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Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs

• By Vitaly Friedman
• June 5th, 2009
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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.

• 15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts¹
• 40 Excellent Free Fonts For Professional Design⁴³²
• You can find over 80 more free fonts in our section Fonts⁴⁴³.

Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts Link

Chunk Open Source Typeface⁴ [ Download the .zip-package⁵ ]
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 Smith⁶).

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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 TTF⁹ [ Download the .zip-package¹⁰ ]
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.

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Serif Beta¹² [ specimen¹³ | Download the .zip-package¹⁴ ]
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).

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Quatro
To receive a beta version of Quatro please email the author of the font (follow 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 Regular¹⁶
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.

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Comfortaa¹⁸ [ Download the .zip-package¹⁹ ]
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.

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MOD™ font²¹ [ 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.

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Reminder (aka Featured in previous posts) Link

Droid Font Family²⁵
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.

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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 specimen²⁷. You can find concrete instruction of how you can use the fonts in this article²⁸.

Nilland²⁹
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.de³⁰).

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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+ Outline³²
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.

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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

Junction³⁴ [ Download the .zip-package³⁵ ]
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 Gentium³⁶ it perfectly fits to body copy, but can also show its strengths, balance and beauty in headlines. Here are some insights from the designer:

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Vegur³⁹
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.

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More free fonts! Link

For more free fonts, please consider visitiong our previous posts:

• 15 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts⁴¹
• 15 Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts⁴²
• 40 Excellent Free Fonts For Professional Design⁴³²
• You can find over 80 more free fonts in our section Fonts⁴⁴³.

Further Resources Link

• 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 Fonts⁴⁵
  A couple of really beautiful hand writing-fonts that can give your site a more personal, individual touch.
• Fontex.org⁴⁶
  A growing collection of free fonts.
• Fontsquirrel⁴⁷
  Another growing collection of free fonts.

Footnotes Link

1. 1 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/11/15-fresh-high-quality-free-fonts/
2. 2 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/08/40-excellent-freefonts-for-professional-design/
3. 3 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/fonts/
4. 4 http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/fonts/4-chunk
5. 5 http://s3.amazonaws.com/theleague/fonts/chunk.zip?1243708167
6. 6 http://imjustcreative.com/chunk-open-source-type-for-immediate-download/2009/05/25/
7. 7 http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/fonts/4-chunk
8. 8 http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/fonts/4-chunk
9. 9 http://quiccs.deviantart.com/art/Amputa-Bangiz-Standard-TTF-122444794
10. 10 http://www.deviantart.com/download/122444794/Amputa_Bangiz_Standard_TTF_by_Quiccs.zip
11. 11 http://quiccs.deviantart.com/art/Amputa-Bangiz-Standard-TTF-122444794
12. 12 http://betatype.com/node/35
13. 13 http://betatype.com/system/files/SerifBeta.pdf
14. 14 http://betatype.com/system/files/SerifBeta_OTF.zip
15. 15 http://betatype.com/node/35
16. 16 http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/13188
17. 17 http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/13188
18. 18 http://aajohan.deviantart.com/art/Comfortaa-font-105395949
19. 19 http://www.deviantart.com/download/105395949/Comfortaa___font_by_aajohan.zip
20. 20 http://aajohan.deviantart.com/art/Comfortaa-font-105395949
21. 21 http://fontfabric.com/?p=396
22. 22 http://fontfabric.com/?p=396
23. 23 http://fontfabric.com/?p=396
24. 24 http://fontfabric.com/?p=396
25. 25 http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtesy-of-google-ascender
26. 26 http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtesy-of-google-ascender
27. 27 http://www.ascendercorp.com/pr/pr2007_11_12.html
28. 28 http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/14/android-filesystems
29. 29 http://www.dafont.com/nilland.font
30. 30 http://blog.dersven.de/freefonts-sansation-und-nilland
31. 31 http://www.dafont.com/nilland.font
32. 32 http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/mplus-outline-fonts/download/index.html
33. 33 http://mplus-fonts.sourceforge.jp/mplus-outline-fonts/download/index.html
34. 34 http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/fonts/1-junction
35. 35 http://s3.amazonaws.com/theleague/fonts/junction.zip?1234204632
36. 36 http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium
37. 37 http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/fonts/1-junction
38. 38 http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/fonts/1-junction
39. 39 http://www.dotcolon.net/font/font.php?id=1
40. 40 http://www.dotcolon.net/font/font.php?id=1
41. 41 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/11/15-fresh-high-quality-free-fonts/
42. 42 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/24/15-beautiful-high-quality-free-fonts/
43. 43 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/08/40-excellent-freefonts-for-professional-design/
44. 44 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/fonts/
45. 45 http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/design/design/45-exceptionally-useful-free-handwritten-fonts.html
46. 46 http://www.fontex.org/
47. 47 http://www.fontsquirrel.com/

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