Studios, companies and libraries that release free and open-licence type, or host it.
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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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Stephen Nixon's studio. Recursive and Shantell Sans are open; other retail families sit alongside the OFL work.
Arrow Type
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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 package registry that self-hosts open fonts via npm, with licence metadata for each family.
Fontsource
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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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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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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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Owen Earl's foundry. Jost, Besley, Bodoni Moda and other revivals are released under the OFL.
Indestructible Type
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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 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 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 Brussels workshop that makes and publishes open typographic tools and typefaces, with licences on each project.
Open Source Publishing
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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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Red Hat's open family: Display, Text and Mono, published under the OFL on GitHub.
Red Hat
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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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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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Canonical's Ubuntu typography, released under the Ubuntu Font Licence, including the current Sans and Mono files.
Canonical
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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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Newsletter
An occasional note when a family is added.