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Free Fonts of the Month: Geo Sans, OT Versa, Diavlo
April 2nd, 2007 in Fonts | 44 Comments
We continue to collect most beautiful high quality freefonts, which can be used for both private and professional projects without any restrictions whatsoever. They are hard to find, but the search is definitely worth it.
Over the last 30 days we’ve managed to find few oldies such as famous Geo Sans and Mank Sans by Manfred Klein, but also some newbies such as Jos Buivenga’s Diavlo. You might also be interested in further free fonts we’ve presented recently. Before using the font, don’t forget to read the legal agreement carefully. They change from time to time.
If you like this series of articles, please spread the word, so that 1) we know you are interested; 2) many designers as possible can improve the quality of typography on their web-sites.
Freefonts of the Month
1. Geo Sans Light, by Manfred Klein
2. Mank Sans, by Manfred Klein
3. OT Versa Condensed, by Peter Verheul
Ourtype offers a bonus font of the month. To download the font, click on the “About” item in the left sidebar of this site. Once the horizontal menu has appeared, click on the “Bonus font of the mont” section link in the menu.
4. Diavlo by Jos Buivenga.
Diavlo is a free font that is a bit square and sharp. Great attention has been given to detail, spacing and kerning. It contains more than 300 glyphs and over 1.300 kerning pairs. Other weights may follow, but for now it’s only regular.
5. Tuffy, by Thatcher Ulrich
6. Greyscale Basic, by Greyscale [via Computerlove]
7. Kapitza Pop [decorative]
A free version of Pop contains 8 graphic elements in 4 weights (Pop10, Pop20, Pop30, Pop40). When repeated, each Pop element creates a unique pattern which can be combined into an infinite variety of patterns. This font is not free to
use commercially, please read the Licence Agreement.
8. Unibody [pixel font]
Unibody is an optimized screen font family for Macromedia Flash MX and Adobe Photoshop. It’s designed for one point size only, 8 pts.
Freely available fonts
- If you still don’t have Windows Vista fonts, you can get them legally for free, downloading and installing the PowerPoint Viewer 2007. The package includes all 6 Windows Fonts - Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia and Corbel, which you can use without any restrictions. [via Praegnanz.de].
- Apparently, Secondlife Installation Package includes Erik Spiekermann’s FF Meta Book and FF Meta Bold as .ttf. It’s questionable, whether these fonts can be used for free (a single cut is currently priced at around 50 Euro). However, you can exract them, following instructions in the article Meta Font “Free for All” Through Second Life?.
Any suggestions? Don’t hesistate to comment! We’ll appreciate it. And the community will appreciate it.
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Wolf (April 2nd, 2007, 2:17 am)
Thanks, now I have the Vista fonts :)
Daniel (April 2nd, 2007, 2:19 am)
How can I download VERSA? It doesn’t look like a free download.
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz (April 2nd, 2007, 2:27 am)
Daniel, please read the post carefully. All needed information is mentioned there.
Digilee (April 2nd, 2007, 2:47 am)
Yeah Daniel … just click on “Bonus font of the mont” … MONT?
:)
kramer (April 2nd, 2007, 3:16 am)
Here’s a link to the vista fonts for a direct download (without installing powerpoint viewer 2007).
Link [jeffmilner.com]
Bretzelman (April 2nd, 2007, 3:26 am)
Thank you so much. I was just searching for some nice fonts. This blog really is a must have.
Alex Mos (April 2nd, 2007, 7:37 am)
Very nice selection of free fonts like always :)
Arthur (April 2nd, 2007, 11:11 am)
Great Fonts!
Thank You !!!
justSomeRandomGuy (April 2nd, 2007, 1:44 pm)
Also, check out Gentium: Link [www.sil.org]
Balakumar Muthu (April 2nd, 2007, 4:30 pm)
Diavlo is my favorite !
Will (April 2nd, 2007, 5:39 pm)
Thanks for these guys. Awesome stuff.
Carlos Eduardo (April 2nd, 2007, 10:36 pm)
I love this fonts, specially those you show how to install Windows Vista’s default fonts.
Thank you again!
Digilee (April 3rd, 2007, 12:48 am)
Another great article, but doesn’t anyone spell check around here?
flashmotus (April 3rd, 2007, 1:06 am)
Thank you so much, great Fonts!
Carlos Magaña (April 3rd, 2007, 5:09 am)
Great article, OT Versa is my favorite and Mank sans
Mike Panic (April 3rd, 2007, 12:02 pm)
Thank you!
SvT (April 3rd, 2007, 3:23 pm)
tnx ;)
rogaroga (April 3rd, 2007, 7:34 pm)
hello
do you know where we can download the new Vista Font for apple mac ?
tnx
zoxeo (April 3rd, 2007, 11:45 pm)
You guys rock !
Every post of yours has something to look forward for…
Sebastian (April 4th, 2007, 9:18 am)
This are great fonts. Some came from germany :-)
aimyu (April 4th, 2007, 12:17 pm)
good i love you!!!!
codeman38 (April 5th, 2007, 10:16 pm)
rogaroga: The commandline ‘cabextract’ tool (Link [www.kyz.uklinux.net]; also available from Link [www.finkproject.org]) can be used to extract the PowerPoint Viewer installer on OS X.
Lori (April 7th, 2007, 1:01 am)
[…]I’ve been searching for some new fonts for use in both scrapping and other web projects….Link [www.heavengraphics.com][…]
Armen (April 7th, 2007, 8:22 pm)
My new banner at the end of the month is looking like it’ll be using Diavlo. Nice find guys, thanks!
Jos Buivenga (April 12th, 2007, 5:05 am)
[update on Diavlo] new pre-release: two more weights added
I’ve added two more weights besides Book: SemiBold and Bold. Italic (oblique) versions will follow soon.
Cheers!
arturoartur (April 12th, 2007, 7:44 pm)
wow, great font’s. Calibri looks fantastic!
Zahra (September 22nd, 2007, 2:05 am)
I wanted to ask if anyone knows of a true calligraphy software that can design letters to fit a given shape - say a heart of a circle or a crescent etc
I am interested in one for English Script and also for Arabic Script