• • • • Proxima Nova is american type designer Mark Simonson鈥檚 most popular font family, a beautiful geometric-grotesque sans-serif that he created in 1994 and revised 2005. It鈥檚 one of my personal favorites, and one of the most used premium fonts on the web. This article explores the free alternatives available as of July 2017. Enjoy and good luck with your projects!
馃檪 • Metropolis • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended • PROS: The best alternative. Includes a whopping 18 styles: 9 weights (Thin, Extra Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Semi Bold, Bold, Extra Bold, Black) with matching italics) • Montserrat Available in Google Fonts • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese • PROS: Great alternative. Like Metropolis, it includes a whopping 18 styles: 9 weights (Thin, Extra-Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Semi-Bold, Bold, Extra-Bold, Black) with matching italics) • Nunito Sans Available in Google Fonts. • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese • PROS: Includes 14 styles: 7 weights (Extra-Light, Light, Regular, Semi-Bold, Bold, Extra-Bold, Black) with matching italics. • Muli Available in Google Fonts. • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese • PROS: Like Nunito Sans, it includes 14 styles: 7 weights (Extra-Light, Light, Regular, Semi-Bold, Bold, Extra-Bold, Black) with matching italics. • Acherus Grotesque • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended • PROS: Includes 16 styles: 8 weights (Thin, UltraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, ExtraBold, Black) with matching italics.
• CONS: Only 2 styles are free (Regular and Regular Italic). You can also purchase.
• Raleway Available in Google Fonts. • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended • PROS: Like Metropolis and Montserrat, it includes 18 styles: 9 weights (Thin, Extra-Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Semi-Bold, Bold, Extra-Bold, Black) with matching italics. • Palanquin Available in Google Fonts. • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Telugu • PROS: Includes 4 weights (Thin, Extra-Light, Light, Regular, Medium, Semi-Bold, Bold). • CONS: Doesn鈥檛 have italics. • Hind Guntur Available in Google Fonts. • Language support: Latin, Latin Extended, Telugu • PROS: Includes 4 weights (Light, Regular, Medium, Semi-bold, Bold).
Movie Gokula Krishna. Buku belajar membaca. Watch Sangathi.
• CONS: Doesn鈥檛 have italics.
With the introduction of @font-face in CSS3, we are no longer restricted to just operating system fonts. There are many high quality open source fonts that are hosted on sites like and that you can use it on your designs and websites. But what if you want to have a try on popular webfonts like Proxima Nova, Brandon Grotesque, Museo, or Apercu and many more for free? Most probably you will have to pay, or subscribe to use those fonts. But there is a way that you can download the aforementioned fonts for free, not only just the font but the entire font family.
Below showing a repo with Proxima Nova fonts. Since this repo is shared publicly, basically you can download the whole repo to your desktop in a zip file. Basically you need to go to the repo home page, and click on the “Download ZIP”.
Continue read on to find out how you can do it. [sc:adsense] The experiment Basically is just by tweaking your search keywords: by adding “OTF” or “TTF” to your keyword. For example: “Proxima Nova OTF” and “Brandon Grotesque TTF”. On the search result page, you may find links from Github, a site where developers use to manage their codes. Many repositories containing the premium fonts where you can actually download them for free. Below showing a repo with Proxima Nova fonts. Since this repo is shared publicly, basically you can download the whole repo to your desktop in a zip file.
Basically you need to go to the repo home page, and click on the “Download ZIP”. Perhaps you can also just include “Github” in your keyword. Here I tried “Brandon Grotesque Github” and eventually I found the repo below containing the whole family. Again you can just download the ZIP file to get the fonts. *Do this at your own risk This post in just intended to show how you can use specific keywords to search for the premium fonts. We do not encourage using the fonts without obtaining proper licensing of the respective fonts.
The correct way to try premium fonts for free You can actually try and use the premium fonts for free by using these two sites:. Typekit has trial account that you can sign up for free, and get access to 261+ font families including Museo. While on FontDeck, you can have access to all the fonts for free when designing and developing, and only pay when going live. If you still don’t want to pay and would like to look for alternative, you can check out, or just simply search “Proxima Nova free alternatives” or “Brandon Grotesque free alternatives”.