Free Fonts of the Month: Revalo, Nadia Serif, Qlassik
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)












pryngiel
September 13th, 2007 7:50 pmAltho small, great collection.
MarkO
September 13th, 2007 8:15 pmbeautiful 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 pmI agree with MarkO.
Scriptina could be used as a free Zapfino, it’s really similar.
Alessandro
September 13th, 2007 9:23 pmAs always, each post is a great source of tips and nice info.
Katie
September 13th, 2007 9:26 pmWow, those are beautiful fonts! Thanks for posting this!
Bart
September 13th, 2007 9:35 pmVery nice i like them:D
Bryan Migliorisi
September 13th, 2007 9:50 pmThank 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 pmGreat fonts. Thanks for sharing!
Zul Azman
September 13th, 2007 10:25 pmGreat man!! Keep it up..
Marko Novak
September 13th, 2007 10:55 pmI think scriptina looks great and I wouldn’t mind using it on my blog sometime.
Rob
September 13th, 2007 10:56 pmBeautiful!
Lisa
September 13th, 2007 11:10 pmThanks so much – I really love Nadia. Lovely!
Favorite Browser
September 13th, 2007 11:32 pmFantastic fonts. Sometimes its hard to find good ones :-)
gr8pixel
September 13th, 2007 11:41 pmthanx a bunch! =)
Soh
September 13th, 2007 11:46 pmMore fonts to the collection :-)
Paul
September 13th, 2007 11:49 pmI 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 amYour article heading font-size is so remarkably too big (IE or Firefox)
jayhan
September 14th, 2007 12:10 amAnivers is such a great font, i like it very much! Scriptina is not bad either.
Laura
September 14th, 2007 12:15 amNice list! I have to agree with Paul, though–Scriptina is overused.
Richard Davies
September 14th, 2007 12:44 amWow! 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 amI like Scriptina. Its a very nice script font
lizz
September 14th, 2007 2:31 amI – 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 amI 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 amYep amazing list. Much appreciated, thank you and congrats with the 1 year anniversary!
anggi
September 14th, 2007 6:25 amwow thanks for the free fonts :D
pati @-;--
September 14th, 2007 6:27 amAll 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 amScriptina is my favourite font.. love it
bins
September 14th, 2007 12:09 pmdefinitely new sexy “nadia serif” is on my hot spot.
Nina
September 14th, 2007 3:20 pmGorgeous picks! thanks for posting (:
nadia
September 14th, 2007 4:25 pmThank You!!
I love “nadia serif” soo much!
gonna use it for my name card ;-)
krystian
September 14th, 2007 4:59 pmWhy do i get this feeling these are not unicode?
h32
September 14th, 2007 6:30 pmDoes somebody know a font like Engel Light Ltd but WITH special characters?
David Carrero Fdez-Baillo
September 15th, 2007 12:46 amGreat free fonts for my Windows Vista :)
h.sam
September 15th, 2007 2:21 amIs 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 amThanks for the fonts. I’m really digging Scriptina. I also like the nuances of Engel. Keep them coming.
Sia
September 16th, 2007 3:47 amI 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 pmfor the registration on fontshop
http://www.bugmenot.com/view/www.fontshop.com
Narasimman
September 20th, 2007 10:37 pmGreat free fonts for my Windows Vista :)
Fudgemaster
September 21st, 2007 9:34 pmOMG these are beautiful fonts and you are a star! =D Thx!
theuprock
October 2nd, 2007 4:08 amQlassik 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 amThanks 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 amGracias por lon fonts,.. hace tiempo que buscaba algo parecido a Scriptina! y lo encontré aquí. Excelente website :)
Poxline
October 7th, 2007 2:25 amOh so many great fonts !
Thanks so much !
NAD
October 12th, 2007 6:16 pmJust 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 pmI love Qlassik. I use them often in my school publications.
aLLEGRA
February 20th, 2008 3:06 pmenter here