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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November 6, 2009
Great post – some really nice fonts in this collection. Particularly like Vegur. Will be using it in a new project shortly.
November 6, 2009
I have a few new favorites now, thanks for this list. League Gothic looks fantastic.
November 6, 2009
thanks for the list
November 6, 2009
League Gothic looks quite nice, I have not seen that font before.
November 6, 2009
With future round up posts of downloadable resources, putting them all together into one zip file for easy downloading would be a fantastic feature.
November 6, 2009
thanks for the great fonts.
November 6, 2009
Thank you so much. I live for fonts! ♥Rosemary
November 6, 2009
thank’s for information about font..i like this..
November 6, 2009
Sovba is not free I think, great list anyway.
November 6, 2009
Great post, really like the chunk font, I have never seen it before… I guess now I will be able to test it out…
November 6, 2009
this year has still 2 months. isnt it a bit early to start the best-of-2009 lists?
Anyway, nice collection.
November 6, 2009
Great list, I like Chunk font the most, I think it’s great font for big headers, thanks.
November 6, 2009
nice list – an always useful topic! keep’em coming
November 6, 2009
wow this is what im looking for. I like Chunk font the most.
November 6, 2009
Nice collection. Bookmarked this page. You never know if it comes in handy
November 6, 2009
This is a real help. Thanks for the post.
November 6, 2009
Sovba isn’t free.
November 6, 2009
Oops, never mind. Missed the free regular style. :0
Great fonts.
November 6, 2009
Excellent list of fonts, I’ve been looking for some of these styles for a little while now.
November 6, 2009
Great post – some really nice fonts in this collection.
November 6, 2009
Thank you for this Excellent post and fonts. Many fonts are free this is very goog.
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November 6, 2009
amazing collections!
November 6, 2009
awesome collection of fonts…
thank you for sharing it with us…
November 6, 2009
excellent! and they’re free! awesome!
November 6, 2009
Thanks for this, I was unaware of nearly half of them. I’ll be sure to download at once!
November 6, 2009
Love you much!!
Thank you!
November 6, 2009
This will definitely help with my new portfolio! THANK YOU SO MUCH.
November 6, 2009
Are all these free fonts legal to use on commercially sold products?!
November 6, 2009
I am all ready to download them now
Thanks for the list.
November 6, 2009
Cheers for the list – particulary like Sovba
November 6, 2009
Awesome stuff, thanks for sharing guys!
November 6, 2009
Great list of font! I love it!
November 6, 2009
you can find some more on my website… i bet puritan font or resavska should be on the pack of the best 2009 free fonts!
November 6, 2009
Did 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.
November 6, 2009
I miss Museo on the list – other wise I really like the Sansation font. Thanks for this great list.
November 6, 2009
Great fonts.