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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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
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David Horn
June 8th, 2007 5:55 pmNice collection – thanks!
faizan
June 8th, 2007 6:30 pmthank you bro for another nice font :) gogog smashingmagazine
Pavel Ciorici
June 8th, 2007 6:37 pmI like Steiner font..
Tobbi
June 8th, 2007 7:05 pmthx. Nice fonts =)
loops
June 8th, 2007 8:52 pmThanks for the links, lovely font this FF Clan Narrow Bold!
Shaun
June 8th, 2007 8:52 pmSling is my favorite, I’ve used it for months now and it’s just beautiful.
Veron
June 8th, 2007 9:46 pmThese ARE brilliant indeed! I can find uses for all of them. Thanks!
KarlH
June 8th, 2007 10:40 pmThanks 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.
Astrid Paramita
June 8th, 2007 11:04 pmGreat fonts :). Especially love the Cicle. Thanks a lot.
Johnny Khoo
June 8th, 2007 11:58 pmSling is my favourite too. The way how the font curves, it’s totally attractive and beautiful
Mostafa Darvishzadeh
June 9th, 2007 2:07 amThanks
meizopan
June 9th, 2007 2:26 ami love dafont site
Phil from Loreauville
June 9th, 2007 2:43 amNow 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.
Aso Naderi
June 9th, 2007 3:51 amAnother great post, Thanks
Matty
June 9th, 2007 5:18 am=) what more can I do.
Richard
June 9th, 2007 8:07 amAlthough 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.
Ray Cheung
June 9th, 2007 6:06 pmThe fonts are really great and professional.
KarlH
June 10th, 2007 1:15 amSling 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!
Syed Balkhi
June 10th, 2007 1:57 pmdownloading this right now :)
these fonts help my designs alot
Le Tung Lam
June 11th, 2007 12:20 pmI think you can find many beautiful font at http://dafont.com
Le Tung Lam
June 11th, 2007 12:21 pmNice Font. Thanks
The fonts are really great and professional.
Kaya
June 11th, 2007 2:25 pmThanks dude
mo
June 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
Walter Kilis
June 12th, 2007 11:35 amBeautiful fonts. Props!
Richard
June 13th, 2007 11:28 amNo, 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.
Lisa
June 18th, 2007 3:45 pmExcellent taste in fonts, as usual.
Richard
July 1st, 2007 10:26 amThank 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.
UGUR
July 5th, 2007 4:24 pmnot bad. thanks
Tinsley
July 6th, 2007 1:08 amExcellent fonts
I think you can find many beautiful font at findmyfonts.com too
Theo
August 3rd, 2007 4:20 pmTrying to get these great fonts but “dafont.com” is down!
Cant reach this site…
Is the another dl source for the fonts?
Theo
maria
October 29th, 2007 8:41 amreally nice fonts…thanks it’s very important to me…!!!
Hobby
December 31st, 2008 9:43 amExcellent fonts. thanks
i love Steiner, beautifull!
i have developed a hobby for them.
Sana
January 8th, 2009 10:36 amGood Joob, Keep it up
Helle
August 18th, 2009 9:11 amHi
I can’t find the font by the link? I could really use it to a logo :)