FLOSS Fonts
Dec. 13th, 2016 10:55 amThis 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/
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/