Scripts like sIFR, Flir, and of course Cufon made it easy for developers and designers to be able to use nice fonts as such as Myriad Pro or Helvetica Neue and since some month, we see more and more blogs or website with fancy titles.
This is clearly a great thing, because web safe fonts are extremely limitating. Though, there is a problem that many people seems to neglect: Lots of fonts licences – even free ones – doesn’t allow you to embed it on webpages, or redistribute it.
In this article, you’ll find a showcase of ten absolutely beautiful fonts that you can embed fith @font-face, Cufon, sIFR, or Flir.
Fertigo
» Get it
Delicious
» Get it
Tallys
» Get it
Museo Sans
» Get it
CA BND Bold WEB
» Get it
League Gothic
» Get it
Chunk
» Get it
Flaminia Type System
» Get it
Junction
» Get it
Andika
» Get it
My name is Jean-Baptiste Jung and I'm the man behind Cats Who Code. I started to use the Internet back in 1998 and started to create websites three years laters in 2001.
45 Comments
Thanks for listing these Jean-Baptiste! How about a tut with actually doing this with the various possibilities/ups/downs etc?
@Simon: Good idea, I have to think about it! Glad to read you enjoyed the post.
nice fonts, thanks for share..
jean – can u please ad some more fonts
Think I need to find a use for that Delicious font. I like it.
Great, simply what i need!!
Thanks for this list! Looking to use Capralba. It’s only in vfb format. Any help for us PC users use would be greatly appreciated since the only solution I’ve found is $$$ TransType to convert it to ttf. Thanks.
Ooops! Meant the Flaminia Type System, not the name of the sign in that font in the picture. Oh boy, long day.
Thanks for the post!
It’s very useful. For me, Cufon is fantastic addon for the website.
Museo is one of my fav fonts.
Excellent list, you saved me a lot of time
Thanks for the list. I am looking forward to find more about this one. Hope i can get more from this blog. Thanks again and i will bookmark this page for reference.
Thanks for the fonts! They are diverse and useful and lead me to many other places to find fonts.
Just a hint: I noticed that the link to the Junction font refers back to this page. I could not download the font.
Cheers, Dirk
I really liked “Flaminia Type System”, but usually I end up using Futura for some reason. Hopefully I will find a replacement soon, but it’s tough to let it go.
where to get Junction font? link seems to be broken since its pointing to this post.
@Gerrit: Link repaired
Sorry!
Great list, txs.
The link to Junction is wrong: it links to this page.
- Aaron
Thanks for the list. Can you please fix the Junction link? thanks.
I really enjoy reading your post. It’s so nice to be here to gather more ideas.
I really like the Leauge Gothic font. It just looks really unique and cool. Nice post by the way, I really enjoy your blog.
Hey nice fonts. I have been looking for the twitter font (twitter’s logo) and found an almost match. This is for using on my twitter home b/g.
Have you seen anything like that? If so, please provide the d/l links.
Cheers
Thanks for the new fonts! I hope to be able to use such cool looking fonts when my ability will allow. It is just a matter of time.
Chris
I think this licensing issue with cufon/sifr/typeface is ridiculous. I should be able to embed any font I have bought in either a document or webpage. My case: considering a) my intended use of a font on a webpage i.e. for display purposes, much like redistributable printed material and b) that I have not made the font any more available to someone computer-savvy enough to rip the font off through both line traces, I believe my use of so-called “restricted” fonts with web rendering software to be justifiable. I’ve read the EULA and this ‘derivative work’ clause is, to say the least, ULTIMATELY binding:
“Derivative Work” shall mean binary data based upon or derived from Font Software (or any portion of Font Software) in any form in which such binary data (1)may be recast, transformed, or adapted including, but not limited to, binary data in any format into which Font Software may be converted.
What is this jargon? It basically restricts you from doing anything with the font. For example, as soon as you convert your print material into outlines for proofing, you are ::enabling:: (see 1) the printer to recast the type using trace methods.
I’d like to see more opinions on this, as we’re in an age where print productions are marginalized (yes, this is arguable), and web design and production is evolving.
Thoughts?
Nice set of fonts! I love the first one, Fertigo. It’s much more pleasing to my eyes in comparison to the other fonts presented. But, the others are great too!
Great fonts especially the Tallys. I like it. I’m sure that’s gonna be cool to my site.
I loved them all! Especially Junction!!!
I love the Fertigo. It’s nice.
I love the fertigo font.
Love the Tallys font.
I love them all!!!!
Nice font : Chunk!
A real 2.0 font
Gael
@Jacob Friedman
I couldn’t agree with you more. It’s been quite a while since I try and explain that the web use of a font doesn’t necessarily mean that it is going to be stolen… What I’ve been doing lately is sending mails to the foundries directly… just asking themif I can use their fonts with, let’s say cufon, and as soon as they say I can’t I write backasking them why. So far I didn’t get any answers…
Cheers
Super cool list! I really want to use font embedding more and this information is just great. Thanks.
That’s a great list Jean, I love all the fonts especially Chunk. I’m going to download other fonts in the list too. Once again, thanks for sharing these!
Cheers,
Calvin
Really good article. I feel like there isn’t enough on the Cufon fonts. Thanks.
Thanks for these, lovely fonts.
Yammi! +bookmark
Museo was an instant download
cool cat thanks
I was searching high quality fonts that can be legally use for cufon. I’m glad I found this collection.
Thank you very much.
Nice collection
All of Jos Buivenga’s fonts (creator of Fertigo, Tallys, Museo and Delicious above) are well worth checking out – they are amazing quality for free fonts and actually look fantastic on the web.
I love Chunk and League Gothic, need to find a use for those soon
The collection of fonts to embed Cufon and Sifr is cool one. Thanks for the link.
cheers.
hey, great fonts!! love the Museo Sans font.
I LOVE TYPOGRAPHY!!!!
I can use this in all my work. thanks for the share your awesome..;)
Nice collection of fonts you’ve listed here. Thanks for sharing. I particularly liked the Flaminia Type System.
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