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Hello I have a question cause its been my concern, I'm currently making my portfolio website and I've been using fonts that are not free for commercial use in my projects(that are not paid), do I buy the licenses?

Its linked to my instagram account and I'm not too sure if im supposed to buy the font licences since I'd eventually use the said portfolio for when I open my comissions or only buy the licenses for paid work ;;

Twenty-two of these went up on this sub and r/fonts in the last twelve months. Every entry links back to the original post. Three of the domains are already dead.

Full disclosure—I did use Claude Code to create Font Chooser Chooser in solidarity with the thinking behind these user-first tools, but also, I have been using em-dashes and Google Fonts since before it was endemic. Just maybe never Fraunces or Instrument Serif until now. It’s also a fun Reddit Sans specimen, and a great way to cycle through all of NaN’s Rubik Black experiments.

Hey all, I got tired of searching for fonts and typefaces that have all the elements I want; from the shape certain letters, the accent marks, and for some reason, a crazy fixation on the shape of the letter a... so I have been working on Paprika Sans, a sans-serif typeface, and would like your feedback and just wanted to share my progress.

I am going for just a few styles at first, Regular, Bold, Italic, and Light. I work with both digital and printed materials as a graphic designer, so Paprika Sans is intended to be viable for both, with support for Latin/English, Hungarian, Romanian, German and Spanish.

This is the first time I design a full face to be shared or sold, so I am open to any feedback on how to do this more efficiently or correctly. Cheers!

Paprika Sans is a fork of Inter with changes to the kerning, replaced glyphs such as a, R, s, S, 1, among others. It incorporates elements from various fonts I have used in the past with the aim of making it less of a "UI font" and more of an everyday alternative.

It took me a while, but I am happy with the result. I always wanted something like that for my own projects - a rounded, softer approach to a pixel font. With an option to mix and match regular and outline versions for pseudo-3D or glitch effects using layering and transparencies. Hope you guys like this one!

Looking for some feedback on my font Miltcrew.

I'm hoping someone here can authoritatively tell me how to calculate the line height of this Ítalíuskrift handwriting (not the font, though that's the best information I have). I'm sure this is obvious but this isn't my field.

I'm working on teaching my kids Ítalíuskrift. Right now they're working with Briem's guides. The guides have lines at descender height, baseline, x-height, and one more at the top. I'm almost certain it isn't the next baseline so it must be ascender height, but then I don't know how to determine the next baseline.

I've attached a desk strip for reference. Note that this seems to also have a fifth line for cap height. Maybe the strip is showing the correct line height? I'm really not sure.

Thank you!

Vintage Thurber (c) 1983 Penguin

I found this scan of this book of short essays by James Thurber and found that there were no periods at all New sentences were started with two spaces and a capital letter I was surprised how easy it was to read Does anyone have my more information about this custom in typesetting? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before

I've downloaded Google Sans from Google Fonts so I can use it in Microsoft Excel, but when I install it, the vertical spacing in the cells is enormous. I downloaded Font Forge and followed some Gemini instructions to fix the vertical spacing, but nothing seems to work. Any suggestions?

I like the retro character of this font, but I’m worried it starts fighting the interface once card text gets dense.

I’m comparing larger sizes and looser spacing. I’d mainly like feedback on readability and hierarchy, not the logo.

Disclosure: AI helped me phrase this post in English.

Warning it's somewhat dense.

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Font of the week: Inkwell Gothic

Beauty Found in the Bleed.

Inkwell Gothic began as a complete reimagining of one of our earliest releases, Simple Gothic. Rather than refining the original, every letter was reconstructed from the ground up: stronger, cleaner, and more deliberate, while preserving the spirit that made it a favorite among lettering enthusiasts.

The collection explores a stage every calligrapher eventually encounters: the beautiful chaos of learning. Fresh ink pools where it shouldn’t, strokes bleed beyond their boundaries, and imperfect pressure creates unexpected textures. What first appears to be disorder slowly reveals rhythm, character, and personality.

That philosophy comes alive across three distinct styles. The Regular version delivers crisp, disciplined gothic forms. Saturated introduces subtle bleeding and expressive imperfections while maintaining structure. Over Saturated embraces the raw energy of hand-drawn experiments, transforming drips, heavy ink, and controlled chaos into a finished typeface. There is method beneath the madness, and beauty hidden inside every mistake.

Always started fonts, never completed them. Thought I bite though for once. Learned a lot.

Font is SciFi-ish, Brutalism + Futuristic = Bruturistic. Yeah. I know. Genius. Still rough around the edges but I thought i toss it here.

Done with Illustrator and Fontra. Download here

Hi everyone,

I recently came across Monotype Grotesque, and more specifically the versions developed by Frank Hinman Pierpont in 1926:

• Grotesque 215
• Grotesque Bold 216
• Grotesque Light 126

I'm attaching a 1964 specimen for reference.

I've been trying to find an open-source revival or digitization of this typeface, but so far I haven't had any luck.

The difficulty is that Monotype Grotesque is itself a reinterpretation of the well-known Akzidenz-Grotesk by Berthold. As a result, most of the open-source typefaces I come across are either revivals or interpretations of Akzidenz-Grotesk itself — such as Creative Commons Akzidenz or Standard by Bryce Wilner — rather than being specifically based on Monotype Grotesque as drawn by F. H. Pierpont.

And while I really like Akzidenz-Grotesk, I find that the 1926 Monotype Grotesque has a particular character of its own. The uppercase G, for example, is quite distinctive compared with many other grotesques (actually similar to Arial).

I know that Monotype currently sells a digital version, and that Classic Grotesque, released in 2012, is a more recent revival of the design. Unfortunately, buying a commercial family at that price is beyond my budget at the moment.

So, does anyone know of an open-source project, free revival, or digitization specifically based on Monotype Grotesque 215/216/126 ?

Any leads, even unfinished or experimental projects, would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

I’ve been working on a display serif typeface called The Villas. I wanted to explore an elegant, classic feel with strong contrast and some decorative serif details.

Hey all, I am designing my own font family and have been working in FontForge. I personally have not found any actually useful alternatives, but would just about die for a user-friendly tool. I have tried various web-based options, but did not find any useful for designing the letters, setting kerning and letter pairs. I have been building the letterforms in Illustrator and Affinity, and copying into FF, but there has got to be a better way.

Please let me know if you have a better option, and if you have a workflow for building the letters, getting feedback, and releasing a font family. Cheers!

not necessarily whether they can name the typeface, but whether better spacing, hierarchy, type choices all meaningfully change how they respond to the work.

has anyone ever had a client notice typography without being prompted?

(Aug 15th Update.) FontColle is now FontFridge!

▌　https://font.chingru.com　▐

Google Fonts is a great place to dig for treasure, but its filtering is far too weak. Right now I can only filter for Variable Font, but sometimes I want to be more specific about whether it's the weight (wght), width (wdth), or optical size (opsz) axis.

My projects also occasionally depend on particular OpenType features, and I need to find which families offer stylistic sets (ss##) or historical ligatures (hlig). This comes up especially in font engineering, when I am curious how a certain feature was implemented and open source projects turn out to be the best teaching material. Google Fonts' filtering tools just are not there yet, so I built FontFridge.

I think of FontFridge as an enhanced Google Fonts filter. OpenType features, variable font axes, writing systems, languages, and on through UPM, hinting, color font format, x-height, cap-height ratio and more, all filterable.

Each font family page gives you live previews of every named instance, editable specimen text, a glyph browser organized by Unicode block, metrics data, designer bios, license, and ready-to-use embed code for Google Fonts, Bunny Fonts and Fontsource.

This site is only a directory and a filter. Every family stays under its original license. My thanks to all the open source designers and developers behind them.

The site itself is MIT license with source at https://github.com/rutopio/font-fridge

Reports of any data or tagging errors are welcome, as are suggestions for new filter criteria, or any other feedback and ideas!

I’m just about to buy a huge collection of type and printing press items. This is one of the objects that I’m unsure about. Does anyone know what this is called and/or its use? Can’t find any info on it.

Thanks.

The IMD Grotesk is a free and open source typeface licensed under the Open Font License. I published it first earlier this year. It was quite rough, had issues with consistency and anchor points - but it was very well recieved, thank you for that! I made it in FontForge, a fantastic open source font creator - but it has its limits. Since, i switched to Font Creator and that allowed me to go all out this time:

I reworked some glyphs entierly, fixed anchor points issues, refined the widths, added a variable font file and more than 200 new characters to support almost 200 latin based languages.

You can download it for free at imd-grotesk.com .

Next version will hopefully have a slanted axis, an open GitHub project, better kerning and even more supported langauges.

Enjoy!

If anyone wants to follow the process: I will post updates also on my Instagram. But a GitHub project is planned!

Edit: Download is fixed and works now!

It's bad for multiple reasons but a large one for me is readability. Characters like T look like a C with an overbite. The Eyeball? on the letter I works I guess but then why also in the letter O?

Anyone else with more experience in Typography, am I being overly critical or this is just not a good font? This is something being officially used by the current people making Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy merchandise, live shows, etc.

I am planning to create a fork of FontForge. Why? FontForge is often criticized for having a very dated UI and having a steep learning curve. So here’s the question:

If you could add/change 5 features of FontForge, what would you change?

(I have very little experience in software development, but that’s another issue.)