Sixteen of thirty relatively new and free fonts

On August 12th, Smashing Magazine posted hyperlinks leading to thirty free fonts and a brief overview of them.

But the reader Habrahabr any western selection, starting with the round number, should call the natural distrust not added if it something one only good measure ... intently glancing in the top thirty, it's hard not to notice that confidence is justified and even? Double justified .

Firstly, we write out the names of the fonts in order in a column and number them:

_{1) Piron
2) St Ryde
3) Nobile
4) Mr Jones Book
5) Pigiarniq Inuktitut
6) St Marie
7) Code
8) VAL Stencil
9) akaDora
10) Arcus
11) Crimson Text
12) Acid
13) Real Origami
14) Quadranta
15) Balonez Fantasia
16) Juice
17) Geomancy Typeface
18) Prociono
19) Edelsans
20) Neu Eichmass
21) Ingleby
22) Ibarra
23) Notice 1: Packaging Symbols
24) Notice 2: Navigation symbols
25) Notice 3: Cloth Symbols
26) Glyphyx
27) Free Symbol Signs Collection
28) Rally Character Set
29) Oblik Serif Bold
30) Paranoid
31) 01.BASE}

As you can see, the score is not so even. (It’s good that they were counted in our favor.)

Secondly, of the “thirty” presented fonts, six (“Notice 1: Packaging Symbols”, “Notice 2: Navigation symbols”, “Notice 3: Cloth Symbols”, “Glyphyx” , “Free Symbol Signs Collection”, “Rally Character Set”) are simply collections of monochrome icons, not symbols of any alphabet. Nine more fonts (“01.BASE”, “Paranoid”, “Oblik Serif Bold”, “Neu Eichmass”, “Geomancy Typeface”, “Balonez Fantasia”, “Quadranta”, “Real Origami”, “VAL Stencil”)possess such outstanding decorative features of the style that make them suitable only for the design of headlines, slogans and other large inscriptions - and even then not all.

Accordingly, the remaining half of the fonts should cause real interest, their good half; I’ll highlight their names in bold in the list, and transfer their screenshots to Habrahabr for the convenience of further closely peering and admiring (the first is above the habrakat, and the rest below it, to save traffic to someone ).



Ingleby- a beautiful antique (with tasty outlines of the letter “a,” for example), which was developed by David Engelby. It comes in four styles (regular, italic, bold, bold italics). Free for all uses, but requires mention of the author of the font.

_{The font lies on dafont.com - as I understand it, it is not very useful, because the site does not support multi-threaded downloading of fonts (and, therefore, resume after the break).}

Crimson Text is a garamon-like font for imitating old books. The author (Sebastian Kosch, 20 years old) warns that kerning may still be imperfect. The font is distributed freely ( Open Font License ) in six styles.



akaDora - handwritten italics. (Its author is James Daniel Milligan.) The font contains a ton of European extended Latin characters, as well as the Greek "μ". Unfortunately, it is free for personal use only.



Nobile- chopped font, which is intended for use on digital screens and in handheld devices, without losing its originality there (judging by the preview, everything is so), and not just in print. It can be used non-selectively in small font sizes. It has four styles (normal, italics, bold, bold italics). Distributed under a free SIL Open Font License , available on the  Google Font Directory .

_{Four formats are available for each download style (TTF, EOT, WOFF, and SVG). As usual, EOT and WOFF are small (25-30 kilobytes), and TTF and SVG are twice as heavy.}

Juice is a modern (I would say - "computer" by impression) sans-serif font. It has three degrees of fat content (light, regular and bold), and in each of two styles (regular and italic), 161 characters each. The author (Dhany Arliyanti) distributes it on Font Squirrel.







Edelsans - a noble and elegant font, built on the principles of strict geometricity (the letters "O" and "Q" are based on circles, other curves are also mathematically verified). It is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 . Development is not completely completed. Piron





Fontdeveloped by Alexander Nedelev and Veronika Slavova (typedepot, Sofia, Bulgaria), the main idea of ​​the font is an arched notch in each letter, as well as uniformity and distinguishability both in print and on the Web. The font has only two styles (main and oblique). It is free for any use, including commercial. Distributed in OpenType format.

_{Personally, it is the notches that scare me in this font: because of them, the “()” is too reminiscent of zero, equipped with two notches.}

The Acid font is the result of the work of designer Stefan Baum. It is distinguished by its geometric shapes and truncated tails of the letters “y” and “g”. The font contains 103 characters in six styles (regular, italic, bold, bold italic, bold, bold italic); its development is not completely completed. Distributed under license CC-BY-NC 3.0 , that is, for non-commercial use and attribution.



Pigigarniq inuktitut- A multilingual font, not so new. It is brought to life by the existence of the Nunavut region in Canada - both sparsely populated (0.01 people per km²) and a multinational region that speaks French, English, and two native Inuit dialects. The government had to create for the population of this region (28,000 people) a special chopped font in several styles (bold, bold, italic, light, regular) and distribute it for free.



Ibarra is a free font that mimics the classic font of a Spanish typographer named Joaquín Ibarra (1780), available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The letter styles are simple and even very simple.

_{As far as I could understand the comments on the  blog post in Spanish , there is some confusion between the Ibarra and Ibarra Real fonts, and here it is the Ibarra font, contrary to the understanding of Smashing Magazine. So the attached screenshot (in “Smashing Magazine”) (probably from “Ibarra Real”) is indirectly related to the font styles of the font “Ibarra” (I checked it from the font styles of fives, for example).}

Prociono is a font named by its creator (Barry Schwartz) in honor of an Esperanto word meaning raccoon or Procyon star. It has a single (direct) style with a significant difference in the thickness of thin and thick elements. It is distributed in the archive (containing OTF and TTF), there are also source codes - all this was transferred by the author to the public domain.



Fonts St Marie Thin and St Marie Thin Web  - freely (according to CC-BY 3.0 ) distributable styles of the future (more extensive) font family. Available in OTF, WOFF, EOT, and SVG formats for @ font-face.





St ryde- A beautiful font family of five degrees of fat content (thin, light, normal, medium and bold) and two styles (regular and italic). The author (Sascha Timplan) distributes the main outline for free, and for the other nine he wants 29 bucks.



With the fonts Mr Jones Book and Mr Jones Book Italic , in general, the same story: their author (Richard Miller, Miller Type Foundry, 2009) gives out two faces for free, and for the rest of the faces of the same family he collects $ 26 without a cent . The family turned out quite extensive.



And with Arcus and Arcus Italic fontsthe same story: their author (Samuel Čarnoký, Carnoky Type, 2008-2010) gives out two faces for free, and collects $ 29 for the rest of the faces of the same family. There are a total of 12. The family is based on the geometric principle of the arch (circular arc), hence its name.



Code - chopped font underlined geometric shapes. It is light and bold, contains 192 characters, produced by Fontfabric Type Foundry.