If you are tired of your regular fonts or simply want to see what is new in the design world, this is an article that you will find very satisfying cause it features 60 of the best new free fonts, 60 fonts from which I’m sure you’ll use a few for your projects. Use them wisely and check the license before you download and use them.
I have always been envious of graphic designer for their ability of using every font they want in their projects, playing with typography and creating beautiful design while I had to limit myself to a few web-safe font families. Although with the appearance of Cufón and @font-face the difference between print typography and web typography didn’t change much, this is still a big step towards the future when, I hope, we can replace all the fonts on a site without overloading the server that’s hosting it or the computer you are using.
There were previous tools with which you could use various fonts on web, tools like sIFR or FLIR but they were pretty difficult to implement, comparing to Cufón or @font-face, and they were loading pretty slow. It’s hard to tell at the moment if another tool like these presented in the article will be invented in the near future and overcome them, but for the moment we can use Cufón and @font-face to make better web typography and I find that a blessing.
Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. Cufón consists of two individual parts – a font generator, which converts fonts to a proprietary format and a rendering engine written in JavaScript.
In reality the generator is little more than a web-based interface to FontForge. First, the generator builds a custom FontForge script based on user input and then runs it, saving the result as an SVG font. The SVG font is then parsed and SVG paths are converted to VML paths. This is a crucial step in achieving stellar performance in Internet Explorer, as it supports VML natively. The resulting document is then converted into JSON with a mix of functional JavaScript.
There are several advantages of using Cufón:
Good and free fonts are ideal if you find them but very few of the ones you find can reach up to your expectations if you have a big and really serious design project. However, premium fonts guarantee to be the thing you want for every kind of design project. Of course, buying them for a non-commercial design would be pointless and it’s out of the question but when we are talking about a contract where there is no room for mistakes, they are a good investment if you want your project to have top notch typography.
I know many of this site’s subscribers want only free resources but an article like this one has to be written from time to time to see the difference between freebies and premium resources.
Staying up-to-date with design resources isn’t easy, especially because they’re scattered throughout the internet. Because of that, I’m making selections of my own of the new and free fonts that are being released so I won’t have to look again and again through a large number of fonts on various sites, just one good list with fresh and useful ones. I’m hoping these fonts will help you on your next design projects.
With more and more designers in the world, cool free fonts are released even quicker than usual which makes us more than happy. Download these free fonts and you’ll have a rich typography toolbox with which you can make a solid impression in your future designs and projects. You’ll see that there are various styles in here, from serious and rigid ones to fancy and creative examples of typography.
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