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Free Fonts Of The Month: Fertigo Pro, FF Nuvo
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.
Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com), an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.
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- 2July 28th, 2008 3:21 am
Great! Thx you!
- 3July 28th, 2008 3:21 am
Nice fonts!
I like “FF Nuvo OT MEdium” - 4July 28th, 2008 3:39 am
Wow, FF Nuvo looks very nice!
Thanks for sharing SM. Geek and Hype - 5July 28th, 2008 4:10 am
Woah! Very nice font.
- 6July 28th, 2008 4:28 am
I grabbed the fertigo font yesterday, tis very nice!
- 7July 28th, 2008 4:41 am
muchas gracias!
- 8July 28th, 2008 6:12 am
nice! thanks!
- 9July 28th, 2008 6:41 am
Thanks !
- 10July 28th, 2008 6:44 am
thanks smashing! they’re truly beautiful fonts
- 11July 28th, 2008 6:58 am
thanks for the article, very helpful.
- 12July 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
- 13July 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.
- 14July 28th, 2008 11:20 am
A bit difficult to download the Fertigo Pro font, but worth it!
- 15July 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.
- 16July 28th, 2008 4:42 pm
to Lonnie:
the service is http://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
- 17July 28th, 2008 8:35 pm
very useful.thanks.
Gaurav - 18July 28th, 2008 10:00 pm
Nice Collection of Fonts :)
Great use for creating wonderful typography1
- 19July 29th, 2008 3:06 am
Awesome thanks :D
- 20July 29th, 2008 3:13 am
thank you very much
- 21July 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 - 22July 29th, 2008 6:59 am
great ^^
- 23July 29th, 2008 11:42 am
to bagger :
it seems that fontburner uses sfir too…look at fontburner.js lol - 24July 29th, 2008 12:03 pm
thx a lot
- 25July 31st, 2008 11:10 pm
Thank you for the fonts. Fertigo Pro is wonderful!
- 26August 1st, 2008 9:39 am
Finally a free font with the *new* uppercase sharp S for Germans!!! Thanks to Jos Buivenga!!!
- 27August 3rd, 2008 7:47 pm
Nice Fonts. Thanks for the tips. Check out my people-resource site at http://www.evolinkx.com and let me have your opinions please :)
- 28August 4th, 2008 4:25 am
To those who commented on Fertigo Pro:
Thank you all for the really kind comments. Enjoy! - 29August 5th, 2008 1:30 am
this fonts are really cute, pls share some more
- 30August 7th, 2008 4:38 am
thank u………………………………………
- 31August 8th, 2008 12:29 am
THx
- 32August 10th, 2008 6:38 am
Lonnie,
Are you looking for http://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.
- 33August 12th, 2008 4:38 am
very good
- 34August 20th, 2008 8:43 am
More gorgeous selections — thanks for continuing to share these quality typography freebies!
- 35November 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.
- 36November 18th, 2008 2:51 am
how can i download above font… can u help me… :)
Thanks - 37December 27th, 2008 1:16 pm
Wishes for an abundant new year for all you give. Thank you!
Rafael
- 38January 24th, 2009 9:26 am
Should make a sticky post with Fertigo Pro and Museo Sans already. Seriously, they come up every time!
- 39February 3rd, 2009 8:18 pm
owesome!!..thanks
- 40February 20th, 2009 8:04 am
word.
- 41February 27th, 2009 3:32 am
Many thanks, all.
- 42June 29th, 2009 4:44 am
thanks
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