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10 Great Free Fonts For Designers

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Posted by: FHOKE on 17th February 2009 at 2:55 pm

Every now and again we all need new fonts to wow clients, and they always want a “fresh” high-quality free font to save them money. The choice is enormous, and the time you need to find them run's into the project time line. So we've had a little dig and found a few for those designers out there. We've even used the majority of them on our current projects have a poke around in the portfolio to see how we've used them.

We've picked out 10 free high-quality fonts and collections of fonts. Please read the license agreements carefully — they can change from time to time.

Diavlo

Jos Buivenga’s free font that is a bit square and sharp. Great attention has been given to detail, spacing and kerning. It contains more than 300 glyphs and over 1.300 kerning pairs. Diavlo contains (some) East European characters.

The final release contains 5 weights: Light, Book, SemiBold, Bold and Black. Diavlo contains a bunch of ligatures and contextual alternatives (OpenType feature) to prevent undesired collisions.

Scriptina

Nice little script font for PC and MAC from Apostrophe.

Qlassik

by Dimitri Castrique

Delicious

Special attention was given to character spacing. With it’s relatively large x-height the Delicious can be used for text in smaller point sizes. The Delicious italic is not a slanted roman, but a true italic. Serif, Mac / PC.

Anivers

A robust and rigid font, forgiving, flexible, elegant and also suitable for a broad use: from a stationery to a poster headline.

Sketch Rockwell

A sketchy hand-drawn script font, designed by Lukas Bischoff, available for free download for PC and Mac OS X. Free for personal use only.

Quicksand

Quicksand is a brilliant sans-serif font designed by Andrew Paglinawan and available for free download.

Museo Sans

Jos Buivenga released Museo Sans, a sans-version of his previously released free font Museo. Museo Sans is a sturdy, low contrast, geometric, highly legible sans serif typeface very well suited for any display and text use.

Museo Sans font family comes in 10 fonts: 5 weights (100 300 500 700 900) with each an italic. 2 fonts are absolutely free (500/500 italic). A registration is required to download the files.