14 fully-licensed families FREE

14 fully-licensed families FREE
Licensed for use in commercial web pages, HTML emails and HTML ads,
they’re beautiful, legible, and ready to publish with the Monotype Web Font Platform.
Our selection criteria
Design Pedigree
We have selected typefaces that represent quality and pedigree
from well established libraries like Monotype, Linotype, ITC,
Ascender, and Bitstream.
Type style variety
Core font families in detail
We identified the top type style categories (ie. Humanist Sans
Serif, Grotesque Sans Serif, etc.) and selected a nice variety of
typeface families that would have broad appeal and be visually
attractive as alternatives to system fonts.
Fonts weight
We reviewed each family and selected the most useful font
weights/styles for web fonts usage in digital advertising.
Languages
We selected the W02 character set (Extended Latin) where
available for broad coverage across the most popular Latin
languages. In most cases, this character set will be further
reduced with subsetting during the publish process.
News Gothic (Bitstream)
News Gothic BT is the renowned Bitstream
version of the typeface originally created by
Morris Fuller Benton in 1908. News Gothic
has stood the test of time because of its
straightforward design characteristics,
economy of space, legibility and persuasive
attitude. The News Gothic BT typefaces were
engineered to standout in the grotesque san
serif category because of their versatility
and warm personality.
You can use News Gothic BT for everything
from headlines to body copy, especially
when space is at a premium.
Neuzeit Office (Linotype)
Neuzeit® Office was designed by Akira
Kobayashi, Linotype’s Type Director. This
retooling of a classic design that harkens
back to the Bauhaus and De Stijl
movements is a remarkable achievement.
Neuzeit Office has both grotesque and
geometric sans serif attributes, and was
crafted into a high performing family with
open, legible letterforms.
Use this family when looking for a nononsense, European aesthetic.
Harmonia Sans (Monotype)
Harmonia Sans (Monotype)
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Burlingame (Monotype)
The Burlingame™ typeface family was
designed by Carl Crossgrove for today’s
constrained digital settings and in
challenging print environments.
Burlingame is a sturdy square sans serif
design that performs with strength and
grace at any size. It features open, clear
shapes with a high degree of legibility,
making it a multifaceted, multipurpose
typeface family for a wide range of modern
uses.
Burlingame is perfect for chunky headlines
that need a masculine, tech or sporty touch.
Ayita Pro (Ascender)
Ayita™ Pro is a fresh sans serif design by
Jim Ford. This cheerful, contemporary and
friendly typeface family is elegant and
hard-working. Ayita Pro features an
exuberant rhythm and flow that gives type a
platform to deliver messages with style and
strength.
Try Ayita when you want to set your text in
motion, and let your messages shine.
Amasis (Monotype)
The Amasis™ font family is a slab serif
design, rendered with a humanist influence
by the noted British graphic artist and type
designer Ron Carpenter. Its almost
industrial look retains a delicate elegance: a
combination that is quite difficult to
accomplish. Amasis is highly legible, even
at very small point sizes. Its slab serifs help
define the outline of the font and allow the
reader to focus on the text properly.
Amasis renders extremely well on screen,
for use with immersive text reading, in user
interface menus and at large sizes in
headlines.
Bembo Book (Monotype)
Monotype’s Bembo® is a renowned tribute
to fine books of Renaissance Italy. It was
meticulously designed to capture the golden
age in printed text. Bembo has a dependable
range of weights and styles, with stylish
italics that make in an excellent all-purpose
font family.
Bembo is the quintessential serif text font,
packed with grace and elegance.
Dante eText (Monotype)
Dante® is a classic serif text family with
exception warmth and beauty. It originated
as hand-cut hot metal type, and has been
carefully redrawn for digital use. The Dante
eText versions were crafted with subtle
enhancements to make the text perform
well on screen in ebooks, websites and
digital ads.
Look no further than Dante if you want a
beautiful text face for your typographic
palette.
Charlotte Serif (ITC)
The Charlotte™ font family was inspired by
18th century French type designer PierreSimon Fournier. Charlotte’s clean cut style,
accentuated by a strong vertical stress and
unbracketed serifs, exudes an authoritative
tone, guaranteeing its effectiveness for
almost all text setting applications.
Charlotte is especially useful when a formal,
premium appearance is desired.
Linotype Didot eText (Linotype)
The Linotype Didot® eText family has a 200
year old style that drips with intellectual
elegance that’s at home in a fashion
environment. Its first appearance on the
screen was fraught with legibility traps due
to a high thick-to-thin contrast throughout
the alphabet. So the real achievement in
this revival of a design classic is that it had
been specifically tailored for text-heavy
reading environments at smaller sizes.
Try Linotype Didot™ eText typeface at text
sizes as small as 12px, and watch as it scales
up beautifully.
Crestwood (Ascender)
Crestwood™ is an updated version of an
elegant, semi-formal script typeface. It
harkens back to the days of hand
calligraphy and fine engraving. Its delicate
but stylish lettering gives words a luxurious
flavor.
Crestwood can dignify almost any text, and
is best used at larger sizes.
English 111 (Bitstream)
English 111 is a formal script font family
produced by Matthew Carter at Bitstream. It
is inspired by the work of George Shelley,
the English writing master of the mideighteenth century. English 111 is a
connecting script with a dignified, almost
ceremonial tone. Its three variants (Adagio,
Presto and Vivace) have varying levels of
flourishes and swashes to provide
calligraphic embellishments.
When your words need an official,
celebratory quality then English 111 has an
air of formality that is most inviting.
Old English (Monotype)
The Old English™ typeface was produced by
Monotype’s design staff as a tribute to the
classic English Blackletter and German
Fraktur typefaces, and specifically the work
of the venerable William Caslon foundry,
circa 1760! It is beautifully crafted with
precise detailing, and can wonderfully grace
everything from certificates to tattoos.
You can trust this font to give authority and
prestige to your headlines.
Ford’s Folly (Ascender)
The Ford’s Folly™ typeface captures the
look and spirit of handwriting using a
Sharpie Extra Fine felt pen. It is based on
the handsome, energetic handwriting of Jim
Ford. With its authentic, rough texture, it
has a personal feeling that is great for
creating casual content.
Ford’s Folly has an energetic, enthusiastic
voice and is best used at text sizes of 16px
and above.