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Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs
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.
In this selection we’re glad to present you Chunk, Titilium, Amputa Bangiz, Serif Beta, Quatro, Rough Draft, Comfortaa and a couple of other high-quality free fonts. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the fonts — the license can change from time to time.
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- You can find over 80 more free fonts in our section Fonts.
Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts
Chunk Open Source Typeface [ Download the .zip-package ]
Chunk is an ultra-bold slab serif typeface that is reminiscent of old American Western woodcuts, broadsides, and newspaper headlines. Used mainly for display, the fat block lettering is unreserved yet refined for contemporary use. OpenType. Designed by Meredith Mandel. (via Graham Smith).
Titilium [ Download the .zip-package ]
A very legible, beautiful academic typeface that perfectly fits to every corporate identity design, magazines and headlines of corporate web-sites. The typeface is available in various weights: text version, title version, extra-black version and full-version.
Amputa Bangiz Standard TTF [ Download the .zip-package ]
An original retro/grungy-font, designed by Quiccs and available for free download and use in private and commercial projects. Includes some basic non-alphanumeric characters as well.
Serif Beta [ specimen | Download the .zip-package ]
Serif Beta is a very legible large serif family of free fonts, including 3 fontspacks with the optic weights 6, 12 und 72 (overall 14 weights). The family includes swash-glyphs and black-weights. Each font has 274 glyphs. Free for personal and commercial use, feedback is appreciated. (via dersven).
Quatro
To receive a beta version of Quatro please email the author of the post (see the link above) with the subject line Quatro. Please include your full name, where you work/title and a current email address and I will supply a compressed postscript typeface shortly there after.
Rough Draft Regular
A legendary TrueType typeface by Harold Lohner. Contains 189 characters in 9 ranges. For $5 you can buy the complete set which includes separate Outline, Clean Fill, and Solid Fill fonts.
Comfortaa [ Download the .zip-package ]
Comfortaa is a simple, modern, legible true type font with 466 different characters and symbols (incl. European accents). Available in three weights: Regular, Bold and Thin. The typeface has smooth, rounded edges, Absolutely free for personal and commercial projects. Designed by Johan Aakerlund from Denmark.
MOD™ font [ Download the .zip-package ]
Mod is an original, experimental font that is applicable for any type of graphic design – Web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for T-shirts and other items like logos, pictograms. Designed by Svetoslav Simov from Sofia, Bulgaria.
Reminder (aka Featured in previous posts)
Droid Font Family
Google’s Android project, an open platform for mobile devices, includes the Droid font family, which was designed to provide optimal quality and comfort on a mobile handset when rendered in application menus, web browsers and for other screen text.
The Droid family of fonts consists of Droid Sans, Droid Sans Mono and Droid Serif. Each contains extensive character set coverage including Western Europe, Eastern/Central Europe, Baltic, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish support. Description with a specimen. You can find concrete instruction of how you can use the fonts in this article.
Nilland
A beautiful slab-serif typeface, designed by Manfred Klein. The family consists of 6 weights, regular, bold, extra bold, black, small caps and small caps bold (link and images via DerSven.de).
Aller Sans [ Specimen | License | Download ]
Dalton Maag design team designed a beautiful sans-serif Aller Sans, sponsored by Danish publishing company Aller (hence the name). The typeface was designed as part of the Danish School of Media and Journalisms new CI and is now available for free use and download (via).
M+ Outline
These fonts are free software. Unlimited permission is granted to use, copy, and distribute it, with or without modification, either commercially and noncommercially. Designed by Morishita Coji. The fonts are regulary updated, work in progress. Caution: Japanese language.
Goudy Bookletter 1911
A serif old-style OpenType font. You need to scroll the frame to find the download link. [via derSven]
Andale Mono
Andale Mono is a highly legible monospaced font which was originally distributed as part of the Internet Explorer 4.0 add-ons page as Monotype.com. It distinguishes well between the zero, and the O. You can find 4 further monospaced fonts in Hamish Macpherson’s article The Typography of Code.

Credits: Hamish Macpherson
Junction [ Download the .zip-package ]
Designed by Caroline Hadilaksono, Junction is a humanist sans-serif typeface. It has elegant, clearn and very sharp glyphs, but contains only 100 most common symbols. Like Gentium it perfectly fits to body copy, but can also show its strengths, balance and beauty in headlines. Here are some insights from the designer:
Vegur
This humanist sans-serif family is available in OpenType-format in three weights: ExtraLight, Regular and Bold. The typeface can be perfectly used both in body copy and in headlines.
More free fonts!
For more free fonts, please consider visitiong our previous posts:
- 15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts
- 15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts
- 40 Excellent Free Fonts For Professional Design
- You can find over 80 more free fonts in our section Fonts.
Further Resources
- Top 10 Programming Fonts
Here’s a round-up of the top 10 readily-available monospace fonts for your coding enjoyment, with descriptions, visual examples and samples, and download links for each. The round-up features Courier, Andale Mono, Monaco, Profont, Monofur, Proggy, Droid Sans Mono, Deja Vu Sans Mono, Consolas and Inconsolata. - 45 Useful Free Handwritten Fonts
A couple of really beautiful hand writing-fonts that can give your site a more personal, individual touch. - Fontex.org
A growing collection of free fonts. - Fontsquirrel
Another growing collection of free fonts.
Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com), an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.
- 97 Comments
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- 2June 5th, 2009 4:51 am
Nice collection! Some are really up-to-date!
- 3June 5th, 2009 4:53 am
Love you Smashing Magazine!
- 4June 5th, 2009 5:05 am
Great selection – as usual! Thanx.
I especially like the chunky Quattro and Chunk. - 5June 5th, 2009 5:22 am
Thank you so much! :)
- 6June 5th, 2009 5:23 am
Thanks for this collection.
- 7June 5th, 2009 5:31 am
free fonts are awesome, thanks for the work.. it would be awesome if you were more consistent in the actual download links of the files. (good blogging practice :))
- 8June 5th, 2009 5:44 am
These are glorious days for typography and fonts: the quality and quantity of fonts being developed is impressive.
However, I Always prefer free font lists.
DKumar M.
@instantshift - 9June 5th, 2009 5:54 am
Oh Yeah!!!!
- 10June 5th, 2009 6:00 am
i love andale mono for programming, it’s just awesome to have zeroes and oes different.
Thanks for your posts, people. For all, have a nice weekend! - 11June 5th, 2009 6:02 am
Excellent, v.good set of fonts, particularly like vegur and quatro.
Cheers SM
- 12June 5th, 2009 6:09 am
Wow, thnx! I particularly like the Chunk font.
- 13June 5th, 2009 6:42 am
Fantastico!!!!!
- 14June 5th, 2009 6:50 am
Great Collection! I really like Titilium
- 15June 5th, 2009 6:56 am
Great stuff thanks a bunch
- 16June 5th, 2009 7:17 am
who do I email for the Quatro font? I don’t see the email on this page
- 17June 5th, 2009 7:18 am
Spettacolari!
- 18June 5th, 2009 7:19 am
And again, you guys show why you are the best. Thank you for sharing, these will be handy to have in the arsenal.
- 19June 5th, 2009 7:32 am
I Love Smashing Magazine. Always has exactly what I need when I need it.
You guys Rock!!!
- 20June 5th, 2009 8:01 am
Usually I’m a little scared of free fonts because of all the tweaking they require but this is a solid little collection. Thanks so much!
- 21June 5th, 2009 8:40 am
I love the chunk :P
- 22June 5th, 2009 8:47 am
smashing…simply smashing
- 23June 5th, 2009 9:10 am
I always laugh when I see “Andale Mono”, which means “walk it, monkey”
- 24June 5th, 2009 9:37 am
Smashing Mag, you’re a team player baby. Love your typography articles.
- 25June 5th, 2009 9:41 am
Thanks for this list. I love finding new free fonts. MOD is really a cool font, its got lots of uses.
- 26June 5th, 2009 9:54 am
i agree with many that quatro is the coolest. but i also couldn’t find a link to send the email to get it… but if you click on the name of the font, it will take you to the website of the creator who has the link there.
- 27June 5th, 2009 10:12 am
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Best Of Luck
you guys rock! - 28June 5th, 2009 10:18 am
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- 29June 5th, 2009 10:22 am
http://fontfabric.com/download/mod.zip
The requested URL /download/mod.zip was not found on this server. - 30June 5th, 2009 10:36 am
Very nice. Especially those first. Top. These fonts are best. Nice collection of letters to the free download can also be found at: The package of fonts to download for free.
- 31June 5th, 2009 10:43 am
Nice post more
- 32June 5th, 2009 10:47 am
A notice on the Quatro font; I’ve e-mailed the author for it, and the font is currently not available for pc, just mac.
- 33June 5th, 2009 10:59 am
One Font I really like is Iconsolata. I use it bolded as my default font in Notepad++. It is easy to read, and looks nice. You might take a look at it here:
- 34June 5th, 2009 11:46 am
Awesome. First one is a go as I was using Rockwell for a current design…Chunk is much better!
- 35June 5th, 2009 11:46 am
Hi guys, please take care with the web site http://www.lowing.org/fonts/ from the Andale Monospace font. I got a virus here blocked by my anti virus.
- 36June 5th, 2009 11:56 am
Thank you for text collection. Good work !
- 37June 5th, 2009 12:01 pm
Where’s the link (author of the post) for Quatro?
- 38June 5th, 2009 12:25 pm
Thank you for this collection!
Vegur looks great!
- 39June 5th, 2009 12:33 pm
Defintely liking some of these!
- 40June 5th, 2009 2:54 pm
awesome fonts! gotta have them all .. cept the japanese one i got kinda lost.
- 41June 5th, 2009 5:04 pm
Some truly excellent fonts in here, thanks for the list. Big fan of these typography posts on Smashing, keep them coming.
- 42June 5th, 2009 9:06 pm
nice
- 43June 5th, 2009 10:58 pm
nice collection….. really excellent fonts.
- 45June 6th, 2009 12:55 am
fssg NiCE
- 46June 6th, 2009 1:09 am
Some gorgeous fonts here. Thank you for compiling this collection!
- 47June 6th, 2009 1:12 am
real great free fonts. thx for that!
- 48June 6th, 2009 1:53 am
Very nice I downloaded a few of these.
- 49June 6th, 2009 2:54 am
Sweet list, thank you.
- 50June 6th, 2009 5:14 am
Hello. Have you got any updates on the author of Quatro? I emailed him two days ago and didn’t hear back from him. I’d really love to have the font for my blog. Too bad, though.
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- 52June 6th, 2009 5:47 am
thx!!!! ;-)
- 53June 6th, 2009 7:37 am
Very nice font collection!
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- 55June 6th, 2009 8:48 am
Is it just me, or You’ve changed feed?, it contains only title and ad.
- 56June 6th, 2009 11:16 am
very good font!
- 57June 6th, 2009 11:51 am
Fontes muito boas!
- 58June 6th, 2009 6:53 pm
thanks for this collection.
myfacefriends.com - 59June 6th, 2009 6:56 pm
Serif Beta is smashing!
- 60June 6th, 2009 9:13 pm
thanks for the collection!
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- 62June 7th, 2009 4:59 am
amazing fonts. I am going to download all of them because I loved em.
- 63June 7th, 2009 9:12 am
I’m gonna get em ALL!!! :D
- 64June 7th, 2009 5:01 pm
I love them:)
- 65June 8th, 2009 7:04 am
Hi there
Rough Draft font is not available at abstractfonts apparently. Through creator’s home page I’ve found it on some other site, but you have to pay for it: http://www.fontbros.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=HAFO-RODR
- 66June 8th, 2009 12:18 pm
This is a awesome post, thanks! Also thanks for featuring article on http://www.tripwiremagazine.com
- 67June 8th, 2009 1:37 pm
Great selection with a lot of fresh typefaces. Incredible improvement over the past few typography posts.
- 68June 8th, 2009 4:52 pm
Great fonts!, a very good supply for inspiration and development of creative web sites.
Our little internet-based aviation real estate company in Florida Spruce Creek
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- 70June 8th, 2009 10:59 pm
Yep great fonts, but way you dont give these all font on one pack ?
- 71June 8th, 2009 11:03 pm
really thank you thats great job.
- 72June 8th, 2009 11:46 pm
Nice, useful list. These will come out very well on print. Two from the list that I liked in particular – Rough Draft and MOD. With a little creativity, one can surely make great designs with these fonts.
- 73June 9th, 2009 12:26 pm
Wow, if these are super sources for decorating our work.
Thank you.
- 74June 9th, 2009 1:42 pm
Outstanding!
- 75June 9th, 2009 8:14 pm
Hi,
Can I use Titilium in my logo/brand identity as well as on a website???
Thanks
George - 76June 9th, 2009 11:10 pm
Nice collection….. :)
- 77June 10th, 2009 10:17 am
Woww it is very nice sharing!
- 78June 10th, 2009 6:50 pm
Thanks for sharing!!!
But I’m afraid http://fontfabric.com/graphilla/mod.zip is a broken link.
- 79June 11th, 2009 12:36 am
Superbman!
Thanks Mate. - 80June 11th, 2009 8:15 am
Fantastic! Titilium is probably my favorite. :)
- 81June 12th, 2009 2:43 am
Rough Draft not available at the given link, but I found it here:
- 82June 13th, 2009 1:54 pm
thanks!!! some fonts are great!
- 83June 13th, 2009 7:08 pm
Great!
Really useful for me.
Very nice fonts and very useful site. - 84June 15th, 2009 10:34 am
Thanks, always in need of new fonts.
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- 86June 17th, 2009 10:24 am
i love this site!
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- 88June 22nd, 2009 4:09 pm
great list!
is it 100% sure that Vegur is free font ?
I couldnt find the details about it .
can I use it safely in a commercial project?tnx
- 89June 26th, 2009 1:14 pm
Pretty sweet imho.
- 90July 1st, 2009 3:25 pm
why do I have a terrible rendering of chunkfive in the web browser.
it looks great in photoshop - 91July 7th, 2009 11:29 am
Cool fonts … I like Rough Draft the best!
- 92July 10th, 2009 10:40 am
Quatro isn’t free anymore.
Too bad … - 93August 3rd, 2009 10:48 am
nice professional design fonts – nice people to offer these free
well done - 94September 21st, 2009 1:28 am
“Quatro” font is no longer free!!!
- 95October 22nd, 2009 11:53 am
A public water system that does not serve the same people year-round. ,
- 96October 31st, 2009 3:47 am
nice fonts
- 97November 4th, 2009 4:01 pm
Thanks for the list man. Am downloading as we speak…
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(2 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)
waauw some great font finds here
cheers SM!