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Freely distributable fonts

Nicolas Raoul edited this page Jul 28, 2015 · 4 revisions

These fonts can be freely distributed, as proved by their license information. You can help:

  1. If you find any other font, please add a comment below and we will add it to the list. Supported writing systems are not important (we can find out), but license information is very important.
  2. If you notice a font that actually is not freely distributable, please add a comment below and we will remove it.

Latin

NAME LICENSE WRITING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED PROJECT WEBSITE DOWNLOAD
Tuffy public domain Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Indian http://tulrich.com/fonts/ http://tulrich.com/fonts/tuffy-20110822.zip
Foglihten No 03 public domain Latin http://www.dafont.com/foglihtenno03.font?fpp=50&l[]=10
Certege italic OFL (SIL Open Font License) Latin, Cyrillic http://openfontlibrary.org/font/certege-italic
Strato OFL (SIL Open Font License) Latin http://openfontlibrary.org/font/strato
Scriptina http://apostrophiclab.pedroreina.net/info.html Latin http://pedroreina.net/apostrophiclab/0158-Scriptina/scriptina.html
Banana Brick OFL (SIL Open Font License) Latin http://openfontlibrary.org/font/banana-brick
Pecita OFL (SIL Open Font License) Latin, others http://openfontlibrary.org/font/pecita

Hebrew

NAME LICENSE WRITING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED PROJECT WEBSITE DOWNLOAD
Asakim OFL (SIL Open Font License) Hebrew http://openfontlibrary.org/font/asakim http://openfontlibrary.org/assets/downloads/asakim/147953fe481073aca3e206e361fd7a00/asakim.zip
Tnua Libre GNU General Public License Hebrew http://openfontlibrary.org/font/tnua-libre http://openfontlibrary.org/assets/downloads/tnua-libre/a3bd7e43878f1d3deb87369d8d06706c/tnua-libre.zip
Stop Motion OFL (SIL Open Font License) Hebrew, Latin http://openfontlibrary.org/font/stop-motion-- http://openfontlibrary.org/assets/downloads/stop-motion--/8800d4124e2a4370239e4444707dc8d4/stop-motion--.zip
Pfennig OFL (SIL Open Font License) Hebrew, Cyrillic, Latin http://openfontlibrary.org/font/pfennig http://openfontlibrary.org/assets/downloads/pfennig/c7a52585a64a0a92857914b5a49da5f9/pfennig.zip
Hebrew Multimode Font public domain Hebrew http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/hebrew/fonts/hebrewmm.html http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/hebrew/fonts/hebrewmm.zip

Cyrillic

NAME LICENSE WRITING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED PROJECT WEBSITE DOWNLOAD
Tuffy public domain Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Indian http://tulrich.com/fonts/ http://tulrich.com/fonts/tuffy-20110822.zip
Certege italic OFL (SIL Open Font License) Latin, Cyrillic http://openfontlibrary.org/font/certege-italic http://openfontlibrary.org/assets/downloads/certege-italic/0d7b7d50088242f15128fbd5ed3fa5a4/certege-italic.zip
Pfennig OFL (SIL Open Font License) Hebrew, Cyrillic, Latin http://openfontlibrary.org/font/pfennig
Neocyr OFL (SIL Open Font License) Cyrillic, Latin http://openfontlibrary.org/font/neocyr http://openfontlibrary.org/assets/downloads/neocyr/ab264f5199213ec554b0eaa11ce18286/neocyr.zip
Triod Postnaja OFL (SIL Open Font License) Cyrillic, Latin http://openfontlibrary.org/font/triod-postnaja http://openfontlibrary.org/assets/downloads/triod-postnaja/064a178a89d1ff5a304797c08b75fa76/triod-postnaja.zip

Chinese (simplified)

NAME LICENSE WRITING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED PROJECT WEBSITE DOWNLOAD
Wang Fonts GNU General Public License Chinese (Jiantizi/Simplified Han Ideographs, Bopomofo), Greek, Latin https://code.google.com/p/wangfonts/ https://wangfonts.googlecode.com/files/wangfonts-1.3.0.zip

More fonts available below, license unknown:

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_ChineseSimplified.html

Chinese (traditional)

NAME LICENSE WRITING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED PROJECT WEBSITE DOWNLOAD
Wang Fonts GNU General Public License Chinese (Fantizi/Traditional Han Ideographs, Bopomofo), Greek, Latin https://code.google.com/p/wangfonts/ https://wangfonts.googlecode.com/files/wangfonts-1.3.0.zip

More fonts available below, license unknown:

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_ChineseTraditional.html

Japanese

NAME LICENSE WRITING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED PROJECT WEBSITE DOWNLOAD
Kochi Substitute Freely distributable with some caveats (In Japanese) Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji, Latin, Greek, Cyrillic http://en.sourceforge.jp/projects/efont/releases/ http://en.sourceforge.jp/frs/redir.php?m=jaist&f=%2Fefont%2F5411%2Fkochi-substitute-20030809.tar.bz2 (need to extract with 7zip)

More fonts available below, license unknown:

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Japanese.html

Korean

NAME LICENSE WRITING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED PROJECT WEBSITE DOWNLOAD

More fonts available below, license unknown:

http://www.wazu.jp/gallery/Fonts_Korean.html

IPA

NAME LICENSE WRITING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED PROJECT WEBSITE DOWNLOAD
Doulos SIL SIL Open Font License IPA http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=DoulosSILfont http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/render_download.php?format=file&media_id=DoulosSIL-4.110.zip&filename=DoulosSIL-4.110.zip

Arabic

NAME LICENSE WRITING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED PROJECT WEBSITE DOWNLOAD
unknown GNU General Public License unknown http://ankidroid.googlecode.com/files/fonts_cm.zip

Greek

NAME LICENSE WRITING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED PROJECT WEBSITE DOWNLOAD
unknown GNU General Public License unknown http://ankidroid.googlecode.com/files/fonts_cm.zip

Persian

NAME LICENSE WRITING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED PROJECT WEBSITE DOWNLOAD
unknown GNU General Public License unknown http://ankidroid.googlecode.com/files/fonts_cm.zip

Thai

NAME LICENSE WRITING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED PROJECT WEBSITE DOWNLOAD
unknown GNU General Public License unknown http://ankidroid.googlecode.com/files/fonts_thai.zip

Khmer

NAME LICENSE WRITING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED PROJECT WEBSITE DOWNLOAD
KhmerOS LGPL Khmer http://sourceforge.net/projects/khmer/files/Fonts%20-%20KhmerOS/KhmerOS%20Fonts%204.0-%20LGPL%20License/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/khmer/files/Fonts%20-%20KhmerOS/KhmerOS%20Fonts%204.0-%20LGPL%20License/khmerOS.ttf/download

Tibetan

NAME LICENSE WRITING SYSTEMS SUPPORTED PROJECT WEBSITE DOWNLOAD
Jomolhari Open Font License Tibetan, Tibetan rendering of Sanskrit https://sites.google.com/site/chrisfynn2/home/fonts/jomolhari https://sites.google.com/site/chrisfynn2/jomolhari-alpha003c.zip

Others

Many fonts can be found at the link below, they seem to be freely distributable, but the specific license information is often unavailable:

http://www.wazu.jp/