March 28, 2024

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

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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

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Calluna supports a very wide range in languages and is a very complete OpenType typeface. Each font counts 723 glyphs.

Vegur

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League Gothic

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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

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Quicksand

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Mentone

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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

Serif Beta

Goudy Bookletter 1911

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Based on Frederic Goudy’s Kennerley Oldstyle.

Titilium

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Junction

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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

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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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Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. He is the founder of WDL and ThemeTrust.

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38 Comments

  1. Liam Reply

    With future round up posts of downloadable resources, putting them all together into one zip file for easy downloading would be a fantastic feature.

  2. Sophie! Reply

    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.

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