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Free Fonts
Please link to any existing Free Fonts you may find on the web - they can be under any license as long as its a free software license like the OFL, GPL or X11!
- Heuristica is a cyrillic extended utopia
- TUG.org's Tex Fonts
- Scribus Wiki: Where can I get good fonts?
- Fedora Lists Lots! Including this GPL futura
- Verdana, Garamond, and TrueType test fonts GPL - no FE
- Thibault LGPL fonts
- Tulrich PD
- DarkGarden GPL
- Gentium Basic (OFL)
- Tiresias (GPLv3!!)
- Matt Chisholm's fonts
- Several symbol fonts
- Ed Trager's font archive of free Unicode fonts, covering a variety of scripts.
- SIL's list of fonts released under the OFL
- The Font Repository of Alan Wood, with good categorisation.
- Bitstream Vera, open-source
- Dejavu, based on Bitstream Vera, open-source
- Arev, based on Bitstream Vera and Dejavu, open-source
- Adobe Utopia
- Debian repository free fonts, search for "ttf-" in this page.
- LinuxLibertine font, open source
- Dark Garden Font
- Mona Font, a Japanese font for text arts
- OCR-A font
- Free Persian Font
- Manchu OpenType Font
- Ancient Hittite Font
- PakType — Pakistani Typography
- Raph Levien's fonts
- Fixedsys (GPL)
- Many free fonts have been created in the TeX world
- greekfontsociety.org already OFL and very high quality!
- thessalonica GPL fonts by Alexej Kryukov
- thessalonica OFL fonts by Alexej Kryukov
- kaffeesatz and tagesschrift by Jan Gerner are CC-BY licensed
- Dustismo has some GPL fonts, and is a good example of a independent free software font foundry homepage: small, simple, straightforward.
- Mallarme - says its "open source" but needs tracking down
- TUG.dk Font Catalogue
- James kilfiger (OFL SFDs)
- Matts Fonts (GPL) Matt has a tipjar!
- freefont project (press coverage)
- Dark Garden (GPL)
- TeX Gyre extend some common free URW fonts
- Osmanya script
- JUnicode (GPL) Unicode font for medievalists
- Computer Modern Unicode
- Arkpandora is Bitstream Vera with the sizes altered to be drop-in replacements for Microsoft Arial, Times and Verdana
- Bangla fonts Various Bangla unicode smart fonts by Ekushey
- Stephen Hartke maintains an excellent list of free and freeware fonts, including several of his own
- ttf-fossfonts is a collection of 108 GPL/Public-Domain licenced .ttf fonts
- Debian-Art.org has a fonts category
- Steve Jordi's handwriting fonts
- MgOpen is Times New Roman, Optima, Helvetica and VW Rounded
- Rogier van Dalen has made two excellent fonts similar to Verdana and Garamond (GPL)
- Red Hat's Liberation fonts are designed to be metrically compatible with Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New
- Fedora Fonts Wishlist and Duffys Fonts Page list free fonts and fedora has a list of packaged fonts too
- PS/QS
- arkandis Open Fonts
- Grafik Fritze
- linuxart (OFL) and jimmac (OFL) and TomsMon (OFL) from novell hack week
- InkBoyFont (OFL)
- Molengo (OFL)
- LazyHandwriter (OFL)
- Perizia
Scans
Here is a list of scans of typefaces that could be turned into wonderful free software fonts:
- ATF Catalogue from 1912
- ATF Catalogue from 1923
- ATF Catalogue from 1934
- ATF Catalogue from 1941
- Search the Internet Archive for Alphabets, Manuscripts and Printing and you'll find specimen books by Monotype, ATF, Cleveland Type Foundry, Davis Printing Company, and others.
- Eben Sorkin's photos (See the Flickr page for instructions on how to download them all)
- Tom's type doodles
- Please publish scans of public domain type and link to them here!
Please note the TypeRight ethical guide to revivals.
People
- FreeDesktop.org also have a list of people to contact.
- Debian Weekly News in 2002 listed a bunch of people
Pixel Fonts
- Classic X11 6x10 Font For Windows (unknown)
- X Windows Fonts for MS Windows ("Free To Use")
- A list of Programmer Fonts to look into
- AliasFonts at Orgdot - very cool
- Debian package xfonts-artwiz
Freeware Fonts
Please link to any existing "freeware" fonts you may find on the web that despite being proprietary may be friendly to the Library - these are fonts you typically do not need to pay money to receive, and may or may not come with a license that grants other essential freedoms like redistributing the font and modifying it, but does not fit the free software definition in some way. We will try to persuade these fonts' developers to "Go OFL!"
- Klein is a huge foundry of freeware fonts
- The Font Library links to us and others
- http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts - 20 fonts whose authors need contacting to go OFL :-)
- http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/10/11/17-more-free-quality-fonts/ - 17 more!
- http://www.larabiefonts.com/ - 380 freeware fonts!
- Free Handwriting fonts - Font Garden
- 40 freeware fonts
- Coptic fonts intended as free software not not yet properly licensed
- List of 20 good ones
- WebFonts.info Lists fonts for CSS3 font linking
- Tire Shop demo
- 20 freeware serif fonts
- Math fonts
- Toms doodle fonts
- fontleech.com lists freeware fonts
Foundries
Please list foundries to contact and ask if they have any 'off cuts' or fonts they don't earn much from any more, and if they'd like to OFL them.