Amazing free serif typefaces you need to download in 2020, part 2

Butler

Fabian De Smet’s (awesome name, bud) Butler is, according to its designer

a mix between both Dala Floda & the amazing Bodoni family

I can definitely see the Bodoni influence in the highly-contrasting strokes of the letterforms. The Dala Floda influence is more apparent in the stencil version of the typeface.

fig. 1

There’s no doubt that, whichever version and weight (of which there are many, from ultralight to black) you decide to use, Butler is a gorgeous typeface. However, it’s definitely less flexible than Cormorant, mostly owing to its lack of italics. Its highly-contrasting strokes are also a strike (see what I did there?) against its flexibility, since body text set in Butler will be relatively difficult to read (fig. 2)

fig. 2

It’s in scenarios where a font is meant to be eye-catching that Butler really shines. The typeface website says that it’s “great for posters, very big titles, books & fancy stuff”, which is pretty spot-on.

You can download Butler HERE.

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