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.
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.
dharma
January 22nd, 2008 4:07 amThe Diavlo looks refreshing… thank you for the same! Nothing can beat Trebuchet MS thou…
Webstandard-Team
January 22nd, 2008 4:43 amI prefer the “Sovereign”. Thx for the links
Ryan
January 22nd, 2008 4:47 amPffft… Newcastle…. how about a Sunderland font :D
chris
January 22nd, 2008 4:58 amJust yesterday I was looking for a fancy monospace font.
Inconsolata fits perfectly! Thanks. :D
saintpumpkin
January 22nd, 2008 5:19 amlol @ ryan
southampton font ?
leandro
January 22nd, 2008 5:43 amGreat list of fonts. the diavlo got better
tom2strobl
January 22nd, 2008 6:01 ammh i dont like newcastle at all, but stockholm is a trajan-like alternative.
thanks for the article as always
alanbernard
January 22nd, 2008 6:09 am@ saintpumpkin: it’s a soccer rivalry thing. :)
ptamaro
January 22nd, 2008 6:15 amNice set, thanks! What about some funky ding-bats?
Raj
January 22nd, 2008 6:37 amI have already been using Diavlo. Its great! Sovereign looks good too! :)
ronnie
January 22nd, 2008 6:46 amThanks for Inconsolata, lovely font.
-@^@-
January 22nd, 2008 8:20 am@Welcome to Paradise: the font in the header is Trebuchet MS.
Helen
January 22nd, 2008 8:33 amNewcastle looks convenient – will do pretty much anywhere.
Thanks!
Billy Halsey
January 22nd, 2008 8:41 amI was looking for the link to Inconsolata. Thanks for posting it!
Bughy
January 22nd, 2008 11:19 amNewcastle looks really nice!
Creativepayne
January 22nd, 2008 12:31 pmAwesome, They all look like they have their place in the world. Can’t wait to try them out!
Rask
January 22nd, 2008 3:32 pmNice selection. Inconsolata is just something I’ve been looking for.
Keep ’em coming, can’t get enough of these posts. :)
hieu
January 22nd, 2008 7:36 pmThe list is so cool, thanks for the post :)
I love smashing magazine!
JB
January 22nd, 2008 9:35 pmPardon me for saying so, but isn’t Newcastle just News Gothic? I think they look identical, but maybe it’s just me.
Abhishek
January 22nd, 2008 10:06 pmRegarding 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.
matte
January 22nd, 2008 10:30 pmI’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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jfb3
January 23rd, 2008 1:01 amI’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.
Mac
January 23rd, 2008 2:15 amThanks for this selection, I love Sovereign
Snowdrift
January 23rd, 2008 4:34 amYou’re right. Softmaker has a grand reputation for “copying” traditional fonts. Some they do so legally, others are more questionable.
Creative Solutions
January 23rd, 2008 6:05 amI like Newcastle more. Its a neat and clean font. Nice collection though.
Cheers!
Salman
January 23rd, 2008 10:16 amI love Newcastle, thanks for sharing :)
bcl
January 23rd, 2008 1:48 pmI 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.
Alex Mos
January 23rd, 2008 3:53 pmI would chose Newcastle and Sovereign (for web use)
Zeh
January 23rd, 2008 7:02 pmI 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).
Angga
January 23rd, 2008 7:41 pmwow, thanks for the Inconsolata font !! now i can do a happy coding again
Cuckoo
January 24th, 2008 4:36 amI wish Inconsolata had a proper em and en dash, but, alas, it does not.
incontridamore
January 24th, 2008 9:57 amVery nice list of font :)
Mike
January 24th, 2008 12:23 pmI can never get enough fonts these are some great ones thx.
Al
January 25th, 2008 1:57 pmNever mind a Sunderland font… I think we need a Keegan font now!
Brian
January 28th, 2008 2:44 amInconsolata 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.
PlanOpen
January 30th, 2008 10:59 amDiavlo is a wonderful stylistic yet professional. Nice work.
Gavin Tatum
January 30th, 2008 11:01 amFinally! Stefan Hattenbach’s Anziano is exactly what I am looking for. Thanks!
Shobhit
February 1st, 2008 11:20 amReally Cool Collection of Fonts…
Thanks a lot
mk
February 4th, 2008 11:07 amInconsolata – fine font. I replaced all the textpads/notepads/shells with that. Like this monospace.
Please
February 23rd, 2008 1:07 pmLink for the newcastle font please….
Casey Wight
February 28th, 2008 3:08 pmwhat happened to newcastle???
Shine Domestic Cleaning Services
March 18th, 2008 8:04 amNewcastle is greate. I will do stuff on my web Shine Domestic Cleaning Services. Thanks
LED signs
May 29th, 2008 1:00 pmGreat fonts. I have already used them on my LED signs website.
Led signs lettering looks really nice. Thanks for them
elena wilken
January 23rd, 2009 8:24 amI love Stefan Hattenbach’s Anziano! It is exactly what I am looking for. Is it not available for free download anymore?
graham
February 20th, 2009 5:38 amthe Newcastle font link has been removed… can somebody advise me as to what the name of this font is now?