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19 More Free Quality Fonts
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
2. Legendum (freeware, OpenType): Description, Download
3. Garogier (freeware, OpenType): Description, Download
4. JUnicode (free for personal use only): Description, Download
5. Computer Modern Unicode Bright (freeware, GNU GPL, X11): Description, Download
6. Computer Modern Unicode Serif (freeware, GNU GPL, X11): Description, Download
7. Computer Modern Unicode Sans Serif (freeware, GNU GPL, X11): Description, Download
8. mgOpen Cosmetica (freeware): Description, Download
9. mgOpen Moderna (freeware): Description, Download
10. jGaramond (freeware): Description, Download
11. Chrysanthi Unicode (freeware): Description, Download
12. Linux Libertine (freeware): Description, Download
13. Andron Scriptor: Description (visit the site to download the font)
14. Porson (freeware): Description, Download
15. Teamouse (freeware): Description, Download
17. Vollkorn (freeware): Description, Download
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.
Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com), an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.
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- 2October 11th, 2006 9:44 am
Thank you for these fonts… I’ll download some of them =)
- 3October 11th, 2006 3:18 pm
Very nice collection, my personal fav is Bitstream Vera
- 4October 11th, 2006 11:40 pm
cool list. i will definitely use some of these!
- 5October 12th, 2006 4:13 am
Brilliant collection ;)
- 6October 12th, 2006 12:16 pm
I love this, thanks you for you information. This Font really usefull ;)
- 7October 12th, 2006 12:23 pm
Legendum is particularly nice. Love that capital ‘Q’.
- 8October 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 http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts
- 9October 19th, 2006 8:00 am
Great list! I’d like to see a similar list for monospaced fonts also…
- 10October 24th, 2006 2:27 pm
Wow, very nice collection! Thanks!
- 11October 25th, 2006 11:47 am
As a fontophile, thanks! Always looking for free, good typefaces.
- 12October 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.
- 13October 28th, 2006 4:50 am
@Managing Editor: you are right. It is a typo. My mistake :) [Vitaly Friedman]
- 14January 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??
- 15January 28th, 2007 6:47 pm
this is kick-ass. Some really nice fonts.. thx for sharing!
- 16February 2nd, 2007 4:45 pm
I love Garogier – the letter “Q” is very stylish
Thx 4 this list - 17February 12th, 2007 3:22 pm
Garogier is really exquisite :) its got a ery elegant touch to it..
- 18February 24th, 2007 5:55 am
thanks for jGaramond!
- 19March 1st, 2007 12:23 am
Very very cool..
- 20July 8th, 2007 4:54 pm
very nice collection! Thanks!
- 21July 17th, 2007 5:17 pm
Thanks for sch good links!
- 22July 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!
- 23July 22nd, 2007 6:53 pm
Thanks for the great list.
My personal favorite is the HeliosCond font. - 24August 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
- 25February 7th, 2008 12:56 pm
How do install these fonts on a mac? w/ leopard.
- 26March 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 - 27April 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!
- 28May 5th, 2008 4:02 am
Hi
Thanks for this great knowledge. - 29August 29th, 2008 12:18 am
fuck you
- 30March 31st, 2009 12:03 pm
Очень странный взгляд
- 31April 13th, 2009 10:09 am
Font 15. Teamouse (freeware) is not downloadable!!!
please fix it if possible…
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- 33September 9th, 2009 2:52 am
The link to mgOpen is dead.
By the way: DejaVu is a community developed successor to Bitstream Vera. See http://dejavu-fonts.org/
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Nice list. Personally one of my favourite free fonts is GeoSans Light – http://www.dafont.com/geo-sans-light.font :D