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Free Fonts Of The Month: Fertigo Pro, FF Nuvo

By Smashing Editorial, July 28th, 2008 in Fonts | 54 Comments

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.
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Fresh Freebies: Typeface, Pirates and Circular Icons

By Smashing Editorial, April 17th, 2008 in Graphics | 44 Comments

Free stuff always comes in handy. We are regularly hunting for free high-quality icons, fonts, wallpapers, plugins and scripts and present them to you, so you don't need to search for them. As long as we find something beautiful, interesting or useful, we let you know in our posts. And now it's time for some sweet freebies for designer's toolbox.

Below you'll find an excellent free font and some recently released icon sets. They all are released for free; however, please take a look at license agreements before using them in commercial applications.

You can also take a look at our previous article
- Friday Freebies: Font, Icons and Wallpapers which presents a high-quality font, high-resolution wallpapers and icons as well as a free WordPress admin theme.
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Free Fonts Of The Month: Advent Pro, Telegrafico

By Smashing Editorial, February 14th, 2008 in Fonts | 81 Comments

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 you Goudy Bookletter 1911, Advent Pro, Ambrosia, Andale Mono, Telegrafico, Fonce Sans Regular and the Luxi Font Family. Please read the license agreements carefully - they can change from time to time.
- You can find over 70 more free fonts in our section Free Fonts.
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Free Fonts Of The Month: Newcastle, Anziano

By Smashing Editorial, January 22nd, 2008 in Fonts | 57 Comments

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'd like to present you Newcastle, Anziano, Sovereign and Inconsolata. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the fonts — they can change from time to time.

You can find over 150 more high-quality fonts in
- the article 40 Excellent Free Fonts For Professional Design,
- the article 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design,
- and in our section Fonts.
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Free Fonts of the Month: Revalo, Nadia Serif, Qlassik

By Smashing Editorial, September 13th, 2007 in Fonts | 69 Comments

Sometimes web design is just about beautiful typography. Used with a profound understanding of white space, basic typographic principles and usability heuristics, it can sufficiently highlight the main sections of the site and its key-elements. Font size of headers, body copy and navigation is important. Leading is important. Line length is important. And the visibility of links is important. Basically, that's it - really, you don't need more. There are literally thousands of professional typefaces you can use, you might use dozens of them; however there is also a plenty of high-quality freefonts which can serve as reasonable and feasible alternatives and fulfill your requirements just as well. We collect all of them regularly, so you don't have to.

Over the last month we've found six high-quality free fonts you can use for both private and commercial projects. Please check out the license agreements before using these typefaces - disclaimers can change from time to time.
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Smashing Freefont and Wordpress-Theme

By Smashing Editorial, September 7th, 2007 in Fonts, Freebies | 352 Comments

As our Smashing First Anniversary celebration ends, we'd like to wrap up our event with two further presents for each and every one of our readers. In August we've asked Jos Buivenga, a Dutch typo-designer who has created profesional freefonts such as Delicious to design a special typeface dedicated to the Smashing Magazine First Anniversary. Jos has agreed to get a "smashing" freefont done just in time. We've also asked Elena Gafita from the DesignDisease team — well-known for its professional Wordpress themes such as Blogging Pro — to design a special Wordpress-Theme dedicated to our anniversary. Despite deadlines Elena agreed and promised to get a "smashing" Wordpress-Theme done just in time.

Both free typeface and Wordpress theme were done in time. And we're honoured to give both of them away - for you and for free. Thanks to Jos and Elena for participation!
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7 Brilliant Free Fonts: Faceplate, Sling, Cicle

By Smashing Editorial, June 8th, 2007 in Fonts | 60 Comments

Every month we take a look around, browse through dozens of fonts collections and select most irresistible typefaces released recently. We collect most beautiful high quality freeware fonts, which can be used for private and/or professional projects without any restrictions whatsoever. If you've tried to find them once, you know how time-consuming the search can be. Indeed, these beauties can be quite hard to find, but the search is definitely worth it. We search for them. So you don't have to.
- You can subscribe to our RSS-feed to keep track on our next posts.
- You can find more free fonts in the post Five More Freefonts: Chúcara, Preface, Colaborate we've published recently. It contains links to over 55 more free high quality fonts.
- Free Fonts of the Month: Geo Sans, OT Versa, Diavlo: 5 more brilliant free fonts for your collection.
Let's take a look at 7 free high quality fonts we've come across over the last 30 days.
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Free Fonts of the Month: Geo Sans, OT Versa, Diavlo

By Smashing Editorial, April 2nd, 2007 in Fonts | 52 Comments

We continue to collect most beautiful high quality freefonts, which can be used for both private and professional projects without any restrictions whatsoever. They are hard to find, but the search is definitely worth it. Over the last 30 days we've managed to find few oldies such as famous Geo Sans and Mank Sans by Manfred Klein, but also some newbies such as Jos Buivenga's Diavlo. You might also be interested in further free fonts we've presented recently. Before using the font, don't forget to read the legal agreement carefully. They change from time to time. If you like this series of articles, please spread the word, so that 1) we know you are interested; 2) many designers as possible can improve the quality of typography on their web-sites.
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Fontin Sans: Freefont of the Week

By Smashing Editorial, March 7th, 2007 in Fonts | 6 Comments

We continue to collect high quality freefonts, which can be used for both private and professional projects without any restrictions whatsoever. A nice found of the last week is Fontin Sans, a new sans font released by Jos Buivenga few hours ago.
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5 More Freefonts: Chúcara, Preface, Colaborate

By Smashing Editorial, February 24th, 2007 in Fonts | 30 Comments

High quality freefonts are always nice to have, but usually they are extremely hard to find. Usually it requires much time and patience to get a lead on some gorgeous typofaces out there. Every week we take a close look around, visit dozens of typography-related sites, check out the latest updates and choose the best free fonts, which have been released or appeared over the last few weeks. And all the fonts we find are getting published immediately, here on Smashing Magazine. So what did we find this week?

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Freefont of the Week: Romeral

By Smashing Editorial, February 6th, 2007 in Fonts | 45 Comments

Free high-quality fonts are extremely hard to find, but sometimes the time you've invested in the search is definitely worth the result you've got. A new freefont, designed by Juan Pablo De Gregorio, should belong to the collection of every professional web-designer: aside from optimal legibility, Romeral offers elegant style, rounded forms and clear geometric structure of its letters.
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5 Freefonts You Shouldn’t Have Missed

By Smashing Editorial, January 19th, 2007 in Fonts | 61 Comments

We expand our collection of high-quality freefonts we've put together few months ago (and started one year ago). Some of newbies are quite old, however they haven't been known for a while.

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District Thin: Free Font Of The Week

By Smashing Editorial, November 29th, 2006 in Fonts | 16 Comments

We continue to collect most beautiful high quality freefonts, which can be used for both private and professional projects without any restrictions whatsoever. They are hard to find, but the search is definitely worth it. Over the last 30 days we've managed to find few oldies such as famous Geo Sans and Mank Sans by Manfred Klein, but also some newbies such as Jos Buivenga's Diavlo. You might also be interested in further free fonts we've presented recently. Before using the font, don't forget to read the legal agreement carefully. They change from time to time.
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