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5 Freefonts You Shouldn’t Have Missed

By Smashing Editorial, January 19th, 2007 in Fonts | 61 Comments | Forum

We expand our collection of high-quality freefonts we’ve put together few months ago. Some of newbies are quite old, however they haven’t been known for a while.

Particularly District Thin, Kontrapunkt and Com4t Fine Regular offer quality and can be used for serious online-presentations. Let’s take a closer look at 5 freefonts we’ve found on the Web over the last month. Links checked: June/12 2008.

1. District Thin: Description and Download

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2. Fertigo: Description and Download

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3. FF Clan Narrow Bold: Description and Download

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4. Kontrapunkt: Description and Download

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5. Com4T Fine Regular: Description and Download

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Published in Fonts, January 19th, 2007
Tags: downloads, Fonts, freefonts, typeface

1.

Miles (January 19th, 2007, 4:08 am)

This site is quickly becoming my first read RSS feed when a new post is made. Keep up the great work and thanks for these fonts!
2.

criticalerror (January 19th, 2007, 4:41 am)

I think theres lot of better free fonts, if i find some i post it here….

;)
3.

Christian (January 19th, 2007, 6:42 am)

This Site rocks!!!! Keep up the good work… my RSS-Reader is still waiting for more cool stuff!
4.

J David (January 19th, 2007, 7:07 am)

Nice little collection. Number 5 is my favorite.
5.

Umesh (January 19th, 2007, 7:08 am)

Great site with loads of good resources. Keep up the good work and the high quality finds.
6.

妖 (January 19th, 2007, 8:55 am)

谢谢!
7.

MrQwest (January 19th, 2007, 5:33 pm)

I’ve got to mirror what everyone else has said! This site is fast becoming a fantastic resource for me!

Thanks for the hard work & the fonts :)

Q
8.

Fontaholic (January 19th, 2007, 6:45 pm)

More great free typefaces: Link [cupertino.dk]
9.

Roblibob (January 19th, 2007, 10:36 pm)

I like ex rounded bold
Link [eknp.com]

cheers
10.

Millions Livio (January 19th, 2007, 11:46 pm)

I like the list, the first and last are the best, however, outside of the first I don’t think they are “top 5″ but then again, your one of the few that wasn’t going for that angle. Personally I’m shocked at how many great fonts are hidden out there and a lot of people whine about there not being any good “free”, or “easy to obtain” ones. “Good” in fonts comes down to maturity in the artist I suppose. I’ve posted some rather good fonts on my forum as well, you can see them at;

Link [TheBluePanda.com]
11.

subcorpus (January 19th, 2007, 11:57 pm)

kewl fonts …
thanks …
12.

Dave (January 20th, 2007, 12:30 am)

District thin says right on their website “You may not post this font for distribution on the internet.”
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syberghost (January 20th, 2007, 1:25 am)

Which is why they didn’t post it for distribution on the internet; they posted a link to the other guy’s page.
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Pepe (January 20th, 2007, 1:25 am)

Smashmagazine isn’t hosting the font. They don’t say you can’t post a link to another site which is actually hosting the file to be downloaded.
15.

J.J (January 20th, 2007, 1:28 am)

As a follow up on Syberghost’s message to Dave…

You fail at the Internet, please log off now, and go outside.
16.

plonk420 (January 20th, 2007, 7:03 am)

there’s thousands free” fonts, but many of them aren’t well made nor are they clear on commercial useage. at least one of these is, and it’ll allow you to use for commercial purposes. also these are thoughtfully made and crafted likely by someone trained/studying in typefaces, not just someone making a “cool looking font”…
17.

Iresh Dilan (January 20th, 2007, 2:18 pm)

Link [www.dafont.com]

Link [neatfonts.com]

are BEST !
18.

Nikki Rose Ty (January 21st, 2007, 4:29 am)

Great font choices, especially like the first two. Some negative comments might arise from those who just want ‘wacky’ outlandish fonts and cannot appreciate readable, yet distinguishable, ones. Thanks so much.
19.

Lopka Xmass (January 23rd, 2007, 6:09 pm)

Love is all around, lets all around the world to play
20.

Juan Pablo De Gregorio (January 26th, 2007, 8:55 am)

Link [www.typies.blogspot.com]

Here is Romeral
21.

loops (January 26th, 2007, 11:11 pm)

District Thin and FF Clan Narrow Bold look pretty sweet! Thanks for pointing them out.
22.

黯然销魂剑 (February 7th, 2007, 9:30 am)

全收，谢谢！
23.

Chris (February 13th, 2007, 12:13 am)

excellent site - number 5 is the one for me
24.

spartan (February 13th, 2007, 8:43 pm)

Awesome site !!
good resource for all category of graphic designers.
nice collection of free fonts as well.
25.

volar (March 23rd, 2007, 12:02 pm)

谢谢~
26.

Keehun (August 30th, 2007, 4:41 am)

Is it illegal to mirror these? I just found out about them and I really would love them (FF Clan Narrow) although it seems I have missed it.
27.

alexandre.maia (February 5th, 2008, 8:33 pm)

I loved all. With only exception: the Kontrapunkt. Strange font…
28.

ahmed (April 11th, 2008, 5:16 am)

hay..? how are you ,you are going i’t america…?
29.

Newcastle (January 26th, 2009, 2:43 pm)

Nice list but dont agree they are top five.
30.

Guy Web (January 26th, 2009, 2:46 pm)

Great cheers.