15 Best New Fonts, September 2024

Welcome to our roundup of the best new fonts we’ve found on the web in the previous four weeks. In this month’s edition there’s plenty of hand-lettering charm, and some excellent historical revivals. Enjoy!

Kornel

Kornel is a serif type family designed for long texts, featuring classic proportions and sharp details that work well on the web. Inspired by Renaissance typography, its simplified forms deliver a contemporary twist. There are seven weights and accompanying italics.

Tre

Tré is a unique typeface born from the logotype for Tré Seals, the founder of Vocal type. The forms are drawn from the scars left by Tré’s brain surgery. The self-titled font is a bold, confident, high-contrast stencil font with sharp angular strokes — exactly like surgical cuts.

Cin Cin

Cin Cin is a charming hand-lettered font. It includes a very well balanced upper and lowercase, giving it the flexibility to be used as more than display type. It’s perfect for books, greeting cards, posters, and even logos. It injects fun and energy into any project it’s used for.

Caslonian

Caslonian is an English-inspired typeface originally designed by ZeCraft for Estée Lauder. It draws on exaggerated contrasts and proportions from historical Caslon specimens, offering a contemporary take on the style. Caslonian is a tribute to expressive headline faces, blending past and modern design influences.

Scotus Sans

Scotus Sans is a low-contrast sans-serif family inspired by the successful 15th-century Scotus Roman type. It offers excellent readability across web and print. It combines simplicity with tradition, ranging from thin to black weights, with a unique matching italic.

Gamuth Sans

Gamuth is a versatile typeface family with serif and sans-serif variations designed for both web and print. Inspired by Dutch Baroque faces, it features narrow proportions, generous x-heights, and crisp detailing. Gamuth Sans excels in UI applications, offering clarity, flexible content hierarchy, and consistent metrics for seamless formatting.

De Gyubee

De Gyubee is an elegant, modern serif typeface with a luxurious, minimalist style. Ideal for websites, logos, branding, and wedding stationery, it features capital letters along with unique, classy alternatives. Its clean design suits a wide range of creative projects.

Lineal

Lineal is a free font family initiated by Frank Adebiaye and inspired by Gérard Manset’s song “2870.” Originally designed in 2010, it resembles a modular Futura without optical corrections. Since 2019, the character set, weights, and language support has been expanded.

Zeist

Zeist is a geometric sans serif typeface by Luzi Types, blending early 20th-century modernism with customizable features. Inspired by Futura, Neuzeit Grotesk, and Avenir, it offers clean lines, consistent shapes, and dynamic axes for terminals, x-height, weight, and italics, making it highly versatile for designers.

French Aperitif

French Aperitif is a hand-drawn font family featuring six unique fonts and fun alternate letters. Perfect for modern posters, wedding stationery, and content creation, it adds a creative, personal touch to designs. This quirky, one-of-a-kind font is 100% hand-drawn, making it truly special.

Brillante

Brillante is a modern serif font inspired by vintage Italian Art Nouveau shop signs. It features thin horizontal serifs, vertical letters, and a modern x-height. With numerous ligatures, contextual alternates, and stylistic sets, it’s ideal for headings, posters, logotypes, and labels.

Rudnik

Rudnik is a script font family with regular and italic styles, inspired by vintage calligraphy and modern monoline fonts. Its even spacing creates rhythmical, balanced words with distinctive letters. Featuring ligatures and swashes, Rudnik suits posters, packaging, menus, and elegant designs.

Forzata

Forzata began as a caps-only font, inspired by a hand-painted “no parking” sign in Florence. It evolved into a unique typeface with straight lines, round counters, and a lowercase set without ascenders or descenders, blending industrial engraving with a handmade, vernacular style.

Ringle

Ringle is a retro serif typeface with a modern twist, featuring sharp italics and strong contrast. With 18 weights, it’s ideal for luxury branding projects. Highly versatile and readable, Ringle suits nostalgic designs like bold magazine images, wedding invitations, posters, logos, and more.

Amolla Raspers

Amolla Raspers is a bubble-style handwritten font, ideal for various projects including logos, branding, packaging, mugs, quotes, posters, t-shirts, book covers, invitations, and greeting cards. It adds a playful, handwritten touch to designs, making it perfect for creative and special events.

Simon Sterne

Simon Sterne is a staff writer at WebdesignerDepot. He’s interested in technology, WordPress, and all things UX. In his spare time he enjoys photography.