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7 Brilliant Free Fonts: Faceplate, Sling, Cicle
Every month we take a look around, browse through dozens of fonts collections and select most irresistible typefaces released recently. We collect most beautiful high quality fonts, which can be used for private and/or professional projects without any restrictions whatsoever. If you’ve tried to find them once, you know how time-consuming the search can be. Indeed, these beauties can be quite hard to find, but the search is definitely worth it. We search for them. So you don’t have to.
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- You can find more free fonts in the post Five More Freefonts: Chúcara, Preface, Colaborate we’ve published recently. It contains links to over 55 more free high quality fonts.
- Free Fonts of the Month: Geo Sans, OT Versa, Diavlo: 5 more brilliant free fonts for your collection.
Let’s take a look at 7 free high quality fonts we’ve come across over the last 30 days.
Free Fonts Of The Month
1. Faceplate™ A Gauge (Fontshop, registration is required)
2. Sling (Serif, 3 fonts, freeware)
The font is deleted from this list due to complaints – Sling seems to be a copy of the commerical font ITC Leawood.
3. Cicle (Sans-Serif, 7 fonts, freeware)
4. Steiner (Sans Serif, free for personal use)
5. Existence Light (Sans Serif, 3 fonts, freeware)
6. FF Mt
Bonus: Typography Trends
- Typography in Company Branding
An extensive list of typefaces used by well-known international companies. - The Logos of Web 2.0
An extensive list of typefaces used by Web 2.0 companies. - Most Popular Business-Typefaces
A list of most popular typefaces used in business. - 100 Best Typefaces
100 best typefaces of all time. Selected by FontShop.
Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com), an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.
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- 2June 8th, 2007 6:30 pm
thank you bro for another nice font :) gogog smashingmagazine
- 3June 8th, 2007 6:37 pm
I like Steiner font..
- 4June 8th, 2007 7:05 pm
thx. Nice fonts =)
- 5June 8th, 2007 8:52 pm
Thanks for the links, lovely font this FF Clan Narrow Bold!
- 6June 8th, 2007 8:52 pm
Sling is my favorite, I’ve used it for months now and it’s just beautiful.
- 7June 8th, 2007 9:46 pm
These ARE brilliant indeed! I can find uses for all of them. Thanks!
- 8June 8th, 2007 10:40 pm
Thanks for the nice new collection, I was waiting for it. :-)
BUT, it’s very sad that Steiner and Sling doesn’t contain Umlaute! No ÖÄÜß.
I don’t think you can call them high quality with this poor charakter set. - 9June 8th, 2007 11:04 pm
Great fonts :). Especially love the Cicle. Thanks a lot.
- 10June 8th, 2007 11:58 pm
Sling is my favourite too. The way how the font curves, it’s totally attractive and beautiful
- 11June 9th, 2007 2:07 am
Thanks
- 12June 9th, 2007 2:26 am
i love dafont site
- 13June 9th, 2007 2:43 am
Now those fonts look like they really have some potential. Especially Stiener and Sling.
You know, this is getting pretty bad. Everytime you guys dig up some new fonts, I have to fight the urge to go and switch out all the headings at my site. - 14June 9th, 2007 3:51 am
Another great post, Thanks
- 15June 9th, 2007 5:18 am
=) what more can I do.
- 16June 9th, 2007 8:07 am
Although Clan Narrow Bold is clearly an excellent-quality typeface, I must respectfully disagree with your estimation of Sling and Steiner. Sling and Steiner apparently do not contain accented characters. This presents a problem for designers who need to set non-English text with Roman numerals. Sling also appears to be a (scanned? auto-traced?) version of ITC’s Leawood font. Despite this, I find most of the free fonts that you post here rather good, particularly the ones by Manfred Klein and Jos Buivenga.
- 17June 9th, 2007 6:06 pm
The fonts are really great and professional.
- 18June 10th, 2007 1:15 am
Sling is certainly a font-rip!
Watch this sreenshot:
http://www.icepic.de/show/zuschneiden.jpg/You can see easily that it’s the same fontface like Leawood.
Please remove this fontwarez!
- 19June 10th, 2007 1:57 pm
downloading this right now :)
these fonts help my designs alot
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- 21June 11th, 2007 12:21 pm
Nice Font. Thanks
The fonts are really great and professional.
- 22June 11th, 2007 2:25 pm
Thanks dude
- 23June 11th, 2007 3:23 pm
@KarlH
itc leawood seems to have all straight serifs…
the sling has gorgeous oblique serifs….so they look similar but they are diffrent in some details.
have a closer look :)greetz from berlin and thanks for the font link list
- 24June 12th, 2007 11:35 am
Beautiful fonts. Props!
- 25June 13th, 2007 11:28 am
No, Sling is obviously a copy of Leawood. It’s actually fairly apparent, as Leawood contains a full character set, whereas Sling does not. The original fonts tend to have complete character sets, and the copies often do not.
- 26June 18th, 2007 3:45 pm
Excellent taste in fonts, as usual.
- 27July 1st, 2007 10:26 am
Thank you for removing that Sling typeface!
By the way, I made an error in my earlier comment: I meant to say Roman letters, not Roman numerals.
- 28July 5th, 2007 4:24 pm
not bad. thanks
- 29July 6th, 2007 1:08 am
Excellent fonts
I think you can find many beautiful font at findmyfonts.com too - 30August 3rd, 2007 4:20 pm
Trying to get these great fonts but “dafont.com” is down!
Cant reach this site…
Is the another dl source for the fonts?Theo
- 31October 29th, 2007 8:41 am
really nice fonts…thanks it’s very important to me…!!!
- 32December 31st, 2008 9:43 am
Excellent fonts. thanks
i love Steiner, beautifull!
i have developed a hobby for them. - 33January 8th, 2009 10:36 am
Good Joob, Keep it up
- 34August 18th, 2009 9:11 am
Hi
I can’t find the font by the link? I could really use it to a logo :)
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