Free Fonts Of The Month: GrauBlau, Nevis
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 GrauBlau, Nevis, Countries of Europe and a five excellent reduced fonts designed by the Ingofonts foundry. Please read the license agreements carefully – they can change from time to time.
- Free Fonts Of March feature M+ Outline, GeoBats, FF Unit Rounded Bold and IPAP Fonts Family.
- You can find over 80 more free fonts in our section Fonts.
Free Fonts Of The Month
GrauBlau
Graublau Sans Web regular and bold were designed by Georg Seifert. The fonts are optimized for screen use and support a wide range of character encodings, for example ISO 8859-15 (Western), ISO 8859-2 (Central European), ISO 8859-3 (Turkish, Maltese and Esperanto), ISO 8859-4 (Baltic), ISO 8859-5 (Cyrillic), ISO 8859-7 (Greek) and ISO 8859-10 (Scandinavian). According to the license, you may not use the font to create commercial print artwork, but you may use the fonts in any PDF documents and on an unlimited number of websites using the font-face-attribute. [ via I Love Typography ]
Ingofonts
Ingofonts offers all fonts for free. However, typefaces which are offered to download contain only a reduced font. That means, the font only consists of uppercase and lowercase from A to Z or rather, a to z. Below you see Absolut Pro, Wendelin and Josef Pro, two of the typefaces offered for free download. To download the fonts, check out the section “free fonts” in the left sidebar. (Thanks, Chris Apalodimas!)
Nevis
This strong, angular typeface is ideal for headings. It features 96 of the most commonly used glyphs (characters).
Countries of Europe
This typeface includes not only of the alphabet A-Z and a-z, but also 39 silhouettes of European countries. When you start type the first letters of the country, the silhouette appears — e.g. if you tipe »ir«, the map of Ireland appears. Freeware by Ingofonts. Not reduced.
Bonus: 63 Grunge Fonts
Looking for the best free grunge fonts out there? Try 63 Must Have Grunge Fonts.
Gerd Wippich
April 10th, 2008 6:45 amThanx a lot, once again!
neOKidu
April 10th, 2008 6:59 amreally like those fonts. especially grunge ones… :D
Creativepayne
April 10th, 2008 7:18 amWow!
Thanks for the link to Ingofonts. What a nice way to test out a font!
ptamaro
April 10th, 2008 7:23 amI’m really diggin’ the Grunge…
Reginald
April 10th, 2008 8:29 amWow…you have included some amazing fonts in this post. I especially liked the grunge fonts.
Thanks for a practical resource.
Shaun
April 10th, 2008 9:24 amI love the NEVIS font, thanks!
thiago
April 10th, 2008 9:39 amgreat fonts, especially NEVIS!!!
but I can’t find the Absolut Pro inside the free fonts section… where’s it????
aap
April 10th, 2008 10:26 amAbsolut Pro can be downloaded here (the free reduced version): http://www.ingofonts.de/ingofonts/fonts/schriften/downloads/ingoFont_Absolut_Pro.zip
or from the main site, click the select box in the left hand corner and click “NEU: Absolut Pro”
thanks for the fonts!
kristine
April 10th, 2008 10:30 amthese are nice, thanks! :)
David
April 10th, 2008 1:26 pmIngoFont looks good, thx!
felipe repper
April 10th, 2008 4:58 pmHi everyone. Does someone have the font used for the logo of Mexico 68 Olympic Games? I would appreciate a lot if you can help me with this one. Thnaks!
ng
April 11th, 2008 12:16 amvery beatiful!!!
rakesh
April 11th, 2008 12:47 amthe collection looks good.. expecting more in future.. try posting the links, from where we can find some creative stuff
bloggers mosaic
April 11th, 2008 4:55 amthats just an awesome post ..wow the fonts
Meg
April 11th, 2008 10:14 amIngofonts and Nevis are freaking AMAZING. Thanks!
Prasanth
April 11th, 2008 12:23 pmLike Nevis very much! Thanks and cheers!
Chris
April 11th, 2008 12:46 pmGrauBlau looks like a reincarnation of every other sans-serif typeface posted in this series.
Nevis, though, looks like it might be useful.
Jon
April 12th, 2008 6:35 amI think the makers of Gotham may regard Nevis as a breach of copyright…
http://www.typography.com/fonts/font_overview.php?productLineID=100008
P Kayne
April 13th, 2008 10:02 amDear Smashing Magazine,
Checked out Ingofonts and Absolut Pro and Wendelin are no longer free. You may want make that correction to this post.
germaine
April 15th, 2008 12:18 amI’m so happy you have featured “Marcelle”. This is one of the best typo ever! I’m a fan ;)
Thanks for your lovely work again on this selection.
Cheers from France!
ajay
April 16th, 2008 9:25 pmhow can i use these fonts in my wordpress blog
can u please explain this also.
can i put these fonts in the wordpress directory to see the effects.
Farid
April 18th, 2008 1:00 amGreat Collection !
But, broken link in IngoFonts !
polaris
April 22nd, 2008 10:51 pmit might be useful.
Norhafidz
April 30th, 2008 3:46 pmThanks for the info! the fonts just awesome
shahzad
May 13th, 2008 6:33 amgoooooood & niceeee
Nazya
July 2nd, 2008 9:48 pmextremely awesome fonts…can anyone tell me where you could find font named Calibri…it would be of great help…thanx loads
Máirín Duffy
July 3rd, 2008 9:14 pm“According to the license, you may not use the font to create commercial print artwork, but you may use the fonts [...] on an unlimited number of websites using the font-face-attribute.”
Does the font designer realize how useless that is?
Ali Servet Dönmez
August 30th, 2008 2:12 amTurkish is ISO-8859-9…
chloe
October 13th, 2008 2:21 amhas anymore noticed an error with the Graublau font?! It doesnt let me type any words with double f’s in them… Can anyone help with this problem?
Meghana
November 24th, 2008 10:07 pmGreat fonts !!!
Benjamin Moodie
March 4th, 2009 4:50 amBrilliant Fonts, thanks!
turkce forum
June 29th, 2009 2:39 pmForumneti
nice font! thanks a lot
moorej
July 2nd, 2009 9:50 amThe GrauBlauWeb font doesn’t seem to work properly with FF3.5. The ff ligature displays correctly in Safari but either doesn’t render at all or crashes the browser for Firefox. Too bad since it’s a really nice font!
megm
June 29th, 2010 11:40 amStruggling with the same problem here… coffee roaster site, need those ffs! Any solution found, or do I also have to abandon the font?
klickreflex
October 28th, 2009 10:01 amI’m in love with “Graublau”, too but I had to experience the same issue with “double f” words. Strangley the problem appears only in InDesign and Photoshop, whereas for example in Wordpad everything works normally. Any help in sight?
Cheers,
Daniel