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Originally Posted by bobcdy

Another free font site is
www.fonts101.com

I don't know anything about its legality, but it advertises hundreds of free fonts that I believe must be ok for epub 'embedding' if the site is legally distributing the fonts.

I'm very wary of this site. True, in its "disclaimer" it reads:

All fonts found on this site are copyrighted by their respective authors. Detailed copyright information to each individual font may be included in the corresponding downloadable font-files, otherwise the selected font license that comes along with the font details is applicable. All of the fonts offered on this website are in the public domain and either demoware, freeware, postcardware or shareware.

Shareware and demoware shouldn't be embedded anyway, but I tried a few, and what they say about copyright info inside the downloaded files doesn't ring true. Normally, there was no explciit license in the .zip file, and looking at the metadata inside a few examples, most claimed that all rights of the copyright were still reserved.

What I like about Font Squirrel is that you can actually see the license. (I also like the number of usually-higher-quality .otf fonts vs. ttf fonts and that you can separate them.)

Note, these are all pretty much under copyright, but with a generous license that allows for free distribution and use.

There is another source of many non-copyrighted fonts, Southern Software, Inc.

There's a discussion of that one at typophile here -- sounds a bit unclear, but I gather the complany went bankrupt and so there's no one to enforce the copyright, even if, in some legal sense, if the company were to somehow resurface, there might be an issue. And one person questions their legality in the first place in that thread I linked to (though the arguments seem dubious to me). In any case, their site no longer exists so you'd have to acquire their fonts from some other site anyway.