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The best free typefaces of 2021: Luc's selection

This is my own selection of the best free typefaces published in 2021, grouped by category. The list will grow until December 31, 2021.

Text typefaces: Zodiak (Jérémie Hornus, Gaetan Baehr, Jean-Baptiste Morizot, Alisa Nowak, and Théo Guillard at Fontshare). A 24-style text family with Century-like newspaper roots and sturdy bracketed slab serifs. Originally called Claire (2020). Calmadita (by Sic Typus Creatus Est, a group of five Mexican type designers). Atkinson Hyperlegible (Applied Design Works, Braille Institute). Newsreader (Hugues Gentile, Production Type). Made in 2020, but showcased at Production Type in 2021, this is an extensive optically corrected family (Caption, Text, Display) for reading on screens.

Sans typefaces: Mango Grotesque (Rajesh Rajput). Eighteen delicious condensed styles. Plein (Inga Ploennings). A free humanist sans. Pangea Afrikan (Christoph Koeberlin). Outfit (Rodrigo Fuenzalida). A geometric sans. Blueberry Sans (Erik Kennedy). Rota (Serdar Ozturk). A 20-style geometric sans.

Rounded sans typefaces:

Type systems: RedHat (Pentagram and Jeremy Mickel). Open source variable Display, Text and Mono subfamilies.

Art deco typefaces: Moniqa (Rajesh Rajput). In 162 styles, including variable fonts. Italico (Antonio Filigno).

Hipster typefaces:

Script typefaces: Festive (Rob Leuschke).

Calligraphic typefaces: Pencerio (Manushi Parikh). A monolinear hairline Spencerian script. Ballet VF (Maximiliano Sproviero, with Eduardo Tunni and the Omnibus team). A variable Spencerian penmanship font with optical sizing from 16pt to 72pt.

Brush typefaces:

Sketched, Layered or Poster typefaces:

Blackletter typefaces: Morsten (Taufiqurrohman Nadri).

Dingbats and ornaments: Sébastien (Vanessa Zuñiga). Patterns and color fonts based on the 17th centry tilings of Jean Truchet. Botana (Masyafi Studio).

Programming fonts: M Plus Code Latin and M Plus 1 Code (Coji Morishita). Drafting Mono (Owen Earl). A typewriter-like font but in which slabs are added not just to the lower case i and l as was the practice in the past. In eight styles.

Garalde typefaces:

Display typefaces: Thunder (Rajesh Rajput). OTF Glusp (Obys Agency). Faglia (Natalia Timea Szabo). Apfel Grotezk Fett (Luigi Gorlero). Wata (Ilya Zakharov). Bogam (Reza Rasenda). Kyltyre (Leonit Gashi).

Slab serif typefaces: Montagu Slab (Florian Karsten).

Copperplate:

Wood type revivals:

Letterpress emulation:

Didone typefaces: Bodoni Moda (Owen Earl). In 64 styles.

Fashion mag typefaces:

Revivals: New Computer Modern (Antonis Tsolomitis). A revival and major extension of Knuth's Computer Modern fonts for typesetting mathematical texts, 2019-2021. Stripes (Steve Harrison). A revival and extension of Tony Wenman's Stripes (1972-1973). Aboensis (Tommi Syrjänen). A very carefully researched revival of 15th century alphabets used in Codex Aboensis (1430s) and The Black Book of Abo Cathedral (late 15th century).

Stencil typefaces:

Variable fonts: Ballet VF (Maximiliano Sproviero, with Eduardo Tunni and the Omnibus team). A variable Spencerian penmanship font with optical sizing from 16pt to 72pt. Truculenta (Ivan Castro, Eva Sanz and the Omnibus team). An enormous vernacular sans family with optical size, weight and width axes.

Multilingual typefaces: Kaisei Opti (Kazuo Kanai at Font-Kai). Gowun Batang and Gowun Dodum (Yanghee Ryu). A great serif and sans pair of typeface families for Hangeul and Latin. Hina Mincho (Satsuyako). Sarasa Gothic (2015-2021) is a CJK programming font by Renzhi Li (aka Belleve Invis) based on Iosevka and Source Han Sans.

Wonderful, adorable, refreshing typefaces: Cimero Pro (Ivan Filipov). A color SVG font.

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