52 Really High Quality Free Fonts For Modern And Cool Design

31 Jul 2009

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I am big fan of typography myself and was surprised I haven’t done any good font collection yet! While doing research I was amazed how many really high quality fonts are available for free. And now with Sifr and similar tools you can use any font in your web-design actually, but if you are graphic designer you get even bigger enjoyment through such detailed and beautiful fonts. Balance between readability, elegance and use fonts with artistic approach to get best out of them, really that’s all you need to do. And by the way I am thinking about inspiring and effective typography article in soon future to show you very best examples – stay with us – get inspired and save your time because research has been done already for you!

Finally be sure to check license to these fonts, they may be free but some of them require reference or may not be used for commercial projects for free, although most of them are.

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1. Sansation Typeface

2. Fertigo Pro Typeface

Beautiful font and it’s still unbelievable it is free! Now Fertigo Pro version is released with extended language support and more.

3. Megalopolis Extra Typeface

Revamped version of the 2004 one. Now in OT with extended language support and OpenType features with alternates, ligatures, different styles of figures, etc.

4. Walkway Typeface

5. Nadia Serif Typeface

6. Modeno Font

7. M+ OUTLINE Typeface

Really beautiful font with many variations – thin, light, regular, medium, black, heavy – be sure to check this free premium font.

8. Fontin Sans Typeface

9. Diavlo Typeface

Diavlo is a free font that contains 5 weights: Light, Book, SemiBold Medium, Bold and Black. Read and look more to this one in this *.pdf document.

10. Museo Typeface

This OpenType font family comes in five weights and offers supports CE languages and even Esperanto. Besides ligatures, contextual alternatives, stylistic alternates, fractions and proportional/tabular figures MUSEO also has a ‘case’ feature for case sensitive forms.

11. Gentium Typeface

12. Delicious Typeface

This font has been my favorite for some time, beautiful detail, every character has unique shape too.

13. Junction Typeface

Created by Caroline Hadilaksono

Inspired by my favorite humanist sans serif typefaces, such as Meta, Myriad, and Scala, 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.

14. CartoGothic Std Typeface

15. Anivers Typeface

This OpenType font family comes in regular, italic, bold and small caps and has some nice OpenType features. Besides ligatures, contextual alternatives, fractions, oldstyle/tabular numerals, Anivers also has a ‘case’ feature for case sensitive forms and tabular numerals … so Anivers can crunch numbers with ease.

16. Medio Typeface

17. Birra Stout Typeface

18. Rezland Typeface

19. OFTEN Typeface

20. Engel Light Typeface

21. Contra Typeface

22. Nilland Typeface

Created by Manfred Klein

23. Calluna Typeface

Calluna supports a very wide range in languages and is a very complete OpenType typeface. Each font counts 723 glyphs. You can find detailed info on he character set and the OpenType features in the Calluna PDF specimen.

24. QuickSand Typeface

This is a free and elegant sans serif typeface.

25. Mentone Typeface

26. Vegur Typeface

27. Swansea Typeface

28. GeoSans Light Typeface

Created by Manfred Klein

I enjoy this font because of it’s thin and elegant font lines displaying text in really fashion way.

29. COM4t Nuvu Regular Typeface

30. Steiner Typeface

31. Chunk Typeface

Created by Meredith Mandel

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.

32. Aller Sans Typeface

Check out *.pdf document for full examination.

33. Juvelo Typeface

Self explaining image below, but I enjoy this font because of its unique glance and serifs.

34. Goudy Bookletter 1911 Typeface

35. Temporarium Typeface

36. Bellerose Typeface

37. Ambrosia Demo Typeface

Here’s a demo version of font called Ambrosia. It has all letters, numbers and a few symbols.

38. Surrounding Typeface

39. Circled Typeface

Very sharp and elegant letters, new font but it got my sympathies right away!

40. Nevis Typeface

This strong, angular typeface is ideal for headings. It features 96 of the most commonly used glyphs (characters).

41. Zephyr Typeface

42. Advent Pro Typeface

Excellent and very popular unique font with many, many different variations to play with.

43. SerifBeta Typeface

This is called as beta version, but still seems very complete for me – included in the set are Regular,Italic,Bold,Bold Italic for optical sizes 72, 12 and 6. Size 72 also includes italic swash characters and Black weights. (demo pdf)

44. Evolution True Type Font

Note that you have to give credit if you use this font and you must contact author before using in commercial projects!

45. Sliced AB Typeface

46. Technical Forest v2 Typeface

Only for non-commercial use.

47. Alte Haas Grotesk Typeface

48. Comfortaa Typeface

Comfortaa is a simple, good looking, true type font with an amazingly large number of 466 different characters and symbols. You can see them all in the preview.

It is absolutely free, both for personal and commercial use.

49. MOD™ font

MOD is applicable for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items like logos, pictograms, 215 character set.

50. Whiteboard Modern Typeface

Created by Jay Hilgert

Whiteboard Modern is a hand-drawn face resembling the flowing motion and freedom of writing in an open space, such as a dry-erase board.

51. Neighbourhood Type

52. Soraya Font by JustMyType

On JustMyType site you can find several more very unique and interesting letters.

Half serif, half sans serif. Capital letters A-Z, available only in Illustrator AI format.

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