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19 More Free Quality Fonts

By Smashing Editorial, October 11th, 2006 in Fonts | 123 Comments | Forum

Over the last days we’ve decided to take a look at new fonts and choose the most beautiful ones. In fact, many new fonts occured - some of them just weren’t available for download one year ago, some of them were created over the last 12 months.

The results are listed below - the most beautiful fonts, created by the open-source community and free for personal, academic and (sometimes) commercial use. The disclaimers are changing from time to time, so you better first take a close look at disclaimer before using the font in a commercial project. “19 More Best Free Quality Fonts” contains only new fonts. Links checked: May/20 2008 - 3 Fonts deleted).

16 More Best Free Quality Fonts

1. Bitstream Vera Fonts (freeware): Description, Download

Bitstream Vera Fonts

2. Legendum (freeware, OpenType): Description, Download

Legendum

3. Garogier (freeware, OpenType): Description, Download

Garogier

4. JUnicode (free for personal use only): Description, Download

JUnicode

5. Computer Modern Unicode Bright (freeware, GNU GPL, X11): Description, Download

Computer Modern Unicode

6. Computer Modern Unicode Serif (freeware, GNU GPL, X11): Description, Download

Computer Modern Unicode

7. Computer Modern Unicode Sans Serif (freeware, GNU GPL, X11): Description, Download

Computer Modern Unicode

8. mgOpen Cosmetica (freeware): Description, Download

mgOpen Cosmetica

9. mgOpen Moderna (freeware): Description, Download

10. jGaramond (freeware): Description, Download

jGaramond

11. Chrysanthi Unicode (freeware): Description, Download

Chrysanthi Unicode

12. Linux Libertine (freeware): Description, Download

Linux Libertine

13. Andron Scriptor: Description (visit the site to download the font)

Andron Scriptor

14. Porson (freeware): Description, Download

Porson

15. Teamouse (freeware): Description, Download

Teamouse

17. Vollkorn (freeware): Description, Download

Vollkorn

Links for further visiting and reading:

Typeforge: open source collaborative type design: tremendous efforts, tremendous result. Don’t forget to support the project and the team.
Unicode Test lists dozens of gorgeous free/shareware fonts.
Greek Font Society presents some ’standard’ freefonts.

Published in Fonts, October 11th, 2006
Tags: downloads, Fonts, free, royalty-free, typography

1.

will (October 11th, 2006, 6:59 am)

Nice list. Personally one of my favourite free fonts is GeoSans Light - Link [www.dafont.com] :D
2.

Carlos Eduardo (October 11th, 2006, 9:44 am)

Thank you for these fonts… I’ll download some of them =)
3.

Scaly (October 11th, 2006, 3:18 pm)

Very nice collection, my personal fav is Bitstream Vera
4.

Edward (October 11th, 2006, 11:40 pm)

cool list. i will definitely use some of these!
5.

Ivan Minic (October 12th, 2006, 4:13 am)

Brilliant collection ;)
6.

Jauhari (October 12th, 2006, 12:16 pm)

I love this, thanks you for you information. This Font really usefull ;)
7.

Darren Hoyt (October 12th, 2006, 12:23 pm)

Legendum is particularly nice. Love that capital ‘Q’.
8.

i design (October 13th, 2006, 11:58 am)

Keep it growing. Oh and do check out Vitaly Friedman’s Notebook for 25 Best Free Quality Fonts - currently at Link [www.alvit.de]
9.

Tuxie (October 19th, 2006, 8:00 am)

Great list! I’d like to see a similar list for monospaced fonts also…
10.

vrf (October 24th, 2006, 2:27 pm)

Wow, very nice collection! Thanks!
11.

Creatrix (October 25th, 2006, 11:47 am)

As a fontophile, thanks! Always looking for free, good typefaces.
12.

Managing Editor (October 27th, 2006, 10:01 pm)

I stumbled onto your site and only have one question: why, in the examples of the fonts, is it always “eight night ten”? I hope I’m not missing something, but it seems to be a glaring, repeated typo, and I’m just the kind of jerk to point it out.
13.

Magazine (October 28th, 2006, 4:50 am)

@Managing Editor: you are right. It is a typo. My mistake :) [Vitaly Friedman]
14.

ted (January 20th, 2007, 1:09 am)

As a dedicated type addict, I try and keep abreast of font offerings, most of which are hardly worth the electrons it takes to post them. Not much of it is original (or well designed), the majority being knock-offs of existing types. Most of those you list here are little more than derivatives of commercial fonts like Garamond, Century and Helvetica all of which are virtually free themselves since they come pre-installed in all computers now.

That being the case, why are you spending time looking for something that you already have for free??
15.

noodlebox (January 28th, 2007, 6:47 pm)

this is kick-ass. Some really nice fonts.. thx for sharing!
16.

DSDS-Superstar (February 2nd, 2007, 4:45 pm)

I love Garogier - the letter “Q” is very stylish
Thx 4 this list
17.

William (February 12th, 2007, 3:22 pm)

Garogier is really exquisite :) its got a ery elegant touch to it..
18.

apul (February 24th, 2007, 5:55 am)

thanks for jGaramond!
19.

MazDa (March 1st, 2007, 12:23 am)

Very very cool..
20.

Kevin (July 8th, 2007, 4:54 pm)

very nice collection! Thanks!
21.

Anonymous (July 17th, 2007, 5:17 pm)

Thanks for sch good links!
22.

Williams (July 17th, 2007, 5:25 pm)

What can be better than this collection? It is all which not available anywhere else on internet! Excellent work. Keep on doing the best!
23.

Antonie Potgieter (July 22nd, 2007, 6:53 pm)

Thanks for the great list.
My personal favorite is the HeliosCond font.
24.

Syed Balkhi (August 23rd, 2007, 8:01 pm)

i wanted to download the share font but it is not letting me download.. Link is broken. Any other resource ?? I think i like this font for logo designing
25.

a (February 7th, 2008, 12:56 pm)

How do install these fonts on a mac? w/ leopard.
26.

Capt Vlad Nikolskiy (March 18th, 2008, 1:05 am)

Thanks a lot for that.
i can’t find anywhere WELL DESIGNED Old English (so-called “Gothic” style).
Will be obliged for any ideas/ tips reg the matter
Thanks in advance
27.

Willi (April 6th, 2008, 2:59 am)

Hallo, wer kann mir helfen…, benötige dringendst OFFICINA SERIF Schriftart!

Kann mir diese jemand mailen als Anlage????

Vielen Dank im Voraus!
28.

saroj (May 5th, 2008, 4:02 am)

Hi
Thanks for this great knowledge.
29.

ass (August 29th, 2008, 12:18 am)

fuck you
30.

Roadatetela (March 31st, 2009, 12:03 pm)

Очень странный взгляд
31.

Alex Pillsells (April 13th, 2009, 10:09 am)

Font 15. Teamouse (freeware) is not downloadable!!!

please fix it if possible…