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St Marie Thin, designed by Sascha Timplan of Stereotypes.

There were several freefonts releases under Stereotypes, now there is this one big step and I want to get the next freefont (under CreativeCommons-License) online. St Marie Thin is a preview for the upcoming release of a new typefamily, but this time I want to go further with that freefont-thing. There will be one normal Open-Type-Font and an optimized Webfont, so you can design online and offline with a hiqh quality freefont from Stereotypes.Sascha Timplan.

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Ladislav Inline, designed by Tomas Brousil of Suitcase Type Foundry as a tribute to the typograpy of Ladislav Sutnar.

The Ladislav font revitalises Sutnar's legacy, while not explicitly copying any of his original fonts. It however keeps true to their technicist character and initial principles of character creation—a simple modular system of combined geometrical segments. This approach affects all round shapes of capital and lowercase letters, as well as the shapes of the majority of numbers.

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Simonetta Black Italic, designed by Gayaneh Bagdasaryan of Brownfox. Available via Google Web Fonts.

The Simonetta font is named in honour of Simonetta Vespucci. She was considered to be the most beautiful woman in Renaissance Florence and was nicknamed ‹La Bella Simonetta.› She was a model for Sandro Botticelli's painting ‹The Birth of Venus› and many of his other female characters.

The Simonetta font is inspired by Italian Humanistic typefaces, but it is contemporary and has many original features. It has one-sided serifs and soft drops, is slightly slanted (some two degrees) and the Italics have the same slant. The Romans and Italics differ from each other only in their shapes, with the italics being much more calligraphic and angular.

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Pirata One, designed by Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Nicolas Massi. Available via Google Web Fonts.

Pirata One is a gothic textura font, simplified and optimized to work well on screen and pixel displays. Its condensed structure and spacing give it an excellent performance and rhythm on texts so it can be used as a header font or in shorts paragraphs.

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Jockey, designed by TypeTogether.

Google commissioned the design of a new type family for it's webfonts project. Jockey is based on the lettering by an unknown Argentine artist who designed posters for horse race tracks in the 1930's. Out of a few upper case letterforms the TypeTogether team developed a full typeface that is now available for free at Google Webfonts.

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Birdy, designed by Veronika Burian of TypeTogether.

Birdy was especially created during the Graphic Design Walk as part of the London Design Festival.The event was organised by the team of GraphicBirdWatching who invited TypeTogether to participate. Veronika was drawing live this new typeface, Birdy, conceived there and then. A projector allowed visitors to follow her drawing letters and gave opportunity to ask questions directly about the design process. Birdy is now available for free to download. The character set is limited to uppercase and lowercase a some basic punctuation.

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Fruktur, designed by Viktoriya Grabowska, released by Sorkin Type, available via Google Web Fonts.

Fruktur initially appears to be a playful and powerful black letter type with a warm friendly feeling. However its construction is closer to that of an upright italic. Fruktur offers some of the feeling of a black letter but with higher legibility and greater utility than is typical of black letter type. Fruktur will be most useful from medium to large sizes.