As the summer season winds down, it’s the ideal moment for designers to expand their font arsenal! Around here at WebdesignerDepot, we’re always eager to add new fonts to our collection, and with the advent of fall and back-to-school season upon us, it’s a great time to grab some fresh and striking fonts to impress your fellow designers, educators, or pupils with your typographic flair.
We’ve carefully curated a list of the finest fresh fonts, both free and premium, released in the recent months for your design endeavors.
Sinkin Sans (free)
Sinkin Sans stands out with its subtle design nuances, featuring small, unobtrusive notches that create a distinctive appearance at the stroke intersections. This extensive font family is available in a variety of nine weights, along with matching italics, giving designers wide-ranging flexibility. Best of all, it’s entirely free of charge!
Fira Mono (free)
The sibling to Mozilla’s Fira Sans, Fira Mono is a monospaced font that’s freely available in both regular and bold weights, perfect for any code-related project or design requiring a uniform typographic structure.
Cooper Hewitt (free)
Conceived as an evolution of the Polaris Condensed typeface, Cooper Hewitt has instead emerged as an original composition. Discarding initial plans, designer Chester Jenkins embarked on a creative journey, shaping the font with modern geometric lines while taking inspiration from its predecessor’s structure.
Roboto 2014 (free)
Pairing with their updated Material Design guidelines, Google enhanced their primary font, Roboto, refining every glyph. In a detailed blog post, the font’s creator Christian Robertson explains the continuous evolution approach, sidestepping traditional naming conventions for typeface updates in favor of a fluid, ever-improving system.
Consistent system enhancement necessitates typeface adaptation, making changes while retaining the same name just as logical as the evolutions across the operating system.
Swashington ($27 approx.)
Impelled by his fascination with a few characters in a sketched logo, designer Jason Walcott infused the majestic essence of early 20th-century hand-lettering to bring us Swashington. The intricate design features over 270 specialized ligatures, swash, and alternate letters, providing a multitude of typographic delights.
Riga (from $50 approx.)
Riga, by Ludwig Übele of Ludwig Type, is a condensed sans-serif built to meet the demands of both printed material and digital displays. This font’s open character shapes, coupled with significant x-height, present an impeccable choice for tight column layouts or compact headlines.
Peaches and Cream (from $18 approx.)
Offering a trio of weights and accompanied by decorative features, Peaches and Cream, from Fenotype, is a bold script font capable of providing a touch of the handcrafted to any design. It’s equipped with OpenType capabilities, boasting stylish, swashy alternates to embellish your projects.
Libertad (from $17 approx.)
The recent launch from TipoType, Libertad marries the essence of humanist and grotesk font traditions, showcasing well-balanced regular styles meshed with lively italics. The family offers a spectrum of seven distinct weights plus matching italics by employing the Luc(as) de Groot Interpolation Theory.
Choplin (from free)
Rene Bieder’s Choplin, a modern slab serif with a robust character, emerges from the roots of the Campton family, retaining the principle of clear geometry. With a wide range of weights and accompanying italics, and a couple of demo weights available without charge, Choplin excels in clarity and versatility.
Quire Sans (from free)
Jim Ford’s Quire Sans™ captures traditional book typography’s classical proportions in a fresh, modern style. Designed by Monotype and celebrated as one of the Hot New Fonts, it’s a fusion of historical and contemporary design elements fit for a wide array of media.
Rukola (from $18 approx.)
Drawing from the charm of hand-painted signage, Rukola exudes a playful and warm character. It takes customization to new heights, offering extensive language support, an expansive character set, and various swash alternatives, some adjustable with a simple spacebar tap.
Orgon (from free)
Hoftype’s newest addition, Orgon, is a contemporary linear sans-serif that sports eight different weights plus italics. It’s straightforward and effortless to read, boasting a full feature set of OpenType choices and extensive language support.
Filson Pro (from $23 approx.)
Brought to us by Mostar Design, Filson Pro is a geometric sans-serif featuring a distinctively soft and rounded look. Available in eight weights, the Filson Pro font includes comprehensive OpenType features and meticulous kerning pairs.
Kiro (from $21 approx.)
Seeking a minimalist yet stylish sans-serif? Kiro, conceived by Ryoichi Tsunekawa, may be your answer. This semi-modular typeface, softened with rounded corners and available in six weights, conveys a clean, modern feel perfect for a variety of design needs.
Servus Slab (from $26 approx.)
Designed as an homage to new beginnings, Michał Jarociński’s Servus Slab symbolizes growth, mimicking the progress from a child’s early stages to full maturity with its range of weights from Thin and Narrow to Black and Wide.
True North (from $16 approx.)
Exemplifying handcrafted vintage style, True North offers a wide collection of 16 varied styles and weights, including distinctive options such as Dots and Inline. The font package from Cultivated Mind also provides monoline scripts and complimentary banners. True North is versatile enough for headlines, posters, and beyond.
