After a while on the web you get tired of seeing everything in the same old fonts. Since fonts are what we do here at the Scriptorium it seemed like our responsibility to do something to make the web look a bit more interesting. We're putting out a series of free web fonts which we hope will bring your web pages and your browsing to life.

Our first three Web Fonts have been specifically designed for readable text. Unlike other fonts designed for screen display, ours are made not only with an eye towards legibility, but also with a desire to provide something a bit more stylish and eye-pleasing than some of the very utilitarian fonts you may have encountered.

Sirona is the best example of the special style we want to bring to web fonts. It is based on Lombardic calligraphy, but with modifications which make it extraordinarily readable on screen even at small sizes. Sirona is an excellent replacement for Times or New York or any other serif font set by your browser, but we particularly recommend it for web designers as a titling or captioning font.

As an alternative for those who value ease of reading over style and artistry, we offer Divona which has many of the characteristics of the most readable sans serif fonts, with the addition of moderate serifs which help the eye travel more easily when reading large areas of text. This makes it one of the most readable fonts you'll ever encounter. Use it where your browser suggests Times, New York, Arial or Helvetica.

For tables you've got to have a non-proportional font, so we've developed one which is very special. It is a hybrid font. Essentially it is a sans serif font, but has some serifs added in appropriate places on certain characters to address some of the spacing problems common in sans serif fonts and increase readability. We think the result is pretty remarkable. Use it in places where your browser suggests Monaco or Courier.

These fonts are licensed to you for free for your personal use. Download them. Install them on your computer, and you can redistribute them if you include a link to our site.

If you run a website and would like to distribute these fonts to your users for free, just put a link on your page. Then you can define them in your HTML code (FONT FACE="Sirona,Divona,Onuava") to give your site a unique look. All we ask is that you distribute them with a link to this page. Just copy this link button and use it on your page.

This is an ongoing project. We will probably make more changes and improvements to these fonts, plus we plan to release a set of three fonts specifically intended for website titles headers later this year. These are new versions of our web fonts, updated on 2/20. They have even more international characters, plus much improved bitmaps and other features.

Download Fonts for Windows (PKZip).

Download Fonts for MacOS (StuffIt).

We have other resources which you may find useful. You can find our web design packages of fonts and art at WEB DESIGN. We also have a special offer for webmasters at WEBMASTERS