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Free Fonts of the Month: Revalo, Nadia Serif, Qlassik
September 13th, 2007 in Fonts | 68 Comments
Sometimes web design is just about beautiful typography. Used with a profound understanding of white space, basic typographic principles and usability heuristics, it can sufficiently highlight the main sections of the site and its key-elements. Font size of headers, body copy and navigation is important. Leading is important. Line length is important. And the visibility of links is important. Basically, that’s it - really, you don’t need more.
There are literally thousands of professional typefaces you can use, you might use dozens of them; however there is also a plenty of high-quality freefonts which can serve as reasonable and feasible alternatives and fulfill your requirements just as well. We collect all of them regularly, so you don’t have to.
Over the last month we’ve found six high-quality free fonts you can use for both private and commercial projects. Please check out the license agreements before using these typefaces - disclaimers can change from time to time.
Freefonts of the Month
1. Revalo Classic Regular (Registration is required)
2. Nadia Serif by Nadia Knechtle, Quersicht (see section “Labor”, SlabSerif, PC, Mac, via dersven.de)
3. Scriptina (Handwriting, PC, Mac)
4. Anivers by Jos Buivenga
5. Qlassik
6. Engel Light Ltd (Sans-Serif, PC, Mac, No special characters)
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pryngiel (September 13th, 2007, 7:50 pm)
Altho small, great collection.
MarkO (September 13th, 2007, 8:15 pm)
beautiful sans serifs make me cry.. ^_^
I feel as though it’s my birthday.. You really know how to spoil your readers.. :D
Dominik Porada (September 13th, 2007, 9:14 pm)
I agree with MarkO.
Scriptina could be used as a free Zapfino, it’s really similar.
Alessandro (September 13th, 2007, 9:23 pm)
As always, each post is a great source of tips and nice info.
Katie (September 13th, 2007, 9:26 pm)
Wow, those are beautiful fonts! Thanks for posting this!
Bart (September 13th, 2007, 9:35 pm)
Very nice i like them:D
Bryan Migliorisi (September 13th, 2007, 9:50 pm)
Thank you!
As always, SM produces great content and gives me yet another tool (or font) to add to my arsenal!
Matt Radel (September 13th, 2007, 9:52 pm)
Great fonts. Thanks for sharing!
Zul Azman (September 13th, 2007, 10:25 pm)
Great man!! Keep it up..
Marko Novak (September 13th, 2007, 10:55 pm)
I think scriptina looks great and I wouldn’t mind using it on my blog sometime.
Rob (September 13th, 2007, 10:56 pm)
Beautiful!
Lisa (September 13th, 2007, 11:10 pm)
Thanks so much - I really love Nadia. Lovely!
Favorite Browser (September 13th, 2007, 11:32 pm)
Fantastic fonts. Sometimes its hard to find good ones :-)
gr8pixel (September 13th, 2007, 11:41 pm)
thanx a bunch! =)
Soh (September 13th, 2007, 11:46 pm)
More fonts to the collection :-)
Paul (September 13th, 2007, 11:49 pm)
I HATE Scriptina!!!!!
I see that font everywhere. I see it on books, web sites, even low-budget, straight to DVD movies sometimes. I think it’s one of the most overused fonts in the history of mankind. Okay, maybe not that bad.
I think it’s a good, quality font, but people use it too damn much. It haunts my dreams.
Jeff Blaine (September 14th, 2007, 12:05 am)
Your article heading font-size is so remarkably too big (IE or Firefox)
jayhan (September 14th, 2007, 12:10 am)
Anivers is such a great font, i like it very much! Scriptina is not bad either.
Laura (September 14th, 2007, 12:15 am)
Nice list! I have to agree with Paul, though–Scriptina is overused.
Richard Davies (September 14th, 2007, 12:44 am)
Wow! These are some very nice fonts! Contrary to the previous commenters, I’m really diggin’ Scriptina. We must be looking at different things, because I don’t recall having seen it overused anywhere…
Wai (September 14th, 2007, 2:26 am)
I like Scriptina. Its a very nice script font
lizz (September 14th, 2007, 2:31 am)
I - unlike some- think it is hard to find a nice readable script font. Perhaps that is why some find it overused. I think it is a sweet little font. In fact I like them all.
Thanks for the post.
Angel (September 14th, 2007, 3:11 am)
I used to have Scriptina in my blog when I was starting. Then I found it everywhere!!! Needless to say, I AM DAMN glad I changed it already. :D
Jasper (September 14th, 2007, 3:25 am)
Yep amazing list. Much appreciated, thank you and congrats with the 1 year anniversary!
anggi (September 14th, 2007, 6:25 am)
wow thanks for the free fonts :D
pati @-;-- (September 14th, 2007, 6:27 am)
All they are beautiful… however, Scriptina is so memorable and unique that if you see it once, it seems like you’ve seen it everywhere.
Joshua (September 14th, 2007, 9:36 am)
Scriptina is my favourite font.. love it
bins (September 14th, 2007, 12:09 pm)
definitely new sexy “nadia serif” is on my hot spot.
Nina (September 14th, 2007, 3:20 pm)
Gorgeous picks! thanks for posting (:
nadia (September 14th, 2007, 4:25 pm)
Thank You!!
I love “nadia serif” soo much!
gonna use it for my name card ;-)
krystian (September 14th, 2007, 4:59 pm)
Why do i get this feeling these are not unicode?
h32 (September 14th, 2007, 6:30 pm)
Does somebody know a font like Engel Light Ltd but WITH special characters?
David Carrero Fdez-Baillo (September 15th, 2007, 12:46 am)
Great free fonts for my Windows Vista :)
h.sam (September 15th, 2007, 2:21 am)
Is it Scriptina or Zapfino that some of you seem to be seeing everywhere? Its descenders and ascenders seem to have the same forward motion as Zapfino, but the terminals have a much more ‘updated retro’ feeling to them. It looks to be derived from Zapfino, which seems to have experienced a new surge in usage. The ‘overused’ feeling could also come from the release of ‘retro’ inspired fonts over the past two or so years.
P Chan (September 15th, 2007, 4:44 am)
Thanks for the fonts. I’m really digging Scriptina. I also like the nuances of Engel. Keep them coming.
Sia (September 16th, 2007, 3:47 am)
I like Qlassik a lot. It has a special something… it flows. I’m not a designer, but this font is really special and it would make a great logo type in pink or any other feminine color.
Kenny (September 17th, 2007, 4:51 pm)
for the registration on fontshop
Link [www.bugmenot.com]
Narasimman (September 20th, 2007, 10:37 pm)
Great free fonts for my Windows Vista :)
Fudgemaster (September 21st, 2007, 9:34 pm)
OMG these are beautiful fonts and you are a star! =D Thx!
theuprock (October 2nd, 2007, 4:08 am)
Qlassik is quite nice. I don’t know what to say about Scriptina. It used to be a favorite of mine, until I started reading about how popular it is for pornography websites, then I lost a lot of love for it. Thanks for the link to getting Qlassik!
miko (October 3rd, 2007, 12:37 am)
Thanks for the cool fonts — really like scriptina, despite the fact that theuprock says it’s popular on porn sites.
Johan (October 3rd, 2007, 8:57 am)
Gracias por lon fonts,.. hace tiempo que buscaba algo parecido a Scriptina! y lo encontré aquí. Excelente website :)
Poxline (October 7th, 2007, 2:25 am)
Oh so many great fonts !
Thanks so much !
NAD (October 12th, 2007, 6:16 pm)
Just i can say its Amazing,n Amazing………….But a problem wich i occured that some time destination Font pages do not open…..Otherwisise it hase a huge collection and Amazing……..I use these font in my web-designing
Ilman (October 20th, 2007, 3:11 pm)
I love Qlassik. I use them often in my school publications.
aLLEGRA (February 20th, 2008, 3:06 pm)
Link [voip-forum.tmcnet.com]