Free Fonts Of The Month: Freebooter Script, Cora Basic
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 Freebooter Script, Cora Basic Regular, Walkway and Karabine. Please read the license agreements carefully — they can change from time to time.
- Free Fonts Of April features GrauBlau and Nevis.
- You can find over 80 more free fonts in our section Fonts.
Free Fonts Of The Month
Freebooter Script
This script type literally impresses with its curves. Freebooter Script can be used for packaging design or some projects in old-style. Designed by Graham Meade, available in PC Type 1, PC True Type and Mac Type 1. Designed by Graham Meada.
Cora Basic Regular (OpenType)
A solid and strong sans-serif typeface designed by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione is available for free for non-commercial purposes. Among other things, Cora Basic Regular includes numerous punctuation marks, ligatures, old-style numeras and math symbols. After you’ve completed the form, a free non-commercial licence of Cora Basic regular will be sent to you by email. Free for a limited time. (thanks, C. Apalodimas)
Walkway (TrueType)
Walkway is a large font family which consists of 31 font style, such as Rounded, SemiBold Reverse Oblique, Bold, Bold Reverse Oblique, Black, Black Reverse Oblique, UltraBold and further styles. The typeface looks elegant and modest and can be used best for headlines. Windows, Mac OS X, Linux.
Karabine
Fancy “hand-drawing” typeface by Jonathan Paquette. A quite distinctive typeface in which capital letters are the reflection of “normal” letters. PC / Mac. Free for personal use only.
Ehab
May 12th, 2008 2:04 pmThe first one looks brilliant ! I am going to use it on one of my designs -)
Michael Langham
May 12th, 2008 2:04 pmGreat finds, once again.
Now here’s a related question, and perhaps one shared by other fontophiles: Is there a better font than MyriadPro for tight fitting text? Or rather, the condensed players in this family.
IMHO it beats Helv. Neue family, as well as any of the other standard condensed sans serif families.
I’d like to hear of other folk’s experience with tight-fitting condensed fonts that read well even with over-tracked spacing.
Maybe this inquiry might make a post of it’s own?
ferdinand
May 12th, 2008 2:09 pmWalkaway and Karabine are great fonts. I didn’t know the others.So thanks for sharing. I’ve got a list of 12 free hand drawn fonts (like karabine) on my blog at http://www.fudgegraphics.com.
pickupjojo
May 12th, 2008 3:10 pmWow, very good selection!
I’m totally in love with Freebooter Script. Geek and Hype
Jen
May 12th, 2008 4:49 pmI couldn’t access ‘Karabine’ at dafont.com so here’s an alternate link:
Acid Fonts
Mike
May 12th, 2008 11:16 pmIs Freebooter Script free for commercial use? I can’t find any Terms and Conditions on the website.
Michiel
May 13th, 2008 1:27 amFreebooter Script is not a quality font. When it’s enlarged it looks really ugly!
dragoshell
May 13th, 2008 1:47 amI keep getting the error:
The following errors were found:Sorry, but I cannot figure out who sent you here. Your browser is not sending an HTTP_REFERER.
Please use the back button to correct these errors.
on Cora Basic Regular font form page
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz
May 13th, 2008 2:15 am@dragoshell: we just checked the link. It works fine. Have you actually tried to use HTTP_REFERER?
Skeku
May 13th, 2008 2:34 amAnother free font i’ve found today ;)
http://www.fontcubes.com/Walkway.font
Eli
May 13th, 2008 2:36 amNeed more! :) Love that Cora Basic one though, I sent a request.
fontype
May 13th, 2008 5:41 amFreebooter Script is free for commercial work, and as such being free, is not up to the standards of commercial work, its free why complain ? It was a quick fix from a scan job of a finepoint texta done on standard paper.
fontype
May 13th, 2008 5:47 amWalkway, also by Graham Meade, you may find a few small problems using the font, as it was an unfinished demo set that was never intended for internet release. One of the people a beta set was sent to for testing posted it on a few sites and this is the version that is now only available. It is freeware and has all the characters, but the spacing and kerning was not completed.
Jarek
May 13th, 2008 8:24 amOne of our clients used Walkway exclusively. As far as this font looks nice, it is nowhere near usable for professional design. Having to babysit every pair of letters was a serious pain and it was just a start of inconsistencies. Working with fonts like these makes you appreciate the $400+ families.
I’m glad that the client moved to a cheaper agency that doesnt care about keming.
shasta
May 13th, 2008 9:13 amok, once again a strong recommendation for all free typo fans to have a look at this page: Fonstruct.com… You’ll see why!
Btw, @smashing team: i think it’s actually worth being mentioned in you next typography post…
dragoshell
May 13th, 2008 10:16 amIt’s odd… on Firefox the form doesn’t work: error “HTTP_REFERER”, even though my browser it’ ok, I just followed the link posted here(I mean you don’t expect me to manually edit the HTTP_REFERER just to get a stupid font?!), but on IE it seems ok. Thanks :P
skami
May 13th, 2008 5:07 pmReally cool typography!
SmashingMagazine always rocks.
phppassion
May 13th, 2008 10:11 pm!!!!!!!!!!!! nice collection
SV
May 13th, 2008 11:23 pmFinally got my Core Reg. font. Really cool! Nice collection, simply smashing. Thanks!
SV
May 13th, 2008 11:24 pmCora* of course.
Paul Deveau
May 14th, 2008 5:41 am@shasta: The link you provided leads to a cyber-squatter jump page because of a typo. (You forgot the T in fontshop.com ;) ) Corrected Link FontStruct looks like a pretty awesome tool BTW.
@everyone: What the heck ever happened to the legit typographers of Apostrophic Lab for that matter? It’s like one person caused the mass-disappearance of a lot of really good font makers like Graham Meade, Derek Vogelpohl, and others.
www.paintworkzstudio.co.uk
May 14th, 2008 8:16 amThe first font really ROCKS!!
Thanks.
Casey
May 14th, 2008 11:17 amThe Cora font offer is apparently ended already… 2 days only?!?! what the hell…
“The promotion ended, i am afraid.”
Grey
May 15th, 2008 10:08 pmAgree with Casey here. What kind of promotion is that?! I checked the article (dunno what the hell is Walkway doing here, it is *really* hideous), tried to download Cora and – nothing. Promotion ended. Well, thanks for that kind of promotion. Eh, I am wondering why people use warez fonts then, hm?
Fontype
May 16th, 2008 12:24 amApostrophic lab run for approx 2 years, then fell in a hole due to a number of circumstances. One such being Greenbay Font Cd Collection. The site had a stricyt policy that the freeware fonts were in absolutely no way to be included in any form of compilation CD, but they did it and sold the stuff. The Fontmakers individually decided that they were no longer interested in doing free work so other parasites to make money off them. and it just ground down.
I hear Derek may be soon making a comeback after being out of the scene for three years, most of the others either started commercially, left the scene totally, or greatly reduced their free work.
As stated, Walkway was not intended for release in the form you have it, again due to someone not interested in the designers wishes, and purely for a one upmanship thing. Yes Walkway is horrendous, I know because I made it.
Fontype
May 16th, 2008 12:34 amApostrophic lab designer – Where now – Commercial
Alejandro Paul of Argentina
Born: Argentina, 1972
Alejandro Paul teaches graphic design and typography at the Universidad de Buenos Aires since 1996 when he was 23 years old.
Worked as art director in the most prestigious Design Studios from Argentina handling high-profile corporate brands such as Arcor, Marta Harff, Morph, SC Johnson, Danone, Movicom, etc. Awarded in several design competitions, is also a typeface designer for T-26 and one of the builders of the Sudtipos project, the first Argentinian collective type foundry
Danny
May 16th, 2008 11:05 am@Michael Langham
I quite like news gothic, for tight text, I wouldn’t call it better than myriad pro, but nice to have another option even if it is a fraction wider.
Richard
May 23rd, 2008 2:44 amCan anyone upload the Cora font to Rapidshare or something? I’m still keen to get it.
Cheers
Sanchito
June 4th, 2008 3:11 pmi dunno if it’s against the rules but it would be great that someone could upload the Cora font to some server.
tottobit
June 13th, 2008 6:04 amTotally agree with Sanchito!
PUN
June 18th, 2008 12:11 amThank you for ur font,So good.
muckoda
June 23rd, 2008 3:23 amNice fonts………………..thanks alot. :-)
Krupa
September 9th, 2008 12:39 amI like Freebooter Script..Im gonna use it in my design.
benjamin Moodie
March 4th, 2009 4:53 amKarabine look cool, well done
Dea
March 13th, 2009 3:00 amFreebooter Script it’s nice and Karabine is interesting.
Jen, thank you very, very much for share a link. There I found perfect fonts, some of them totally unknown to me. God bless you!
akhila
April 2nd, 2009 1:52 amhow do i download this fonts..
turkce forum
June 29th, 2009 2:40 pmForumneti
nice font! thanks a lot
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