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25 best free high-quality fonts

25 Best Free FontsFree fonts are everywhere online, but in most cases you get what you pay for. While many people are happy using hacked together fonts, discerning viewers notice the little things that set a well-made font apart from the wannabes.

Freelance web designer Vitaly Friedman has put together a listing of his choice of the best 25 free fonts available online, and it's very hard to argue with his choices. He plainly states that his bias is towards fonts that are useful in a business setting, rather than those that would be more at home "on a colourful teenager's homepage". Don't miss the update at the top of the post including links to new fonts Fontin (seen here) and Delicious. Beautiful stuff.

It's easy to forget that there is more out there in terms of useful business type faces than Times New Roman and Arial. Thanks to Vitaly, we can all experiment with some more interesting but still classy looking fonts in our next report or PowerPoint presentation.

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Design Tip - 500 Fonts

Flipping through free font sites is not an ideal way to spend time (hate those pop-up ads) however, you can go to Fonts 500 which provides the top 500 fonts from some of the web's biggest free font archives. Here you can cull through your favorites and know that users like you found these the best to download.

Btw, the two fonts used in the Download Squad graphic are Heartland (for "Download" and Swatch (for "Squad").

[via Lifehacker]

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DaFont - Downloadable fonts galore

Dafont is another free-font resource that offers fonts for both Windows and Mac. Unlike some other free font sites, Dafont is organized into categories to make browsing a much more pleasant and efficient experience. The categories include Fancy, Foreign look, Techno, Bitmap, Gothic, Basic, Script, Dingbats and Holiday.

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