Typography plays an important part in web design, this is a fact that every designer believes. In this post present a collection of high quality fonts. The collection is hand picked with the grading of professional, precision and usability but free for use.
Dekar
Dekar free font is applicable for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items like posters, logos.
Download: Dekar Font
Museo
Download: Museo homepage
MUSEO font family has five weights (100 300 500 700 900).
3 weights are absolutely free (300 500 700) and 2 are paid (100 900).
Piron
Highly legible typeface very well suited for any display and text use – web, print especially for magazines, brochures, logos, posters, flyers and motion graphics.
Download: Piron
Code: Free Font
Code free font is applicable for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items like posters, logos.
Description: Code free font is applicable for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items like posters, logos.
Download: Code Free Font
Info: Format: Opentype (.otf) Compatible: PC & Mac Details: 192 Character Set, Manual Kerning, Tracking / Pairs Price: Free
Raleway
Raleway is an elegant sans-serif typeface, designed in a single thin weight. It is a display face that features both old style and lining numerals, standard and discretionary ligatures, a pretty complete set of diacritics, as well as a stylistic alternate inspired by more geometric sans-serif typefaces than it’s neo-grotesque inspired default character set.
Download: The League Of Moveable Type
Junction
Junction is where the best qualities of serif and sans serif typefaces come together. It has the hand drawn and human qualities of a serif, and still retains the clarity and efficiencies of a sans serif typeface. It combines the best of both worlds.
Download: The League Of Moveable Type
Triskweline
Triskweline is a fixed-width font especially suited for text editors and programming environments. It was designed for maximum legibility and tidiness and supports all important symbols and Latin-1 characters.
If you’re like me and sick of staring at Courier all day long you will love Triskweline.
Download: Triskweline homepage
Luxi Sans
A very clean and legible sans-serif font that can be used for headings and body copy.
Download: Luxi Sans download (via fontsquirrel)
Crimson Text
Crimson Text is a font family for book production in the tradition of beautiful oldstyle typefaces.
Crimson Text is inspired by the fantastic work of people like Jan Tschichold, Robert Slimbach and Jonathan Hoefler. We hope that the free type community will one day be able to enjoy Crimson Text as a beautiful workhorse.
Download: aldusleaf.org
Latest Release: All six weights, OpenType format. Updated once in a while; available on SourceForge.
Acid
Acid was designed by Stephan Baum specifically to be used in logotypes and body copy. The form of glyphs is similar to the design classic B42 by Marcel Breuer (Bauhaus) and has a very geometric character. The font contains 103 glyphs, comes in six weights (regular, regular italic, medium, medium italic, bold and bold italic) and is in the process of being developed. Released under Creative Commons.
Download: Acid free font
Quadranta
Quadranta is a display font that would fit logo designs and playful headlines. Available for personal and commercial use. Designed by Darim Kim.
Download: The Tally of the Font Quadranta
League Gothic
League Gothic is a revival of an old classic, and one of our favorite typefaces, Alternate Gothic No.1. It was originally designed by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders Company (ATF) in 1903. The company went bankrupt in 1993. And since the original typeface was created before 1923, the typeface is in the public domain.
Download: The League Of Moveable Type
St Ryde Regular
St Ryde is a sans-serif, very casual typeface, that works perfect in your bodycopy within the regular weights. The whole family comes in 5 weights including the matching italics, so you can choose from thin, light, regular, medium and bold. Regular is available for free download. St Ryde has a wide range of characters, including small caps, lining, proportional and tabular figures plus small caps figures, too. Designed by Sascha Timplan. Available in OpenType format.
Download: myfonts.com (Reg. required)
Prociono
“Prociono” (pro-tsee-O-no) is an Esperanto word meaning either the star Procyon or the animal species known as the raccoon. It is a roman with blackletter elements.
Download: The League Of Moveable Type
Ripe
A Geometric Postmodern slab seriffed face. The serifs feature simplistic rounded terminals and its stroke is uniform.
Ripe was designed to be a practical typeface. Each character is distinct, yet consistent. Its subtle differences are clear enough to be easily read at both high and low resolutions, perfect for print, web and screen media.
Download: ripetype.com.au
St Marie
St Marie Thin is a preview for the upcoming release of a new typefamily, but this time i want to go further with that freefont-thing. There will be one normal Open-Type-Font and an optimzed Webfont, so you can design online and offline with a hiqh quality freefont from Stereotypes.
Download: Behance Network
Kilogram
Very bold typeface for print designs.
Download: Behance Network
Franchise
Franchise is a powerful new display typeface meant to communicate your message quickly and with power. The characters were meticulously drawn to achieve a unifomity without compromising style. Franchise is just as much at home on the front of a donut shoppe as it is on the scoreboard at a football stadium.
Download: derekweathersbee.com
