Vitaly Friedman

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Vitaly Friedman Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. Vitaly is writer, speaker, author and editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine. He runs responsive Web design workshops, online workshops and loves solving complex UX, front-end and performance problems in large companies. Get in touch.

Free Fonts Of The Month: Moderna, Mido, Liberation

Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to. This month we can present five excellent free fonts. It’s not quite clear if...

Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for them and we find them, so you don’t have to.

This month we can present you a dozen of them. It’s not quite clear if one is legally allowed to use MyriadPro (Bold, Semibold), Helvetica (Bold) and Humanist Gill 521 (Bold), which are also presented below. Please read the license agreement carefully - it can change from time to time.

  • You can find over 50 more free fonts in our section Fonts.

Free Fonts Of The Month: Moderna, Mido, Liberation

  • MG Open Moderna
    Moderna
  • MG Open Cosmetica
    Cosmetica
  • Mido A limited test version. The full version will be released in 2008.
    Mido STF
  • <li><a title="Liberation Serif" href="http://www.dafont.com/liberation-serif.font">Liberation Serif</a>
    

    Public domain / GNU GPL, Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, PC / Mac OS X

    Liberation Serif
  • Liberation Sans Public domain / GNU GPL, Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, PC / Mac OS X
    Liberation Sans

Bonus

  • Jumpstart Package (thanks, Chris Apalodimas)Kutenay

    Available fonts:

    • Kootenay™ regular (a sans serif design)
    • Lindsey™ regular (a handwriting style design)
    • Miramonte™ regular and bold (a sans serif design)
    • Pescadero™ regular and bold (a serif design for text)
    • Pericles™ light and regular (a sans serif inscriptional style design)
    The Microsoft HD DVD Interactivity Jumpstart Package contains software and utilities to simulate, test and debug HD DVD applications. Ascender has licensed a set of OpenType (.TTF) fonts to Microsoft which are included in this package for developers to use and distribute on HD DVD discs.

    The eight fonts were all designed by Ascender’s Type Director, Steve Matteson, for on-screen viewing and to showcase the advanced typographic features of OpenType.

    This download is available to customers running genuine Microsoft Windows.


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