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Almost Free Fonts

Fonts in the $1–5 or so range

David Sudweeks
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Last edited April 18, 2016

Some foundries offer single weights of their typefaces for free, and this is relatively well known. But less well known are the fonts that remain on permanent discount at some totally nominal price. $1, or $5. Here’s a list of the best of the almost free fonts.

rocket
abstractions
Please present your octopus

FF Good’s News variants (drawn a bit sturdier for newsprint) go for $5/€5 per weight.

FF Good is a straight-sided sans serif in the American Gothic tradition, designed by Warsaw-based Łukasz Dziedzic. Despite having... Read More

chalet
ultraviolets
No tails in the disorder please

The Thin weight in desktop and web versions, (including small caps) go for $5/€3.90 apiece. Also, you’ll notice that Regular and Italic weights are free.

rocket
conceptional
Meat fried cat ear the plate

License individual weights at $5/€4.

replay
hypothenuses
Mind the static electricity

Get any of the shadow layers of Trend for $5/€4.

Trend is a typeface made of layers, taking as a basis a sans and a slab version. It is the result of observation, search and study of the... Read More

vortex
abstractions
Technology is no place for wimps

The icon set full of butterflies and foliage goes for $5/€4.

Lukasz Dziedzic
FontFont 2007
Botio Nikoltchev
lettersoup
Kevin Thrasher
Kevin Thrasher 2012
Sale
Daniel Hernández and Paula Nazal Selaive
Latinotype 2013

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