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Libre/Open Fonts
Please link to any existing Libre/Open 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 with exception or MIT/X11/Expat!
Individuals Fonts
- Grandjean Baskerville derived from GFS Baskerville. OFL
- Barry S's fonts MIT
- Mutante font in cave9 CC
- Vollkorn CC-BY
- Yanone Kaffeesatz CC
- Yanone Tagesschrift CC
- Vollkornnudeln
- AMS Fonts OFL
- Open Din Schriften Engschrift (OFL, based on PublicDomain master drawings)
- OpenComic Font (CC-BY-SA)
- London 2012 (CC-BY-SA)
- Urdu fonts (PD?)
- Betatype and NitroFurano UbuntuTitling (OFL/GPL)
- Serafettin (GPL)
- RufScript (GPLv3+FE)
- OSI CAD Font (GPLv3+FE)
- Junction (CC-BY-SA)
- Lavoisier (OFL)
- Geekium (OFL) (Gentium derivative)
- OpenBaskerville (OFL)
- Steve Doonan font (OFL)
- Serrafettin is a comic font (GPLv2)
- EcoFont is a vera clone with holes in it to save ink, hence the Eco. Licenced under the Bitstream Vera Licence, which is saved with the font.
- 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 (GPL v3 + FE)
- Matt Chisholm's fonts
- Ed Trager's font archive of libre/open 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 Open Source, see here
- LinuxLibertine font (GPL with FE, OFL)
- Mona Font, a Japanese font for text arts
- OCR-A font (PD)
- Persian Font
- Manchu OpenType Font (OFL)
- Arabeyes Mothana & Thabit (OFL)
- Ancient Hittite Font
- PakType — Pakistani Typography
- Raph Levien's fonts (OFL)
- Roadstencil fonts (OFL)
- Fixedsys (GPL)
- Many libre/open fonts have been created in the TeX world
- greekfontsociety.org already OFL and very high quality!
- thessalonica GPL fonts by Alexej Kryukov
- Theano (OFL)
- 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 (GPLv3)
- TeX Gyre extend some common libre/open URW fonts
- Osmanya script
- JUnicode (GPL) Unicode font for medievalists
- Computer Modern Unicode (MIT License)
- 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
- Aurulent Sans (OFL) by Stephen Hartke, along with his excellent list of libre/opent and freeware fonts, including several more of his own.
- Steve Jordi's handwriting fonts (GPL)
- MgOpen is Times New Roman, Optima, Helvetica and VW Rounded with Latin and Greek Glyphs. All fonts with glyphs for the monotoniko system, and one also with glyphs for polytoniko (Open Source License modeled after Bitstream Vera's)
- 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
- PS/QS
- arkandis Open Fonts
- Vollkorn Brotschrift Oldstyle serif face, especially meant for body setting (CC-BY)
- linuxart (OFL) and jimmac (OFL) and TomsMon (OFL) from novell hack week
- InkBoyFont (OFL)
- Molengo (OFL)
- LazyHandwriter (OFL)
- Perizia (GPLv3)
- CuneiformComposite (OFL)
- [1] NanumGothic Coding Font (OFL). Extremely professional monospaced font, has a line height that fits the Korean Hangul script. Was commissioned by Naver, a large Korean portal.
- Aenigma 465 free TrueType fonts by Brian Kent, in a Debian package
- Character's Fonts Most (though not all) are Public Domain
- Rodger White's Public Domain fonts (despite what the readme files say per [2]
- Peter Wiegel's Cat Fonts GPL with Font Exception and OFL
- Adolfus Public Domain
- Vremya Public Domain
- Liquid Parallax's font's Public Domain
- Mac Humaine Public Domain
- Diogene's Fonts Public Domain
- Alliefont Public Domain
- wa2ise's font's Public Domain
- Daniel Nagura's Fonts Public Domain
- Holitter Studios Public Domain
- George William's Font's OFL
- Digna's Handwriting OFL
- Jean Douteau's Fonts OFL
- Hanazono Minchō Very comprehensive CJKV character (Asian logograph) font generated from data from the GlyphWiki project. Contains over 100.000 kanji/hanja/hán tự/hanzi. Custom free software licence (included in zip archive).
Collections, Lists
- Fedora Fonts Wishlist and Duffys Fonts Page list libre/open fonts and fedora has a list of packaged fonts too
- Debian-Art.org has a fonts category
- TP on Vintage Sans Serifs
Scans
Here is a list of scans of typefaces that could be turned into wonderful libre/open fonts:
- TypArchive.com has photos of many hand lettered signs
- Palatino's calligraphy textbook
- 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
- A German type magazine publishes DVDs of old specimens
- ATF the Garamond series
- Type Specimen flickr mural with many old specimens
- Manuale Tipografico from Giambattista Bodoni (started .sfd and .svg files at http://pastebin.com/f77612771 and http://pastebin.com/f5af09a86 )
- ATF Garamond scans
- 4 Historical Faces discussion on Typophile
- Avil discussion on Typophile
- Please publish scans of public domain type and link to them here!
Please note the TypeRight ethical guide to revivals.
at http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/PublicDomainTypefacesTimeline were some small list of typefaces can be considered as Public Domain, which may help people search their original master drawings on museums, and help us sharing them online - it's organized in a timeline order for an easier reading.
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
- The original Mac distribution of Bitstream Charter contains pixel versions—both regular, bold and bold italic!
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!"
- Conglomerfont is a weird display collaborative font
- 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
- Handwriting 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; Many foundries offer "freemium" fonts such as Carrois and these might be a good place to start.