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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.
Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com), an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.
- 79 Comments
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- 2September 23rd, 2008 8:43 am
Nice one! I really like Myndraine one – thanks a lot!
- 3September 23rd, 2008 8:45 am
Good Fonts.. But not what I was looking for
- 4September 23rd, 2008 9:23 am
Great Fonts
- 5September 23rd, 2008 9:42 am
Yei :) Just the right ting to make my day happier :D New good fonts are always welcome in my designs :D
- 6September 23rd, 2008 10:09 am
Good Fonts
- 7September 23rd, 2008 10:58 am
Those Fell Type fonts seem very interesting.
- 8September 23rd, 2008 11:31 am
malisimo loko, pilas SM
- 9September 23rd, 2008 11:35 am
Thanks for including the font post on fuelyourcreativity.com!
- 10September 23rd, 2008 1:28 pm
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.
- 11September 23rd, 2008 3:16 pm
finaly smashingmagazine is suplying us with things there best in, content and goods, and not only content
- 12September 23rd, 2008 9:46 pm
Thanks
- 13September 23rd, 2008 10:54 pm
thanks
- 14September 24th, 2008 1:04 am
Great fonts, especially the handwritten fonts – was just looking for some like this – thanks!
- 15September 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
- 16September 24th, 2008 4:27 am
Nice fonts
- 17September 24th, 2008 5:22 am
No opino igual que puto, aguante SM
- 18September 24th, 2008 5:32 am
Free Fonts always make the day better. Thanks Smashing!
- 19September 24th, 2008 5:53 am
ooooh, I likes Myndraine. yummy!
- 20September 24th, 2008 6:37 am
Awesome!
- 21September 24th, 2008 6:59 am
Mto bom! Parabéns!
- 22September 24th, 2008 8:01 am
Sweet! The stamps will work great for background texture.
- 23September 24th, 2008 10:10 am
Fantastic! Love the mail symbols!!
- 24September 24th, 2008 11:04 am
Thanks for this post,
- 25September 24th, 2008 12:35 pm
Grandioso!!!
Gracias!
- 26September 24th, 2008 6:27 pm
banknote is good
- 27September 24th, 2008 11:09 pm
Myndraine is beautiful.
- 28September 25th, 2008 6:59 am
YAY! Font posts are the best. Smashing ftw!
- 29September 25th, 2008 11:40 am
Last.
- 30September 26th, 2008 6:21 am
i like it ;))
- 31October 2nd, 2008 9:43 pm
kwel..
- 32October 3rd, 2008 4:40 pm
Puto, estoy en desacuerdo contigo
Muy buenas fuentes… - 33October 6th, 2008 7:52 pm
Great 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.!
- 34October 7th, 2008 5:38 am
Search for “Share-Regular.ttf” at dafont, it could be one of the free fonts of the next month, i really like it.
- 35October 22nd, 2008 2:09 am
Very nice!!!tanks
- 36October 23rd, 2008 1:04 pm
Help! 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 - 37October 23rd, 2008 8:40 pm
Thank, good front
- 38October 29th, 2008 5:50 am
I’ve been looking for some good handwriting fonts, thanks!
- 39November 15th, 2008 12:51 pm
Myndraine – was
- 40November 15th, 2008 1:12 pm
don’t cut the Feed!!!
- 41November 15th, 2008 2:44 pm
Finally 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?
- 42November 16th, 2008 1:30 am
Please don’t cut the feed.
- 43November 16th, 2008 2:42 am
great. tnx
- 44November 16th, 2008 2:54 am
Museo Sans looks smashing =]
- 45November 16th, 2008 5:32 am
I have started a Exljbris Fonts (Flickr Pool) and you are invited to inspire others and showcase your work using exljbris Fonts.
- 46November 18th, 2008 8:46 am
The imitation handwriting font is a demo… don’t bother downloading it as it has missing characters!
- 47November 24th, 2008 8:11 am
Great compilation
- 48November 29th, 2008 10:07 pm
good fonts, really
puto? jaja q comentario
- 49January 20th, 2009 7:17 am
Love 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.
- 50January 24th, 2009 9:21 am
How 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?
- 51March 4th, 2009 4:54 am
Love the grunge fonts!
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