The Best Free Fonts of 2009
As this year comes to a close, we can look back and see that 2009 was a big year for typography. We saw more web designs with a focus on type, and there were some pretty amazing fonts released. Here are some of the best free fonts from this past year. A few of the fonts below were released at the end of 2008, but since they didn’t see much action until this year, I included them in the list.
Chunk
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.
Calluna
Calluna supports a very wide range in languages and is a very complete OpenType typeface. Each font counts 723 glyphs.
Vegur
League Gothic
League Gothic is a revival of an old classic, and one of our favorite typefaces, Alternate Gothic No.1. It was originally designed by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders Company (ATF) in 1903. The company went bankrupt in 1993. And since the original typeface was created before 1923, the typeface is in the public domain.
Sansation
Quicksand
Mentone
Mentone is a new general purpose typeface, an attempt at extending the line of the great sans-serifs of the previous century, Frutiger – Stone Sans – Myriad. The font has round corners and subtle chamfers, which are all but invisible at text sizes, but add an upbeat, irreverent expression at display sizes. The typeface is named after the beautiful bayside suburb of Melbourne, Australia, where the designer lives.
Serif Beta
Goudy Bookletter 1911
Based on Frederic Goudy’s Kennerley Oldstyle.
Titilium
Junction
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.
Sovba
Sovba is an amiable rounded sans-serif inspired by handwriting. Sovba is useful for a look that is uniquely casual, fresh and smooth. Sovba simplifies character forms down to their basic characteristics, and has a strong, silky smooth forward motion.
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38 comments
Michael Chanter
November 6, 2009Great post – some really nice fonts in this collection. Particularly like Vegur. Will be using it in a new project shortly.
Nokadota
November 6, 2009I have a few new favorites now, thanks for this list. League Gothic looks fantastic.
underpk
November 6, 2009thanks for the list
Cookie Labs
November 6, 2009League Gothic looks quite nice, I have not seen that font before.
Liam
November 6, 2009With future round up posts of downloadable resources, putting them all together into one zip file for easy downloading would be a fantastic feature.
designfollow
November 6, 2009thanks for the great fonts.
Content in a Cottage
November 6, 2009Thank you so much. I live for fonts! ♥Rosemary
seethemes
November 6, 2009thank’s for information about font..i like this..
yeah
November 6, 2009Sovba is not free I think, great list anyway.
The Pro Designer
November 6, 2009Great post, really like the chunk font, I have never seen it before… I guess now I will be able to test it out…
otomo
November 6, 2009this year has still 2 months. isnt it a bit early to start the best-of-2009 lists?
Anyway, nice collection.
Tomas
November 7, 2009Great list, I like Chunk font the most, I think it’s great font for big headers, thanks.
sebastian
November 7, 2009nice list – an always useful topic! keep’em coming
sonnydesign
November 7, 2009wow this is what im looking for. I like Chunk font the most.
Glenn Van Bogaert
November 8, 2009Nice collection. Bookmarked this page. You never know if it comes in handy
Web Development Kolkata
November 9, 2009This is a real help. Thanks for the post.
eb
November 9, 2009Sovba isn’t free.
eb
November 9, 2009Oops, never mind. Missed the free regular style. :0
Great fonts.
Lee
November 9, 2009Excellent list of fonts, I’ve been looking for some of these styles for a little while now.
Degas
November 9, 2009Great post – some really nice fonts in this collection.
Stripper
November 10, 2009Thank you for this Excellent post and fonts. Many fonts are free this is very goog.
Webpru
November 12, 2009amazing collections!
Xcellence IT
November 13, 2009awesome collection of fonts…
thank you for sharing it with us…
monica
November 15, 2009excellent! and they’re free! awesome!
Robert Nicklin
November 17, 2009Thanks for this, I was unaware of nearly half of them. I’ll be sure to download at once!
Beto
November 18, 2009Love you much!!
Thank you!
Mónica
November 18, 2009This will definitely help with my new portfolio! THANK YOU SO MUCH.
DanZac
November 19, 2009Are all these free fonts legal to use on commercially sold products?!
Lyons Solutions Web Design
November 29, 2009I am all ready to download them now
Thanks for the list.
Chris Horton
December 4, 2009Cheers for the list – particulary like Sovba
Darragh
December 4, 2009Awesome stuff, thanks for sharing guys!
Carmen
December 4, 2009Great list of font! I love it!
designi1
December 13, 2009you can find some more on my website… i bet puritan font or resavska should be on the pack of the best 2009 free fonts!
Sophie!
December 14, 2009Did anyone else notice that the ‘the quick fox jumps over the lazy dog’ sentence has EVERY SINGLE BLOODY LETTER IN THE ALPHABET? a actual mazing.
Henning Nielsen
December 14, 2009I miss Museo on the list – other wise I really like the Sansation font. Thanks for this great list.
Abhilash Thekkel
December 26, 2009Great fonts.
olis
January 12, 2010Great article, thx
Also some nice free fonts http://www.fonts2u.com
Designmatic
March 5, 2010Thanks for a great article – there are some lovely free fonts
Kind regards
Designmatic
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