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Free Fonts Of The Month: Newcastle, Anziano
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 to.
This month we’d like to present you Newcastle, Anziano, Sovereign and Inconsolata. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the fonts — they can change from time to time.
You can find over 150 more high-quality fonts in
- the article 40 Excellent Free Fonts For Professional Design,
- the article 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design,
- and in our section Fonts.
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Free Fonts Of The Month
Newcastle
The link was removed due to copyright infringement.
Freefont.de released Newcastle as the “Free font of the month”. Newcastle is available as TrueType format and PostScript Type 1 format for PC and PostScript Type 1 for Mac.
Anziano™ SC (Fountain)
Small caps of the Stefan Hattenbach’s Anziano typeface is available for free download. Formats: Mac PS, PC PS + TrueType.
Diavlo (new release)
Jos Buivenga has released an improved version of his font Diavlo. The new release contains 5 weights: Light, Book, Medium, Bold and Black. Among new features are the extended language support (Latin, Central European, Croatia, Romanian, Icelandic, Turkish and Esperanto are now supported), improved glyph shapes (such as S, s, W, w, f, t, diactitics, fractions etc.) and extended kerning (over 3.200 kerning pairs).
Sovereign
Sovereign is a distinctive font from Nick Cooke’s G-Type foundry. Serif Caps and semi-serif lower case characters make for an unusual blend but one which works well, particularly at larger display sizes. Tapered stems and calligraphically influenced serifs give plenty of movement and character. Mac PostScript and PC TrueType.
Inconsolata
Inconsolata is a monospace, humanist sans design. Some details will be most apparent in print, such as the subtle curves in lowercase “t”, “v”, “w”, and “y”. Inconsolata also borrows “micro-serifs” from some Japanese Gothic fonts, which enhance the appearance of crispness and legibility. Available in the OpenType-format.
Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com), an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.
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January 22nd, 2008 4:43 amI prefer the “Sovereign”. Thx for the links
- 3January 22nd, 2008 4:47 am
Pffft… Newcastle…. how about a Sunderland font :D
- 4January 22nd, 2008 4:58 am
Just yesterday I was looking for a fancy monospace font.
Inconsolata fits perfectly! Thanks. :D - 5January 22nd, 2008 5:19 am
lol @ ryan
southampton font ? - 6January 22nd, 2008 5:43 am
Great list of fonts. the diavlo got better
- 7January 22nd, 2008 6:01 am
mh i dont like newcastle at all, but stockholm is a trajan-like alternative.
thanks for the article as always - 8January 22nd, 2008 6:09 am
@ saintpumpkin: it’s a soccer rivalry thing. :)
- 9January 22nd, 2008 6:15 am
Nice set, thanks! What about some funky ding-bats?
- 10January 22nd, 2008 6:37 am
I have already been using Diavlo. Its great! Sovereign looks good too! :)
- 11January 22nd, 2008 6:46 am
Thanks for Inconsolata, lovely font.
- 12January 22nd, 2008 8:20 am
@Welcome to Paradise: the font in the header is Trebuchet MS.
- 13January 22nd, 2008 8:33 am
Newcastle looks convenient – will do pretty much anywhere.
Thanks!
- 14January 22nd, 2008 8:41 am
I was looking for the link to Inconsolata. Thanks for posting it!
- 15January 22nd, 2008 11:19 am
Newcastle looks really nice!
- 16January 22nd, 2008 12:31 pm
Awesome, They all look like they have their place in the world. Can’t wait to try them out!
- 17January 22nd, 2008 3:32 pm
Nice selection. Inconsolata is just something I’ve been looking for.
Keep ’em coming, can’t get enough of these posts. :)
- 18January 22nd, 2008 7:36 pm
The list is so cool, thanks for the post :)
I love smashing magazine! - 19January 22nd, 2008 9:35 pm
Pardon me for saying so, but isn’t Newcastle just News Gothic? I think they look identical, but maybe it’s just me.
- 20January 22nd, 2008 10:06 pm
Regarding Inconsolata, I would say that it also suffers from 0 O issue. Its my personal opinion but I always look for mono space fonts to have clear distinction between Zero and Capital O. It gets confusing many times if both are very similar for eg. when you get a print out of a sample code from a B/W printer.
- 21January 22nd, 2008 10:30 pm
I’m with Abhishek. I really like the look of inconsolata. It’s better than the monofont i’m using on my work computer, vera sans mono, and I even like it better than Dina. But PLEASE would you make sure that you differentiate the ohs and the zeros.
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- 22January 23rd, 2008 1:01 am
I’d never use Inconsolata for code. The lower case “L” and the number one are too similar. I’ll stick with Lucida Console where those are more distinct.
- 23January 23rd, 2008 2:15 am
Thanks for this selection, I love Sovereign
- 24January 23rd, 2008 4:34 am
You’re right. Softmaker has a grand reputation for “copying” traditional fonts. Some they do so legally, others are more questionable.
- 25January 23rd, 2008 6:05 am
I like Newcastle more. Its a neat and clean font. Nice collection though.
Cheers! - 26January 23rd, 2008 10:16 am
I love Newcastle, thanks for sharing :)
- 27January 23rd, 2008 1:48 pm
I really want to use Open Fonts when publishing print material. I actually like Inconsolata (600dpi and above I can tell ‘l’ and ‘1′, ‘0′ and ‘O’) but when I am writing with lots of code (working on a textbook (or rather surfing when I should be working on the text)) I want something that looks good. Any suggestions on good looking monospace for print work. As I said I prefer Open but I am willing to pay for a good font.
- 28January 23rd, 2008 3:53 pm
I would chose Newcastle and Sovereign (for web use)
- 29January 23rd, 2008 7:02 pm
I wouldn’t use that screenshot for Inconsolata — that’s a draft version of the font and has some minor details wrong (like the 0 without a slash, which would be a blasphemy on a “coding” font).
- 30January 23rd, 2008 7:41 pm
wow, thanks for the Inconsolata font !! now i can do a happy coding again
- 31January 24th, 2008 4:36 am
I wish Inconsolata had a proper em and en dash, but, alas, it does not.
- 32January 24th, 2008 9:57 am
Very nice list of font :)
- 33January 24th, 2008 12:23 pm
I can never get enough fonts these are some great ones thx.
- 34January 25th, 2008 1:57 pm
Never mind a Sunderland font… I think we need a Keegan font now!
- 35January 28th, 2008 2:44 am
Inconsolata looks great in the screen shot, but doesn’t look so hot in Dreamweaver on the PC actually. Maybe it’s because of ClearType? It’s blurry/smudgy.
- 36January 30th, 2008 10:59 am
Diavlo is a wonderful stylistic yet professional. Nice work.
- 37January 30th, 2008 11:01 am
Finally! Stefan Hattenbach’s Anziano is exactly what I am looking for. Thanks!
- 38February 1st, 2008 11:20 am
Really Cool Collection of Fonts…
Thanks a lot - 39February 4th, 2008 11:07 am
Inconsolata – fine font. I replaced all the textpads/notepads/shells with that. Like this monospace.
- 40February 23rd, 2008 1:07 pm
Link for the newcastle font please….
- 41February 28th, 2008 3:08 pm
what happened to newcastle???
- 42March 18th, 2008 8:04 am
Newcastle is greate. I will do stuff on my web Shine Domestic Cleaning Services. Thanks
- 43May 29th, 2008 1:00 pm
Great fonts. I have already used them on my LED signs website.
Led signs lettering looks really nice. Thanks for them - 44January 23rd, 2009 8:24 am
I love Stefan Hattenbach’s Anziano! It is exactly what I am looking for. Is it not available for free download anymore?
- 45February 20th, 2009 5:38 am
the Newcastle font link has been removed… can somebody advise me as to what the name of this font is now?
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The Diavlo looks refreshing… thank you for the same! Nothing can beat Trebuchet MS thou…