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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)
Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com), an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.
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- 2September 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
- 3September 13th, 2007 9:14 pm
I agree with MarkO.
Scriptina could be used as a free Zapfino, it’s really similar.
- 4September 13th, 2007 9:23 pm
As always, each post is a great source of tips and nice info.
- 5September 13th, 2007 9:26 pm
Wow, those are beautiful fonts! Thanks for posting this!
- 6September 13th, 2007 9:35 pm
Very nice i like them:D
- 7September 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!
- 8September 13th, 2007 9:52 pm
Great fonts. Thanks for sharing!
- 9September 13th, 2007 10:25 pm
Great man!! Keep it up..
- 10September 13th, 2007 10:55 pm
I think scriptina looks great and I wouldn’t mind using it on my blog sometime.
- 11September 13th, 2007 10:56 pm
Beautiful!
- 12September 13th, 2007 11:10 pm
Thanks so much – I really love Nadia. Lovely!
- 13September 13th, 2007 11:32 pm
Fantastic fonts. Sometimes its hard to find good ones :-)
- 14September 13th, 2007 11:41 pm
thanx a bunch! =)
- 15September 13th, 2007 11:46 pm
More fonts to the collection :-)
- 16September 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.
- 17September 14th, 2007 12:05 am
Your article heading font-size is so remarkably too big (IE or Firefox)
- 18September 14th, 2007 12:10 am
Anivers is such a great font, i like it very much! Scriptina is not bad either.
- 19September 14th, 2007 12:15 am
Nice list! I have to agree with Paul, though–Scriptina is overused.
- 20September 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…
- 21September 14th, 2007 2:26 am
I like Scriptina. Its a very nice script font
- 22September 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. - 23September 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
- 24September 14th, 2007 3:25 am
Yep amazing list. Much appreciated, thank you and congrats with the 1 year anniversary!
- 25September 14th, 2007 6:25 am
wow thanks for the free fonts :D
- 26September 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.
- 27September 14th, 2007 9:36 am
Scriptina is my favourite font.. love it
- 28September 14th, 2007 12:09 pm
definitely new sexy “nadia serif” is on my hot spot.
- 29September 14th, 2007 3:20 pm
Gorgeous picks! thanks for posting (:
- 30September 14th, 2007 4:25 pm
Thank You!!
I love “nadia serif” soo much!
gonna use it for my name card ;-)
- 31September 14th, 2007 4:59 pm
Why do i get this feeling these are not unicode?
- 32September 14th, 2007 6:30 pm
Does somebody know a font like Engel Light Ltd but WITH special characters?
- 33September 15th, 2007 12:46 am
Great free fonts for my Windows Vista :)
- 34September 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.
- 35September 15th, 2007 4:44 am
Thanks for the fonts. I’m really digging Scriptina. I also like the nuances of Engel. Keep them coming.
- 36September 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.
- 37September 17th, 2007 4:51 pm
for the registration on fontshop
- 38September 20th, 2007 10:37 pm
Great free fonts for my Windows Vista :)
- 39September 21st, 2007 9:34 pm
OMG these are beautiful fonts and you are a star! =D Thx!
- 40October 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!
- 41October 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.
- 42October 3rd, 2007 8:57 am
Gracias por lon fonts,.. hace tiempo que buscaba algo parecido a Scriptina! y lo encontré aquí. Excelente website :)
- 43October 7th, 2007 2:25 am
Oh so many great fonts !
Thanks so much !
- 44October 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
- 45October 20th, 2007 3:11 pm
I love Qlassik. I use them often in my school publications.
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