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The best free typefaces of 2016: Luc's selection

This is my own selection of the best free typefaces published in 2016, grouped by category. The list will grow until December 31, 2016.

Text typefaces: HK Venetian (Alfredo Marco Pradil). A revival of Venetian (+Italic) by Morris Fuller Benton, 1911. Avila (Cesar Doreste). A forceful text typeface with some didone features and lots of personality.

Sans typefaces: LSTK Dayfly (Constantin Demner, Studio Elastik). Fuji Sans (Mathieu Desjardins). Gilroy (Radomir Tikov). A free weight of a geometric commercial family. Libre Franklin (Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida). A revival of Morris Fuller Benton's 1912 classic, Franklin Gothic. Created in 2015, it was only published in 2016 at Google Fonts. Pupa (Gabrielius Mackevicius). Mosk (Iulian Maftei). Pangram (Mathieu Desjardins). A phenomenal geometric sans family---free for personal use.

Type systems: Libertinus (Khaled Hosny). A large font family for the math world now maintained by Khaled Hosny.

Art deco typefaces: Avenue X (Simo Herold).

Hipster typefaces:

Script typefaces: Rolande (Lauren Thompson). Knud (Lauren Thompson). Resphekt (Evgeny Tkhorzhevsky, FontFabric). Zenith CP (Claude Pelletier).

Sketched, Layered or Poster typefaces: Mesh (Tiago Oliveira). Absolute (Lizaveta Obodova). Bubu (Kamil Piatkowski). Oks (Ilya Zherikov). Kitten (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini). A signage script family. Kitten at MyFonts. Pacha (Oscar Guerrero, Sumotype).

Blackletter typefaces: Missaali (Tommi Syrjänen). A textura based on the Missale Aboense from 1488. Complete with all abbreviations and alternate forms for historical accuracy. Rakkas (Zeynep Akay, Google Fonts). It also covers Arabic in a style inspired by Ruq'ah lettering on Egyptian movie posters from the 50s and 60s.

Dingbats and ornaments: Open Commons Linz (or OCL) (Manuel Radde and Igor Labudovic). A set of multiline icons and corresponding fonts developed for the city of Linz in Austria.

Garalde typefaces:

Display typefaces: Absolu (Ellmer Stefan). Urucungo (Genilson Lima Santos). A wide unicase typeface family. Blink Display (Mattie Lynch). An inline titling typeface inspired by the identity of the Mexico City Olympics. Stereo (Benjamin Lazaro). Fina (Yai Salinas). Tenez (Rodrigo Saiani). Cenotaph Titling (Lewis McGuffie). A lapidary typeface inspired by Eric Gill's inscriptions.

Slab serif typefaces: Napo (Isabella Ahmadzadeh, Zetafonts). Well, this is only partly free.

Copperplate:

Programming Fonts: Go and Go Mono (Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow).

Wood type revivals: Mr. Kite (Harold Lohner).

Letterpress emulation:

Didone typefaces:

Fashion mag typefaces: Minaxi Hairline Text (Shrenik Ganatra). Ginebra (Yai Salinas).

Stencil typefaces: Roska Stencil (Pedro Lobo).

Multilingual typefaces: Ossem (Kiril Semkov and Typedepot). Lalezar (Borna Izadpanah). A Farsi / Latin typeface modeled after the lettering of old Farsi / Hollywood movies. Kawkab Mono (Abdullah Arif). Phenomena (Plamen Motev, Fontfabric). Covering Latin and Cyrillic. Diab Orient (Diab Jaser). For Arabic and 31 other languages, in 8 weights, and 24,000+ glyphs in all.

Wonderful, adorable, refreshing typefaces:

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