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Free Fonts Of The Month: Advent Pro, Telegrafico
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 are glad to present you Goudy Bookletter 1911, Advent Pro, Ambrosia, Andale Mono, Telegrafico, Fonce Sans Regular and the Luxi Font Family. Please read the license agreements carefully – they can change from time to time.
- You can find over 70 more free fonts in our section Free Fonts.
Free Fonts Of The Month
Goudy Bookletter 1911
A serif old-style OpenType font. You need to scroll the frame to find the download link. [via derSven]
Advent Pro
A fresh, modern typeface coming in 7 weights — bold, bold extra, regular rounded, regular, regular oblique, light and light extra. Commercial work containing this typeface must include the reference to the author; personal projects don’t neccessary need to have a reference. The advanced version of the font can be purchased.
Ambrosia
This font is free to use for personal purposes only. This version doesn’t contain kerning, accented character and foreign currency symbols.
Andale Mono
Andale Mono is a highly legible monospaced font which was originally distributed as part of the Internet Explorer 4.0 add-ons page as Monotype.com. It distinguishes well between the zero, and the O. You can find 4 further monospaced fonts in Hamish Macpherson’s article The Typography of Code. You might want to check out 22 more Monospaced/Fixed Width Programmer’s Fonts as well.

Credits: Hamish Macpherson
Telegrafico
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. TrueType (.ttf).
Fonce Sans Regular
A sans-serif typeface that includes old style (hanging) numbers, a number of english and non-english lettering, some additional symbols and complete punctuation. This typeface is considered a Trial Version, in which certain letterforms have been replaced. Available only for non-commercial use as .otf. The advanced version of the font can be purchased.
This typeface is being released as a sort of “beta,” in which people might become accustomed to the typeface and also voice their opinions on its usability.
Luxi Family
Luxi fonts are commonly found on free software operating systems, such as Linux. They are the default fonts in Red Hat’s Bluecurve theme. This family includes Luxi Sans, a family of four sans-serif fonts, Luxi Serif, a family of four serif fonts and Luxi Mono, a family of four monospace fonts. These fonts can be downloaded using OpenOffice.org’s FontOOo wizard. (via Chris Apalodimas)
Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com), an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.
- 54 Comments
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- 2February 14th, 2008 6:08 am
advent is awesome thank you guys
- 3February 14th, 2008 6:30 am
Wow Cool. I like advent too.
- 4February 14th, 2008 6:34 am
Oh I love Advent! Thank you!
- 5February 14th, 2008 6:38 am
Fonts are awesome, but I also loved the advent graphics
- 6February 14th, 2008 6:44 am
Yeah, I’m definitely feeling advent.
- 7February 14th, 2008 6:48 am
Thanks Smashing! I love the free fonts!
- 8February 14th, 2008 6:50 am
I’m really digging Advent. Thanks for letting me know that there was such a nice repository of fonts on DeviantArt — I never knew! I guess I was too busy looking at the, um, artistic nudes. (Oh, and the wallpapers, too!)
- 9February 14th, 2008 7:25 am
I’m such a font whore … I love advent, as everyone seems to. I’ll add these to my 4000 fonts :) Thanks!
- 10February 14th, 2008 7:35 am
Advent looks like the text used in Levitra ads – love it.
- 11February 14th, 2008 8:13 am
Fonce reminds me of Din – in a good way.
- 12February 14th, 2008 8:39 am
Telegrafico is perfect for a project I’ve got in mind :o)
- 13February 14th, 2008 11:26 am
Hey thanks!
This is how you have me coming back.
C. - 14February 14th, 2008 11:43 am
Some really nice fonts there – thanks very much!
Have a nice day!
- 15February 14th, 2008 12:51 pm
This is great. Thank you all so much.
- 16February 14th, 2008 2:35 pm
Thanks again for your Val & Times Day present.
Here’s a question for the masses: What have you found to be a better fitting (for tight fits) face than MyriadPro condensed?
Thanks again for all your hard work here at teamSmash
- 17February 14th, 2008 3:00 pm
Love your free font collections, although I laughed when I saw Andale listed! :P
- 18February 14th, 2008 4:30 pm
Lecker!
- 19February 14th, 2008 5:14 pm
Thanks for the fonts!
- 20February 14th, 2008 6:17 pm
Thanks a million!Good free fonts, save me much money and time.
- 21February 14th, 2008 6:36 pm
Great fonts, as usual from you guys.
Thanks.
But, with all these cool fonts, when are you going to showcase some decent font management software? - 22February 14th, 2008 10:16 pm
Thanks…
This will adds up my font collections… - 23
- 24February 15th, 2008 2:55 am
Awesome list once again. Thanks SM!
- 25February 15th, 2008 3:45 am
Yes, cool fonts, ADVENT and ANDALE MONO my favs!
- 26February 15th, 2008 4:25 am
nice fonts, must download..
- 27February 15th, 2008 5:22 am
Great fonts. Thanks
- 28February 15th, 2008 6:10 am
You’ve done it again!!!
Superb fonts. I love this site sooooo much. Inspirational!Advent is quality.
- 29February 15th, 2008 9:33 am
These are my Visual Studio Colors ad Fonts (10x Smashing Magazine)
- 30February 15th, 2008 9:59 am
I read an article somewhere long ago, about a way to use non standard fonts in HTML (no flash). I’d like ot see something like that here.
- 31February 15th, 2008 7:12 pm
Excelent. Very nice fonts.
- 32February 15th, 2008 10:37 pm
Love this site !!! thank you
- 33February 16th, 2008 7:52 am
Advent its very coll, Thanks !!
- 34February 16th, 2008 3:34 pm
Damn those are some amazing fonts! I really like them.
- 35February 16th, 2008 8:30 pm
Haven’t seen this Goudy in a while, this is great, thank you! Also the other picks are wonderful!
- 36February 17th, 2008 1:31 pm
Look at Newcaste. It was published some time ago here at SM. It’s great
- 37February 17th, 2008 7:57 pm
Wow! These are some nice fonts. I especially like Ambrosia.
- 38February 18th, 2008 5:07 am
I love advent! thanks for these beautiful collection!
- 39February 18th, 2008 5:46 am
I have been using some of these fonts, there are really good , great blog thanks
- 40February 18th, 2008 10:45 am
Great list of fonts, thanks for sharing!
- 41February 18th, 2008 11:27 am
Another great set! Advent is fresh and fantastic, Ambrosia has really nice lines/curves — all definitely have very strong appeal…
- 42February 18th, 2008 5:27 pm
While I like most of these fonts, Andale Mono is a trifle old. I also detest crippled (trialware) fonts. I think two of these fonts are trials.
- 43February 18th, 2008 7:18 pm
cool and nice just like usual
great job man, ill waiting for the next one :D - 44February 19th, 2008 1:39 am
Awesome fonts. Thanks SmashingMag
Keep it up : )
- 45February 19th, 2008 6:17 am
These are just fantastic!
I love the shapes on Fonce Sans, and it’s got a beautiful spacing.
Thanks for sharing!
- 46February 19th, 2008 11:08 am
This is an exceptional resource. I am so happy to have come across it.
Thanks, again. - 47February 21st, 2008 8:25 pm
you are right! these are very nice fonts…
- 48February 22nd, 2008 11:08 am
although they’re free, they suck! except the advent maybe.
no, wait.
it sucks too…
- 49February 24th, 2008 7:06 pm
Does Fonce really count as a free font when it’s only a trial version?
- 50February 27th, 2008 3:40 am
good font!
- 51May 3rd, 2008 9:20 pm
love you smashing people..your efforts are life saving..
as 90% of UI is typography…i feel like it - 52October 23rd, 2008 2:32 am
merciiiiiiiiiiiii
- 53November 18th, 2008 8:54 pm
thanks smashingmagazine, the most in the web
bye bye - 54November 20th, 2008 5:22 am
wow really love that advent pro font!
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Oooh, very nice fonts. Thanks :D