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40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design

By Smashing Editorial, November 8th, 2007 in Fonts | 632 Comments | Forum

The importance of typography in design can’t be overestimated. The accuracy, precision and balance of geometric forms can give letters the elegance and sharpness they deserve. Besides, elegant fonts can help to convey the message in a more convenient way. In fact, while there are many excellent professional fonts (we’ve presented some of them in our article 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design) there are literally thousands of free low-quality fonts which you would never use for professional designs.

Quality costs. The price of “bulletproof” fonts usually reflects their quality and starts at 50$ per typeface. However, before purchasing a font you will probably use only once in your designs you might want to take a glance at outstanding free alternatives first.

Over the last year we’ve been observing typo-designers and their works; we’ve regularly collected high-quality fonts available for free download and free to use for personal or/and commercial projects. In this article we’d like to present an overview of over 40 excellent free fonts you might use for your professional designs in 2008. What is your favourite?

Please notice:

Some images are taken from Gerrit van Aaken’s Typography Essays. Thank you, Gerrit.
We haven’t listed Arial, Georgia, Verdana, Trebuchet MS & Co. as well as Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Constantia and Corbel as they are delivered almost “automatically”.
You can visit the Free Fonts Section to find more free fonts. The category is regularly updated.
We’d like to thank to all typo-designers and foundries for releasing these fonts for free. We appreciate your work and your intentions.
Before using fonts please read the license agreements carefully — they can change from time to time.

Excellent Freefonts For Professional Designs in 2008

Gentium
Gentium is a typeface family designed to enable the diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin script to produce readable, high-quality publications. It supports a wide range of Latin-based alphabets and includes glyphs that correspond to all the Latin ranges of Unicode. Gentium examples.

District Thin
A very calm, serious and impressive sans-serif free font from GarageFonts’ District family. The font is available as Mac Postscript, Mac TrueType, PC Postscript, PC Truetype and OpenType.

MG Open Moderna

Pigiarniq Inuktitut font
Have you ever known about the existence of Nunavut? A small region in Canada with one of the lowest population rate of the world? Probably not. Only 0,01 people live there per km², mostly Eskimo. The citizens of Nunabut speak four languages — French, English, Innuinaqtun and Inuktitut. Nothing spectacular so far, right?

Few years ago the government of the region has decided to design a new typeface to enable its 28.000 citizens to use all four languages in a uniform manner. The result is a beautiful, rich and professional sans-serif free font. The family includes a bold, heavy, italic, light and regular weights. Examples.

Delicious
Special attention was given to character spacing to obtain a homogenic appearance. With it’s relatively large x-height the Delicious can be used for text in smaller point sizes. The Delicious italic is not a slanted roman, but a true italic. Serif, Mac / PC.

Anivers
A robust and rigid font, forgiving, flexible, elegant and also suitable for a broad use: from a stationery to a poster headline. A smashing serif freefont by Jos Buivenga, dedicated to the One-Year-Anniversary of Smashing Magazine. Besides ligatures, contextual alternatives, fractions and oldstyle/tabular numerals Anivers also has a ‘case’ feature for case sensitive forms. Anivers supports CE languages and Esperanto. It has more than 350 glyphs and over 1.600 kerning pairs. Examples.

Tallys
Tallys is a font that is one degree slanted and has large caps, a small x-height and long ascenders. Only roman style is available.

Mido
A limited test version. The full version will be released in 2008.

Fontin Sans
Available weights: regular, italic, bold, bold italic and small caps. It is a sans companion of Fontin and can be downloaded at Mac & PC (OpenType). Fontin Sans is absolutely free for personal and commercial use. Examples.

MG Open Cosmetica

Geo Sans Light, by Manfred Klein

Nadia Serif by Nadia Knechtle, Quersicht (see section “Labor”, SlabSerif, PC, Mac, via dersven.de)

Yanone Kaffeesatz
This “coffee”-font is supposed to be used in headlines and brief text passages; it shouldn’t, however, be used for body copy. The numbers and currency signs are monospaced, which means that they have the same width. This is useful if you’d like to place them on a restaurant menu beneath each other in a table. The alternative and historic symbols as well as ligatures can be activated via the OpenType-option »optional ligatures«. Released under Creative Commons license. Examples.

JustOldFashion
A font designed by Manfred Klein.

Lido STF
The typeface is suitable for all periodicals wishing to abandon inconspicuously the hideous system typefaces with their even more hideous accents and to change over to the contemporary level of graphic design. It is also most convenient for everyday work in text editors and office applications. It has a fairly large x-height of lower case letters, shortened serifs and simplified endings of rounded strokes. Lido STF examples. For professional use you need a valid license which means purchasing the font.

Cardo
Cardo is a large Unicode font specifically designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists. This font is free for personal, non-commercial, or non-profit use. Examples.

Day Roman
In digitizing this typeface, attention was mainly given to duplicate the technical imperfections of 16th century printing, which have been lost with today’s technologies. In order to accomplish this, some digital type design conventions have been avoided - things like the uniformity of the serifs, overall stroke precision, vertical proportion exactitude. This digitization should work nicely when used anywhere from 10 to 30 pt. Some design oddities, appealing or otherwise, may appear in 30+ pt usage. This serif-font is available in PC Type 1 and PC True Type formats. Examples.

Day Roman

Liberation Serif
Public domain / GNU GPL, Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, PC / Mac OS X

Liberation Sans
Public domain / GNU GPL, Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, PC / Mac OS X

Romeral offers aside from optimal legibility an elegant style, rounded forms and sharp geometric structure of its letters. Romeral is designed to produce a noticeable visual impact that invites the audience to the reading due to its sizable thickness. Interestingly enough, the basic idea of this OpenType-font was to find a way to fill the color titles zone in order to create a comfortable atmosphere for the reading experience. It can be used for body copy and headlines. Free to use in personal and commercial projects.

You can get the font sending a personal request via e-mail or comment form. More information is available on Typies, Pablo De Gregorio’s blog.

Scriptina
Handwriting, PC, Mac.

Mank Sans
A freefont designed by Manfred Klein.

Chúcara
To get the font, contact the designer Juan Pablo De Gregorio or add a comment to the post, explaining, who you are, why are you willing to get the font and how do you intend to use it. The author sends the font via e-mail.

Qlassik

Diavlo
Jos Buivenga’s freefont that is a bit square and sharp. Great attention has been given to detail, spacing and kerning. It contains more than 300 glyphs and over 1.300 kerning pairs. So Tørwald can pick up his Téléphone without worrying. Diavlo contains (some) East European characters and also Esperanto characters.

The final release contains 5 weights: Light, Book, SemiBold, Bold and Black. Diavlo contains a bunch of ligatures and contextual alternatives (OpenType feature) to prevent undesired collisions.

Engel Light Ltd
Sans-Serif, PC, Mac, no special characters available.

Cicle
Sans-Serif, 7 weights, freeware.

Kontrapunkt
Slab-serif. Kontrapunkt was awarded the Danish Design Prize for best typeface. The aim has been to develop a distinct font, with regards to both the inidividual character and the overall image as such. The typeface has so far been developed in a light, light italic and bold version.

Freefont

FF Good Wide Light
The frefont offered by FontFont.com.

Fontin
The Fontin is designed to be used at small sizes. The color is darkish, the spacing loose and the x-height tall. The numbers of the Fontin have a ‘hybrid’ design. They carry the characteristics of medieval numbers, but their size is larger than the x-height. Mac (Type 1), PC (TTF, Opentype).

Colaborate

[image and reference via typoblog.ch]

FF Mt
Erik Spiekermann’s most economical typeface ever. Employing obscure but powerful techniques like vwl mmssn and cap reduction, FF Mt uses up to 50% less paper, screen, and wall space than other text faces without a single condensed letter. OpenType.

Fertigo
It’s a bit like Laphroaic; the more you get to know it, the more you’ll (probably) appreciate it. With it’s auto-ligatures (no Open Type programms needed), a complete character set and many other unknown features it can be hard to resist. Regular only.

Steiner
This typeface is ideal for logos and general design. It isn’t very suitable to be used with word-processors as it lacks some symbols and letters. Sans Serif, free for personal use only.

AUdimat (v2)
OpenType, Mac, PC, in four weights: regular, italic, bold, bold italic. Freeware, via fontleech.

Greyscale Basic
A freefont designed by Greyscale [via Computerlove]

Existence Light
A free sans-serif font designed by Yeah Noah. 3 weights — Light, UnicaseLight, StencilLight. OpenType, PC, Mac OS X.

Lacuna
To download the font enter the Flash page, click on “Glashaus Fonts” in the navigation menu at the top, in the opened page click on [MAC] or [PC] in the left menu to download the font. [via Typemotion.de]

Images from Typemotion.de

Com4T Fine Regular

Freefont

Pixel fonts

Style-Force Semplice Pixelfonts
Tiny pixelfonts, Flash-compatible including detailed instructions on how the fonts should be used to achieve the best readability.

Unibody
Unibody is an optimized screen font family for Macromedia Flash MX and Adobe Photoshop. It’s designed for one point size only, 8 pts.

Unibody Freefont

Silkscreen
Silkscreen is best used in places where extremely small graphical display type is needed. The primary use is for navigational items (nav bars, menus, etc.). Silkscreen also works very well at large point sizes if you’re looking for that chunky, old school computer look so popular with the kids today. Created by Jason Kottke. Silkscreen, with both Mac and Windows versions, is free for personal and corporate use. TrueType, Windows, Mac, Linux.

Published in Fonts, November 8th, 2007
Tags: Fonts, typography

1.

Shane (November 8th, 2007, 11:10 pm)

Gotta say that these fonts are really high quality. Thanks a lot for posting.
2.

gr8pixel (November 8th, 2007, 11:23 pm)

brilliant collection!!!
3.

Amrit Gill (November 8th, 2007, 11:24 pm)

Free fonts that are not only stylish but credible and worthy of standing strong against many fonts fron the high end foundries.

Keep up the great work guys!!!

Amrit.
4.

Andrew Cameron (November 8th, 2007, 11:31 pm)

Much better than the usual crop of homemade ‘theme’ fonts, these look really professional, and would look great for logo/corporate Id work… Seen some before, But Qlassic, Chúcara, Kaffeesatz and Anivers are all new to me and look particularly well drawn. Thank you for posting such a high quality list.
5.

cemiotika (November 8th, 2007, 11:44 pm)

Man!, i love this article,

Keep Straight!
6.

Zachary Spencer (November 8th, 2007, 11:48 pm)

I love love love love love love these font posts. They give me chills every time I see them.
7.

CSS Zen Master (November 8th, 2007, 11:48 pm)

Excellent collection. The typography skill of amateur font makers is getter really good
8.

Mostafa Mourad (November 8th, 2007, 11:51 pm)

GREAT!
9.

Brett (November 8th, 2007, 11:54 pm)

If anyone could make a zip file of all of these, that would be greatly appreciated. (I’m on my iphone right now).
10.

Jochen Van de Velde (November 8th, 2007, 11:57 pm)

Great post, I’ve downloaded many of them. Thanks for sharing, I really love this blog!
11.

John Braine (November 8th, 2007, 11:58 pm)

Any chance of supplying a ZIP of the whole lot?

Didn’t think so…

J.
12.

Martijn Moes (November 9th, 2007, 12:01 am)

Nice article agian ;)
I love this site.
13.

Skys0 (November 9th, 2007, 12:08 am)

Great collection ! Keep it up ! =)
14.

dreamtenstudios (November 9th, 2007, 12:10 am)

this is an amazing collection… excellent work guys. as a designer this helps me out incredibly.
15.

Bije (November 9th, 2007, 12:15 am)

Cool list, as always. Thanks!
16.

Tad Chef (November 9th, 2007, 12:29 am)

It’s Inuit not “Eskimo” like it’s African and not “Negro”.
17.

Shane (November 9th, 2007, 12:41 am)

A great selection of fonts. I particularly like District Thin and MG Open Moderna.

Many thanks.
18.

ad3k (November 9th, 2007, 12:52 am)

Thanks for the resource, great for the font junkie in all of us…
19.

jon (November 9th, 2007, 1:08 am)

Wow!

I’ll be downloading this little lot as soon as possible.
20.

Jim Capps (November 9th, 2007, 1:12 am)

Excellent fonts! These were just was i was stumbling for!
21.

Mike Panic (November 9th, 2007, 1:29 am)

I’ve used Anivers in a few places, really like it - and overall a great selection of fonts - I’m just really sick of seeing the over-use and abuse of the Scriptina font.
22.

Ahmad Alfy (November 9th, 2007, 2:24 am)

Top notch :) Amazing fonts
Thanks for sharing
23.

robin (November 9th, 2007, 3:46 am)

Just to be contrary: How many times are you going to post links to the same fonts? It’s getting more than a little tedious. And while some of these are very good and quite useful, there’s a lot that are not.
24.

Pedro Assumpção (November 9th, 2007, 3:48 am)

Thanks, very good typefaces.
25.

emarts (November 9th, 2007, 4:28 am)

District Thin in the old version makes my Finder Infinite-loop-restart!
26.

Sara (November 9th, 2007, 4:57 am)

Thank you so much. This is just what I needed: I had to delete everything that was in my computer some weeks ago and I’m starting to download my favorite fonts again: this is a precious help!
27.

johno (November 9th, 2007, 5:40 am)

Nice list, SM. Thanks.
Small tyo in the 2nd paragraph: “probablz”.
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Jim (November 9th, 2007, 5:59 am)

I have to agree with Robin (#23). You’ve posted most of these fonts numerous times over the last year or so. You’re either getting paid to post, or you truly are out of the loop when it comes to fonts available on the web.
29.

Samantha Warren (November 9th, 2007, 6:09 am)

I LOVE District thin. I happened upon it a few years ago… try to work it in when i can
30.

cssyeah (November 9th, 2007, 6:33 am)

Wow !

Thanks! very cool, Will be download
31.

Paul (November 9th, 2007, 7:07 am)

“Boi-oi-oing!” Uh-oh, I popped one while looking at all these fonts, what does it all mean?
32.

Wilmer (November 9th, 2007, 7:08 am)

Awesome fonts, i downloaded these 3:

DistrictThin
GreyscaleBasic
Mark Eigenbau (pixel font)

Thanks for posting them.
33.

Deron Sizemore (November 9th, 2007, 7:14 am)

Thanks for the great list! Lots I hadn’t heard of in there.
34.

Bernd (November 9th, 2007, 7:33 am)

I’m certainly no professional but I’ve given up looking for free fonts. At least before I came to SM. Thanks a lot, this is a great collection and gives me the chance to get some great looking typography for free.
35.

aqck (November 9th, 2007, 8:45 am)

and now to spend an hour downloading most of them. way to waste my time smashing magazine!
36.

Advise-Art (November 9th, 2007, 8:52 am)

wahou …. some fonts are amazing !!!! thank you !!!
37.

bloghash.com (November 9th, 2007, 10:33 am)

Excellent list! Thanks a lot for posting it.
- Raj
38.

Anej (November 9th, 2007, 10:47 am)

Diavlo is fu**ning hot ;)
39.

John Faulds (November 9th, 2007, 10:56 am)

As far as I can tell, only 15 of these 40 are ones you haven’t linked to before. Couldn’t you just create a post for the new ones and link to posts with previous links?
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Klemens Raab (November 9th, 2007, 12:52 pm)

These are awesome! Thanks!
41.

pingoogle (November 9th, 2007, 2:28 pm)

GREAT!!! as always…thanks.
42.

Stockvault (November 9th, 2007, 5:55 pm)

Wow, excellent fonts. I can surely use some of those in my work, thanks!
43.

Luke (November 9th, 2007, 6:08 pm)

Top finds as usual SM! Even for us programmers :)
44.

Stevie K (November 9th, 2007, 6:45 pm)

Wow, I know where to go now the next time I want a high quality free font, you guys are starting to become indespensible.
45.

Simos (November 9th, 2007, 7:10 pm)

Also check out the Greek Font Society fonts, at
Link [www.greekfontsociety.org]
46.

superphie (November 9th, 2007, 7:26 pm)

Nice, stunning….
47.

Mark C (November 9th, 2007, 8:42 pm)

Brilliant fonts
48.

fabio D D (November 9th, 2007, 9:12 pm)

great collection font and they are free wow! feels like xmas time!! thanks
49.

Ian M (November 9th, 2007, 10:08 pm)

Most Excellent collection of fonts.

I don’t do any kinda design work for pay or otherwise; I’m just a fan of good design. To see a great collection of fonts like this that are free for me to play with, it totally stokes me.
50.

Dennis (November 9th, 2007, 10:45 pm)

“Before using fonts please read the license agreements carefully — they can change from time to time.”

Some of these fonts don’t have *any* license agreement which makes them completely unusable. Scriptina is a good example for this.

By describing these fonts as free you might get all the people who download them into trouble.
51.

Ryan (November 9th, 2007, 11:17 pm)

Great post, these fonts are just what I’ve been looking for
52.

Fish (November 9th, 2007, 11:29 pm)

Can you please make a .zip file with all the fonts ? I would really aprecciate it!
53.

Taume (November 9th, 2007, 11:30 pm)

Lacuna Font Face is superb. Thanks Smashing Magazine.
54.

tober1 (November 9th, 2007, 11:30 pm)

You guys rock. This site is top of my list. Great work, keep it up and don’t sell out!
55.

wayfinder (November 9th, 2007, 11:52 pm)

I’ve used Yanone Kaffeesatz and Delicious in projects and they were a great success.
56.

Mx (November 9th, 2007, 11:52 pm)

Wow, this is a really good article. i will use these fonts on my further projects.
57.

Sander Wapstra (November 10th, 2007, 12:01 am)

Thanks, I like some a lot. But I agree with John Faulds, most of them where already posted earlier..
58.

Stef Nitert (November 10th, 2007, 12:15 am)

Com4T Fine Regular is a brilliant font..
I really can use this one.
59.

Living Life Abundantly (November 10th, 2007, 1:05 am)

I love these thanks :)
60.

mikeditka (November 10th, 2007, 1:40 am)

Nice set of fonts. Thanks. A zip would definitely be nice but I can understand why you didn’t post it. Also good job on successfully creating link/digg/reddit bait - ACSSEO (logo at the bottom of the Popular Posts list.)

Cheers,

Matt
61.

Koka (November 10th, 2007, 2:06 am)

Thank you very much for this compilation
62.

bob (November 10th, 2007, 3:03 am)

great collection. there should be a link to d/l all through one click.
63.

David (November 10th, 2007, 3:30 am)

Thank you for sharing these excellent fonts! I’m going to ask my website designer if he thinks they are a good choice for use in our website.

Personally I’m not a designer, but armed with nice fonts like these maybe I could make something that doesn’t look like a 2yr old was playing with the PC!
64.

sirocus (November 10th, 2007, 3:32 am)

I like it! this fonts are cool.
65.

enchant®scoot (November 10th, 2007, 3:39 am)

Wow! Great ‘commercial’ grade set of fonts. THANKS for the brilliant post.
66.

Luke (November 10th, 2007, 3:42 am)

Anybody know a good, free serif font for body copy that includes extensive expert sets?
67.

cindy*staged4more (November 10th, 2007, 5:06 am)

LOVE IT! i think my favorite one is the dupont, since i used to live in d.c. brings back wonderful memories ;) i am very excited that i stumbled upon this, this will definitely come in handy for developing my new marketing materials! thanks!
68.

Dave (November 10th, 2007, 5:53 am)

Awesome…very cool stuff.
69.

darkyn (November 10th, 2007, 7:22 am)

Wonderful collection. I have to share this with my students.
70.

Ricks (November 10th, 2007, 7:39 am)

great to see that my typeface of choice (Existence) is feature in this list!
71.

Anthony (November 10th, 2007, 8:14 am)

trop fort, ça va me servir pour mon nouveau portfolio.
72.

Josiah Pugh (November 10th, 2007, 9:18 am)

Awesome fonts!
73.

Kyle (November 10th, 2007, 1:27 pm)

As someone who does not search for fonts on a regular basis, I am very happy that all of these fonts were listed on this page. I do not mind that they might be repeats, because they are new to me. Nowhere in the title does it say 40+ NEW freefonts… Thank you so much for this article.
74.

migero (November 10th, 2007, 6:44 pm)

really top quality THINKS
75.

Angel (November 11th, 2007, 4:09 am)

What happened to all the good posts? This is another recycled entry. :(
76.

Jay (November 11th, 2007, 7:44 am)

This is awesome! Thank you so much for posting this info online. It’s a really nice collection of fonts.
77.

Livingston Samuel (November 11th, 2007, 5:36 pm)

Wonderful collection of fonts! I’ve used a few of them before and some are new.

These fonts are of great use to designers like me in enhancing their designs. Thanks for the collection :)
78.

Richard (November 11th, 2007, 11:57 pm)

Excellent collection. Just in time for a uni project as well.

Keep up the top quality posts.
79.

Eliuodicio (November 12th, 2007, 2:07 am)

Amazing collection!!

Thanks.
80.

ad (November 12th, 2007, 5:25 am)

nice job!
81.

noneother (November 12th, 2007, 1:55 pm)

can someone please zip these up in one file?
82.

Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz (November 12th, 2007, 6:07 pm)

@Brett and other commenters who’d like to have a .zip-file with all fonts:

We respect the work of designed who’ve created the fonts listed in this post. License agreements prohibit the distribution of the fonts, therefore we are not allowed to offer these fonts for download.
83.

Michael Savage (November 13th, 2007, 4:03 am)

I will be using these fonts on some future clients projects for sure. Great collection!

-Michael
84.

Jos Buivenga (November 13th, 2007, 4:25 pm)

@ noneother: Offering such a link is a total disrespect for the hard work I (and others) have put in making these fonts!
My license clearly state that you may not distribute my fonts. I’ve reported this link as abuse at rapidshare.
85.

michelangelo (November 13th, 2007, 10:20 pm)

Have you ever known about the existence of Nunavut? A small region in Canada [...]

Nunavut is about the size of Mexico. Cheers, M.
86.

Carliko (November 14th, 2007, 9:45 am)

Great collection!!! Thanks a lot!
87.

Forrest (November 15th, 2007, 4:03 am)

There are some really gorgeous fonts here. I wish I knew more about type faces; this is becoming more and more relevant instead of less as we move to the internet. It’s obvious when I come to a site that’s able to work with simplicity … it’s just less obvious how to do it well.
88.

subbu (November 17th, 2007, 8:53 pm)

great collection. excellent use for graphic designs.
89.

Franklin (November 18th, 2007, 3:32 am)

This is great. I’ve been looking for something like this. Thank you so much.
90.

Lanooz (November 18th, 2007, 4:39 am)

What does ‘professional’ mean?

Anyway, thanks.
91.

marcinex (November 20th, 2007, 10:32 pm)

Hey Guys! Thank you for another amaizing collection. Fantastic work!
92.

nmdspc (November 21st, 2007, 7:38 am)

thanks a lot
shalömchen
93.

Semih Çiçek (November 21st, 2007, 11:14 pm)

Great fonts. I already use some of them but it’s good to see all those nice fonts together.
94.

Bento (November 22nd, 2007, 3:10 am)

Thanks so much for sharing this collection + links!
I vital to keep your fonts up to date… they can make
a big difference. I’m always on the look-out!

Best wishes from Tokyo!
(Typography in Japan is definitely an experience!)
Ben
95.

Harry Roberts (November 24th, 2007, 10:46 pm)

Some beautiful fonts there!
96.

Thomas (November 27th, 2007, 3:34 am)

Although many have their own incomparable aspects, I like Gentium. Used it on my thesis project about IPA Phonetic Typefaces years ago. Cheers!
97.

J-Sinn (November 27th, 2007, 7:35 am)

“I like turtles”

thanks
98.

Manu (November 27th, 2007, 5:21 pm)

thanks a lot for this awesome article, you could not imagine how it saved my day ! :)
99.

Steven Hambleton (November 29th, 2007, 10:14 pm)

Thank you for these lovely fonts those funky typefaces, they’ll keep me up till dawn.

Now I will go and Photoshop till I puke.
100.

Ricardo (December 1st, 2007, 10:12 pm)

Nice! Man, you’re the best. This it’s my better Christmas gift. Thank you!
101.

David Mackey (December 3rd, 2007, 3:53 am)

Wow. You guys just keep up the absolutely amazing content! Its great. Keep up the good work.
102.

Zamir (December 3rd, 2007, 6:13 am)

Thanks!…Excellent fonts!…
103.

rid (December 6th, 2007, 5:56 am)

thanks, will be sure to put some of these fonts to use during the holidays.
104.

Keral Patel (December 6th, 2007, 3:57 pm)

Excellent collection. I have always been frustrated when it came to choosing the right fonts. I had tried delicious and others from the authors site. But this new one “Scriptina” is the one I was looking for from so many months.
105.

bao (December 7th, 2007, 6:19 am)

Here’s a dumb question: How do I download the font?
106.

alecs (December 8th, 2007, 11:59 pm)

well click on the name of the font and then look for the download button
107.

Sebastian (December 12th, 2007, 7:07 pm)

Whoa! ANother cool list of fonts! *downloading*
108.

Resonate (December 14th, 2007, 12:49 am)

Excellent thankyou for this it will be extremely useful in the near future
109.

Joe (December 15th, 2007, 4:28 am)

Very nice fonts indeed. Thanks for collecting the list; many of these were new o me at least.

It is unfortunate that you haven’t used the opportunity to educate font users as to the fundamental differences in the licenses behind these “free of cost” fonts. “Everything gold does not glitter” and everything free of cost is not free of restrictions. Some of these fonts are under “copyleft” or open licenses that would allow you (or anyone else) to distribute them, and some are not. Such open licenses are absolutely not public domain, as you imply, but do allow for unrestricted use while preserving the creative integrity of the work.

As it stands, your fine list propagates the misconception that “free of cost” is all that matters.
110.

ZBWPJ (December 18th, 2007, 7:55 pm)

I can recommend fonts:
Antykwa Poltawskiego Link [open.font.pl]
and Iwona Link [open.font.pl]
Both fonts are free for commercial use.
111.

Jaume (December 20th, 2007, 7:46 am)

Nice!
Thanks for sharing.
“What is your favourite?” It’s hard to say.. and it will depend on the use or the feel we need to comunicate.. But Fontin Sans is an excelent one, in my opinion.
112.

uranther (December 24th, 2007, 5:35 am)

Thanks a lot for posting this list. It is what I have been looking for for years.
113.

Brooklyn1 (December 25th, 2007, 11:48 am)

how do you receive all of these free fonts???
is there a place to download them???
114.

Cyrill (January 14th, 2008, 11:16 pm)

Perfect fonts! Thanks for the recommendations) Do you have some fine TTY monospace ideas?
115.

pdincubus (January 16th, 2008, 3:37 am)

brilliant collection of freebies, these are really helpful - i’ll be using them all the time! :)
116.

Salman (January 17th, 2008, 5:37 am)

Nice, thanks for sharing. :)
117.

raj (January 24th, 2008, 3:07 am)

Very Very Cooooooool Collection! : )
118.

Julie (January 24th, 2008, 7:38 pm)

Thanks for the great collection & I personally love that they were at their “home sites” as it gave me a chance to see the terms of use for each font.
119.

lovetheson (January 26th, 2008, 7:47 pm)

Great collection of very useful fonts. Thanks!
120.

propeller (January 29th, 2008, 6:20 am)

this is f*cking G.R.E.A.T! thank you!
121.

gnoma (January 30th, 2008, 8:18 pm)

very coo fonts…download now.
122.

Marta - Logotipos (January 31st, 2008, 2:41 pm)

Fantastic !!! thank you!
123.

Will (February 5th, 2008, 3:38 pm)

love these fonts…thanks
124.

bharat (February 11th, 2008, 6:42 am)

a grat and corporate collection
125.

Bryn (February 13th, 2008, 11:28 am)

The Delicious font is gorgeous. Actually, all the fonts available for download on that website are gorgeous. I’ve never been a fan of script fonts like Scriptina but this article has led me to some very nice, new fonts which I’m sure will be used often. Thank you.
126.

Prabhu (February 14th, 2008, 11:54 pm)

Excellent fonts!! Thanks a lot. They inspire me.
127.

arnanda (February 17th, 2008, 6:15 am)

woooow, such a cool high quality font source to download.
you guys have done a great job! thanks to people @ SM, & especially to those genius fontographers, i love you all!
and there you still have people moaning about ‘repost’.
pfffiiuuhhh… can’t make everybody happy, eh lad? :)
128.

Srilu Viene (February 18th, 2008, 6:40 am)

These are fantastic fonts! I totally lucked out in finding this page. Thank you so much for sharing with us!
129.

Timothy Andrew (February 20th, 2008, 9:36 pm)

This list is priceless. Thank you.
130.

annei (February 22nd, 2008, 11:45 am)

o yea!!! all the stuffzz good.. keep it up
131.

izzy (February 24th, 2008, 4:02 am)

really great stuff.
but i have a question guys.
i am a new user of photoshop and cant use these great fonts..
could you help me please!
132.

Matthias N. (February 24th, 2008, 9:13 am)

Fantastic collection! Thanks for the great work!
133.

matharchod (February 26th, 2008, 11:00 am)

LOL I just might do that
134.

mr.soft (February 28th, 2008, 11:59 am)

Great fonts here…. thanks a lot!!!

It would be much easier and quicker to download these if you made the links to the fonts open in a new tab/window instead of navigating away from this page.
135.

Roger Omlid (February 28th, 2008, 6:36 pm)

Who would think that fonts could be interesting and cool? Great work and Thanks.
136.

Alex (February 29th, 2008, 6:30 am)

Also you can find the great collection of fonts here Link [www.azfonts.net]. Direct download.
137.

matt (March 3rd, 2008, 10:23 am)

great resource. fantastic. thank-you!

matt
138.

Nick (March 3rd, 2008, 2:42 pm)

The links lead to the home pages of the providers because they are providing you something free of charge. Not only are you advertising your lack of care for their exposure, you’re virtually screaming ” I don’t appreciate it but I’ll use it anyways! “
139.

Felicity (March 4th, 2008, 3:42 pm)

Of the fonts above, the ones I like are MG Open Cosmetica and Scriptina. The rest are too “funny.” Other good free fonts? A.C.M.E. Explosive is the only good free comic book lettering font. Apple Garamond Light was great in the 1980s and early 1990s as the Apple corporate font and is still beautiful today, though they no longer use it. Katrina is a decent free Benguiat. November, PC Senior, Adore 64, and Amiga Forever are true “computer” fonts, not like the fake ones that people keep putting out. OCR A Extended is a good computer printer font. Pinewood is the best “log” font and quite pretty in its own right. Prestige is a useful typewriter font, though VTCorona is even better still. RSLaserLondon is the best calligraphy font. Stomper is the single best font to come out of the Chank group. And TopSecret is the best-looking “file folder” font.
140.

Gustavo (March 6th, 2008, 7:03 am)

Excelente !! muchas gracias, me bajé varias !!
141.

iphone unlock (March 7th, 2008, 2:48 am)

This really is a fantastic post from information point of view. Thanks!
142.

nikola (March 8th, 2008, 10:47 am)

wicked! thank you so much for posting this collection of fonts! superb work, nicely and professionally presented.
143.

Zaheb (March 12th, 2008, 8:40 am)

Bahout bahout Shukria! (many, many thanks — said in Urdu)

This is great stuff. The generosity & openness displayed by SmashingMagazine and its cohorts is frankly refreshing in this day and age!

All the best!
144.

Dave (March 13th, 2008, 11:50 am)

You rock hard!!! thanks!
145.

Christian Fischer (March 14th, 2008, 4:18 am)

These Fonts are superb and a great addition to every Graphic Designers Toolbox.

And please take the time and visit the Type Designers Website when you like their free font, as you can see these free font mostly as a teaser to even better material. don´t be lazy..there is a reward (sometimes even more free fonts :-)

Touist
146.

docmorti (March 15th, 2008, 10:00 am)

Great collection! Sometimes this kind of stuff don’t have a really “pro feeling” but all these fonts are really amazing.
147.

rajaraman (March 15th, 2008, 4:04 pm)

really its nice collection, Thank you very much
148.

alex (March 18th, 2008, 12:23 pm)

great listing, very good collection of fonts
149.

Mr. Sifuentes (March 21st, 2008, 6:55 pm)

thank you! very generous of you.
150.

American River Rafting (March 21st, 2008, 7:49 pm)

This is the best collection of professional free fonts I have ever seen all in one place. I recently bought a disc with over 2000 fonts on it and none were as stylish as this collection. I need another post like this. Keep it up!!!
151.

Infomorphosis (March 23rd, 2008, 2:15 pm)

Thanks for an excellent web site. I recently came across a reference to the Venturis font family. Venturis is based on Adobe’s Utopia font. Would Venturis qualify as an “excellent free font”? Here’s the URL:
Link [www.ctan.org]
152.

Argelia (April 1st, 2008, 2:58 pm)

Great collection, thank you
153.

Paul Mtz (April 6th, 2008, 1:49 pm)

Thank´s great stuff! I´m waiting more…
154.

Bunker (April 8th, 2008, 8:44 am)

real nice
155.

catpower3000 (April 11th, 2008, 12:50 am)

wonderful collection! thanks for doing all the job for me :]
156.

Dave (April 11th, 2008, 12:53 am)

thanks for the type collection. :)
157.

Ricardo (April 13th, 2008, 5:15 pm)

Thanks for these great fonts! Look spectacular in presentations.
158.

JT (April 16th, 2008, 1:18 pm)

AH thanks, forever in my bookmarks…
159.

Jaideep Patil (April 24th, 2008, 3:17 am)

i’m never seen before like that fonts
160.

viviana (April 30th, 2008, 8:19 pm)

this is my dreamsite, amazing fonts…thanks for share!!!
161.

fluxo (May 9th, 2008, 6:32 pm)

Yeah I must agree with everyone else. These are very much appreciated and they are extra crisp! Thanks for doing this. Peace.
162.

John (May 13th, 2008, 11:37 am)

thanks for these fonts! you guys made my day
163.

Slavi (May 23rd, 2008, 11:55 pm)

WOW!!!
SO nice, thank you very, very much!!
164.

YASMIN (May 24th, 2008, 9:38 pm)

Thank you for sharing!!!!
165.

web design (May 24th, 2008, 10:26 pm)

Thats perfect!
THANKS A LOT SMASHING MAGAZINE :D
i love you :d

regards from turkey, mehmet
166.

xerox (May 29th, 2008, 1:39 am)

Thank you so much. Very nice selection.
167.

Paul (June 6th, 2008, 8:04 am)

Quite simply an amazing list,
I got just about every one! :O
168.

Ajay (June 12th, 2008, 3:57 am)

Thank you
169.

Maricelle (June 12th, 2008, 10:42 am)

Great fonts! Classic and elegant. Thank you so much for sharing.
170.

Bardia (June 16th, 2008, 10:46 pm)

Really Great fonts and greate site for every artistic things.

Thank you so much for sharing this site.
171.

Ayush (June 17th, 2008, 8:35 am)

brilliant collection. i’ll be using most of them in my future endeavors..
172.

Valent (June 22nd, 2008, 11:10 pm)

Great post and very useful. I dare to bet that designers from all over the world will definitely make use of it.

Regards from Netherlands & Indonesia
173.

Zaffri (June 30th, 2008, 8:50 pm)

Great page. Really nice font selections. Thank You
174.

Camila (July 3rd, 2008, 9:02 pm)

Thank you guys your great,….!!!.
175.

sense (July 15th, 2008, 8:58 am)

Beautiful lines ..

Thank you ..

^_^
176.

Manasa Malipeddi (July 16th, 2008, 1:31 am)

Love the fonts, and the colours!! Thank you SmashMag!
177.

AndriG (July 20th, 2008, 8:12 am)

Really amazing fonts!!!

Thank u…..
178.

Christine Macabuag (July 20th, 2008, 4:26 pm)

Thank for sharing. These are definitely quality fonts
179.

T Cox (July 21st, 2008, 2:23 pm)

Absolutely wonderful….This site was a dream come true!
180.

mc (July 23rd, 2008, 8:09 am)

omg these fonts are fricken amazing. best day of my life. i’m gonna cry they’re so good. i love you guys. xoxo
181.

Fernando Duque (July 27th, 2008, 12:00 pm)

Impressive, very useful and each article helps me a lot, thank you very much for the valuable time spent on this site. Magnificent sources, extraordinary, Fontins Sans very interesting.
182.

spacey (July 29th, 2008, 5:13 pm)

Wow, that’s impressive!
183.

ferne (August 18th, 2008, 1:16 am)

well done. superb font!
184.

Anxo (August 22nd, 2008, 9:06 am)

Thank you
185.

Morten Poulsen (September 14th, 2008, 8:42 am)

You could also take a look at the beautiful Kontrapunkt font from the Danish design company of the same name.
Link [www.kontrapunkt.dk]
The download section is at the bottom to the right.
186.

ade (September 14th, 2008, 10:04 pm)

speechless, greatt! love all this font
187.

ali (September 19th, 2008, 8:20 am)

oh very very good .
188.

Rajagopalan (September 26th, 2008, 3:19 am)

Incredibly interesting site. Excellent fonts
189.

BK (October 1st, 2008, 10:15 pm)

Hi, these fonts are great. I am thinking of using some unique font for my site but my only concern is whether the font would appear correctly when others are browsing my site but they do not have the same font install in their pc. Does anyone here know how to overcome this challenge?
190.

KoufaxR (October 3rd, 2008, 2:30 pm)

Way cool. Thanks for posting. Fonts are so interesting to me.
191.

Muhammad Nadeem (October 6th, 2008, 4:31 am)

Very good collection…very useful as well…. thank you so much :)
192.

flexor (October 6th, 2008, 7:07 am)

great taste in selecting these fonts. knew already about half of them but the news ones are real pearls for free. thanks.
193.

alanya haber (October 11th, 2008, 1:16 am)

Thanks for the resources
194.

banda (October 11th, 2008, 4:19 am)

hey dude plz… help me to download this fonts … i m not getting link
195.

Raymond (October 14th, 2008, 7:58 am)

Really good set of fonts. Thank you for posting.
196.

bluedee (November 4th, 2008, 6:32 pm)

wow….great fonts…thanks for sharing
197.

jdaly23 (November 5th, 2008, 6:49 am)

Thanks!
198.

Farid Hadi (November 11th, 2008, 6:55 am)

Tasty! =)
199.

Josh Drake (November 11th, 2008, 8:55 am)

This is a really great list! Many people are adamantly against free fonts, but I think that some free fonts (at least all of the ones on this list) are great to use professionally. Thanks!
200.

Dahn Haven (November 14th, 2008, 9:19 am)

I am taking a class in Designing logos and our assignment is to find quality typography and fonts. Thanks.
201.

John Pitchers (November 16th, 2008, 5:13 am)

I use Scriptina in my logo. Designed it about a year and a half ago. It was a cool, elegant, script font without being too feminine. But, now it’s everywhere! It’s so overused. Everytime I see it I think “How cheesy!”. Time to change my logo. Perhaps, I’ll search for a commercial font this time.
202.

Logo Design Art (November 16th, 2008, 11:25 pm)

Great fonts! thanks!
203.

Carl (November 24th, 2008, 11:51 am)

Cosmetica looks to me as though it’s a complete rip of Optima bold.
204.

d.trapper (November 27th, 2008, 12:26 pm)

Have you ever known about the existence of Nunavut? A small region in Canada with one of the lowest population rate of the world? Probably not. Only 0,01 people live there per km2, mostly Eskimo

Perhaps you could stand to be a bit less derogatory next time; first the region is hardly small secondly it’s quite inappropriate to refer to the residence as Eskimo. They are called Nunavummiut, Inuit or Inuk generally.
205.

MsPedro (November 27th, 2008, 3:33 pm)

wow.. fantastic fonts!
206.

sc (December 4th, 2008, 4:55 pm)

you know, if i use all of these great fonts, it will make my illustrations look even uglier…maybe i should avoid them…..lol..

btw, you should let people post a link in their signature. i dont have a site up yet, but like following links to see what other people are up to…
207.

Luís Guilherme (December 5th, 2008, 8:29 am)

There is one font missing in this list. The greatest sans since Helvetica: Alte Haas Grotesk.
208.

erwin (December 6th, 2008, 10:07 pm)

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! GREAT WORK!!!!!
209.

*estefi* (December 14th, 2008, 9:35 am)

Gracias por la selección de estas fuentes!!!
210.

Daniel Stirling (December 16th, 2008, 7:07 pm)

Thank you so much!! =]
211.

chris (December 18th, 2008, 10:54 pm)

a ton of tanks for the link…these are awesome fonts
212.

Cindy Morus, The Money Mender (December 21st, 2008, 4:06 pm)

Can these be used on websites or just in print?
213.

Daren (December 21st, 2008, 6:06 pm)

I agree with many of the posts here - thank you very much for making these great free fonts available! Kudos to the designers!
214.

Nalu (January 7th, 2009, 5:26 am)

Thank you so much for sharing this, those are beautiful font!
215.

Chetan Crasta (January 14th, 2009, 6:22 am)

Good Stuff! Thanks!
216.

pepita grillo (January 15th, 2009, 11:38 pm)

esto es una mierdaa
217.

Ariyo (January 27th, 2009, 10:46 pm)

I can never get enough of these FREE fonts. Excellent post. keep em coming…
218.

Shuuun (January 28th, 2009, 1:12 am)

i wanna see a book printed in Colaborate !!!
Realy cool font and my eyes love the smart way it looks!
219.

mohammad tehrani (February 6th, 2009, 12:43 am)

oh tanx you are are best web i love your web for ever
220.

Johnny C (February 9th, 2009, 1:57 pm)

That is an awesome list, free stuff is very cool, more stuff should be free.
221.

Joseph Lancaster (February 16th, 2009, 10:33 am)

Thanks for sharing. Great resource.
222.

flip (February 19th, 2009, 7:41 am)

really good
223.

H. V. Mukunda (February 23rd, 2009, 1:05 am)

Thanks for sharing
224.

Navin C (February 24th, 2009, 11:38 pm)

Really nice fonts, thanks for sharing.

Thanks & Regards,
Navin C
225.

Navin C (February 24th, 2009, 11:41 pm)

Nice fonts, thanks for sharing.
226.

شات (February 25th, 2009, 9:23 am)

Thanx for those fonts

i will consider using them
227.

Mike (March 4th, 2009, 6:02 am)

Great post, thx!
Keep up the good work!
228.

mohammad (March 8th, 2009, 12:19 am)

tanQ for this post . i love this web and cheak every day
229.

Rag (March 9th, 2009, 11:12 pm)

Very good font collection. Thanks.
230.

Mansoor Abdul Kader (March 9th, 2009, 11:13 pm)

Thanks a lot…., actually i was searching for the same fonts in the list…. amazing,
very useful to me thanks a lot again
have a nice day
bye
231.

sarah (March 19th, 2009, 9:02 pm)

you guys rock! i really appreciate you guys pitching in to help some artists. :-)
232.

Umair (March 27th, 2009, 11:55 am)

Great work guys, that is really cool and sleek collection that need centuries to compile. Great
233.

Nancy C (March 29th, 2009, 3:19 pm)

Thank you for taking the time to post these. Reading the replies from some people…..$5.00 fine for whining.
234.

ccoz (April 2nd, 2009, 10:42 pm)

Thank guys, it really great stuff !!
235.

proviewz (April 3rd, 2009, 7:27 am)

oh… HUGE! thx
236.

mohammad (April 5th, 2009, 11:31 pm)

tanxx for this post .
237.

diana Duarte (April 10th, 2009, 12:53 am)

Hello!

Do you know where I can find “berthold imago family” for free?

thank you very much!
di
238.

Shlomo (April 13th, 2009, 3:43 pm)

like the ROMERAL how can i get it? thanks
239.

Swaminathan (April 15th, 2009, 8:42 pm)

Hey u rocks…. Very usefull and stunning collection…. thanks a lot. Where can i download all these fonts…
240.

Snookerman (April 16th, 2009, 3:48 am)

I was just wondering what is meant by this: “It contains more than 300 glyphs and over 1.300 kerning pairs. So Tørwald can pick up his Téléphone without worrying.” What is the Téléphone? My guess was that it’s the French phone book and it then contains many accents but it doesn’t make too much sense since it’s probably not using that font. So can someone please explain what is meant by that? Thanks!

Awesome article by the way!
241.

Tom Bradshaw (April 16th, 2009, 4:22 am)

This is great! Great simple fonts make such a differenece, I’m sure to use these in the future.
Thanks alot!
242.

uway (May 3rd, 2009, 4:17 am)

unbelievably good collection.. have been looking for fonts like these with such high quality and value! Thanks much! T_T
243.

Sam (May 5th, 2009, 10:36 am)

Thanks so much!
244.

Puh (May 7th, 2009, 4:19 am)

I can’t download “Kaffeesatz”
245.

Siddu (May 7th, 2009, 9:53 pm)

Superb fonts !!!!!!!!!!! i like it.
246.

kamlesh khatri (May 11th, 2009, 8:46 pm)

Excellent collection
247.

mike (May 13th, 2009, 6:02 pm)

thnkx!
248.

Mahantesh (May 15th, 2009, 1:26 am)

Wonderful collection

actually it’s moreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee………………
249.

Mahantesh (May 15th, 2009, 1:28 am)
250.

Lynn (May 18th, 2009, 5:14 am)

This is a great collection and a terrific find.
251.

Al (May 18th, 2009, 9:07 am)

Sweet collection :)
252.

Andimazlan (May 18th, 2009, 12:38 pm)

Thanks for posting these wonderful fonts. Is there any way we can use any of these as a font for our post in blog? Anyone?
253.

barliansyah (May 19th, 2009, 9:21 am)

thanks for list…
254.

bro (May 20th, 2009, 1:46 pm)

anybody know how to get >>MG Open Cosmetica
255.

AO (May 21st, 2009, 7:41 pm)

I can’t download “MG Open Cosmetica”
256.

Stu (May 22nd, 2009, 12:57 am)

Beautiful collection of fonts - nice work!
257.

kamikazee (May 26th, 2009, 9:31 pm)

does anyone tried to download Fertigo font? it says its free u have just to register in order to download free but after I got there on the link there is no download button for this font. any idea?
258.

pink (June 5th, 2009, 11:22 am)

Very nice collection! Thanks a lot !
259.

Gillian (June 5th, 2009, 10:05 pm)

You guys rock! Thanks these are awesome!
260.

npdv (June 7th, 2009, 12:11 am)

Hi.. I try to download Modena, but I think the link is wrong, so I found this, so anyone try to download Mgopen.Modena try this link:
Link [www.ellak.gr]
261.

siddu (June 9th, 2009, 3:00 am)

great collection
262.

Kyle (June 9th, 2009, 10:09 pm)

Absolutely priceless collection. Thanks
263.

Cristi Marin (June 10th, 2009, 3:57 am)

very cool
264.

Lauren (June 12th, 2009, 1:04 pm)

Cosmetica is lovely!
265.

thua (June 30th, 2009, 7:00 pm)

Wonderful. Thanks a lot.
266.

Ingo (July 1st, 2009, 4:01 am)

Cool.
Thanks for sharing!