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Free Fonts Of The Month: FF Unit, M+ Outline, GeoBats
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’re glad to present you M+ Outline, GeoBats, FF Unit Rounded Bold and IPAP Fonts Family. Please read the license agreements carefully – they can change from time to time.
- You can find over 80 more free fonts in our section Fonts.
Free Fonts Of The Month
M+ Outline
These fonts are free software. Unlimited permission is granted to use, copy, and distribute it, with or without modification, either commercially and noncommercially. Designed by Morishita Coji. The fonts are regulary updated, work in progress. Caution: Japanese language.
GeoBats & Further Dingbat Fonts
“Personally, I love dingbats because (most of the time) I convert them to vectors in Illustrator and use them as very large elements in some cases. All you have to do is use the font in Illustrator and then go to Type > Create Outlines, and Bam. You got yourself a vector to work with. Here are some dingbat fonts that I thought you might enjoy.” You might find even more dingbat fonts here. The screenshot below features GeoBats.
FF Unit Rounded Bold
While it is soft, FF Unit Rounded isn’t a sausage face or one suited only for comic strips. It looks friendly without losing its precision. You can use the Bold OpenType font for free. Designed by Erik Spiekermann. You need to be registered to download the font.
IPAP Fonts Family
The Japanese Information-technology Promotion Agency offers 5 fonts for free download; among them — IPAP Gothic and IAP Mincho presented below. Caution: Japanese language. You’ll need to accepts requirements to download the font.
Bonus
Fruity Type
In his recent article John Boardley continues to discuss creative use of typography featuring Sarah King’s Typography Pear, Chocolate Scrabble and a pretty typographic umbrella created by Veer.
Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com), an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.
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- 2March 7th, 2008 8:24 am
http://downloads.sourceforge.jp/mplus-fonts/6650/mplus-TESTFLIGHT-014.tar.gz
that’s the link for those that don’t want to look through Japanese - 3March 7th, 2008 8:24 am
Nice, thanks.
- 4March 7th, 2008 8:53 am
Can you please some provide link, I can’t find the links in the Japanese page.
Thanks - 5March 7th, 2008 9:13 am
Woo Hoo! I am definitely loving the M+ outline font guys.
- 6March 7th, 2008 9:17 am
Thanks again Smashing Magazine! I absolutely love this site and use it daily!
- 7March 7th, 2008 9:18 am
Thanks!!
- 8March 7th, 2008 10:04 am
Can someone explain what those little ornaments on the l’s and t’s are in FF Unit Rounded (and others).
I see them all the time and don’t like them. :)
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- 10March 7th, 2008 10:44 am
Some really nice fonts there – thanks very much.
- 11March 7th, 2008 12:09 pm
Man, that’s a lifesaver!!!!!! You rock! :)
- 12March 7th, 2008 1:01 pm
Many thanks SM. Those GeoBats are perfect; just what I was after.
FF Unit Rounded Bold is a must-have, though people should hurry to download because it won’t be available for free forever. - 13March 7th, 2008 2:45 pm
Great Lists whoaaaa , many thanks SM :)
- 14March 7th, 2008 2:53 pm
Fun!
- 15March 8th, 2008 12:01 am
The best fonts in this article link to Japanese pages? Oh c’mon… They look like really great fonts but this is an English Language site isn’t it?
Please provide an English alternative in the future, I hate feeling like I’ve missed out.
Thanks to Bruce for providing a direct download link, much appreciated!
- 16March 8th, 2008 3:29 am
sweet!
- 17March 8th, 2008 4:37 am
awesome fonts! im gonna so bookmark this post :)
- 18March 8th, 2008 4:56 am
thx, good fonts
- 19March 8th, 2008 3:20 pm
All your font lists suck because you have to navigate through filth to get to them.
- 20March 8th, 2008 7:18 pm
Does anyone know if the Fruity Type fonts are a free download? I really like Chocolate Scrabble.
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- 22March 9th, 2008 8:17 am
pretty good
- 23March 11th, 2008 3:23 am
that’s right!
Yohoo!
it’s very useable*thank you very much!
- 24March 11th, 2008 8:05 pm
I don’t know Japanese but I really like ‘IPAP Fonts Family’. Does anyone know if we can use it for both perosnal and commercial purposes? Thanks
- 25March 11th, 2008 10:17 pm
For IPAP, if you scroll down the page & click the button, then you’ll accept the terms & it will take you to the page to download it. The download link is near the top and reads: IPAfont00203.zip (15.3 MB).
I downloaded it just fine & I don’t know Japanese. My computer did not want me to install the font. It gave me a warning not to because it doesn’t have “open type data”.
I installed it anyway, haha… - 26March 12th, 2008 3:01 am
Wow!!!
great collection :Dmay i grab it??
hehehehe thx - 27March 12th, 2008 4:59 am
nice! where can download it?
- 28April 6th, 2008 7:13 pm
inspirational work~
- 29April 13th, 2008 2:34 pm
…looks very intersting this M+… I could even find a way to download it
…but anyone knows how to open this .tar folder?? never saw such a Zip before. - 30April 28th, 2008 3:25 am
Hello Sir,
I can not download the font ‘Precious Sans Book’. Can you please send me a copy of that font..??? Please…
Its too much urgent.
Thank you in advance,
-Anil Rakhasiya
- 31April 29th, 2008 2:25 am
Great Fonts and Thank you so much
- 32November 30th, 2008 4:03 am
Can anyone send an URL to PreciousSans-medium font?
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