opensourcedesign/fonts

Archived since there are many great open source font sites already, see https://github.com/opensourcedesign/fonts/issues/21

Free Open Source Fonts

This started as my collection of free fonts that I continually use in my work, and I wanted to be able to easily sync them between my computers. I thought it might be useful to others, so here they are.

Clone into your ~/.local/share/fonts or ~/Library/Fonts directory

I have tried to be very thorough with checking each license before including it here, but I might have missed something, if I'm accidentally infringing on any copyrights, just drop me a message and I will remove non-free fonts immediately

List of fonts

These fonts may or may not be included in the repository

Sans Serif

• Gidole, by Andreas Larsen — a geometric sans, along the lines of DIN. Currently in progress but available for download and usage. OFL license.

fonts's Issues

Use NPM or Bower to make git hosted fonts "installable"

As per what @colepeters @jancborchardt @simonv3 were mentioning in #2 about how to put a font in a repo... or rather, not do it and just put a link...

How do you three (and others) feel about making a package.json file that installs fonts from git repos via NPM or bower.json using Bower. Then basically the flow to download our opensource fonts would be as follows:

• Make sure Node (or Bower) is installed
• Clone this repo
• Type npm install

At this point NPM would go out and fetch all the fonts from the various git repos where they live.

Type design

I'm thinking: "where there is a font, there is a type designer".
Are there already os type designers here? And would we need info from / for this part of opensourcedesign?

Polish translataion for Free fonts needs update

Currently FreeSans Normal is translated to "odmiana zwykła". For easiest reading this should be "Normalny", starting with capital.
FreeSans Oblique is translated to "kursywa". It's ok, but starting with capital too would look nicer: "Kursywa"
Same thing with FreeSerif
FreeMono is ok!

So:
Normal = Normalny
Oblique = Kursywa
Bold = Pogrubiony
BoldOblique = Pogrubiona kursywa

Hope that helps.

OCRA and OCRB license clarification

Since the licenses of OCRA and B are blurry, unless a real clarification, I suggest not to include it in the repo.

Great font resources

I'd like to suggest this great open source font resource by @raphaelbastide: http://usemodify.com/
And the CMS that supports it is open source too.

Manual "merge request"

I already have a quite extensive list of free fonts here: https://github.com/qwazix/fonts

Since I cannot create a normal pull request due to my repo not being a fork, I'm requesting permission to just merge the two repos manually. My repo contains a text file with links to fonts that are not open source but gratis. I will remove the list before merging in order to avoid confusion.

Fira out of date

The Fira font from Mozilla is out of date.
https://github.com/mozilla/Fira

Define use cases & implementations of these fonts

Figuring out "use cases" and user persona's of who we want this repo (and collection) of nice free fonts to be useful for, and of what skill level they should be, in order to use them is in order!

I see the following user cases / stories / implementations:

1. The Web Browser - who wants to discover nice new fonts (website embeds)
2. The Designer - who just wants to download a collection of well design free open source fonts (zip, tar files)
3. The Web Dev - who wants to include webfonts in their web app via various formats (wget, curl, npm, bower)
4. The Linux User - who wants to install fonts on their desktop (apt-get, yum, pacman)

Perhaps there are others and perhaps I'm missing something / not thinking in best cases, but please chime in!

Create a Debian package for "freedom fonts"

Wouldn't it be awesome if one could do sudo apt-get install freedom-fonts and then get all sorts of cool open licensed "design-y" fonts installed on your Linux machine? I sure think it would be!!!

I started working towards this using Launchpad.net as per @eighthave instruction, as my Debian (and packaging in general) knowledge is are lacking. I need to revist this effort and will update as I make progress!

Add explaination for "These fonts may or may not be included in the repository"

I assume that non including these fonts has a reasons like that the license is unclear for us or that it is work in progress (like gidole).
It would be great to include some explanation for not including these fonts – so people new to the repo could see why we did not add those.

Arsenal

Arsenal (aka "Ukrainian Type")

• https://github.com/alexeiva/Arsenal

Do we really want to maintain our own fonts repository?

We already list 3 big platforms of where to get openly licensed fonts on our Resources page – Open Font Library, The League of Movable Type, and Google Fonts. A pull request to add further font resources is at opensourcedesign/opensourcedesign.github.io#241

Rather than adding fonts here, needing to maintain them, update outdated fonts (see "Fira out of date #13", "Polish translation for Free fonts needs update #17"), we should encourage people to submit their typefaces to the existing platforms.

And even if they are not on these platforms (e.g. like Public Sans), it would be better to link to the original repository on the resources page than put them in our own repository at the danger of them being outdated. (Related, @freder already collected a huge list of open source typefaces, although on a proprietary platform.)

cc @davelab6 @cameralibre @aiscarvalho @xuv @raphaelbastide @latsami @jdittrich @evalica @n8willis @qwazix and others what do you think?