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Abecedary · 07-23-2009, 02:06 PM

Free fonts are good, though I'm not so sure I'd want to use any of those as a body font. Title pages or headers, though, no problem.

SIL has some decent fonts available for free. Specifically, I like the Charis and Gentium packages. The nice thing about these is that the license fully allows for embedding and redistribution.

There's also the URW Fonts collection that you can get from the Ghostscript page. It includes clones of several classic typefaces, including TNR, Helvetica, Optima, Garamond, Palatino, etc. That package is licensed under the AFPL, though I'm not really sure how embedding/redistribution of those fonts is handled. At the very least, they're free to use for your own purposes.

EDIT: And after a little more digging around, I came across the Font Squirrel site. These can all be downloaded for free, but redistribution/embedding will depend on the license for each one. ("Free for commercial use" does not necessarily mean that you can redistribute it.)

07-23-2009, 02:06 PM	#2
Abecedary Exwyzeeologist Posts: 535 Karma: 3261 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: :PRS-505::iPod touch:	Free fonts are good, though I'm not so sure I'd want to use any of those as a body font. Title pages or headers, though, no problem. SIL has some decent fonts available for free. Specifically, I like the Charis and Gentium packages. The nice thing about these is that the license fully allows for embedding and redistribution. There's also the URW Fonts collection that you can get from the Ghostscript page. It includes clones of several classic typefaces, including TNR, Helvetica, Optima, Garamond, Palatino, etc. That package is licensed under the AFPL, though I'm not really sure how embedding/redistribution of those fonts is handled. At the very least, they're free to use for your own purposes. EDIT: And after a little more digging around, I came across the Font Squirrel site. These can all be downloaded for free, but redistribution/embedding will depend on the license for each one. ("Free for commercial use" does not necessarily mean that you can redistribute it.) Last edited by Abecedary; 07-23-2009 at 02:21 PM.