Examples of clean, legible fonts with download links

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28 pointsjwilliams6 comments

Clean and usable are great but what about web-friendly? All of the example texts were images.

Many you have to purchase; the whole web-friendly bit is an different thread.

Using tools like FLIR (AJAX-driven server-side image generation) [http://facelift.mawhorter.net/] bite into legal grey area. If done right, it won't expose the font file or curves, but that's still contentious.

The SIFr implementation does work to address legalities as well as FLIR. I haven't kept up on it, so I can't speak definitives.

That is cool but having an HTTP request for each bit of header text (which is what happens if you use an image) would cause unnecessary lag. If you have the bandwidth it doesn't matter I suppose.

Looks like they are all free. Awesome

Not all. Many (actually, the best) are commercial: Gill Sans, Helvetica Neue etc.

Yeah. Luckily, those come with a lot of computers by default. And the free fonts (Anivers and Fertigo and all the fonts by that developer) are great.

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