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17 Awesome Free Fonts for Your Work

The printed word has been in existence for hundreds of years and the written word has been in existence for thousands. One area of design that has trailed more than any other in the transition to the web has been typography – in ezinearticles.

The type is the main concern of all designs i made, and because of that, in this post, i´ll show you a collection of fonts that i used on my work in this year 2009. Its a collection of free and amazing good quality fonts. Just click in the image to link to the download web page outside of designi1.com.

1 – Diavlo contains 5 weights: Light, Book, SemiBold Medium, Bold and Black.

Extended language support*
Improved glyph shapes (such as S, s, W, w, f, t, diactitics, fractions and many more … )
Numeral widths are now old style (via OpenType tabular widths can be accessed)
Extended and improved kerning (now over 3.200 kerning pairs)

2 – Anivers only regular mode is for free.

You can see at i love typograthy really nice review about this font.

3 – Walkway is a Sans Serif Font with 7 different weights and styles. Really nice modern font, elegant and clean.

4 – Fertigo pro

Really nice review made at smashmagazine about this font.

5 – Quicksand with all 7 different weights including a dashed version. The font looks really nice.

6 – Delicious

I really like this typo every character has consistency in spacing the typo at the all is very elegant. The negative thing about this is just because it didn´t support all languages and symbols.

7 – Fountin very nice web font for titling your posters

The numbers of the Fontin have a ‘hybrid’ design. They carry the characteristics of medieval numbers, but their size is larger than the x-height.

8 – Calluna – Only regular type is free to use

Calluna supports a very wide range in languages and is a very complete OpenType typeface. Each font counts 723 glyphs.

9 – Harabara – pretty harmony bold font.

This type seems to have kerning issues between some characters but steels a good and beauty rounded font that can be used for logos and typographic artwork.

10 – Puritan – brilliant for a clean design

11 – Resavska – Sans serif font with a Large character map

12 – Roadway

Roadway is based on U.S. highway lettering observed on New York street signs. Two weights of highway lettering would often be used on the same sign, condensed for the main name (Roadway uppercase) and a half-size regular superscript (Roadway lowercase) for ‘road’ or ’street.

(is roadway not rodway like shows in the image i´ll change it soon as i can)

13 – Oceania – clean beautiful font (No free font anymore)

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14 – Star Avenue

15 – RipeType – Regular, Light, SemiBold, Bold

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.

16 – Lot

Really good font that Ill help you in your creativity design process.

17 – Fh-Lentil-Regular

Conclusion

Talking about free and payable fonts i must say that in most cases you got many troubles about the free fonts. Its always missing some character or symbol and some had really issues problems like the kerning. Some free fonts are really amazing with a professional look you just need to keep trying some of them reading some reviews before you applying it to your work. If you´re going to make some book that needs long texts take careful about free fonts. Some of them aren´t finished or they didn´t make the all characters for all languages.This pack are the better free fonts that i ever ear about and already tried most of them. I´m really happy with them.

The free fonts in my study case are mostly used for leaflets, posters or logos. I tried once to use Delicious font type on a book but realized, after applying the type, that it didn´t support all characters that were needed. So i´ve changed to Quicksand book that available a huge support about languages, symbols and characters. I used a lot also Fontin Type for titles and quotes. Its in my eyes a beauty bold weight font.

I´ll use for next work Lot type. Its an interesting font to start logo design.

Hope you enjoyed this round up about free fonts and if you´ve some works made at this fonts or new fonts not listed here feel free to share it on the comment section.

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bigski (Dec 09, 2009)

cool fonts Carlos!

bluefaqs (Dec 10, 2009)

Nice collection, and in a great layout. Thanks!
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freddesign (Dec 10, 2009)

This is a great list, thanks for sharing. A really nice variation as well. Most free font lists tend to be ones that would not be appropriate for body copy, but here is a real variation for all uses. Puritan and Calluna are my favourites.

I did a post of free fonts at http://www.freddesign.co.uk/2009/11/archive/great-thick-headline-fonts/ mostly headline fonts though. Your list is much better :-)
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Jenna Molby (Dec 10, 2009)

Great list, thanks for sharing!

Luke Sheppard (Dec 11, 2009)

Great fonts, some lovely clean, classy looking ones here.

Thank you for sharing it!
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Kimcool (Dec 11, 2009)

Nice Collection,Thanks to share.
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José Pacheco (Dec 22, 2009)

Thank you all for your feedback. I´m glade you liked this round up about free fonts…

Site Reviver (Jan 12, 2010)

Very nice collection of fonts.
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José Pacheco (Jan 12, 2010)

thanks mate :D im already finishing another cool pack hope i can available them soon :D

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Kef Kid (Feb 24, 2010)

Fantastic collection been looking for a good font for my new logo, thanks for sharing
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José Pacheco (Feb 24, 2010)

Hey, i´m glad this list might be useful for you. I´ve visited your web and i would suggest to try Anivers, for a clean logo i suggest quickfont or puritan :D