What are some less known or underused open source fonts?
What open source don’t should I use for high compatability and legibility?
It’s freeware not open source but I like Monofur. Might not be the most beautiful font but I find it very legible and the distinction between similar characters is quite good. It’s available in the Debian/Ubuntu repositories too.
Comic Neue
Merriweather is great for longer texts. I use it in all book reader apps.
Anonymous Pro is my coding font of choice.
I second the Anonymous Pro!
This is a new one: https://github.com/sayyadirfanali/Myna/
For those who love comic sans I might have bad news: you might be borderline dyslexic.
Switching to OpenDyslexic 3 helps
OpenDyslexic is less good for most dyslexics than you think. It’s based on some ideas of what might be useful rather than specific evidence. I recomend Sylexiad instead. Particularly Sylexiad Sans rather than Serif, but it’s all about finding what works best for you.
Shout out to 0xProto! Texture healing in a monospaced font is super cool!
Rad!
and actually useful ligatures to boot! neat.
Interesting! I hadn’t heard of this before, I’ll have to check it out.
Agave. My favorite monospace/programming font. What I like best about it is how the baseline isn’t where the descenders begin. Makes it look unique in a nice way.
I love this hyperlegible one from the Braille Institute: https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/
Ooh there’s a monospace version too
this is the way
Came looking for this comment! It’s my favorite font of all time. So clean and legible.
I love this font I was going to say this too.
I use this, it’s good.
I’m going to see if I can get this on my Kobo. Thank you for the link!
Do I really need to give them an email to download? Why?
They’re part of my Linux distro’s repo. ttf-atkinson-hyperlegible and otf-atkinson-hyperlegible.
Windows mirror: https://font.download/font/atkinson-hyperlegible
IDK I’m not affiliated with them but maybe use a throwaway email alias.
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I don’t know it it’s underused, but my go to for years gas been League Spartan from The League of Moveable Type
There are too many to mention since there’s so much out there.
You can go to a font website like dafont and perform a search for a font or browse different themes/styles and specify in the results that you want Public domain / GPL / OFL fonts.
Almost all of my fonts are released under an attribution license, so they’re free for commercial use and remixing.
Definitely a lot of fonts I’d very much like using whenever I need a new font next. Thanks!
This doesn’t add anything to the post, so, sorry, but this is a really good question! Thanks for contributing!
I’d say several fonts on Google Fonts (the only place I know lol) are pretty good. I don’t see them mentioned anywhere and I’m not a font enthusiast per se, so I’d call them less known. Some of my favourite - Courier Pro, Doto, Sono, SUSE Mono, Josefin Slab, and Martian Mono.
And a couple others default on my Windows PC that I like: Bookman Old Style, Yu Gothic (Fun fact - this font was used by the hit anime Neon Genesis Evangelion for their english title cards) and wierdly enough, Segoe UI. I love that Windows 8 aesthetic it brought.
