I love a ruddy good font, be that a nice readable serif or some wacky illustrated thing thats bordering on really being called a font at all. I used to be a comic sans hater but recently I have to hold up my hands and say, it ain’t so bad when its used correctly. Check out this blog which comic sans-ifies famous logos. Its pretty good. Oooh also, when I was in London the other week, I saw a Comic Sans church, painted in classic primary colours. Very etheral, it looked great!

1. Bree This friendly upright italic is the serif cousin of TypeTogether’s award winning font Bree. Designed by Veronika Burian and José Scaglione, Bree was originally released in 2008 and it became an immediate success because of its originality, charming appearance and versatility. Bree Serif was initiated with the help of Google webfonts and will be expanded with more font styles later this year. The new serif style adds some extra flavour to this tasty font… and is for FREE.

Download bree here.

 2. OtamaI love the high fashion look of this one and the ampersand’s awesome. You may have noticed that this is the font that I use for all the headlines on my site. Thats how much I’m in love with it. Tim Donaldsons other type work is also excellent, and I like him becuase he is also a tea fanatic, much like myself.

Download Otama here.

3. JunctionJunction is a a humanist sans-serif, and the first open-source type project started by The League of Moveable Type. They’re expanding Junction to include additional non-English characters and also plan to expand Junction to include different weights, to make a complete family. I like this because its looks very modern but still quite elegant. So, you can use Junction to give an organic feel to your text while at the same time allowing it to display crisply & cleanly on a computer screen.

Download junction here. 

4. DukeThis is a typeface inspired by the sign for The Cup & Saucer, a coffee shop in Manhattan. It is designed by James T Edmonson and the free download comes with three versions of the font for all your designing needs. Actually, this one is possibly better suited to print design, but what the hey, I will stick it on my list becuase its very pretty.

Download duke here.

5. Wisdom Script 

Another great great font from James T Edmonson, availiable for free from the Lost Type Co-op. Wisdom Script was originally designed for Woods of Wisdom, a 50 part poster series on bad advice. Wisdom script is designed to be on a thirty degree incline to get perfectly vertical strokes.

Download Wisdom Script here. 

Have you found any other great free or otherwise fonts recently? Let me know. I love finding new fonts to buy and play with.