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Free Font of the Week: Diavlo Light
April 29th, 2007 in Fonts | 15 Comments
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.
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Gerd Wippich (April 29th, 2007, 1:57 am)
Cool – thanx Jos Buivenga!
covi (April 29th, 2007, 2:48 am)
sponsored post? :)
Nick (April 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
Wai (April 29th, 2007, 3:11 am)
Thats one great nice looking font. I like it
GizMecano (April 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,
criticalerror (April 29th, 2007, 3:51 am)
Short but great!!!
Keep going…
Ines (April 29th, 2007, 6:12 am)
Nice font, thanks!
Dean Lazarevic (April 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
Web Guy Gary (May 2nd, 2007, 7:50 pm)
Great Font! Who names these fonts, btw?
Joe (May 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.
nina osenar (May 12th, 2007, 11:06 pm)
this is one of the best fonts for me.. and jos did a nice font!
ERin (April 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….)