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5 More Freefonts: Chúcara, Preface, Colaborate

February 24th, 2007 in Fonts | 27 Comments

High quality freefonts are always nice to have, but usually they are extremely hard to find. Usually it requires much time and patience to get a lead on some gorgeous typofaces out there. Every week we take a close look around, visit dozens of typography-related sites, check out the latest updates and choose the best free fonts, which have been released or appeared over the last few weeks. And all the fonts we find are getting published immediately, here on Smashing Magazine. So what did we find this week?

1. Chúcara: to get the font, contact the designer Juan Pablo De Gregorio or add a comment to the post, explaining, who you are, why are you willing to get the font and how do you intend to use it. The author sends the font via e-mail.

2. Preface Light: Preface combines the effects of a sober grotesque with a few truly original lettersphapes. See it in action at Lush and try the Light weight for free. Is offered for free download for a limited time.

3. Zalamander: Download the all caps version of Zalamander. All fonts are provided in OpenType format. The full version contains more than 800 glyphs including cyrillic and provides full OpenType functionality.

[via dersven.de]

4. Colaborate

[image and reference via typoblog.ch]

5. Lindau

[image and reference via typoblog.ch]

Even more Freefonts!

Here are the articles with references to over 50 high quality freefonts we’ve managed to collect so far. Thanks to all designers, typo-artists, bloggers and foundries, who/which released these fonts for free, spread the word and thus enriched the state of web-typography enormously.

We, as developers and designers, really appreciate your efforts.

Published in Fonts, February 24th, 2007
Tags: fonts, freefonts, type, typography

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Walter Kilis (February 25th, 2007, 5:06 am)

Good fonts, I would like to see more arial/standard fonts in the future with various font weights.
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Jon (February 26th, 2007, 5:36 am)

Walter -

I agree.. Fonts like colaborate that come with multiple weights are so usefull.. Especially for use on the web and in simple designs with lots of copy.

Jon
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Arne (February 26th, 2007, 1:54 pm)

And as always a good source for nice freefonts. Thank you _very_ much! :-)
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Mostafa Mourad (February 26th, 2007, 5:42 pm)

I very much like the first font, and i have a question.
How can I use these fonts as text on the web?
without using it as images?

I heard it can be done.

thanks!
Link [www.designrific.com]
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Carlos Eduardo (February 26th, 2007, 10:03 pm)

Very good fonts!
Thank you for another nice examples of free fonts.

Sometimes we think that only stock fonts are good, but you’re showing that we can download some good for free =)
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typoblog.ch (February 28th, 2007, 6:45 am)

Thanks for referencing your source!

The free fonts are not bad. But they’re still free. This means, they ar not perfect. Really good fonts are so much of work. So it can’t be free. But sometimes there are some real cool fonts to find on the web.

typoblog.ch
roland
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Juan Pablo De Gregorio (March 2nd, 2007, 2:19 am)

Thank you for reference our blog…
Chucara was my title proyect, and when i start disigning it, many people helped me… i promiesed when i finish the font, i will look the way to give it for free.
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8.

Alex Mos (May 12th, 2007, 7:08 am)

Very often I find myself browsing through my fonts collection for hours before choosing the proper one… it is one of the things that gives a design the proper feel… thanks for making my and others job easier :)
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J. Moore (August 9th, 2007, 4:04 am)

Did anyone get Lindau? I’d love a copy, if so.

Please email me at:

jkmoore[AT]juno[DOT]com

Thank you.
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