FontShop’s Free Font
At any given moment, FontShop offers exactly one of their many commercial typefaces available for free download. Right now, that font is Xavier Dupré’s award winning Absara Light (as featured in Typographica’s “Favorite Fonts of 2004.”)
Apparently, Absara Light will disappear soon to make way for Nexus Sans Bold. So make haste!
Thanks to Stephen at Typographica for the tip.
Update: Absara Light is gone.
11 Comments
js / February 22, 2005 @ 8:04 am
this site is AMAZING.
dont stop.
ever.
dav / February 22, 2005 @ 8:15 am
Agreed… amazing site
(found on del.icio.us)
Stephen / February 22, 2005 @ 12:57 pm
Forgot to mention that the great dingbat set FF Dingbests is also free on that page. As well as fonts from Device and E+F and the very amusing Olympukes by Jonathan Barnbrook.
Fatal Claws / February 22, 2005 @ 3:40 pm
Yummy! :-)
Jesse / February 22, 2005 @ 10:55 pm
Too late! I missed it. Oh well. .It is awfully nice.
Sean / February 23, 2005 @ 12:03 am
missed it 2, anybody here got a copy
Stephen / February 23, 2005 @ 3:26 pm
Sean - FontShop is able to offer commercial quality fonts for free because they reached agreements with the talented designers of each font to do so. Part of that agreement is that the fonts will be available as a free download for a limited time.
Once folks start asking for the fonts to be distributed beyond this agreement and tossing them willy-nilly it’s going to be tough for us to any fonts on that page in the future.
joey / February 23, 2005 @ 3:38 pm
Not very l337, Stephen.
Stephen / February 23, 2005 @ 4:32 pm
Hah. I am decidedly unl337.
Libby / March 22, 2005 @ 1:27 am
Absara light is still available as a free download here - http://www.fontfont.com/downloads.html
7332 / March 22, 2005 @ 6:28 pm
Libby, you’re muh queen!
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