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Sharing your fonts is a quick and easy process, but you need to prepare a few things first:

  1. Register an account, and log in
  2. Make sure you have all the font files, and the source files
  3. Decide on the license you want to use for the font files, and apply it to your font files
  4. Ensure you named your font family correctly
  5. Ensure your metadata does not contain any quote marks or semicolons. The Open Font Library's latest version has a bug and does not handle font files with quote marks properly. We are working actively to fix this. If you are a PHP programmer, you can help - join the mailing list and say Hi! :-)
  6. Write a fontlog.txt, giving a summary of the font family's history
  7. Create an attractive sample image to show off your fonts in use (PNG or JPEG)
  8. Finally, put all of the files (fonts, fontlog.txt and sample images) into a ZIP file

Then go to the Share form and give your font family a title, add some tags and a short description, and click the upload button. That's it!

Remember, the fonts you upload will be immediately available for everyone to use. When you choose the license, you are declaring that the font files only contain things that

  • you hold the copyright for (usually because you designed them), or
  • are licensed to you under a free software license, such as the Open Font License.

The Open Font Library stores your uploaded files in a font family." The family keeps related font files together for ease of reference. For example, it could contain the regular, bold and italic variants, or it could contain a regular and a distorted variant. To give visitors easy access, it is best to add all the variants into one font family.

You can add the license to each font file itself easily with FontForge. We recommend including as much font metadata inside your font files as possible.