Typography

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Typefaces, free font services, and the display faces worth keeping in a shortlist.

Typefaces22Font Services & Libraries14Display & Decorative1

For an agent. Look here when you must choose or install a font, need a licence-safe alternative to a paid face, or must pair a display face with a UI face.

Best in classFontshare100 free font families, 926 styles, served from a public CSS APITypographyFont ServiceTypeface
Best in classFontsource2,096 open-source font families as versioned npm packagesTypographyFont ServiceRegistry
Best in classGoogle Fonts11,942 open-licensed families with a free CDN and a public metadata endpointTypographyFont ServiceTypeface
Best in classInterOpen-source UI typeface: 9 weights, true italics, text and display optical sizesTypographyTypeface
Best in classSwitzerFree neo-grotesque from ITF: 9 weights, matching italics, variable, 135 languagesTypographyTypefaceFont Service
Strong pickAzeret Proportional16-style mono-linear sans from Displaay, with a free Mono cut on Google FontsTypographyTypeface
Strong pickDeparture MonoOFL monospaced pixel typeface with a lo-fi technical vibe, built for tabular dataTypographyTypeface
Strong pickDisplaay Type Foundry33 retail families including Reckless, Roobert, Teodor and Matter, with a licence priced by the size of your businessTypographyTypefaceStudio
Strong pickFontpairCurated Google Fonts and Fontshare pairings, with an AI prompt exportTypographyFont ServiceGallery
Strong pickFree Faces87 hand-picked free-licence typefaces, filterable by six classificationsTypographyGalleryDirectory
Strong pickGeistVercel's OFL typeface trio: Sans, Mono, and five Pixel variantsTypographyTypeface
Strong pickKlim Type FoundryNew Zealand retail foundry behind Söhne, Tiempos, Founders Grotesk and Untitled SansTypographyTypefaceStudio
Strong pickOpen Foundry25 open-source typefaces, each with a written specimen page naming the licence, the designer and every weightTypographyTypefaceDirectory
Strong pickPangram Pangram62 trend-forward families with free trial versions and commercial licences from $40TypographyTypefaceStudio
Strong pickSuperior Type39 font pages built on 18 families, nearly all variable, with Latin, Cyrillic and Greek and a plain three-licence modelTypographyTypefaceStudio
Strong pickThe League of Moveable TypeThe first open-source font foundry, running since 2009, with 18 free families and a licensing bookTypographyTypefaceStudio
Strong pickTransfonterConverts font files to a full @font-face kit — WOFF2, CSS, subsets and a demo pageTypographyToolFont Service
Strong pickUse & ModifyCurated catalogue of 191 libre typefaces you may legally modify and redistributeTypographyTypefaceDirectory
Strong pickVelvetyne Type Foundry42 libre typefaces under the SIL Open Font License, free for commercial useTypographyTypefaceStudio
Basement Foundry11 retail typefaces from basement.studio, $25-$120 personalTypographyTypefaceMarketplace
Best Free Fonts214 genuinely free fonts in five classes, each showing its style count and whether it is variableTypographyDirectoryGallery
CollletttivoItalian open-source type collective publishing 16 typefaces, funded by donationsTypographyTypefaceStudio
Dotted InkDecorative handwritten display face built from dotted, circular calligraphic formsTypographyTypeface
ExtrasetSwiss foundry with 16 ES families priced flat in Swiss francs, under a EULA that refuses any organisation over 50 employeesTypographyTypefaceStudio

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