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.
will
October 11th, 2006 6:59 amNice list. Personally one of my favourite free fonts is GeoSans Light – http://www.dafont.com/geo-sans-light.font :D
Carlos Eduardo
October 11th, 2006 9:44 amThank you for these fonts… I’ll download some of them =)
Scaly
October 11th, 2006 3:18 pmVery nice collection, my personal fav is Bitstream Vera
Edward
October 11th, 2006 11:40 pmcool list. i will definitely use some of these!
Jauhari
October 12th, 2006 12:16 pmI love this, thanks you for you information. This Font really usefull ;)
Darren Hoyt
October 12th, 2006 12:23 pmLegendum is particularly nice. Love that capital ‘Q’.
i design
October 13th, 2006 11:58 amKeep 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
Tuxie
October 19th, 2006 8:00 amGreat list! I’d like to see a similar list for monospaced fonts also…
vrf
October 24th, 2006 2:27 pmWow, very nice collection! Thanks!
Creatrix
October 25th, 2006 11:47 amAs a fontophile, thanks! Always looking for free, good typefaces.
Managing Editor
October 27th, 2006 10:01 pmI 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.
Magazine
October 28th, 2006 4:50 am@Managing Editor: you are right. It is a typo. My mistake :) [Vitaly Friedman]
ted
January 20th, 2007 1:09 amAs 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??
noodlebox
January 28th, 2007 6:47 pmthis is kick-ass. Some really nice fonts.. thx for sharing!
DSDS-Superstar
February 2nd, 2007 4:45 pmI love Garogier – the letter “Q” is very stylish
Thx 4 this list
William
February 12th, 2007 3:22 pmGarogier is really exquisite :) its got a ery elegant touch to it..
apul
February 24th, 2007 5:55 amthanks for jGaramond!
MazDa
March 1st, 2007 12:23 amVery very cool..
Kevin
July 8th, 2007 4:54 pmvery nice collection! Thanks!
Anonymous
July 17th, 2007 5:17 pmThanks for sch good links!
Williams
July 17th, 2007 5:25 pmWhat can be better than this collection? It is all which not available anywhere else on internet! Excellent work. Keep on doing the best!
Antonie Potgieter
July 22nd, 2007 6:53 pmThanks for the great list.
My personal favorite is the HeliosCond font.
Syed Balkhi
August 23rd, 2007 8:01 pmi 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
a
February 7th, 2008 12:56 pmHow do install these fonts on a mac? w/ leopard.
Capt Vlad Nikolskiy
March 18th, 2008 1:05 amThanks 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
Willi
April 6th, 2008 2:59 amHallo, wer kann mir helfen…, benötige dringendst OFFICINA SERIF Schriftart!
Kann mir diese jemand mailen als Anlage????
Vielen Dank im Voraus!
saroj
May 5th, 2008 4:02 amHi
Thanks for this great knowledge.
ass
August 29th, 2008 12:18 amfuck you
Roadatetela
March 31st, 2009 12:03 pmОчень странный взгляд
Alex Pillsells
April 13th, 2009 10:09 amFont 15. Teamouse (freeware) is not downloadable!!!
please fix it if possible…
droppedshadow
July 20th, 2009 3:09 amNice! Here is another list, all dafont fonts..
ReinoutS
September 9th, 2009 2:52 amThe link to mgOpen is dead.
By the way: DejaVu is a community developed successor to Bitstream Vera. See http://dejavu-fonts.org/
Erkst
April 24th, 2010 5:07 pmThanks a lot for all fonts.
Ranjit
September 23rd, 2010 5:33 amNice collections.. I like coronet…
FGM
February 4th, 2011 3:38 amMgOpen Cosmetica links are now broken.
Anna
February 23rd, 2011 11:39 amI’m very picking when it comes to fonts :) but Garogier is really amazing. Here are some more I find which are really good:- websoulz.com/25-amazing-free-fonts-to-spice-up-your-designs/