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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.
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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.
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February 14th, 2008 6:08 amadvent is awesome thank you guys
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February 14th, 2008 6:30 amWow Cool. I like advent too.
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February 14th, 2008 6:34 amOh I love Advent! Thank you!
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February 14th, 2008 6:38 amFonts are awesome, but I also loved the advent graphics
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February 14th, 2008 6:44 amYeah, I’m definitely feeling advent.
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February 14th, 2008 6:48 amThanks Smashing! I love the free fonts!
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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!)
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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!
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February 14th, 2008 7:35 amAdvent looks like the text used in Levitra ads – love it.
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February 14th, 2008 8:13 amFonce reminds me of Din – in a good way.
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February 14th, 2008 8:39 amTelegrafico is perfect for a project I’ve got in mind :o)
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February 14th, 2008 11:26 amHey thanks!
This is how you have me coming back.
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February 14th, 2008 11:43 amSome really nice fonts there – thanks very much!
Have a nice day!
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February 14th, 2008 12:51 pmThis is great. Thank you all so much.
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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
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February 14th, 2008 3:00 pmLove your free font collections, although I laughed when I saw Andale listed! :P
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February 14th, 2008 4:30 pmLecker!
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February 14th, 2008 5:14 pmThanks for the fonts!
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February 14th, 2008 6:17 pmThanks a million!Good free fonts, save me much money and time.
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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? - 22
February 14th, 2008 10:16 pmThanks…
This will adds up my font collections… - 23

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February 15th, 2008 2:55 amAwesome list once again. Thanks SM!
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February 15th, 2008 3:45 amYes, cool fonts, ADVENT and ANDALE MONO my favs!
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February 15th, 2008 4:25 amnice fonts, must download..
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February 15th, 2008 5:22 amGreat fonts. Thanks
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February 15th, 2008 6:10 amYou’ve done it again!!!
Superb fonts. I love this site sooooo much. Inspirational!Advent is quality.
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February 15th, 2008 9:33 amThese are my Visual Studio Colors ad Fonts (10x Smashing Magazine)
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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.
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February 15th, 2008 7:12 pmExcelent. Very nice fonts.
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February 15th, 2008 10:37 pmLove this site !!! thank you
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February 16th, 2008 7:52 amAdvent its very coll, Thanks !!
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February 16th, 2008 3:34 pmDamn those are some amazing fonts! I really like them.
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February 16th, 2008 8:30 pmHaven’t seen this Goudy in a while, this is great, thank you! Also the other picks are wonderful!
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February 17th, 2008 1:31 pmLook at Newcaste. It was published some time ago here at SM. It’s great
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February 17th, 2008 7:57 pmWow! These are some nice fonts. I especially like Ambrosia.
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February 18th, 2008 5:07 amI love advent! thanks for these beautiful collection!
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February 18th, 2008 5:46 amI have been using some of these fonts, there are really good , great blog thanks
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February 18th, 2008 10:45 amGreat list of fonts, thanks for sharing!
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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…
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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.
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February 18th, 2008 7:18 pmcool and nice just like usual
great job man, ill waiting for the next one :D - 44
February 19th, 2008 1:39 amAwesome fonts. Thanks SmashingMag
Keep it up : )
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February 19th, 2008 6:17 amThese are just fantastic!
I love the shapes on Fonce Sans, and it’s got a beautiful spacing.
Thanks for sharing!
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February 19th, 2008 11:08 amThis is an exceptional resource. I am so happy to have come across it.
Thanks, again. - 47
February 21st, 2008 8:25 pmyou are right! these are very nice fonts…
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February 22nd, 2008 11:08 amalthough they’re free, they suck! except the advent maybe.
no, wait.
it sucks too…
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February 24th, 2008 7:06 pmDoes Fonce really count as a free font when it’s only a trial version?
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February 27th, 2008 3:40 amgood font!
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May 3rd, 2008 9:20 pmlove you smashing people..your efforts are life saving..
as 90% of UI is typography…i feel like it - 52
October 23rd, 2008 2:32 ammerciiiiiiiiiiiii
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November 18th, 2008 8:54 pmthanks smashingmagazine, the most in the web
bye bye - 54
November 20th, 2008 5:22 amwow really love that advent pro font!
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Oooh, very nice fonts. Thanks :D