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)











Shaun
February 14th, 2008 5:59 amOooh, very nice fonts. Thanks :D
echza
February 14th, 2008 6:08 amadvent is awesome thank you guys
Tay Zar
February 14th, 2008 6:30 amWow Cool. I like advent too.
Piotr
February 14th, 2008 6:34 amOh I love Advent! Thank you!
kuldeep
February 14th, 2008 6:38 amFonts are awesome, but I also loved the advent graphics
Eric
February 14th, 2008 6:44 amYeah, I’m definitely feeling advent.
anthonybruno
February 14th, 2008 6:48 amThanks Smashing! I love the free fonts!
Billifer
February 14th, 2008 6:50 amI’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!)
Tadd
February 14th, 2008 7:25 amI’m such a font whore … I love advent, as everyone seems to. I’ll add these to my 4000 fonts :) Thanks!
James Tyrrell
February 14th, 2008 7:35 amAdvent looks like the text used in Levitra ads – love it.
Matt Radel
February 14th, 2008 8:13 amFonce reminds me of Din – in a good way.
Jordan
February 14th, 2008 8:39 amTelegrafico is perfect for a project I’ve got in mind :o)
Claudia
February 14th, 2008 11:26 amHey thanks!
This is how you have me coming back.
C.
Shane
February 14th, 2008 11:43 amSome really nice fonts there – thanks very much!
Have a nice day!
Joe Philipson
February 14th, 2008 12:51 pmThis is great. Thank you all so much.
Michael
February 14th, 2008 2:35 pmThanks 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
NL
February 14th, 2008 3:00 pmLove your free font collections, although I laughed when I saw Andale listed! :P
Jo
February 14th, 2008 4:30 pmLecker!
Maxime
February 14th, 2008 5:14 pmThanks for the fonts!
wow
February 14th, 2008 6:17 pmThanks a million!Good free fonts, save me much money and time.
Phil From Loreauville
February 14th, 2008 6:36 pmGreat fonts, as usual from you guys.
Thanks.
But, with all these cool fonts, when are you going to showcase some decent font management software?
FendyBt2
February 14th, 2008 10:16 pmThanks…
This will adds up my font collections…
andotyjazz
February 15th, 2008 1:17 amThank you so much Smashing! Really great fonts…
Matty
February 15th, 2008 2:55 amAwesome list once again. Thanks SM!
Rolando Bouza
February 15th, 2008 3:45 amYes, cool fonts, ADVENT and ANDALE MONO my favs!
Hairie
February 15th, 2008 4:25 amnice fonts, must download..
Engin
February 15th, 2008 5:22 amGreat fonts. Thanks
Rob Eardley
February 15th, 2008 6:10 amYou’ve done it again!!!
Superb fonts. I love this site sooooo much. Inspirational!
Advent is quality.
ju
February 15th, 2008 9:33 amThese are my Visual Studio Colors ad Fonts (10x Smashing Magazine)
Diego
February 15th, 2008 9:59 amI 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.
gcarbonell
February 15th, 2008 7:12 pmExcelent. Very nice fonts.
radiz
February 15th, 2008 10:37 pmLove this site !!! thank you
Marlyse Comte
February 16th, 2008 8:30 pmHaven’t seen this Goudy in a while, this is great, thank you! Also the other picks are wonderful!
Thomas
February 17th, 2008 1:31 pmLook at Newcaste. It was published some time ago here at SM. It’s great
Justin Roberts
February 17th, 2008 7:57 pmWow! These are some nice fonts. I especially like Ambrosia.
Caleb Ho
February 18th, 2008 5:07 amI love advent! thanks for these beautiful collection!
chris
February 18th, 2008 10:45 amGreat list of fonts, thanks for sharing!
ptamaro
February 18th, 2008 11:27 amAnother great set! Advent is fresh and fantastic, Ambrosia has really nice lines/curves — all definitely have very strong appeal…
Chinkapin
February 18th, 2008 5:27 pmWhile 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.
rudi
February 18th, 2008 7:18 pmcool and nice just like usual
great job man, ill waiting for the next one :D
Goutham
February 19th, 2008 1:39 amAwesome fonts. Thanks SmashingMag
Keep it up : )
Reginald
February 19th, 2008 11:08 amThis is an exceptional resource. I am so happy to have come across it.
Thanks, again.
yoxx
February 21st, 2008 8:25 pmyou are right! these are very nice fonts…
firetiger
February 22nd, 2008 11:08 amalthough they’re free, they suck! except the advent maybe.
no, wait.
it sucks too…
jojo
February 24th, 2008 7:06 pmDoes Fonce really count as a free font when it’s only a trial version?
Sandeep Jangir
February 27th, 2008 3:40 amgood font!
UI juggler
May 3rd, 2008 9:20 pmlove you smashing people..your efforts are life saving..
as 90% of UI is typography…i feel like it
emy
October 23rd, 2008 2:32 ammerciiiiiiiiiiiii
juanchy
November 18th, 2008 8:54 pmthanks smashingmagazine, the most in the web
bye bye
Noebel
November 20th, 2008 5:22 amwow really love that advent pro font!