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7 Brilliant Free Fonts: Faceplate, Sling, Cicle
By Smashing Editorial, June 8th, 2007 in Fonts | 60 Comments | Forum
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
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David Horn (June 8th, 2007, 5:55 pm)
Nice collection - thanks!
faizan (June 8th, 2007, 6:30 pm)
thank you bro for another nice font :) gogog smashingmagazine
Pavel Ciorici (June 8th, 2007, 6:37 pm)
I like Steiner font..
Tobbi (June 8th, 2007, 7:05 pm)
thx. Nice fonts =)
loops (June 8th, 2007, 8:52 pm)
Thanks for the links, lovely font this FF Clan Narrow Bold!
Shaun (June 8th, 2007, 8:52 pm)
Sling is my favorite, I’ve used it for months now and it’s just beautiful.
Veron (June 8th, 2007, 9:46 pm)
These ARE brilliant indeed! I can find uses for all of them. Thanks!
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.
Astrid Paramita (June 8th, 2007, 11:04 pm)
Great fonts :). Especially love the Cicle. Thanks a lot.
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
Mostafa Darvishzadeh (June 9th, 2007, 2:07 am)
Thanks
meizopan (June 9th, 2007, 2:26 am)
i love dafont site
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.
Aso Naderi (June 9th, 2007, 3:51 am)
Another great post, Thanks
Matty (June 9th, 2007, 5:18 am)
=) what more can I do.
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.
Ray Cheung (June 9th, 2007, 6:06 pm)
The fonts are really great and professional.
KarlH (June 10th, 2007, 1:15 am)
Sling is certainly a font-rip!
Watch this sreenshot:
Link [www.icepic.de]
You can see easily that it’s the same fontface like Leawood.
Please remove this fontwarez!
Syed Balkhi (June 10th, 2007, 1:57 pm)
downloading this right now :)
these fonts help my designs alot
Le Tung Lam (June 11th, 2007, 12:20 pm)
I think you can find many beautiful font at Link [dafont.com]
Le Tung Lam (June 11th, 2007, 12:21 pm)
Nice Font. Thanks
The fonts are really great and professional.
Kaya (June 11th, 2007, 2:25 pm)
Thanks 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 am)
Beautiful fonts. Props!
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.
Lisa (June 18th, 2007, 3:45 pm)
Excellent taste in fonts, as usual.
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.
UGUR (July 5th, 2007, 4:24 pm)
not bad. thanks
Tinsley (July 6th, 2007, 1:08 am)
Excellent fonts
I think you can find many beautiful font at Link [findmyfonts.com] too
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
maria (October 29th, 2007, 8:41 am)
really nice fonts…thanks it’s very important to me…!!!
Hobby (December 31st, 2008, 9:43 am)
Excellent fonts. thanks
i love Steiner, beautifull!
i have developed a hobby for them.
Sana (January 8th, 2009, 10:36 am)
Good Joob, Keep it up