Reforma beautifully manages to strike the balance between tradition and novelty while staying super-versatile. They are grouped into three subfamilies - from a classic serif to a modern sans-serif and an intermediate hybrid style with flare serifs - and are available in three weights plus an ultra-black companion set for headings. (Image credit: Reforma)Īfter three years of work, 20 font styles were born that work harmoniously in different contexts. Reforma includes 20 font styles that work harmoniously in different contexts.

Commissioned to celebrate the centenary of the university reform of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, the typeface had to convey four premises: plurality, intellectual heritage, versatility, and free availability. Reforma is a versatile font family designed for long-form reading.

Minimal but not stiff, casual but not silly, the typeface beautifully manages to maintain a crisp, clean feeling. (Image credit: Figtree)įigtree comes in seven weights, ranging from Light to Black, and includes typographic finesses such as fractions, monospace numbers, and scientific inferiors. Figtree is a geometric sans-serif font walking the line between simplicity and friendliness. Figtreeįigtree combines friendly curved shapes, a simple monolinear construction, a high x-height, and slight taper into a charming geometric typeface that ensures maximum readability. Designed by Květoslav Bartoš for Florian Karsten Typefaces. Latin Vietnamese, Pinyin, and all Western, Central, and South-Eastern European languages are supported. Space Grotesk includes four weights and open-type features like old-style and tabular figures, superscript and subscript numerals, fractions, and stylistic alternates. Space Grotesk is a four-weight proportional version of the original Space Mono open-source font. It retains the idiosyncratic details of the monospace while optimizing for improved readability of non-display sizes. Space Grotesk is a proportional sans-serif typeface variant based on Colophon Foundry’s fixed-width Space Mono family.

Designed by Anna Giedryś and David Březina. Perfect for longer articles in online news, magazines, or blogs. Both type families include five weights and are intended for continuous reading on the web. Rasa supports a wide array of basic and compound syllables used in Gujarati. Yrsa supports over 92 languages in Latin script and has a special focus on properly shaping the accents in Central and East European languages. Yrsa & Rasa are intended for continuous reading on the web - for Latin and Gujarati scripts. They build upon the existing typefaces Merriweather and Skolar Gujarati to produce two entirely new type families that span different writing systems. The type families Yrsa and Rasa have a different approach than other type projects. Designed by Stephen Nixon, with contributions from Lisa Huang, Katja Schimmel, Rafał Buchner, and Cris R Hernández. Inspiration came from single-stroke casual signpainting to give the font a flexible and warmly energetic look, making it a great fit for data-rich-apps, technical documentation, code editors, and much more. Recursive allows you to choose from a wide range of predefined styles or dial in exactly what you want for each of its axes: Monospace, Casual, Weight, Slant, and Cursive. Recursive takes full advantage of variable font technology to give you maximum flexibility. Taking full advantage of variable font technology, it gives you full flexibility. A huge thank-you to the wonderful type designers and contributors for making their fonts available to all of us! 👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾 Recursiveīuilt to maximize versatility, control, and performance, Recursive is a five-axis variable font that can go from Sans to Mono. As different as the fonts are, they all have one thing in common: You can use them for free in both personal and commercial projects. Some of them shine with their flexibility, some put a special focus on readability, and others are a great choice if you want to make a bold statement. In this post, we compiled some free fonts that we came across and that you probably haven’t spotted before. The variety and quality of free and open-source fonts out there is impressive and enables everyone to use beautiful, well-crafted typefaces. But that doesn’t mean that typography needs to play a secondary role when the budget is tight. Not every project has the budget to spend a lot of money on fonts. Just a few beautiful, well-crafted fonts for headings and body text that you probably haven’t spotted before.

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