The best free typefaces of 2018: Luc's selection

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This is my own selection of the best free typefaces published in 2018, grouped by category. The list will grow until December 31, 2018.

Text typefaces:

Brygada 1918 (Mateusz Machalski, Borys Kosmynka, and Przemek Hoffer). The Polish presidential font. A good font for a bad president.
Grenze (Renata Polastri, Omnibus Type).
Parranda (Ale Navarro).

Sans typefaces:

Anderson Grotesk Black (Stephen French).
Build (Daniele Capelli).
Subjective and Objective by Alexander Slobzheninov.

Rounded sans typefaces:

Type systems:
Reforma (Alejandro Lo Celso). A free custom design for the University of Cordoba.
Firago (by bBox Type, Ralph du Carrois' and Anja Meiners' team). An outgrowth of Fira Sans, it covers many more languages.

Art deco typefaces:

Mokum Bengel (Richard Keijzer).
Txuleta Deco (Fernando Haro).
Judo (Carlos Adalid).

Hipster typefaces:

Script typefaces:

Calligraphic typefaces:

Brush typefaces:

OT Chekharda (Evgeniy Agasyanc). A comic book style typeface for Latin and Cyrillic.
Lactosa (Nasir Udin).
Acrylic Hand. A free SVG font by Tom Chalky.

Sketched, Layered or Poster typefaces:

Nova Logo (Vladimir Fedotov).

Blackletter typefaces:

Castillo (Juan Miguel Castillo). A softened Latin blackletter.

Dingbats and ornaments:

GL Snow Bentley (Gutenberg Labo). After photographs of snow crystals by Wilson A. Bentley (1962).

Programming fonts:

Sometype Mono (2017-2018, Ryoichi Tsunekawa). MyFonts link

Garalde typefaces:

Display typefaces:

Soviet League (Phil MacIsaac).
Ouroboros (Ariel Martin Perez).
Monarch Display (Gabriel Lam). Specially designed for Vietnamese.
Gosha Sans (Mathieu Desjardins).
Free Fat Font (Thom Niessink).
Kernit (Collins).
Geometrica Bold (Serge Hollander).
Bolden (Marcelo Reis Melo).
Rowdy Pro (Jaikishan Patel).
Colus (Svetoslav Simov).
Granfondo (Fabio Servolo).
Mafalda (Jonatan Xavier).

Variable fonts:

Haki (Oscar Cobo).
Rocher Color (Henrique Beier).
Jost (Owen Earl, Indestructibe Type). A major update (and renaming) of Renner, his revival of Futura.

Slab serif typefaces:

Radcliffe (Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli). A multi-style revival of Clarendon.

Programmed fonts:

Dana (Ana Estrada Martos).

Wood type revivals:
Borough Grotesk Pro (Lewis McGuffie). An all caps shaded sans typeface that could vaguely be classified under wood type revivals. A Pro version of a 2017 font by McGuffie

Letterpress emulation:

Didone typefaces:

Fashion mag typefaces:

Made Cannes (Maxim Schepin).
Voguer Sans (Andriy Dykun).

Revivals:

GL Morris (Gutenberg Labo). After William Morris's Troy Type (1891-1892).

Stencil typefaces:

Depravo Stencil (Iordanis Passas). Free to anyone except police!
Bodoni Fragile (Mario Arturo).
Saira Stencil (Hector Gatti, Omnibus Type).

Multilingual typefaces:
Ilisarniq (Etienne Aubert-Bonn, Coppers and Brasses). For Inuktitut syllabics.

PT Root UI (Vitaly Kuzmin, ParaType).

Wonderful, adorable, refreshing typefaces:

Auca (Rafael Ferran i Peralta).

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