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Free Fonts of the Month: FF Good, Segoe UI

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Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have too.

This month we’ve found two of them – FF Good and Segoe UI. It’s not quite clear if one is legally allowed to use Segoe UI, which is also presented below. Please read the license agreement carefully – it can change from time to time.

  • You can find over 50 more free fonts in our section Free Fonts.

Free Fonts Of The Month: FF Good, Segoe UI

1. FF Good Wide Light.

Ff-good in Free Fonts of the Month: FF Good, Segoe UI

You might need to load the page two or more times until the right page appears. You’ll also need to register a free account to be able to download the typeface.

2. LTR DataMine (removed, since the font wasn’t working properly!)

According to the license, “The user of this LettError font software agrees to credit LettError as the trademark and copyright owner of the LettError fonts and list the font names, wherever and whenever design, production, or any other credits are shown.”

3. Segoe UI.

Segoeui in Free Fonts of the Month: FF Good, Segoe UI

Segoe in Free Fonts of the Month: FF Good, Segoe UI

The design of Segoe UI improves the reading and scanning of text while leveraging ClearType. The overall approach to font size increase and font usage creates consistency across Windows and applications for a better experience in all languages.

“Microsoft grants you a personal, nonexclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to install and use the Software solely for the purpose of creating materials requested by Microsoft and in accordance with the specification(s) provide to you by Microsoft.” (Source)

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
    Juan Manuel Lemus
    August 10th, 2007 11:38 pm

    I think that the first font type is so best!

  2. 2
    criticalerror
    August 11th, 2007 1:46 am

    One more to the favorites
    I also like the first!
    Thanks!!!!

  3. 3
    Samuel
    August 11th, 2007 2:03 am

    Beautfull and simple
    cheers!

  4. 4
    Darren
    August 11th, 2007 2:03 am

    I don’t know either the first or last for me.

  5. 5
    Troy
    August 11th, 2007 2:36 am

    I just love the Vista font. I never knew it was available to me until I searched for it.

  6. 6
    Sookhan Kim
    August 11th, 2007 3:20 am

    I like LTR :)
    It looks very special . Thank you for your search.

  7. 7
    Rafael Oliveira
    August 11th, 2007 4:20 am

    Once again, another excelent selection of fonts. My pick is FF GWL, simple and elegant.

    ;)

  8. 8
    Andrew
    August 11th, 2007 6:01 am

    Great fonts this round!

  9. 9
    Starfeeder
    August 11th, 2007 12:04 pm

    beautiful beautiful! I love the free fonts posts.

  10. 10
    shikkaba
    August 11th, 2007 12:37 pm

    LTR DataMine = That’s NOT FUNNY
    What in the world do you do with a buncha words stuck together other than artsy things? :(

  11. 11
    Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz
    August 11th, 2007 5:53 pm

    Thank you, shikkaba, the article was edited.

  12. 12
    Ignacio
    August 12th, 2007 2:50 am

    I like the numbers of the first font. And I really like Smashing Magazine!! I love it!

  13. 13
    Alex
    August 13th, 2007 12:50 am

    The Segoe license renders it practically useless as a free font:
    …Microsoft grants you a personal, nonexclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license to install and use the Software solely for the purpose of creating materials requested by Microsoft” (important section bolded)

    Chances are that any “free” font with a license topping 14 kb is less free than most of use would like—or are able—to use.

  14. 14
    Montoya
    August 13th, 2007 10:46 am

    I’m 100% certain that you can’t use Segoe UI in your own designs. It’s the system font on Windows Vista and it’s only meant to appear in Windows displays. You can’t put it on a brochure and print it.

  15. 15
    Michael Morgan
    August 13th, 2007 9:14 pm

    Very nice selection of fonts!

  16. 16
    Bryan Yeager
    August 14th, 2007 2:40 am

    If you want to get fully featured use out of Segoe UI, you might as well just use Frutiger/Frutiger Next instead, since Segoe UI is pretty much a blatant rip-off of Frutiger. There’s been a lot of controversy over the whole thing.

    Don’t kid yourself. Just use Frutiger (or at least use Myriad, it’s close enough).

  17. 17
    eRNieB
    August 27th, 2007 3:13 pm

    ¡Wow! First font is fantastic. Very nice, and very clean.

  18. 18
    Eldad
    April 3rd, 2008 7:47 am

    Hello,
    Am trying to download Segoe UI but am getting Error 404
    when I click on the download link.
    Please help or is there an alternate link?
    Thanks,
    Eldad

  19. 19
    Jasmine
    April 8th, 2008 4:24 pm

    FF Good Wide Light is not more available (at least for me)… What a pity!
    Any alternate link?
    Thanks!

  20. 20
    Woldo
    May 31st, 2008 4:05 am

    Segoe UI is installed into Windows XP if the user installs Windows Live Mail,

  21. 21
    Epidemic
    August 13th, 2008 7:48 am

    The Segoe UI Link, is break..!

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