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Open-source fonts? (midwest.social)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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I’d be really eager to dump my Adobe suite subscription for good, but a significant factor holding me back is how vast and high-quality their font library is. I’ve poked around a bit and found some resources like Open Foundry but beyond that, what I’ve found is relatively sparse.

Are there any good resources for finding open-source (or at least public domain or the like) fonts? Or are there any specific open-source fonts anyone has used before that they’d recommend?

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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

According to their FAQ, all fonts on Google Fonts are open source and their library is pretty extensive, searchable and usable without an account.

So, unless I’m missing something, it seems to be what you’re looking for.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago

    I definitely need to spend some more time on there. I’ll admit I’ve been dismissive of their library, partially because of it being tied up with Google, but also because I tend to recognize their fonts in a lot of different places while I’ve always been able to dig up well-crafted niche typefaces on Adobe that suit my design applications

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    • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Google Fonts is a great collection of open-source licensed fonts.

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    • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Don’t have an answer to this, but I did dump my adobe subscription recently so I’ll be following with great interest.

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I’ve been using homebrew as an OS agnostic package manager. It’s been surprisingly great on Linux btw! And when I went hunting for fonts, I found that homebrew has a huge collection of fonts available for easy install. I personally found the GitHub repo easier to explore. I can’t be sure that they’re all open source but I expect that a large number of them are

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    • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    https://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/ https://fontlibrary.org/ Those are the only two I have used.

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I'm a fan of Linux Libertine. Very nice serif font.

    For monospace, Inconsolata.

    Sans serif... I'm honestly not sure. Haven't found any that particularly stand out I suppose.

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