Existing Free Fonts

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1 Free Fonts
2 Scans
3 People
4 Pixel Fonts
5 Freeware Fonts
6 Foundries

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!

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

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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.

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People

FreeDesktop.org also have a list of people to contact.
Debian Weekly News in 2002 listed a bunch of people

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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

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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!"