126 open-licence fonts, each with a checked source.
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A low-vision sans that exaggerates character shapes so similar letters stay distinct at small sizes.
Braille Institute
Licence: OFL-1.1
Editor's pick
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A configurable coding font: you pick ligatures, weight and letter shapes, then download a cut.
Eigil Nikolajsen
Licence: OFL-1.1
Editor's pick
New
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A Fira Mono fork famous for programming ligatures, still useful as a plain mono if you turn them off.
Nikita Prokopov
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
Editor's pick
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A soft old-style display and text face with softness and wonk axes, by Undercase Type.
Undercase Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
Editor's pick
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The sans cut of IBM's corporate family, designed with Bold Monday. Neutral, with a hint of Gothic mid-century texture.
IBM
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
Editor's pick
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Intel's open coding face, designed for long sessions, with exaggerated punctuation and a large x-height.
Intel
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
Editor's pick
New
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A screen sans with a tall x-height, drawn for interface text. Variable, with a matching tight cut.
Rasmus Andersson
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
Editor's pick
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A coding typeface with tall lowercase letters, ligatures you can turn off, and a clear italic.
JetBrains
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
Editor's pick
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Commissioned for Google Play Books, a typographic text face with optical sizes for long-form reading.
TypeTogether
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
Editor's pick
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A sharp news face from Production Type, with optical sizes for body, deck and headline.
Production Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
Editor's pick
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A fork of Libre Franklin made for U.S. government sites. Neutral, metrically steady, and maintained in the open.
U.S. Web Design System
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
Editor's pick
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A variable family that moves from a linear sans to a casual mono, designed by Stephen Nixon at Arrow Type.
Arrow Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
Editor's pick
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Adobe's first open-source family, a Gothic sans cut for UI and long text, now in its third generation.
Adobe
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
Editor's pick
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Adobe's open text serif, designed by Frank Grießhammer, with an optical-size axis from caption to display.
Adobe
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
Editor's pick
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A scientific text face based on Times, maintained for publishing, with a large set of symbols in the wider STIX project.
STI Pub
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
Editor's pick
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The foundry that helped make open-source type ordinary. League Spartan, Junction, Fanwood, Chunk and more, all OFL.
The League of Moveable Type
Editor's pick
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A Paris foundry that releases experimental and historical open fonts, usually under the OFL or a similar licence.
Velvetyne
Editor's pick
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Adobe's open-source type programme: Source Sans, Source Serif, Source Code Pro and related CJK families, all OFL.
Adobe
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A geometric grotesk with a large x-height, comfortable in UI and short marketing lines.
Andreas Rasmussen
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A calligraphic text face from Huerta Tipográfica, with a sans companion and strong Latin and Cyrillic.
Huerta Tipográfica
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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An organic text serif originally for typographic education in Argentina, later extended as Andada Pro.
Huerta Tipográfica
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A fixed-width family by Mark Simonson, based on Anonymous, with clear punctuation for code.
Mark Simonson
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A variable sans with a very wide width axis, from hairline condensed to extended display.
Etcetera Type Co
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A grotesque with a width axis, drawn in Buenos Aires, with Black and Narrow cuts in the same family.
Omnibus Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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Stephen Nixon's studio. Recursive and Shantell Sans are open; other retail families sit alongside the OFL work.
Arrow Type
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The variable successor to Atkinson Hyperlegible, with a wider weight range on the same legibility model.
Braille Institute
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
New
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A sharp, slightly medieval display face from Velvetyne, for titles rather than running text.
Velvetyne
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A slightly quirky monospaced Grotesque by Displaay, with a full variable weight range.
Displaay
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A formal pointed-pen script from Omnibus Type, with an optical-size axis from small to display.
Omnibus Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A Vietnamese-first grotesk that also covers Latin well, with a broad set of weights and italics.
Better Consultancy
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A condensed all-caps display Gothic, later opened by Dharma Type, for posters and titles.
Dharma Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A revival of Robert Besley's Clarendon, variable, by Owen Earl at Indestructible Type.
Indestructible Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A condensed American Gothic drawn for the City of Chicago, with display and text optical cuts.
Patric King / Occupant
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A slightly narrow slab made for screens, with a real italic, from Huerta Tipográfica.
Huerta Tipográfica
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A variable Bodoni with optical size, drawn by Owen Earl, from text to high-contrast display.
Indestructible Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A slightly quirky Grotesque with a width axis, comfortable in titles and short UI labels.
Mathieu Triay
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
New
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A vertical and chromatic signage face by David Jonathan Ross, commissioned with Cooper Hewitt, OFL.
David Jonathan Ross
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A classicist's serif with deep coverage of ancient and medieval characters, by David J. Perry.
David J. Perry
Licence: OFL-1.1
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The monospaced face of Windows Terminal, with optional ligatures and a matching handwriting-like cursive axis.
Microsoft
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A casual handwriting face by Impallari Type, more even than most script fonts, useful for notes.
Impallari Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A sturdy bitext serif from SIL, related to Charter, built for linguistic and literacy work.
SIL International
Licence: OFL-1.1
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An ultra-heavy slab by Caroline Hadilaksono, for a single loud word on a poster.
The League of Moveable Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
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An Italian open-source type collective. Families are free to download, with licences stated on each typeface page.
Collletttivo
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A low-contrast variable sans with a flare axis, comfortable in both body and titles.
Kostas Bartsokas
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A display Garamond with several optical grades (Infant, Garamond, Unicase and more) in one project.
Christian Thalmann
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A soft, rounded slab from Omnibus Type, comfortable in short text and titles.
Omnibus Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A contemporary old-style by Jacques Le Bailly, refined from Crimson Text, with a large weight range.
Jacques Le Bailly
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A lively informal script with a connected baseline, one of Impallari Type's early open releases.
Impallari Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A low-contrast geometric sans commissioned from Colophon Foundry, with a serif and a mono in the same project.
Colophon Foundry
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A careful open Garamond, started by Georg Duffner and expanded by Octavio Pardo, for long text.
Georg Duffner, Octavio Pardo
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A slightly squarish sans by Tyler Finck, with nine weights and italics, drawn for distinctive headings.
Etcetera Type Co
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A Scandinavian grotesque drawn for the Familjen agency, compact and a little sharp in the details.
Familjen
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A slightly loose, handwritten-feeling mono that stays readable in editors, by Jany Belluz.
Jany Belluz
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A soft old-style based on Fairfield, released by the League for body text in print and on screen.
The League of Moveable Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A simple geometric sans aimed at product UI, with a clean italic and a full weight range.
Erik Kennedy
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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Mozilla's interface sans, designed by Carrois, with a wide weight range and a well-known monospaced companion.
Mozilla
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A package registry that self-hosts open fonts via npm, with licence metadata for each family.
Fontsource
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A monospaced version of Helvetica, drawn by Wei Huang, useful when a UI mono has to match a grotesque.
Wei Huang
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A rounded, slightly playful sans that still holds up in UI, with a width axis in the variable file.
Milena Brandão
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A soft, slightly squarish display sans with a wide weight range, released through Google Fonts.
Dicotype
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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Vercel's interface sans, drawn with Basement Studio. Tight spacing, a monospaced companion, and an OFL licence.
Vercel
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
New
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The monospaced companion to Geist, drawn for code and technical UI in the same tone as the sans.
Vercel
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
New
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SIL's book-weight Gentium, a readable serif with deep Latin, Greek and Cyrillic coverage.
SIL International
Licence: OFL-1.1
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GitHub's open brand type: Mona Sans, Hubot Sans and the Monaspace coding family, all under the OFL.
GitHub
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A high-contrast display serif with sharp terminals, for short headlines rather than body text.
Duarte Pinto
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A contemporary Russian-designed sans for interfaces and text, with strong Cyrillic and Latin coverage.
ParaType
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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The largest public library of open-licence fonts. A distribution channel, not a foundry, and a useful place to compare families.
Google
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The Polish TeX group's type programme: Latin Modern and the TeX Gyre families, with licences stated on each page.
GUST e-foundry
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A bit-power fork of Bitstream Vera / DejaVu Sans Mono, tuned for source code on screens.
Source Foundry
Licence: MIT
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The companion to Mona Sans, a slightly squarer Grotesque also commissioned by GitHub from Degarism.
GitHub
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
New
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An Argentine foundry behind Alegreya, Bitter, Andada and Piazzolla. Several families are available under the OFL.
Huerta Tipográfica
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IBM's corporate family, designed with Bold Monday, released under the OFL in sans, serif, mono and several scripts.
IBM
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The monospaced cut of IBM Plex, a clear coding face that shares the family's slightly Gothic tone.
IBM
Licence: OFL-1.1
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The serif cut of IBM Plex, a contemporary old-style with the same tone as the sans and mono.
IBM
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A humanist sans drawn for accessibility, with clear letterforms and a modest x-height for longer reading.
Olivia King
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
New
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An early humanist coding face by Raph Levien, still a clean choice for printouts and editors.
Raph Levien
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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Owen Earl's foundry. Jost, Besley, Bodoni Moda and other revivals are released under the OFL.
Indestructible Type
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Instrument's variable sans, a clean Grotesque with a typographic italic, released as open source.
Instrument
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
New
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A sharp display serif from Instrument, designed to sit next to Instrument Sans, with a striking italic.
Instrument
Licence: OFL-1.1
New
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A slender, highly customisable open monospaced family, with many built-in stylistic sets for coding.
Belleve Invis
Licence: OFL-1.1
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An open revival of the Renner / Futura idea, drawn by Owen Earl, with a full weight axis.
Indestructible Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A monospaced typeface made for the Julia language, with deep Unicode coverage for maths and symbols.
cormullion
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A sturdy, slightly humanist sans by Caroline Hadilaksono, one of the League's early open families.
The League of Moveable Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A grotesque with slightly square curves, originally drawn for Latin and later expanded.
Jonny Pinhorn
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A family with classical proportions and a warm curve, designed by Łukasz Dziedzic in Warsaw.
Łukasz Dziedzic
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A revival of Alternate Gothic, condensed and loud, one of the League's first open releases.
The League of Moveable Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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The League's monospaced family, with a wide range of weights and widths for code and typographic samples.
The League of Moveable Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A bold, geometric revival of ATF's Spartan, one of the League's early open releases.
The League of Moveable Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A sans researched for reading speed and comfort, with several width grades in the family.
Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A fork of Linux Libertine that keeps the typographic character and adds sturdier metrics and maths.
Philipp H. Poll, Khaled Hosny, Caleb Maclennan
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A Baskerville cut for body sizes on screen, from Impallari Type, with regular, italic and bold.
Impallari Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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An open revival of Morris Fuller Benton's Franklin Gothic, started by Impallari Type.
Impallari Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A contemporary old-style with a calligraphic italic, drawn by Cyreal with strong Cyrillic coverage.
Cyreal
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A semi-condensed modern sans with low contrast, designed as a workhorse for headings and UI.
Mikhail Sharanda
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A monospaced family from Evil Martians, with a width axis and a slightly technical tone.
Evil Martians
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A sturdy text serif designed for screens, slightly condensed, with a matching sans.
Sorkin Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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GitHub's variable brand sans, designed by Degarism, with a width axis that runs from condensed to extended.
GitHub
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
New
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GitHub Next's family of related monospaced fonts (Neon, Argon, Xenon, Radon, Krypton) with texture healing.
GitHub
Licence: OFL-1.1
New
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A grid-built display type based on a 1971 experiment by François Mourier, reissued at Velvetyne.
Velvetyne
Licence: OFL-1.1
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Mozilla's open type work includes Fira Sans and Fira Mono, and Zilla Slab (designed with Typotheque).
Mozilla
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A minimalist sans that grew from Muli, with careful italics and a wide weight range.
Vernon Adams, Jacques Le Bailly
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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The sans cut of Noto, Google's project to cover every writing system, with a huge Latin-Greek-Cyrillic core.
Google
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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The serif cut of Noto's Latin-Greek-Cyrillic core, designed to sit next to Noto Sans.
Google
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A rounded sans well suited to friendly UI, expanded from Vernon Adams's Nunito by Jacques Le Bailly.
Jacques Le Bailly
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A Buenos Aires foundry whose retail library includes many OFL releases also hosted on Google Fonts (Archivo, Saira, Ballet).
Omnibus Type
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A simple geometric sans with a wide weight range, released through Google Fonts.
Dmitri Voloshin, Andrey Kudryavtsev
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A public host for open-licence fonts, predating many of the larger libraries. Check the licence on each file.
Open Font Library
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A widely used humanist sans by Steve Matteson, released under the Apache licence rather than the OFL.
Steve Matteson
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A Brussels workshop that makes and publishes open typographic tools and typefaces, with licences on each project.
Open Source Publishing
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A tall, narrow display sans by Tyler Finck, for posters and wordmarks rather than paragraphs.
The League of Moveable Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A reworking of the classic Gothic style of Alternate Gothic, widely used for headlines.
Vernon Adams
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A geometric sans with a friendly stance, built as a variable family for titles and UI.
OmarType / Rodrigo Fuenzalida
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A very condensed, slightly brutal display sans from Velvetyne, for posters and tight headlines.
Velvetyne
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A news and editorial serif with an optical-size axis, designed by Juan Pablo del Peral at Huerta.
Huerta Tipográfica
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A high-contrast transitional display serif, in the lineage of the later Baskervilles and Scotts.
Claus Eggers Sørensen
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A contemporary Indonesian Grotesque with open counters and a generous weight axis.
Tokotype
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A compact roman by Barry Schwartz, useful when a page needs a slightly narrow, bookish serif.
The League of Moveable Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
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Part of the public-type project for the Russian language, a readable humanist sans with a serif companion.
ParaType
Licence: OFL-1.1
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The serif companion to PT Sans, a transitional text face released for public use by ParaType.
ParaType
Licence: OFL-1.1
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The U.S. Web Design System's open sans, forked from Libre Franklin and maintained in the open under the OFL.
U.S. Web Design System
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The open typeface of CBC/Radio-Canada, a humanist sans with a narrow companion for tight columns.
CBC/Radio-Canada
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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The display cut of Red Hat's family, with a bit more contrast, for titles next to Red Hat Text.
Red Hat
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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The monospaced cut of Red Hat's open family, designed to match Red Hat Text in code and samples.
Red Hat
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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The text cut of Red Hat's open family, slightly more compact than the Display file, for body and UI.
Red Hat
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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Red Hat's open family: Display, Text and Mono, published under the OFL on GitHub.
Red Hat
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The variable, many-axis successor to Roboto, with grade, width and optical size on top of weight.
Google
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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The slab companion to Roboto, a straightforward Egyptian useful in headings and short text.
Google
Licence: Apache-2.0
Variable
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A semi-condensed to extended family from Omnibus Type, useful when a layout needs a range of widths.
Omnibus Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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Schibsted's open news sans, a sturdy Grotesque drawn for headlines and digital news typography.
Schibsted
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A typographic take on Shantell Martin's handwriting, variable, by Arrow Type, for notes and friendly UI.
Arrow Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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The organisation behind the OFL itself, and behind Gentium, Charis, Andika and many literacy and script fonts.
SIL International
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Adobe's open monospaced family, designed to sit with Source Sans, with a wide weight range.
Adobe
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A serif commissioned by Google for long articles, with a real italic and a set of text weights.
Production Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
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The monospaced companion to Spline Sans, a friendly technical mono from Sorkin Type.
Sorkin Type
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A heavy, slightly awkward grotesque from Velvetyne, based on a 20th-century sports-programme letter.
Velvetyne
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A scientific publishing project that maintains STIX Two, a Times-descended family with a very large symbol set, OFL.
STI Pub
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A display sans with five weights, slightly off-geometric, released by Bonjour Monde.
Bonjour Monde
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A Palatino-inspired open text serif from the Polish TeX group GUST, with a matching maths set.
GUST e-foundry
Licence: GUST Font License
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Canonical's Ubuntu typography, released under the Ubuntu Font Licence, including the current Sans and Mono files.
Canonical
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The current Ubuntu interface sans, released under the Ubuntu Font Licence, with a matching mono.
Canonical
Licence: UFL-1.0
Variable
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The monospaced member of the current Ubuntu family, under the Ubuntu Font Licence.
Canonical
Licence: UFL-1.0
Variable
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A squarish display sans commissioned for the Unbounded ecosystem, with deep cuts in the heavier weights.
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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The studio of Spencer Charles and Flavia Zimbardi. Fraunces is their best-known OFL release.
Undercase Type
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A long-running directory of open-licence typefaces, useful when you want a typographic recommendation rather than a full library.
Use & Modify
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A wide, squarish display face inspired by early digital and video-game lettering, from Velvetyne.
Velvetyne
Licence: OFL-1.1
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A coding font with an unusual italic and optional ligatures, drawn by Rune Bjørnerås.
Rune Bjørnerås
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A Grotesque based on early Grotesques, optimised for screen, with a wide weight range.
Wei Huang
Licence: OFL-1.1
Variable
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A compact old-style with a slightly dark colour, drawn by NoirBlancRouge for editorial use.
NoirBlancRouge
Licence: OFL-1.1
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Mozilla's open slab, designed by Typotheque, with a slightly sharp Egyptian structure.
Mozilla / Typotheque
Licence: OFL-1.1
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