]
Designed by Caroline Hadilaksono, Junction
is a humanist sans-serif typeface. It has elegant, clearn and very sharp
glyphs, but contains only 100 most common symbols. Like Gentium
it perfectly fits to body copy, but can also show its strengths,
balance and beauty in headlines. Here are some insights from the
designer:
Vegur
This
humanist sans-serif family is available in OpenType-format in three
weights: ExtraLight, Regular and Bold. The typeface can be perfectly
used both in body copy and in headlines.
More free fonts!
For more free fonts, please consider visitiong our previous posts:
- 15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts
- 15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts
- 40 Excellent Free Fonts For Professional Design
- You can find over 80 more free fonts in our section Fonts.
Further Resources
- Top
10 Programming Fonts
Here’s a round-up of the top 10 readily-available monospace fonts for your coding enjoyment, with descriptions, visual examples and samples, and download links for each. The round-up features Courier, Andale Mono, Monaco, Profont, Monofur, Proggy, Droid Sans Mono, Deja Vu Sans Mono, Consolas and Inconsolata. - 45
Useful Free Handwritten Fonts
A couple of really beautiful hand writing-fonts that can give your site a more personal, individual touch. - Fontex.org
A growing collection of free fonts. - Fontsquirrel
Another growing collection of free fonts.









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