The best free typefaces of 2017: Luc's selection

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This is my own selection of the best free typefaces published in 2017, grouped by category. The list will grow until December 31, 2017.

Text typefaces:

Sans typefaces:

Spartan MB (Matt Bailey).
Vision (Daniel Iglesias). Twelve styles.
Barlow (Jeremy Tribby).
D-DIN (Charles Nix for Monotype and Datto Inc). Finally a totally free high quality DIN.
Aino (Anton Koovit). The official font of the Estonian government.
Wavehaus Sans (Graham Paterson).
Attractive (Ani Petrova and Botio Nikoltchev). This became commercial in 2019.
Agane (Danilo de Marco).
Illuma (Alfredo Marco Pradil).

Rounded sans typefaces:

Type systems:
IBM Plex (Sans, Serif, Mono) (Mike Abbink and Bold Monday). The new IBM corporate font.

Art deco typefaces:

Bardo (Tano Veron).
Cocosignum (Corsivo Italico and Maiuscoletto) (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini). Based on 1930s Italian art deco.

Hipster typefaces:
Naive (Felicia Rotert). A color font with hipster trimmings.

Script typefaces:
Signato (Eimantas Paskonis).
Graffismo (Mathew Prada, Cassette Type Foundry).
Javacom (Youssef Habchi).
Antro Vectra (Youssef Habchi).

Calligraphic typefaces:

Beresta (Pavel Drakunov). A semi-uncial for Latin and Cyrillic.

Brush typefaces:

Sketched, Layered or Poster typefaces:

Integrada (Jorge Navajas).

Blackletter typefaces:

Russell's Fraktur (Russell Hombo).
Schulze Werbekraft (Peter Wiegel). A revival of a 1926 design by Arthur Schulze.
Abuse (Valentino Coppi).

Dingbats and ornaments:

Programming fonts:

Minimal Mono (Peter Olschinsky).
League Mono (Tyler Finck).
Lekton Code (Luciano Perondi and his students at ISIA Urbino). This is an adaptation of Lekton (2007).

Garalde typefaces:

Display typefaces:

Ascardi Sans (Augusto Siccardi).
AO Grotesk (Peter Olschinsky).
Sac Prairie (Stephen French).
Rotulista (Sam Bumbalo).
Bola Ocho (Fernando Haro).
Broad Mono (Brandon Shields).
Barrow (Szonja Balint).
Adiva (Ofir Shavit).
Bourbon Grotesque (Jeremy Vessey).
Cheque (Mirela Belova, Fontfabric).

Variable fonts:

Decovar (David Berlow, Type Network).
Jabin (Frida Medrano). A blackletter beauty.

Slab serif typefaces:

Copperplate:

Wood type revivals:
Borough Grotesk (Lewis McGuffie). An all caps shaded sans typeface that could vaguely be classified under wood type revivals.

Letterpress emulation:

Didone typefaces:
Regattia (Bruno Saez Lopez). See also here.

Fashion mag typefaces:

Revivals:
Renner (Owen Earl, Indestructible Type). A free Futura revival, from scratch!
Marvin Visions (Mathieu Triay). After the avant-garde classic Marvin (1969, Michael Chave).

Stencil typefaces:
Riks and Riks Negative (Sindre Bremnes).

Multilingual typefaces:
Awami Nastaliq (Peter Martin for SIL).
Alkalami (Becca Hirnsberger). For Arabic-based writing systems in the Kano region of Nigeria and in Niger.

Wonderful, adorable, refreshing typefaces:

Oi (Kostas Bartsokas).
Fetamont (Linus Romer, 2014-2017). A 32-font tour de force with parametrized letters, including a neat "randomize" feature.

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