Science Fiction Free and Open Source Software

Sep. 8th, 2025 08:45 am
I've been collecting some FLOSS links to programs that might be of interest to science fiction enthusiasts for a while now. Thought I'd document them in one place.

Here are some FLOSS useful projects for anyone interested in astronomy:
https://nightsky.sourceforge.net/
https://portableapps.com/de/apps/education/stellarium_portable
https://portableapps.com/apps/education/celestia_portable
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.tengel.planisphere/
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.google.android.stardroid/
https://www.openspaceproject.com/

Here are some science fiction related games:
https://github.com/IceCreamYou/Daleks--JS-web-version-
https://gitlab.com/esr/super-star-trek
https://github.com/jj1bdx/bsdtrek
http://starvoyager.bluesky.me.uk/
https://www.netrek.org/
https://identicalsoftware.com/games/smalltrek
https://scp.indiegames.us/
https://web.archive.org/web/20200129140943/http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/game/starlanes.html

Here are some science fiction related apps:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.example.android.maxpapers/
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.ddns.mlsoftlaberge.trycorder/
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.tlhInganHol.android.klingonassistant/

There are several projects related to LCARS ( Library Computer Access and Retrieval System ) used by the UFP. Here are some of them:
https://github.com/louh/lcars
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcars24/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcars/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcars-system-3/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lcars-win/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gtklcars/

Have I missed any of your favorite science fiction themed Free, Libre and Open Source Software? Feel free to recommend some new links: https://fosstodon.org/@lmemsm
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FLOSS Fonts

Dec. 13th, 2016 10:55 am
This is a list of mono-spaced fonts, Unicode fonts, font resources in general and useful FLOSS font sites.

Monospaced fonts are particularly useful for programming. They can help improve readability. Some programming editors (like PFE) only work with monospaced fonts. Other editors allow the use of more varied fonts. However, monospaced fonts are useful when working with PRE tags in HTML, ASCII art and in other areas.

Other useful fonts include Unicode fonts for internationalized projects and fonts for people with handicaps or disabilities such as fonts designed for people with dyslexia.

Using a Free, Libre or Open Source font or a public domain or Creative Commons licensed font makes it easy to reuse fonts in Open Source (or even commercial) projects.


Bitmap Fonts

woafon
Fonts for DOS and Windows Command Prompts
http://www.resoo.org/docs/dos/free_software/windos.htm


Free Monospaced Fonts (Bitmap)

Dina Programming Font
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Jibz/Dina

efont
Electronic Font Open Laboratory
http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/efont/index.html.en

Envy Code A
https://damieng.com/typography/envy-code-a

Envy Code B
https://damieng.com/typography/envy-code-b

Gohufont
http://font.gohu.org/

Liberation Fonts
https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/

MonteCarlo
http://www.bok.net/MonteCarlo/

Profont
MIT license
http://tobiasjung.name/profont/
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts/ProFont

Proggy Fonts
http://www.proggyfonts.net/

Raize font
http://web.archive.org/web/20180627152019/http://www.raize.com/DevTools/Tools/RzFont.asp
https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts

Sans Forgetica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans_forgetica

Tamsyn
http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/

Terminus font
Includes a large size font especially useful for terminals in framebuffer mode on Linux systems.
http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/

Triskweline
http://www.netalive.org/tinkering/triskweline/


Free Truetype Monospaced Fonts

Adobe Fonts
https://github.com/adobe-fonts

Andika
http://software.sil.org/andika/

Bitstream Vera
https://download.gnome.org/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/

Crystal
Available with Povray software.
https://github.com/POV-Ray/povray/tree/master/distribution/include
http://www.povray.org/povlegal.html

Cutive Mono
https://github.com/vernnobile/CutiveFont

DejaVu Fonts
https://dejavu-fonts.github.io/

Droid Sans Mono
http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-sans-mono-great-coding-font

Envy Code R
https://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-coding-font-released

Font Squirrel Monospaced fonts
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/find_fonts?filter%5Bclassification%5D=monospaced&filter%5Bfamily_size%5D=1&filter%5Bdownload%5D=all&sort=a2z

GNU FreeFont
Freemono
https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/

GNU Unifont
http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html

Inconsolata
http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

Junicode
Unicode font for medievalists
http://junicode.sourceforge.net/

Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular - included with Oracle's Java SDK
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/intl/font.html

Matthew Welch's MIT licensed fonts
White Rabbit worked as a monospaced font
http://www.squaregear.net/fonts/

MonteCarlo
http://www.bok.net/MonteCarlo/

Overpass
https://github.com/RedHatOfficial/Overpass

Oxygen Monospace
Oxygen Fonts
https://github.com/vernnobile/oxygenFont

ParaType
PT Mono
http://www.paratype.com/public/

Roboto Mono
Google's Roboto fonts
https://github.com/google/roboto/

SIL Encore Fonts
Several unicode fonts including some monospaced ones.
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=SILEncoreFonts

Source Code Pro
Adobe Font
http://adobe-fonts.github.io/source-code-pro/
https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro

Space Mono
https://www.1001freefonts.com/space-mono.font

String Literal
https://www.fonts4free.net/string-literal-font.html

Ubuntu Fonts
Ubuntu Mono
http://font.ubuntu.com/

Xerox Alto mono-spaced font
http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-coding-font-released

Hack font
https://sourcefoundry.org/hack/

Hacked fonts
https://github.com/organicplanning/hackedfonts


Other Fonts

EB Garamond
http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/index.html

e-foundry
http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry

et-book
https://github.com/edwardtufte/et-book

Lato Fonts
http://www.latofonts.com/

Libertine Open Fonts Project
http://libertine-fonts.org/

Monocraft
https://github.com/IdreesInc/Monocraft

MPH 2B Damase Font
http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/views/View_MPH2BDamase.html

Proza-Libre
https://github.com/jasperdewaard/Proza-Libre

Simon Tatham's Fonts Page
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/fonts/

Sorts Mill fonts
https://bitbucket.org/sortsmill/sortsmill-fonts

UnB
http://www.marca.unb.br/fontesunb.php


Font Related Links

Codeface
Several monospaced fonts (TrueType, bitmap, OpenType) for developers.
https://github.com/chrissimpkins/codeface

Cufon Type Converter
Convert TTF fonts to cufon font format for web sites. With a few text changes, fonts can be used with Raphael.js too.
http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/

FontForge
Create your own fonts.
http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/
Example fonts in sfd format including Monospace, Caslon and Caliban:
https://fontforge.org/archive/sfds/

Font Library
https://fontlibrary.org/en/terms
https://fontlibrary.org/en/guidebook/existing_libre_open_fonts

Font Squirrel
Handpicked Free Fonts
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/

Google Fonts
https://fonts.google.com/

Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer's Fonts
http://lowing.org/fonts/

OpenDyslexic
http://opendyslexic.org/

SIL Open Font License (OFL)
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=OFL

Wikipedia Open Source Unicode Typefaces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_Unicode_typefaces

Unicode Font Guide For Free/Libre Open Source Operating Systems
http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/
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