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Free Fonts Of The Month: Fertigo Pro, FF Nuvo
By Smashing Editorial, July 28th, 2008 in Fonts | 54 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 only two freefonts, however these are truly beautiful ones: Fertigo Pro and FF Nuvo Medium. Please read the license agreements carefully — they can change from time to time.
- Free Fonts Of June features the updated Anivers, Gentium and Fresco,
- You can find over 80 more free fonts in our section Fonts.
Free Fonts Of The Month
Fertigo Pro
Jos Buivenga has updated the old freefont Fertigo and has now called it Fertigo Pro. Fertigo Pro is still free. Important changes are extended language support (more than 150 glyphs added), improved glyph shapes, 10 added ornaments/dingbats and improved metrics and kerning. Languages now (fully) supported: Latin, Central European, Croatian, Romanian, Icelandic, Turkish, Esperanto.
FF Nuvo OT MEdium
Designed by Siegfried Rückel, it’s a contemporary type design with vertical contrast, and especially the characters a, g and y show the calligraphic touch. Suitable for magazine design from headlines to longer texts as well as for advertising, packaging and corporate design. A free download for a limited time. OpenType.
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Paul (July 28th, 2008, 3:08 am)
Great Fonts. Thanks!
Jazzzyman (July 28th, 2008, 3:21 am)
Great! Thx you!
Mohsen (July 28th, 2008, 3:21 am)
Nice fonts!
I like “FF Nuvo OT MEdium”
pickupjojo (July 28th, 2008, 3:39 am)
Wow, FF Nuvo looks very nice!
Thanks for sharing SM. Geek and Hype
LachyG (July 28th, 2008, 4:10 am)
Woah! Very nice font.
Gavin (July 28th, 2008, 4:28 am)
I grabbed the fertigo font yesterday, tis very nice!
Patrick (July 28th, 2008, 4:41 am)
muchas gracias!
p3@rl (July 28th, 2008, 6:12 am)
nice! thanks!
Ivka (July 28th, 2008, 6:41 am)
Thanks !
Julez (July 28th, 2008, 6:44 am)
thanks smashing! they’re truly beautiful fonts
Korey (July 28th, 2008, 6:58 am)
thanks for the article, very helpful.
Gilberto Saraiva (July 28th, 2008, 6:59 am)
very good font to me and my friends use.. ^^
now I’ve more beautiful fonts to create some posters with Caster.
Thanks, many thanks
dc crowley (July 28th, 2008, 7:21 am)
Thank you to both font creators. I would also like to say that I have so much respect for Jos Buivenga. He puts in so much time creating free, beautiful and useful fonts. You are a hero.
Philip (July 28th, 2008, 11:20 am)
A bit difficult to download the Fertigo Pro font, but worth it!
Lonnie (July 28th, 2008, 12:44 pm)
Font Help!
I ran across a new font “resource” (let’s call it that for now) website that allowed uses to select the font they wanted to use for their website and strip in some code and use the font.
The kicker is that it was thousand of professional fonts - for example:
You could select “Berkeley” and size, etc. - then get the code and strip it into your html and anyone, regardless of it they had Berkeley installed would see the font in their browser.
I can not find this anywhere. I’ve searched over and over in my RSS feeds, the web, forums. It was fairly new, I can’t recall what it was called. Anyone remember this?
Thank.
Gabber (July 28th, 2008, 4:42 pm)
to Lonnie:
the service is Link [www.fontburner.com] but i didnt tried it yet. but what if their server is down? and you have 10 site with fontburner code? i think sifr is safer for now
Gaurav Chandra (July 28th, 2008, 8:35 pm)
very useful.thanks.
Gaurav
Livingston Samuel (July 28th, 2008, 10:00 pm)
Nice Collection of Fonts :)
Great use for creating wonderful typography1
Rob (July 29th, 2008, 3:06 am)
Awesome thanks :D
rajesh (July 29th, 2008, 3:13 am)
thank you very much
Lonnie (July 29th, 2008, 5:49 am)
Thanks Gabber. I’ve thought about the server possibility, but I want to play around and see how it works. Then maybe I can figure out a fallback.
Lonnie
anti-pixel (July 29th, 2008, 6:59 am)
great ^^
anti-pixel (July 29th, 2008, 11:42 am)
to bagger :
it seems that fontburner uses sfir too…look at fontburner.js lol
noko (July 29th, 2008, 12:03 pm)
thx a lot
Toyo (July 31st, 2008, 11:10 pm)
Thank you for the fonts. Fertigo Pro is wonderful!
redwhortleberry (August 1st, 2008, 9:39 am)
Finally a free font with the *new* uppercase sharp S for Germans!!! Thanks to Jos Buivenga!!!
EVo (August 3rd, 2008, 7:47 pm)
Nice Fonts. Thanks for the tips. Check out my people-resource site at Link [www.evolinkx.com] and let me have your opinions please :)
Jos Buivenga (exljbris) (August 4th, 2008, 4:25 am)
To those who commented on Fertigo Pro:
Thank you all for the really kind comments. Enjoy!
Emmanuel Oscarr (August 5th, 2008, 1:30 am)
this fonts are really cute, pls share some more
1 (August 7th, 2008, 4:38 am)
thank u………………………………………
navva (August 8th, 2008, 12:29 am)
THx
myname (August 10th, 2008, 6:38 am)
Lonnie,
Are you looking for Link [facelift.mawhorter.net] ?
And for some reason, I can’t download Fertigo Pro, myfont.com says it is not available, would anyone mind to please post it on a file hosting website like mediafire? Thanks in advance.
Anonymous (August 12th, 2008, 4:38 am)
very good
Torley (August 20th, 2008, 8:43 am)
More gorgeous selections — thanks for continuing to share these quality typography freebies!
Jurgi (November 16th, 2008, 2:00 am)
Fertigo look great, but I gave up. I do not have time to spend half a day figuring how to “free” download anything. My time is not free.
Faraz (November 18th, 2008, 2:51 am)
how can i download above font… can u help me… :)
Thanks
Rafael Cabrera (December 27th, 2008, 1:16 pm)
Wishes for an abundant new year for all you give. Thank you!
Rafael
JC (January 24th, 2009, 9:26 am)
Should make a sticky post with Fertigo Pro and Museo Sans already. Seriously, they come up every time!
Bang Ali (February 3rd, 2009, 8:18 pm)
owesome!!..thanks
Caroline (February 20th, 2009, 8:04 am)
word.
John (February 27th, 2009, 3:32 am)
Many thanks, all.
Ammouna (June 29th, 2009, 4:44 am)
thanks