20 Fonts Ideal For The iPhone And Other Mobile Screens


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When designing backgrounds or interfaces for smaller screens designers really need to pay attention to which fonts they are selecting. Fancy fonts which look awesome on large screens are often barely readable at smaller resolutions. Here is a collection of 20 free fonts which will surely work on any resolution required. Who ever said these free fonts don’t look good? Enjoy! :)

FontinSans

Delicious

Latine

Dekers

Galga

Kacst

Sansation

Cartogothic Std

Copy 10_56

Standard 07_63

Zekton Free

Advent

Fireye GF 3 Headline Condensed

Kroeger 06_55

Up Tiny Lcd Four 8

Uqammaq

Old Church Slavonic Gla

Dejavu Sans

Pixelated

PF Tempesta Five Condensed Bold

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Author: Peter Olexa

Peter Olexa is a freelance graphic designer born in Bratislava, Slovakia. He has over 15 years of experience in corporate identity and web site design, and he owns Fonts2u.com along with his cousin. You can follow him on Twitter or Facebook.

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Tags: Font, freebie, small screen, smart phone


23 User Comments

  1. Neelakandan 09. Feb, 2010 at 5:06 am #

    This is really awesome. Great post. Thanks for sharing. :)

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  2. julio 09. Feb, 2010 at 8:46 am #

    cool post!
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  3. Jenn 10. Feb, 2010 at 2:04 am #

    Nice clean collection. Thank you. :)

    Reply
  4. Richie 10. Feb, 2010 at 2:58 am #

    Great collection. Fontin is my favorite.

    Reply
  5. Perry Clease 10. Feb, 2010 at 11:43 am #

    How do we get them installed on the iPhone, there are only a dozen or so installed fonts.

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  6. Matthew Heidenreich 10. Feb, 2010 at 12:49 pm #

    great post! Thanks for this list. Very useful.
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  7. zaenal 11. Feb, 2010 at 12:38 am #

    thanks for the collection, very useful for beginner like me
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  8. Porsche Design 10. Mar, 2010 at 2:45 am #

    thanks for posting that

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