10 free fonts with a family
Last time I wrote about free fonts, people complained arguing that free fonts can’t be used in professional designs, partly because of the lack of font variations. In this post, I’ve been looking for quality fonts that have more than one weight and found quite a few. Of course, these fonts don’t compare with Helvetica or Univers, but they are of good quality and usable in some professional designs.
1. Aller

7 weights: Light – Light Italic – Regular – Italic – Bold – Bold Italic – Display
2. Anivers

4 weights: regular – italic – bold – small caps
3. Vegur

3 weights: ExtraLight – Regular – Bold
4. AUdimat Mono

9 weights: Light – Light Oblique – SmallCaps Light – Regular – Oblique – SmallCaps – Bold – Bold Oblique – SmallCaps Bold
5. Gentium

8 weights: Basic – Book Basic – Basic Bold – Book Basic Bold – Basic Italic – Book Basic Italic – Basic Bold Italic – Book Basic Bold Italic
6. Serif Beta

14 weights: Serif6 Beta Regular – Serif6 Beta Italic – Serif6 Beta Bold – Serif6 Beta Bold Italic – Serif12 Beta Regular – Serif12 Beta Italic – Serif12 Beta Bold – Serif12 Beta Bold Italic – Serif72 Beta Regular – Serif72 Beta Italic – Serif72 Beta Bold – Serif72 Beta Bold Italic – Serif72 Beta Black – Serif72 Beta Black Italic
7. Yanone Kaffeeesatz

4 weights: Thin – Light – Regular – Bold
8. Fontin Sans

5 weights: regular – italic – bold – bold italic – small caps
9. QuickSand

7 weights: Light – Light Oblique – Book – Book Oblique – Bold – Bold Oblique – Dash
10. Delicious

6 weights: Roman – Bold – Italic – Bold Italic – Heavy – SmallCaps




Awesome!!!
Sweet. I can’t get enough fonts, especially the free ones. Thanks!
Nice suggestions. Another quality site for free fonts is http://www.pilo.me it is a private community by moderator approval only, but once you are in, it has more than a handful of excellent fonts. Primarily focused for the typographer and designer community. Thanks again for the font family recs
thanks the quick sand font was just what i needed. free fonts for life!!!!
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Thanks!
Thanks, I’ve downloaded my choice of fonts. Cheers. mate.
Great free fonts. I have never thought we could find such a wonderful series of free fonts with such varieties.
Quicksand looks really nice for a free font, thanks for the list.
Nice list! Another great one that is sleek and professional w/ a family & is free is http://www.dafont.com/champagne-limousines.font
nice fonts useful, thanks..
Anivers isn’t actually a free family. The Regular Weight is all that’s free. Bold, Italic and Regular SC all cost $10 each (or the whole set can be purchased for $25).
Thank you very much for these high quality free fonts! I’ve made an overview of some other excellent free font sites at a blogpost (in Dutch but the links work fine):
http://www.designia.nl/weblog/typografie-goede-kwaliteit-free-fonts-zijn-lastig-te-vinden/
So perhaps this is useful to you too,
They’re called typefaces! The categorization goes:
Font family > Typeface > Font
These are not technically font families. That would require more than one typeface in the same family.
Great post, I use Delicious on a regular basis and just downloaded Serif Beta.
Thanks!
i’ve been in love with delicious heavy for a while now. great logo font with friendly but serious connotations.
It’s always good to have free fonts and the Anivers one was just perfect for a project I’m working on.
Aweseome collection, was searching for Vegur a few days ago…Thanks man.
Nice. I’m always looking for great font families I can use.
Sweet. I can’t get enough fonts
Another well crafted family is Titillium, available in 7 weights from here:
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/TitilliumText14L
Good collection, BTW.