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?
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
This is an awesome tip. As a web designer that also blocks third party everything, I like to bundle fonts as part of my assets instead of relying on a CDN.
Google Fonts is a great collection of open-source licensed fonts.
If only they weren’t the single reason of the I-l confusion on the internet.
Don’t have an answer to this, but I did dump my adobe subscription recently so I’ll be following with great interest.
https://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/ https://fontlibrary.org/ Those are the only two I have used.
So like…idk? But a hundred years back we used FontSquirrel and DaFont. To be honest, you can download a ton of Google Fonts. I am not sure how good they are for print, but for screen they’re quite good.
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.
