It is a few months late, but since I still get lots of traffic from it, I thought I would post an update on the font Vegur. For some reason the font was removed from FontSquirrel. The font is still freely available and has since been updated to version 0.601. There is a noticeable difference between the 0.5 version that I linked to before. The update features cleaner lines and a stronger line weight.
If you are a fan of the font you can still download it from the creator’s website, dot colon.
As a designer, I run into issues with font licensing all the time. Over the past year, there has been a large push on the internet to use and integrate native fonts into standard web design, by distributing a copy along with a web page using the @font-face CSS3 tag. This of course presents a massive legal and creative wall. Any designer worth their salt has access to a range of high quality professional fonts created by respected font foundries, none of which can be used legally in a native font format. This leaves designers with a broken selection of matched fonts that have a tendency of kerning and spacing issues.
Even as support for @font-face is still in its infancy, there are free resources available to help developers.
The first place I go when looking for higher quality fonts with open licensing is FontSquirrel. Not only is the collection huge, the site has a wide range of built in tools to make implementing @font-face even easier with pre-packaged @font-face kits, and an @font-face generator.
[ FontSquirrel ] [ @font-face Kit Generator ]