Utterly intrigued by these specialised typefaces being developed to help bridge cross-culture typography. Collator, designed by Vince Lo, is a bilingual typeface designed to achive greater harmony between Chinese and Latin type forms.

K Find our more, and download Collator on CreativeRoots

Archive, a free font download by Slava Kirilenko, has some real interesting letter forms for you to play with. Download link found on FontFabric.

K Found on FontFabric

Ostrich Sans by Tyler Finck is a versatile new open source font from The League of Movable Type.

Dubbed as the variety pack the family contains:

• Dashed (thin),
• Rounded (Medium),
• Ultra Light,
• Normal,
• Bold (race track style double lines)
• Black.

Free download via The League of Movable Type

From the talented hands that brought you The Lobster Font; Pablo Impallari brings us some free fonts to download. This post lists four of them.

Terminal Dosis Light is a really really light, almost hairline, sans-serif rounded font. In fact, it’s so light she only wants to be used at 36pt or up. Designed by Edgar Tolentino, refined by Pablo Impallari, spaced and kerned by Igino Marini iKern.

Terminal Dosis Light has just been made free–I purchased this a while back, but nice to see the generosity now shown by Pablo–so I would head over to his website for a quick download in case they change their minds.

Other Free Fonts By Impallari

As well as Terminal Dosis Light, they have released a few other free fonts that are definitely worth looking at.

Cabin Font

Dancing Script

Quattro Cento

The Lobster Font

Found on Quipsologies, Lost Type Co-op is a typeface collaboration between Riley Cran and Tyler Galpin.

They have created an all-caps, condensed font called Muncie in an impressive 24 hours,  and even more impressive is that it’s available as a free download.

From what I can tell, other fonts will be released on a ‘pay what you want’ basis. Visit the site to download your version of Muncie.

Seems Maniakers Design has been quite busy since releasing the original FREE 232 MKSD Font. It has now been updated with a huge range of extra glyphs.

Important to note that this covers both Round Light, Round Medium and Round Bold and that the family is still a free download.

Font Licence - There are some limitations for it’s use, so please read the Font License provided.

Download 232 MKSD Round direct from http://mksd.jp

Download More Free Fonts via IJC

Over the last few months I have been amassing a neat collection of quality free and open source fonts for download. Some are even exclusive to ImJustCreative. Head on over to Free Fonts for a looksie.

Once in while a project of such beauty and generosity shows up. Like the stunning Lobster font, Derek Weathersbee has lavished the utmost attention to the presentation of his typeface, Franchise Bold.

The fact that it is a free download just mystifies me and hugely inspires me.

Franchise Bold is the first weight available but Derek is working on three other weights, Regular, Light and Hairline. So when complete, this will prove to be a formidable type family just right for some of those retro designs you have planned.

And to put some commercial font foundries to shame, Derek has an impressive ‘Test Drive’ for Franchise.

Of course donations are accepted and who wouldn’t?

And should you feel in the mood, some lovely looking shirts can be purchased. As Derek says ‘Heck, the Typeface was free. Go!’

Font Licensing

Derek even has made the font licensing for this as open and free as it can possibly be. It is FREE to use for both personal and commercial. You can embed the font and/or link to it via @font-face. Just don’t alter/modify it and pass it off as your own.

View official Font Licence for Franchise Bold.

Download Franchise Bold via Dereks website.

From the mouth of Atelier Carvalho Bernau

We were always in love with the title sequence lettering to Godard’s movies “Made in U.S.A.” and “2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle”. On the ocasion of Godard’s 80th birthday (3 December 2010), we are releasing this typeface as a free download.

It is our hommage to Jean-Luc, to the Nouvelle Vague, to Seberg, Karina, Faithfull & Cie., and a birthday gift for all “enfants de Marx et de Coca-Cola.”

Font Description

Jean-Luc is free downloadable font. It is an uppercase-only display grotesque in two styles: One with normal bold accents and punctuation, and one with hairline accents and punctuation, as seen in the title cards for “2 ou 3 choses”.

Atelier’s Website : http://carvalho-bernau.com

Jean-Luc Microsite (download here) : http://carvalho-bernau.com

Found via Rajesh from R27 Creative Lab : Website & Posterous

Fontfabric are always pumping quality fonts and some of these are free. The latest free font is HERO and is a beautifully smooth, clean and rounded font.

Hero is a great choice when  you need to create a friendly, sincere yet stylish feel to your designs.

Available in 2 weights, Hero Light and Hero Bold.

Download Hero via Fontfabric.

League Script #1

Designed by Haley Fiege

DaltonMaag is one of my favourite font foundries, I have purchased a number of their fonts including Effra, Co Headline and Co Text. Appears I missed the initial Aller font press release about the Aller Standard font, available as a free download.

There are 4 weights available, Aller Light, Aller, Aller Bold and Aller Display. The first 3 come with italics, whilst Display is on its own. Not bad at all for a free font, who am I kidding, this is an awesome move by DaltonMaag.

Download Aller Standard direct from DaltonMaag.

Yet another free font from FontFabric, called Code. Comes in two weights, Light & Bold. Ideal for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items like posters, logos.

Download Code Font direct from FontFabric

QUB Font by Adi Dizdarevic – Free Download

So many modular and block fonts out there at the moment, but when I saw QUB, I was particularly struck by how cool it is. Even cooler that it’s a free download. Found via Typography Served.

The designer behind this font is Adi Dizdarevic and  you can follow Adi on Twitter.

Visit Adi’s site to download the font.

Download more free fonts, some exclusive to ImJustCreative.

A terrific Open Type project that was created by hand and utilises over 72 ligatures. The Lobster Font is a Bold Condensed Script full of all the necessary extra’s to make it a fully versatile font. Not to forget that you can download this font for free direct from The Lobster Font.

It is suggested of course that you donate to this ongoing project if you use The Lobster Font, fair given how much work has gone into this awesome font.

You can also follow the genius behind it, Pablo Impallari on Twitter.

Dan Font is another free font from FontFabric. DAN is perfect for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items like posters, logos.

Download Dan Font exclusively from FontFabric.