Quire is an open source tool that we use most often at Getty to publish open access publications. It’s perhaps no surprise then that we love to use open fonts. Open fonts are fonts that are distributed under a license that allows for their free and unrestricted use. The most common open font license is the SIL OpenFont License, but other similar licenses exist. (Fonts Arena has a good run down of the most common open font licenses.)
Quire’s standard templates make use of IBM Plex Sans Condensed and Noto (both Sans and Serif) and these can be selected and specified within Quire’s stylesheets. If you’re looking for completely new fonts to use, the following lists of suppliers, individual fonts, and additional resources should help you get started.
Major Suppliers
Small Suppliers & Individual Faces of Note
- The League of Movable Type
- Velvetyne
- Noir Blanc Rouge
- Cooper Hewitt: The Typface
- Inter
- Redaction
- Recursive Sans & Mono
- The Temporary State (Wremena & Soyuz Grotesk Bold)
- Florian Karsten Typefaces (Space-Grotesk & Montagu Slab)
- Cardo (specifically designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists)
- GitHub’s Mona and Hubot Sans
- Figtree
- Syne
- Elstob (a variable font for medievalists)
- Bricolage Grotesque
Resources
- The Definitive Guide to Free Fonts, Jeremiah Shoaf ($39)
- Free Faces
- Badass Libre Fonts by Womxn
- 7 Gorgeous Free And Open-Source Typefaces And When To Use Them, Noemi Stauffer
- 17 Open Source Fonts You’ll Actually Love, Jonathan Kelley
- Bunny Fonts (an open-source, privacy-first web font hosting alternative to Google Fonts)
- Wakamai Fondue (a tool to tell you what your font can do)
Come across any others you like? Let us know and we’ll add them to the list!