Graphic designer Dan Noe’s website is pretty slick. But the best part is his free fonts section which features several weights of the Noe Tall & Stout, an excellent techno font for your rave flyers or trance mix CDs.
On another note, please keep sending me your free font links. Don’t hog all the super obscure sites for yourself; share the wealth!
FontShop is offering GreenbriarSE, a font which distills blackletter “to its essence, in crisply defined forms.” It’s only online for a month, so grab it while you can!
On Friday I was preparing a story about Justin Callaghan’s Florida Project font when I received an email from none other than Justin Callaghan! He was just pointing out a stupid HTML mistake that I’d made, but the coincidence was pretty startling. Anyway, Florida Project is the fun sans serif used all over Disney World. It’s strange how I instantly recognized it even though I haven’t been to Disney World in 15 years (and I certainly wasn’t a font expert at the time).
There are several other Disney fonts available at MickeyAvenue.com, including Waltograph, which undoubtedly gets ten times as many downloads as Florida Project.
Phil’s Fonts has District Thin available for free download. GarageFonts sells the District family for $159, so this is a pretty sweet opportunity to get possibly the most useful typeface from that family for nothing!
I discovered this font at Gerrit van Aaken’s praegnanz.de, an excellent repository of essays on about a dozen high-quality free fonts. Oh, in German. For a slightly less indecipherable surfing experience, try translating it with Google.
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What’s that you say? You want to download a ton of the best tiny pixel fonts on the web? Well, screw you guys.
Oh, come on, like I would play you guys like that! Let’s get rolling. Before you download anything, you might want to read this helpful guide to pixel font use. It covers all the basics that most of you probably already know, but it can’t hurt to look it over. Now, on to the fonts:
Blogger Jason Kottke (whose site is a good example of effective pixel font usage) offers up Silkscreen. It’s as good of a place as any to start.
For a little more variety, check out some of the fonts at BitmapMania. I especially like the lowercase forms of BM Mini and BM Harry. Haha… BM.
The free offerings from pixietype are unique. Atkins and Quadrit are very well done. But they do make you fill out a (very brief) form to get download access.
Also, don’t forget that you can make your own pixel font with BitFontMaker, the web app we posted about on Monday. We have roughly a trillion more pixel sites to cover in the next few days, but don’t hesitate to let us know about your favorites.
Those of you who are kicking yourselves for missing out on Absara Light will want to make sure you don’t ge caught sleeping on FontShop’s latest free font, FF Nexus Sans Bold.
In a move that’s sure to spark international controversy, the Danish Ministry of Education has decided to pull their free font Union from the web, replacing it with a page of made up words. Now, I’m not the kind of guy who likes to throw the word “sanctions” around, but… I’m just saying.
Danes: if it’s bandwidth you’re worried about, maybe you could let someone else mirror the fonts? And seriously, try some diplomacy. The last thing we need is sparks flying around the Scandinavian powder keg!
Alert reader Morten Wulff points us towards another free Danish font (after yesterday’s Union): Kontrapunkt Light won the Danish Design Prize in 2004 and is available for free from, well, Kontrapunkt. I’m not sure why the Danes are just handing out all these great fonts. Maybe someone should teach them about good old-fashioned American capitalism! Oh, wait. Don’t do that.