15+ Free and Fresh High-Quality Fonts (No.2 – 2012)
29/02/2012 | 2 Comments
These relatively new fonts that have been published in the past 6 – 8 weeks, and are designed to be well suited for web as well for print, in particular for the use in headlines, logo and flyer designs.
Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve three necessary objectives of designing are look, appearance and outcome which helps you to stand out from the crowds. To communicate effectively, typography requires appropriate, readable and high-quality typefaces.
The main priority in selecting these fonts for this collection was the readability, diversity in weights and styles, number of characters or a specific reason to use this font for e.g. headlines or in Poster designs. So let’s cut the crap and show you some fresh font goodness ..
Neuton Font Family (6 styles)
Neuton is a clean, dark, somewhat Dutch-inspired serif font which reminds you a little of Times. It has a large height, short extenders, and a compact width for better screen use, and economy of space. A wonderful typeface, coming in a variety of weights and styles, even with an additional cursive font, taking its italic relative to the next step.
Designed by Brian Skywalker
Signika (4 styles)
Signika is a sans-serif with a gentle character, developed for wayfinding, signage, and other media where clarity of information is required. It has a low contrast and tall x-height to improve readability of texts in small sizes as well as in large distances from the reader. Being a typical signage typeface it is inspired by typefaces such as Ronnia, Meta, and Tahoma.
Designed by Anna Giedryś
Offering Font (5 styles)
A beautiful thin Slab Serif typeface called Offering and designed by Bob Ewing. Font includes 5 version of the font: Regular, Regular Rounded, Bold, Bold Inline and Bold Inline Alternate. There is also punctuation in these sets, hopefully in the future numerals will be added.
Designed by Bob Ewing (no, not from Dallas ;-P)
Silverfake Font (1 style)
Personal typography work 2012, by Alexey Frolov. A beautiful wide Slab Serif, which reminds me a lot of Hellenic-wide.
Designed by Alexey Frolov
Metropolis 1920
Metropolis comes from the the industrial movement of the 1920′s where skyscrapers where born. Greatly inspired by the double line work of Twin by Mark El-Khatib, I wanted to create my own Art Deco style font using this technique. The result is a bold, bumptious typeface with a stolidly calm disposition.
Designed by: Josip Kelava
Alegreya (12 styles)
Alegreya is a typeface originally intended for literature. Among its crowning characteristics, it conveys a dynamic and varied rhythm which facilitates the reading of long texts. The italic has just as much care and attention to detail in the design as the roman. The bold weights are strong, and the Black weights are really experimental for the genre. This is the Small Caps sister family that complements the master Alegreya family.
Not only does Alegreya provide great performance, but also achieves a strong and harmonious text by means of elements designed in an atmosphere of diversity.
Designed by Juan Pablo del Peral
Noticia text (4 styles)
Noticia text, a font family for digital newspapers and other publications. Noticia text was created specifically for use in displays. This lovely slab serif comes in 4 styles what even makes it a great typeface to use for web or even as a corporate font.
Designed by JM Solé
Intro free font (2 styles)
What distinguishes the new Intro free font from FontFabric is the strongly expressed geometric makeup and structure. The basic letters of the Alphabet like “A”, “O” and “H” are built or based on principles of simple geometric forms – triangles, circles and squares. In contrast to the Futura font which possesses similar styling, the Intro font preserves the characteristic sharpened edges of the “А”, “V” and “W” letters even in it’s boldened form.
Designed by Miroslav Bekyarov
Diplomata – Free Google Web Font (1 style)
Its style, similar to Bodoni, has a remarkable degree of horizontal expansion; a weight which indicates verticality; areas between serif and stem softened by a curve connecting them, and the light in the main stroke of each glyph is a detail that lightens up and gives prominence to Diplomata. It is a distinct typeface, ideal for composing headlines and small prestigious pieces of text.
To improve and expand the use of Diplomata, it was necessary to create small caps and a lower case, which ended up constituting this family that has two variables today.
Designed by Eduardo Tunni
Open Sans Condensed (3 Styles)
Open Sans is a humanist sans serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson, Type Director of Ascender Corp. This version contains the complete 897 character set, which includes the standard ISO Latin 1, Latin CE, Greek and Cyrillic character sets. Open Sans was designed with an upright stress, open forms and a neutral, yet friendly appearance. It was optimized for print, web, and mobile interfaces, and has excellent legibility characteristics in its letterforms.
Designed by Ascender Fonts
That’s Font Folks! (1 style)
This font has designed by Jayvee D. Enaguas and it has inspired in mid-30s to present font of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies ending screen.
Designed by Jayvee D. Enaguas
Hagin Free Font (2 styles)
Hagin is a new serif free font from Fontfabric constructed with strong geometric forms in ”old school” style. Applicable for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items like posters, logos.
Designed by Miroslav Bekyarov
Crete Round (2 styles)
Crete Round is a warm slab serif providing a hint of softness to texts. Crete Round is more independent from the original with modified terminals and serifs to create two new fonts that deliver a more contemporary and functional appearance. The tall x-height, low contrast and sturdy slabs prove to be surprisingly efficient for web use.
by TypeTogether
Bispo Script Typeface (1 style)
Bispo is a script typeface made inspiring on italic chancery calligraphy, with a flat nib pen and a module of 10 pen widths. I decided to make this typeface after months studying calligraphy, to allow everyone be able to create pieces with a charm of calligraphy, taking advantage of the Opentype features.
Designed by Jackson Alves
Volkhov (4 styles)
Volkhov is a low-contrast seriffed typeface with a robust character, intended for providing a motivating reading experience.
As a four-weight family it is well-suited for complex text environments being economic and legible, contemporary and prominent. Many of its design solutions relate to this purpose: large open counters, rather short descenders, and brutal asymmetric serifs.
Designed by Ivan Petrov
Exo Font Family (9 styles)
Exo its geometric sans serif font family. Its design started almost two years ago as way to discover typography in a more advanced way.
Exo is a very complete font family, it has 9 weights both in regular and true italic versions. Each font comes with a lot of opentype features such as small caps, ligatures, alternates, oldstyle figures, tabular figures, fractions, and more.
Designed by Natanael Gama
Almelo Free Font (1 style)
This is a one weight condensed rounded FREE font with a touch of retro. It’s suited as headline or support a vintage script logo and goes well with other fonts. The capitals are the standard glyphs, when a glyph has an alternative you can find it using lowercase.
Designed by Floris Voorveld
Asap Free font (4 styles)
Asap is a contemporary sans-serif family with subtle rounded corners. Designed by Pablo Cosgaya, Asap comes in 4 styles: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. This family, specially developed for screen and desktop use, offers a standarised character width on all styles, which means lines of text remain the same length.
Designed by Pablo Cosgaya
Your font collection is cool. I like BISPO font design very much! thanks for sharing new fonts.