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With over 8,000 freeware fonts, youve come to the best place to download fonts Most fonts on this site are freeware, some are shareware or linkware.
But unless your time has no value, you’ll find it more efficient just to buy a nice professional font (see font recommendations). UrbanFonts features an amazing collection of free fonts, premium fonts and free dingbats. If you refuse, you have no one to blame but yourself.Īs for the gazillions of other free fonts-if you’ve got the patience to pan for gold in a river of crap, knock yourself out. But today, if your project requires free fonts, you have plenty of good options. The fonts above are wonderful! And wonderfully free! Whether my curmudgeonisms have had an impact, I can’t say. Since I launched Practical Typography, I’ve been pushing Charter, a 1987 Matthew Carter design that holds up beautifully on today’s screens. Most recently, IBM’s Mike Abbink worked with Paul van der Laan to make IBM Plex, an immense family covering sans, serif, and mono. The Smithsonian commissioned Chester Jenkins to create the excellent Cooper Hewitt sans serif family. Mozilla hired Erik Spiekermann (see foreword) and Ralph Carrois to make Fira Sans and Fira Mono, designs built upon the adamantium endoskeleton of his longtime bestseller Meta.Īdobe released a very nice monospaced font called Source Code, designed by Paul Hunt and the companion Source Serif, designed by Frank Grießhammer. Across my years raging against this particular machine, organizations that appreciate the value of good design-and had money to spend-funded the development of some free fonts that are actually very good: But early on, certain free-font proponents pushed the argument that somehow, quantity mattered more than quality.įortunately, not everyone felt the same way. Sure, that’s true of many professional fonts too. Instead, my complaint about free fonts has centered on a simpler issue: in terms of design and craftsmanship, most free fonts are garbage. We have more icons, services, and support in Pro. And since were creator owned and operated, we get to make sure Font Awesome Free stays that way. For instance, I couldn’t have redesigned the documentation for Racket, an open-source programming language, without free fonts, because we had to ship them with the software. From the beginning, Font Awesome has been free and open source. On the contrary, fonts without proprietary licensing restrictions fill a need, most of all as a complement to open-source software.
My beef with free fonts is not that they’re useless. Most importantly, you can redistribute copies for free.Īt times I’ve been labeled a free-font curmudgeon.
But rather, released under an open license, most often the OFL, which permits you to do almost anything you want with them.
Not just “free” as in “already installed on your computer” (aka system fonts). Hundreds of free fonts have arrived in recent years.