Free Fonts Of The Month: Myndraine, Museo Sans
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 5 free high-quality fonts and collections of grunge and handwritten fonts. Please read the license agreements carefully — they can change from time to time.
- Last episode features Fertigo Pro and FF Nuvo,
- You can find over 80 more free fonts in our section Fonts.
Free Fonts Of The Month
Myndraine
An unfinished, yet very impressive sans serif font, designed by Christopher Miller. The font includes 182 characters. [via]
Museo Sans
Jos Buivenga released Museo Sans, a sans-version of his previously released freefont Museo. Museo Sans is a sturdy, low contrast, geometric, highly legible sans serif typeface very well suited for any display and text use. The OpenType font family offers supports CE languages and even esperanto. Besides ligatures, fractions and proportional/tabular lining and oldstyle figures MUSEO also has a ‘case’ feature for case-sensitive forms.
Museo Sans font family comes in 10 fonts: 5 weights (100 300 500 700 900) with each an italic. 2 fonts are absolutely free (500/500 italic). A registration is required to download the files.
30 Free Grunge Fonts
An impressive collection of grungy fonts, published by Danny Outlaw. Among listed fonts are Grunge Serifa and BB Petie Boy presented below. More grunge free fonts.
10 Handwritten Fonts You Can’t Miss
A collection of free handwritten fonts, published by Antonio Lupetti. More handwritten free fonts.
The Fell Types
A set of free modern revival fonts, with ligatures, swash characters, and ornaments, digitalized by Igino Marini. “The Fell Types took their name from John Fell, a Bishop of Oxford in the seventeenth-century. Not only he created an unique collection of printing types but he started one of the most important adventures in the history of typography.
You will find here a non-exhaustive history and a modern digitalization of some of them. If you want to use it in publications on any kind of media you have to put in the following quote as a note: «The Fell Types are digitally reproduced by Igino Marini. www.iginomarini.com» and let the designer know where you used it. [via]
Folks
A TrueType-font, designed by Manfred Klein and available in 4 weights – light, regular, bold and heavy. [via]

Image: DerSven.de
Mailart graphics
This picture font is made up of symbols, images and stamps from the mailart network and Keith Bates’s scrapbook. This font is free for personal use; commercial copyright is retained by artists named in the ReadMe documentation. PC Truetype, Mac TT+PS.

Reminder
FF Nuvo OT Medium
This font is still available for free download. 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.













michael ray
September 23rd, 2008 8:42 amfirst
Jacob
September 23rd, 2008 8:43 amNice one! I really like Myndraine one – thanks a lot!
San
September 23rd, 2008 8:45 amGood Fonts.. But not what I was looking for
Paul
September 23rd, 2008 9:23 amGreat Fonts
Henri Jeret
September 23rd, 2008 9:42 amYei :) Just the right ting to make my day happier :D New good fonts are always welcome in my designs :D
Lazerdance
September 23rd, 2008 10:09 amGood Fonts
Joseph Maguire
September 23rd, 2008 10:58 amThose Fell Type fonts seem very interesting.
puto
September 23rd, 2008 11:31 ammalisimo loko, pilas SM
adelle
September 23rd, 2008 11:35 amThanks for including the font post on fuelyourcreativity.com!
Megan
September 23rd, 2008 1:28 pmThese are great links to some great fonts. Suggestion: I’d like to see every intro mention the usage options (personal, commercial) clearly, so I spend less time clicking through to free fonts that are for personal use only. Seems like some of them have it, some don’t.
Michal
September 23rd, 2008 3:16 pmfinaly smashingmagazine is suplying us with things there best in, content and goods, and not only content
renat
September 23rd, 2008 9:46 pmThanks
Jary
September 23rd, 2008 10:54 pmthanks
trCreative Web Design
September 24th, 2008 1:04 amGreat fonts, especially the handwritten fonts – was just looking for some like this – thanks!
Bruno Alberto Byington Neto De Figueiredo
September 24th, 2008 1:15 am@ Smashing,
My opinion on this “Free Fonts Set” ist one of the best ones you guys have brought out, seriously. As you guys know Im more of the UX/UI Usabililty kind of Kid and therefore my time is kind of limited when it comes to exploring different Subjects that matter to me in Graphic Design.
@ Megan & @All
Bruno:Megan:These are great links to some great fonts. Suggestion: I’d like to see every intro mention the usage options (personal, commercial) clearly, so I spend less time clicking through to free fonts that are for personal use only. Seems like some of them have it, some don’t.>Anyway, speak to you guys later and the rest of the guys here posting comments: have a stress free, maybe calm day at Work buddies.
Cheers,
Bruno
Grafiko
September 24th, 2008 4:27 amNice fonts
Mario
September 24th, 2008 5:22 amNo opino igual que puto, aguante SM
Anthony Bruno
September 24th, 2008 5:32 amFree Fonts always make the day better. Thanks Smashing!
lica
September 24th, 2008 5:53 amooooh, I likes Myndraine. yummy!
cmanon
September 24th, 2008 6:37 amAwesome!
Dancarbal
September 24th, 2008 6:59 amMto bom! Parabéns!
Tommy P
September 24th, 2008 8:01 amSweet! The stamps will work great for background texture.
James
September 24th, 2008 10:10 amFantastic! Love the mail symbols!!
Mr Kuzio
September 24th, 2008 11:04 amThanks for this post,
Miguel Angel S2
September 24th, 2008 12:35 pmGrandioso!!!
Gracias!
uyuyang
September 24th, 2008 6:27 pmbanknote is good
Mikkel
September 24th, 2008 11:09 pmMyndraine is beautiful.
Cee
September 25th, 2008 6:59 amYAY! Font posts are the best. Smashing ftw!
Dunkin Donut
September 25th, 2008 11:40 amLast.
PUMb*
September 26th, 2008 6:21 ami like it ;))
kizhak
October 2nd, 2008 9:43 pmkwel..
Martin
October 3rd, 2008 4:40 pmPuto, estoy en desacuerdo contigo
Muy buenas fuentes…
mmhan
October 6th, 2008 7:52 pmGreat fonts! Now I have a directory called “Fonts [via SmashingMag]” in my fonts folder. That’s usually the first place that I look for nice looking fonts.!
Custon
October 7th, 2008 5:38 amSearch for “Share-Regular.ttf” at dafont, it could be one of the free fonts of the next month, i really like it.
xandeko
October 22nd, 2008 2:09 amVery nice!!!tanks
Isabella
October 23rd, 2008 1:04 pmHelp! It is wonderful to find this site, but I don’t know how to download a font! Can anyone explain to me how to go about it?
Thank you : )
Isabella
bee
October 23rd, 2008 8:40 pmThank, good front
Wayfaring Wanderer
October 29th, 2008 5:50 amI’ve been looking for some good handwriting fonts, thanks!
mario
November 15th, 2008 12:51 pmMyndraine – was
Fritz
November 15th, 2008 1:12 pmdon’t cut the Feed!!!
Dennis
November 15th, 2008 2:44 pmFinally NO FULL FEED anymore!! I was wondering when you guys would realize that this would actually get more visitors to your site and hence advertisers. Any more reasons why you decided to pull the full feed?
MaXCoDeR
November 16th, 2008 1:30 amPlease don’t cut the feed.
Gjorgi
November 16th, 2008 2:42 amgreat. tnx
MattS
November 16th, 2008 2:54 amMuseo Sans looks smashing =]
anthony
November 16th, 2008 5:32 amI have started a Exljbris Fonts (Flickr Pool) and you are invited to inspire others and showcase your work using exljbris Fonts.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/exljbris-fonts/
Bruce
November 18th, 2008 8:46 amThe imitation handwriting font is a demo… don’t bother downloading it as it has missing characters!
sixsix
November 24th, 2008 8:11 amGreat compilation
paii
November 29th, 2008 10:07 pmgood fonts, really
puto? jaja q comentario
Dallas
January 20th, 2009 7:17 amLove the fonts. Hasn’t Museo been around for a while? What gives? Seems that its been blasted all over the place. I think we have it by now. Just curious. its a great typeface.
JC
January 24th, 2009 9:21 amHow many more posts will feature Museo Sans? Sure it is a great looking font, but every single month it comes up… Is there really nothing else out there?
Benjamin Moodie
March 4th, 2009 4:54 amLove the grunge fonts!
david
May 18th, 2010 8:42 pmhow can i download the museo sans font?
Hokya
August 29th, 2010 6:09 amrezland also good
Elyse
March 15th, 2012 8:18 pmCan I ask what fonts you are using on the website? Specifically the one that the comments and body text are?
Thanks!!