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Free Font of the Week: Diavlo Light
Jos Buivenga continues to design high quality fonts and present them for free download. Recently he has released Diavlo we’ve written about few weeks ago. His last release is an extension of the Diavlo typeface – with more variants, more glyphs and more kerning pairs.
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. So Tørwald can pick up his Téléphone without worrying. Diavlo contains (some) East European characters and also Esperanto chartacters.
The final release contains 5 weights: Light, Book, SemiBold, Bold and Black. Diavlo contains a bunch of ligatures and contextual alternatives (OpenType feature) to prevent undesired collisions.
Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com), an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.
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- 2April 29th, 2007 2:48 am
sponsored post? :)
- 3April 29th, 2007 2:53 am
Great font. I’ve been looking to redesign the logo for my site and this one might actually do the trick. Thanks a bunch :)
-Nick - 4April 29th, 2007 3:11 am
Thats one great nice looking font. I like it
- 5April 29th, 2007 3:26 am
Hello,
Does somebody know why it was necessary that I change the extensions into TTF to be able to use them?
Ciao,
- 6April 29th, 2007 3:51 am
Short but great!!!
Keep going…
- 7April 29th, 2007 6:12 am
Nice font, thanks!
- 8April 29th, 2007 8:05 am
Great font Jo. Won’t forget to credit you when using it in design. Keep us updated on new ones. Cheers
- 9May 2nd, 2007 7:50 pm
Great Font! Who names these fonts, btw?
- 10May 4th, 2007 10:11 pm
I really appreciate the free fonts presented so far. But, I do have a question. The only way I know of how to use these fonts is to install them on the machine and then use them in creating a document like a jpg, or pdf type which then can be posted. Is there a way to use these fonts directly in the browser? I seem to be missing something if this is possible. Could someone enlighten me?
E.g. Say I wanted to use Diavlo Light for my tags.
- 11May 12th, 2007 11:06 pm
this is one of the best fonts for me.. and jos did a nice font!
- 12April 23rd, 2008 12:20 am
OMG this is seriously ONE BEAUTIFUL font. I had heard of designers having quite visceral reactions to fonts/typefaces, and here it is, I think i am IN LOVE with this font. Seriously, the negative space it creates is so freaking gorgeous… *sigh* I am such a geek. (shhh….)
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Cool – thanx Jos Buivenga!