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The Lost Type Co-op has a pay-what-you-want model for all the typefaces, if you want the font free then type 0 in the download box. The font designers get 100% of any pay donations.
The fonts are largely retro and vintage display faces, and mostly all caps, although there are a few exceptions such as the excellent serif Pigeon.
LISA Typeface is a new free font by Dvir. It is an allcaps geometric sans-serif that can best be described as a light American college football display face.
Floofonts have some interesting free fonts to download. I particularly like Polaris, which can best be described as a chamfered slab serif with the large blocky serifs you tend to get with slab serifs but with the angled serif you tend to get on an oldstyle serif. The other fonts are various display faces which can come in handy.
Bigfish - circus style woodcut slab serif based on Clarendon
Hydrophilia - quirky geometric sans-serif
Squid - blocky sci-fi
Moby - rounded sci-fi
Hammerhead - faux black letter old style
Ordchidee - faux Asian calligraphic style
Great looking crisp packages for John and John. The designs successfully coordinate multiple fonts in a quirky layout over the top of simple heraldic style backgrounds.
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The Regular (55) and Italic (56) weights of Contax Sans are free to download from MyFonts. Contax Sans is similar to Optima or Verdana with high contrast vertical and horizontal strokes similar to a tradional serif face.
CoreHumanistSans is a great looking monolinear hunamist sans-serif. With it’s rounded terminals the font is very clean and friendly.
Sonus Font and @Font-Face Webfont by Hoftype | Fontspring.
You can download the light weight of the monoline sans-serif Sonus free from Fontspring.
Monoline fonts have characters made from strokes all the same thickness, which is less common than you would think as most fonts are varied for optics.
To take advantage of the monoline light font, I would recommend setting the font as a large display type.
Created as part of the London Design Festival, Birdy is a fun blackletter display font free to download.
Free font: Birdy! – Special Content – Type Together : High quality fonts and custom type design.
