Ten free high-quality useful fonts

If you’ve spent a while trawling the large free font sites you’ll probably have noticed some common similarities between all the fonts on offer; bad kerning, no accented characters, no ligatures, or most often just plain ugly. They are usually free for a reason – nobody in their right mind would pay for them.

But amongst the sea of knockoffs and tacky dingbats there are some gems to be found, the convention of the crappy free font is smashed by these ten lovingly crafted faces. Covering a broad variety of styles and with myriad uses, I’m looking for the appropriate project to give me an excuse to use them!

Click the images below for links. Some will require a myFonts account to download, despite their $0.00 pricetags…