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.
yyury
March 7th, 2008 8:12 amit’s greate collection
thank’s !
Bruce
March 7th, 2008 8:24 amhttp://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
Sdm
March 7th, 2008 8:24 amNice, thanks.
Yizi
March 7th, 2008 8:53 amCan you please some provide link, I can’t find the links in the Japanese page.
Thanks
Neko
March 7th, 2008 9:13 amWoo Hoo! I am definitely loving the M+ outline font guys.
Jason
March 7th, 2008 9:17 amThanks again Smashing Magazine! I absolutely love this site and use it daily!
Jason
March 7th, 2008 9:18 amThanks!!
Dave Lane
March 7th, 2008 10:04 amCan 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. :)
Kevin
March 7th, 2008 10:05 amReally nice …
more fonts can be found at : http://www.dafont.com/
Shane
March 7th, 2008 10:44 amSome really nice fonts there – thanks very much.
Tyler
March 7th, 2008 12:09 pmMan, that’s a lifesaver!!!!!! You rock! :)
johno
March 7th, 2008 1:01 pmMany 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.
achmadbiz
March 7th, 2008 2:45 pmGreat Lists whoaaaa , many thanks SM :)
Braintrove.com
March 7th, 2008 2:53 pmFun!
Anthea
March 8th, 2008 12:01 amThe 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!
superxtian
March 8th, 2008 3:29 amsweet!
pinoy money talk
March 8th, 2008 4:37 amawesome fonts! im gonna so bookmark this post :)
dzg
March 8th, 2008 4:56 amthx, good fonts
mikemike
March 8th, 2008 3:20 pmAll your font lists suck because you have to navigate through filth to get to them.
Eric Kelsey
March 8th, 2008 7:18 pmDoes anyone know if the Fruity Type fonts are a free download? I really like Chocolate Scrabble.
Rich
March 9th, 2008 3:16 amGreat fonts – Here is a list of 30 really stylish fonts: here.
karina
March 9th, 2008 8:17 ampretty good
flyinel
March 11th, 2008 3:23 amthat’s right!
Yohoo!
it’s very useable*
thank you very much!
jonjon
March 11th, 2008 8:05 pmI 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
orangeappled
March 11th, 2008 10:17 pmFor 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…
nemo
March 12th, 2008 3:01 amWow!!!
great collection :D
may i grab it??
hehehehe thx
starwalker
March 12th, 2008 4:59 amnice! where can download it?
andol
April 6th, 2008 7:13 pminspirational work~
Cigdem
April 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.
Anil Rakhasiya
April 28th, 2008 3:25 amHello 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
prazert
April 29th, 2008 2:25 amGreat Fonts and Thank you so much
Adnan
November 30th, 2008 4:03 amCan anyone send an URL to PreciousSans-medium font?
Jacky
December 7th, 2009 12:29 pmHey, all this page is in black with dark grey text except the right side which is an advert and in white. Am I doing something wrong?
Jacky
December 7th, 2009 12:30 pmweird!!
After I clicked “post comment” it reloaded (which I did with F5 before) and suddenly all is white and ok.
@moderator: feel free to delete these two posts