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Free Fonts Of The Month: Anivers, Gentium, Fresco

By Smashing Editorial, June 13th, 2008 in Fonts | 60 Comments | Forum

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 the updated Anivers, Gentium family and Fresco Semi Bold. Please read the license agreements carefully — they can change from time to time.

Free Fonts Of May features Freebooter Script, Cora Basic Regular, Walkway and Karabine.
You can find over 80 more free fonts in our section Fonts.

Free Fonts Of The Month

Anivers Regular
Jos Buivenga has released an update for Anivers, a font which was originally designed to celebrate the first anniversary of Smashing Magazine. Now the new improved Anivers has been expanded and Anivers Regular undergone a major update. Changes: extended language support, improved glyph shapes and improved metrics and kerning.

Jos Buivenga has extended Anivers to the Anivers family which now comes in regular, italic, bold and small caps and has some nice OpenType features. However, only Anivers regular is free. To download the free Regular you have to register at MyFonts.com. The rest of the family can be purchased on MyFonts.

Gentium (specimen) and Gentium Basic
SIL International which has released Gentium few years ago, now released a modification of Gentium which is called Gentium Basic. Gentium is a typeface family designed to enable the diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin and Greek scripts to produce readable, high-quality publications. It supports a wide range of Latin-based alphabets and includes glyphs that correspond to all the Latin ranges of Unicode.

Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic are font families based on the original Gentium design, but with additional weights. The “Book” family is slightly heavier. Both families come with a complete regular, bold, italic and bold italic set of fonts. The supported character set, however, is much smaller than for the main Gentium fonts. These “Basic” fonts support only the Basic Latin and Latin-1 Supplement Unicode ranges, plus a selection of the more commonly used extended Latin characters, with miscellaneous diacritical marks, symbols and punctuation. Designed by Victor Gaultney.

Reminder

We have already written about Fresco Semi Bold. However, in this post we would like to remind some of you who haven’t downloaded the font yet that Fresco Semi Bold is still available for free download. Fresco Semi Bold is just one member of a large and flexible type family by Dutch design legend Fred Smeijers. OpenType. Registration is required.

Published in Fonts, June 13th, 2008
Tags: downloads, Fonts, free

1.

lukas (June 13th, 2008, 3:58 am)

Nice one ;)
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Coco (June 13th, 2008, 3:58 am)

Yay, Versal-ß!
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.Lithium (June 13th, 2008, 4:00 am)

Beautiful Fonts.
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Polo (June 13th, 2008, 4:17 am)

Thanks a lot, I love Reminder :)
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Livio (June 13th, 2008, 4:31 am)

EN:

I don’t know why German use less ß (Es-Zett) than earlier. Nice letter and easier (and faster) to write than ss.

DE:

Ich weiß nicht, warum Deutche nutzen wenig ß (Es-Zett) als früher. Das ist eine prima Buchstabe, die ist leichter und schneller zu schreiben als zweimal s.
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Brennan (June 13th, 2008, 4:49 am)

Thanks! Always room for more fonts! thanks for the updates…
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Charly (June 13th, 2008, 5:18 am)

i can’t download the anivers font, the page gives only a link to myfont.com!
btw awesome post!!
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SSV (June 13th, 2008, 5:36 am)

Why is Anivers there again? Anivers has been represented in an earlier post.
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Cosmi (June 13th, 2008, 5:56 am)

I like Fresco type. Thanks Smashing Mag.
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Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz (June 13th, 2008, 6:14 am)

@SSV: please read the article carefully.
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eod (June 13th, 2008, 7:06 am)

thanks
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Benni (June 13th, 2008, 7:17 am)

Great collection!
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joshua (June 13th, 2008, 8:11 am)

Does anyboy know when will Gentium Bold arrive,
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nerdski (June 13th, 2008, 8:30 am)

Woo more fonts! I love Jos Buivenga’s typefaces, so much unique character to them. Good stuff!
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Brian (June 13th, 2008, 8:37 am)

Yet again, very nice!
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Sufiyan Ghouri (June 13th, 2008, 8:42 am)

awesome thanks
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Paul Palmer (June 13th, 2008, 9:07 am)

Great fonts! Thanks for the post!
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Jade (June 13th, 2008, 10:16 am)

Finally! The arrival of Anivers in full.
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beepoll (June 13th, 2008, 10:56 am)

I like the anivers-font! Keep the posts coming.
Nice article, as always.
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kaitong (June 13th, 2008, 9:41 pm)

thanks!!!!!!
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toox (June 14th, 2008, 3:39 am)

I thought you had featured Anivers already… its the “Smashing”-Font that can be found in your sidebar, isnt it?! I’m a bit confused…
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Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz (June 14th, 2008, 3:42 am)

@toox: please read the article carefully: “Jos Buivenga has released an update for Anivers, a font which was originally designed to celebrate the first anniversary of Smashing Magazine. Now the new improved Anivers has been expanded and Anivers Regular undergone a major update.”
23.

David (June 14th, 2008, 3:57 am)

Nice fonts! Can I use them for creating logotypes?
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elmer (June 15th, 2008, 12:56 am)

Nice Fonts !!!!!! very happy :-)
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Gilberto Saraiva (June 15th, 2008, 9:17 am)

anivers its a very smooth font, good design.

another good list! thanks!
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d.mm. (June 15th, 2008, 11:07 am)

Cheesecake’s? (Nice selection.)
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John (June 15th, 2008, 12:38 pm)

Thanks for list. It so nice and cool fonts.
PS: i have to promote this link in my site Link [bookmarks.anivox.com]
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Peter (June 16th, 2008, 2:42 am)

@ Livio: we use the letter “ß” less because of a spelling reform introduced some ten years ago. Among a plethora of amendments “ß” is replaced by “ss” when preceded by a short vowel, e.g. in the word “Kuss” - formerly “Kuß” (= kiss). The letter is not replaced when preceded by a long vowel, e.g. in the word “Fußball” (= football / soccer).
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Drew (June 16th, 2008, 1:23 pm)

Thanks for the fonts. Always a big help.
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Sean (July 3rd, 2008, 10:48 am)

LAME. Logins for FREE stuff is not cool, even if the free stuff is nice. They don’t need my personal info…
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socoduce (July 22nd, 2008, 8:43 am)

Great fonts! Anybody knwo a good font viewer? I have too many to keep track of. :-(
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Simon (July 25th, 2008, 3:14 am)

that’ll be Big Brother for you…….
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James Reuben Knowles (October 8th, 2008, 7:04 pm)

I found Gentium in a search spanning 20 years for a beautiful, readable font for both Greek and English. I’m glad to see it getting recognition here. A shout out to the SIL folks for their efforts.
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NetOperator Wibby (October 12th, 2008, 3:09 pm)

Excellent, I love high-quality fonts [that are free FTW!].
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prasshant (December 15th, 2008, 3:34 am)

Nice font !!!
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turkce forum (June 29th, 2009, 2:37 pm)

Link [www.forumneti.com]

nice font! thanks a lot