10 Favorite Open Source Fonts You Can Embed in WPF or Silverlight
Very nice sans serif that works well for display. Comes in many weights. I’ve actually used this font a lot in WPF for display and had good luck with it. It’s a little square so it leaves the UI looking a little futuristic if you don’t manage the weights properly.
Light weight font. Very friendly (because of a big x-height for those who came to the design fundamentals workshop). Feels a little bit like an updated light futura. It’s may be too thin for display in WPF and SL because of the platforms tendency to thin out typefaces at render time.
Really beautiful functional looking font. Comes in three weights (light, regular and bold)
A classic Bodoni style font. Very clean lines, classic and elegant.
Nice modern looking rounded sans-serif. Very modern feel. Friendly. Presumably created for the Ubuntu linux distro. Released under GNU.
Serif beta is a temporary name for this font which is theoretically still not finalized (thus the beta) but it’s a very cool multipurpose serif.
Perhaps my favorite open source font out there right now (and, incidentally) the font I used for my slides at MIX10. Very cool narrow gothic based on Alternate Gothic No.1, a typeface from the 1920’s.
A very “chunky” slab serif that is perfect for headlines. This is the font I used for the “Best Albums of 2009” app that I posted a few months ago.
This is a really nice humanist sans serif that would work great as a display font. It’s got a really unique shape for the lowercase “n” and “u” that makes it fairly recognizable.
Very unique sans serif. Would make a great headline or display. Released by the American Philological Society and has good Unicode support plus some interesting open type features.
8 Comments
leovernazza / MAR 18 2010
Good resource.
I just noticed you are the same guy that was making the questions in the Luxor event today ;)
Regards
Lee Adkins / MAR 22 2010
Chunk Five could be one of my favorite slab serifs ever. I don’t remember where I first saw it, but I love it. I like how it just jumps out at you.
Had’t seen League Gothic until now (and on the slides). I can see me using that in the future.
DeanMc / MAR 28 2010
Hi Robby, first off, just found the site and been reading some articles, love it!
On the subject of fonts, I wrote a little tool that allows one to obfuscate fonts installed on a users hard drive. It has many uses but the honest one, and the reason for its creation is if people want to protect fonts they may have purchased or made they can encapsulate them in an .odttf file and rather than this :: http://www.silverlightforums.com/showthread.php?170-obfuscated-fonts :: they have a tool to do it for them.
Admittedly it is crude and needs some work but it works and I will be taking the time shortly to pretty it up.
Anyway check it out and let me know what you think
http://www.silverlightforums.com/showthread.php?1516-Font-Obsfucation-Tool-ALPHA
Cory Plotts / MAR 31 2010
Uh oh. I’m starting to really like typography … the designer in me is breaking out. Very cool list.
Guillem / APR 05 2010
Great post, as usual.
By the way, it looks like New Athena does have serifs, and it looks pretty great.
Discorax / APR 05 2010
Railway is GREAT and that fact that it’s nerdplusart approved makes it that much cooler!
Great list!
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