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7 Brilliant Free Fonts: Faceplate, Sling, Cicle

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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.

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)

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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)

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4. Steiner (Sans Serif, free for personal use)

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5. Existence Light (Sans Serif, 3 fonts, freeware)

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6. FF Mt

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7. FF Clan Narrow Bold

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Bonus: Typography Trends

Vitaly Friedman

Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com), an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.

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  1. 1
    David Horn
    June 8th, 2007 5:55 pm

    Nice collection – thanks!

    Reply
  2. 2
    faizan
    June 8th, 2007 6:30 pm

    thank you bro for another nice font :) gogog smashingmagazine

    Reply
  3. 3
    Pavel Ciorici
    June 8th, 2007 6:37 pm

    I like Steiner font..

    Reply
  4. 4
    Tobbi
    June 8th, 2007 7:05 pm

    thx. Nice fonts =)

    Reply
  5. 5
    loops
    June 8th, 2007 8:52 pm

    Thanks for the links, lovely font this FF Clan Narrow Bold!

    Reply
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    Shaun
    June 8th, 2007 8:52 pm

    Sling is my favorite, I’ve used it for months now and it’s just beautiful.

    Reply
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    Veron
    June 8th, 2007 9:46 pm

    These ARE brilliant indeed! I can find uses for all of them. Thanks!

    Reply
  8. 8
    KarlH
    June 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.

    Reply
  9. 9
    Astrid Paramita
    June 8th, 2007 11:04 pm

    Great fonts :). Especially love the Cicle. Thanks a lot.

    Reply
  10. 10
    Johnny Khoo
    June 8th, 2007 11:58 pm

    Sling is my favourite too. The way how the font curves, it’s totally attractive and beautiful

    Reply
  11. 11
    Mostafa Darvishzadeh
    June 9th, 2007 2:07 am

    Thanks

    Reply
  12. 12
    meizopan
    June 9th, 2007 2:26 am

    i love dafont site

    Reply
  13. 13
    Phil from Loreauville
    June 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.

    Reply
  14. 14
    Aso Naderi
    June 9th, 2007 3:51 am

    Another great post, Thanks

    Reply
  15. 15
    Matty
    June 9th, 2007 5:18 am

    =) what more can I do.

    Reply
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    Richard
    June 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.

    Reply
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    Ray Cheung
    June 9th, 2007 6:06 pm

    The fonts are really great and professional.

    Reply
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    KarlH
    June 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!

    Reply
  19. 19
    Syed Balkhi
    June 10th, 2007 1:57 pm

    downloading this right now :)

    these fonts help my designs alot

    Reply
  20. 20
    Le Tung Lam
    June 11th, 2007 12:20 pm

    I think you can find many beautiful font at http://dafont.com

    Reply
  21. 21
    Le Tung Lam
    June 11th, 2007 12:21 pm

    Nice Font. Thanks

    The fonts are really great and professional.

    Reply
  22. 22
    Kaya
    June 11th, 2007 2:25 pm

    Thanks dude

    Reply
  23. 23
    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

    Reply
  24. 24
    Walter Kilis
    June 12th, 2007 11:35 am

    Beautiful fonts. Props!

    Reply
  25. 25
    Richard
    June 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.

    Reply
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    Lisa
    June 18th, 2007 3:45 pm

    Excellent taste in fonts, as usual.

    Reply
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    Richard
    July 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.

    Reply
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    UGUR
    July 5th, 2007 4:24 pm

    not bad. thanks

    Reply
  29. 29
    Tinsley
    July 6th, 2007 1:08 am

    Excellent fonts
    I think you can find many beautiful font at findmyfonts.com too

    Reply
  30. 30
    Theo
    August 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

    Reply
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    maria
    October 29th, 2007 8:41 am

    really nice fonts…thanks it’s very important to me…!!!

    Reply
  32. 32
    Hobby
    December 31st, 2008 9:43 am

    Excellent fonts. thanks
    i love Steiner, beautifull!
    i have developed a hobby for them.

    Reply
  33. 33
    Sana
    January 8th, 2009 10:36 am

    Good Joob, Keep it up

    Reply
  34. 34
    Helle
    August 18th, 2009 9:11 am

    Hi
    I can’t find the font by the link? I could really use it to a logo :)

    Reply
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