When downloading a font file from Google fonts, how can I get the license file too? - Stack Overflow
I'm building a desktop application and I'm downloading font ".ttf" files from Google Fonts with the application. I've managed to do that by utilizing the JSON response from the Developer ...
A OpenType/TrueType font file should contain a "name" table, which has an array of so-called "Name Records" that provide all kinds of information like font name, version, creator, copyright, license, etc.
Fore example "Open Sans" has (among others) these two Name Records:
nameId: 13 (License Description)
text: "This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is available with a FAQ at: https://scripts.sil.org/OFL"
nameId: 14 (License Info URL)
text: "http://scripts.sil.org/OFL"
Commit Mono. Neutral programming typeface.
Commit Mono is an anonymous and neutral coding font focused on creating a better reading experience.
GitHub - intel/intel-one-mono: Intel One Mono font repository
Intel One Mono font repository.
The .ttf, .woff and .woff2 fonts provided in the official release have been manually optimized for screen display, improving clarity and legibility, especially on Windows platforms.
Viewing and Editing Sources
Generating Fonts
Proportio.app
Tool for creating proportional scales for typography, iconography, spacing, and components in design systems.
// Font-sizes Major Second, base 16px
$font-size-xsmall: 13px;
$font-size-small: 14px;
$font-size-medium: 16px;
$font-size-medlarge: 18px;
$font-size-large: 20px;
$font-size-xlarge: 23px;
$font-size-xxlarge: 26px;
$font-size-xxxlarge: 32px;
$font-size-giant: 36px;
$font-size-xgiant: 41px;
$font-size-huge: 52px;
It all starts with writing : Type Magazine
Sketches for the typeface, Tret, showing Noordzij’s rough hatching method of sketching.

Typography Manual by Mike Mai
A set of rules that will improve your typography 10x.
Use Traditional Point Sizes
Display Double Canon 4.666
Heading 1 Canon 3.999
Heading 2 Double Great Primer 2.999
Heading 3 Double English 2.333
Heading 4 Double Pica 2.000
Heading 5 Paragon 1.666
Heading 6 English 1.166
Body Pica 1.000
Fine Print 1 Small Pica 0.916
Fine Print 2 Bourgeois 0.750
Use Serif for Italic Text
Reduce Heading Spacing
The spacing between a heading and a paragraph should be less than the regular paragraph spacing. If regular paragraph spacing is used instead, the heading would seem too far away from the paragraph.
Use Thin Space
Thin Space might be the most underrated HTML entity. It can be used for a name like J. K. Simmons. Without spacing, the J and K would seem too close together; with a regular space, they seem too far apart. Insert a thin space and it is just perfect.
The HTML code is . You can go even further with Hair Space
Don’t Use Helvetica, Inter, & Roboto
How to get started with hand-lettering | by Cat Noone | Medium
Earlier this year, I pushed out a tweet about my desire to be a beginner again, learn something new and took a particular interest in…
The relative font weight axis — how variable fonts ease font weight transitions | Stefan Judis Web Development
Variable fonts with a custom relative font weight axis ("GRAD") help to avoid layout shifts when transitioning font-weight.
Modern Font Stacks
System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS. The fastest fonts available. No downloading, no layout shifts, no flashes — just instant renders.
Type Design Resources
Everything from learning the basics to running your own foundry.
Design with FontForge
This is a fantastic introduction to type design, regardless of what software you use.
How does one go about designing their own typeface without any experience?
https://typedesignresources.com
Designing Type by Karen Cheng is an incredible reference, but its not exactly the best way to get started designing your own type IMO. I'd suggest Designing Fonts by Chris Campe & Ulrike Rausch. It's much more of a practical guide and takes you all the way through the type design process from ideation to sketching to vector drawing and letter spacing.
I also found The Stroke: Theory Of Writing by Gerrit Noordzij really helpful for conceptually understanding how to construct letters.
In addition to Cheng and Beier, get Bergsland Practical Font Design and fontmaking software (such as FontLabs). Have fun! If you want to get fancy, check out TypeDrawers, and The OpenType Cookbook.
Proposal: Modification of the Hack license · Issue #271 · source-foundry/Hack · GitHub
The Hack license comes in three parts. The Bitstream Vera license must be maintained based upon the language and includes reserved font names for "Bitstream" and "Vera" along with other stipulations.
We acknowledge the public domain contributions of the DejaVu group in the statement:
Coding Font by Typogram – Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts
- Source Code Pro
- Cousine
- Ubuntu Mono
But coding != terminal != text!!
Type Scale - A Visual Calculator
Preview and choose the right type scale for your project. Experiment with font size, scale and different webfonts.
Scale: 1.25 Major Third
Combine sources for Noto Serif & Noto Serif Display (also Sans)? · Issue #171 · notofonts/latin-greek-cyrillic · GitHub
Colleagues, are there plans to combine the .glyphs sources for Noto Serif & Noto Serif Display into one source? And the same for Noto Sans and Noto Sans Display?
simoncozens commented yesterday
We decided to do away with the "Display" versions, as they were ill-defined. (Not really opsz, not really contrast, and not consistent between Sans/Serif.) Maybe we'll bring them back one day! (Probably not.)
https://github.com/notofonts/latin-greek-cyrillic/issues/436#issuecomment-1577379159
The "display" version was not exactly optical size and not exactly contrast, and was a different implementation between serif and sans. It didn't really fit into any of the models of font variation that we support elsewhere. So they need re-thinking, harmonising, and re-drawing.
type-design-resources | An exhaustive collection of type design resources.
An exhaustive collection of type design resources.
Monokrom Skriftforlag
The Riks stencils, completing Sindre Bremnes’ Telefon family, is in part based on the seven letters adorning the sides of the telephone kiosk by the same name, designed by architect Georg Fredrik Fasting in 1932. In Bremnes’ all-purpose Telefon typeface the original stencil ‘O’ is relegated to a stylistic set – in Riks its stencil logic is applied to the entire character set.
Flow and Redacted: Check out these new options for wireframes and other early-stage designs
Give your simulated text a realistic look while making it easy to add copy later on with Dan Ross’s Flow Fonts and Christian Naths’s Redacted.
Ty Finck, Graphic Design in Ithaca, New York – Type designer, open source contributor, blogger
Graphic design, type design, photography, and the occasional video production, in Ithaca, New York.
DotColon.net fonts (Nacelle, Aileron)
Nacelle is a neo-grotesque sans-serif redesigned Aileron and totally refurbished.
While keeping Aileron's basic concept of "creating a neo-grotesque that is easy to see and identify on the UI" as it is, we have adjusted the metrics and details to make it more natural.