The Typodarium folks sent me a free copy of their 2010 calendar (incredibly nice of them! I would’ve bought one), complete with Banyan as the face of May 8. Woot!
Category “Other People’s Fonts”
Epistolar Font
I liked Epistolar so much that I contributed some new glyphs and tweaks. Masklin8 was kind enough to use these tweaks and re-release the font over on Deviant Art. Go check it out and download it (for free)!
Deviant Art Free Font Roundup
I just went on my semi-annual voyage through the free fonts on Deviant Art, and came up with a few you might be interested in:
10 Great Free Fonts You Might Have Missed
Johno over at ILoveTypography.com got me thinking about my favorite fonts. I have a list of go-to fonts, but it’s not terribly interesting. On that list, however are a couple of free fonts that I love, so I decided to come up with 10 interesting free fonts that I don’t see people use that much.
Comes in a great variety of weights: light, regular, medium, bold, extra bold, and black. The version I’ve been using needs kerning (I took it on myself to kern the font for my own use, I like it so much), but it’s an otherwise excellent family.
Zalamander is a full-featured font family, and the folks at Just Another Foundry are giving away the all-caps version. Beautifully balanced, bold, and striking.
A beautiful set of revival fonts, complete with ligatures, swash characters, and ornaments. As the author says, these fonts are “nearly free,” with a clause in the license that you have to attribute their use in your publications.
A great, stylized slab serif. You can get a free version of this font over at MyFonts.com. The Pro version is $7.
You may know DeviantArt.com as a haven for anime and off-beat photography, but there are also a slew of free fonts there, and some of them are really great. (The remainder of the fonts on my list are all from DA.) Take Clementine Sketch, for instance. A lovely hand-drawn font that connects its glyphs ingeniously.
A great, futuristic sans-serif that makes for beautiful headlines.
Quirky, hand-crafted, and impactful.
Drinking About You
Tall, skinny, high-contrast, and slick.
A lovely sans-serif that’s in beta right now. Eventually, this will be a commercial font, so grab the beta version and play around with it while you can.
Another nice, quirky display face. Great contrast; excellent geometry.
Apollo Is Good
I’m re-reading Chip Kidd’s The Cheese Monkeys, in anticipation of reading his new novel The Learners (sequel to Cheese Monkeys), and I notice that he set the book in Apollo, which I had seen before and filed away in my mind as nice but nothing special. Well, I was wrong. It’s a lovely font, and looks really great as a body text. It’s also quite reasonably priced.