FONTLIBRARY 3.4.4 — create accounts, hard-delete fonts ⚓

Admins can create users from the panel, hard-delete a font package and its files from the font page, and jump to Admin from the header. ads.txt is live for AdSense. Featuring Bizmeud by Quentin Bodin & Jil DANIEL.

Release notes: changelog.

FONTLIBRARY 3.4.3 — clearer accounts for librarians ⚓

Staff can select every account in a search, confirm big bulk actions, change roles, and find users with blank dates. Profiles use Display name and drop country and job. Featuring Clear Sans by Intel Corporation.

Release notes: changelog.

FONTLIBRARY 3.4.2 — size, ground, and both specimen styles ⚓

Tune specimen size and ground on the homepage, with long strips in Discover and square cards in the grid. Featuring Libra Serif Modern by Stefan Peev, Context Ltd.

Release notes: changelog.

FONTLIBRARY 3.4.1 — square cards and a discover shelf ⚓

Homepage cards are now larger squares you can page through, and the top shelf rotates a random Discover mix. Featuring Fantasque Sans Mono by Jany Belluz.

Release notes: changelog.

FONTLIBRARY 3.4.0 — browse your way, and own your specimens ⚓

The homepage now leads with most-used fonts and new browse sorts, catalogue specimens match the classic Name by Designer look (with your own override), and you can link a git repo on your font page. Featuring Jellee Typeface by Alfredo Marco Pradil.

Release notes: changelog.

FONTLIBRARY 3.3.0 — catalogue previews for new fonts ⚓

New uploads now get a catalogue specimen image automatically. We are featuring Galabir by The League of Moveable Type.

Release notes: changelog.

FONTLIBRARY 3.2.0 — a wider reading room ⚓

Large screens get more room to browse, and the changelog feed now carries each release with a featured-font specimen for sharing. This round highlights Cooper Hewitt.

Release notes: changelog.

FONTLIBRARY 3.1.4 — keeping the catalogue cleaner ⚓

We shipped tools that help librarians clear spam accounts and packages faster, and optional email verification for new members once site mail is set up. Featured font: Glacial Indifference.

Release notes: changelog.

FONTLIBRARY 3.1.3 — designer credits on new uploads ⚓

New packages keep designer and foundry credits from the font files. Featured: Nyanpose by Font Zukan — every letter a black cat pose.

Release notes: changelog.

FONTLIBRARY 3.1.2 — signed-in browsing without ads ⚓

Members who are signed in no longer see ads. Featured font: Code New Roman.

Release notes: changelog.

FONTLIBRARY 3.1.1 — webfont linking restored ⚓

“Use this font” stylesheet links work again, with webfont CSS restored for families that needed it after the platform move. Featured: Fantasque Sans Mono.

Release notes: changelog.

Welcome to FONTLIBRARY 3.1 — one home for libre fonts ⚓

We have finished moving FONTLIBRARY onto our modern platform. The old site is retired; everything you browse, download, and upload now lives in one place.

Your fonts and history are still here. Members can keep using the dashboard to share packages and look after their families. We are grateful to everyone who built, uploaded, and cared for this library along the way — and we are glad to keep going with you. Featured font for 3.1.0: Datalegreya.

Release notes: changelog.

New Project Tagline ⚓

The new tagline for our project is the following:

FONTLIBRARY: Free Fonts Forever. Our goal is to be a library of all fonts. Join us!

AI Overflow and AI Plans ⚓

Where do we go from here? On May 22, we celebrated Bassel Khartabil's 43rd birthday. It made us remember all the great supporters of the project along the way, from the founding by Jon Phillips and Alexandre Prokoudine to next wave of support by Fabricatorz, Bassel Khartabil and Christopher Adams, all the way to Dave Crossland, George Williams, and Ricardo Lafuente and Ana Isabel Carvalho from Manufacture Independente.

Where does Fontlibrary go now in the face of generative ai and the ability to create fonts in seconds from source material. Our strength is in being a source of fonts and information that could fuel future usage and technology. We also have font creators and people using the site that need service. So we focus on these two goals while replacing key technologies created by the late Bassel Khartabil because technology and approaches have changed.

We keep going! We improved our portability by moving to docker and also fixed some issues with disk storage, logging and maintenance thanks to feedback from everyone. Thank you!

Founding of FONTLIBRARY ⚓

The original project was created in 2006 when Alexandre Prokoudine asked Jon Phillips to make a project like Openclipart, but with fonts. Alexandre even had reserved the domain name, openfontlibrary.org which he transferred to Fabricatorz, the host of the project. Later others came along to the project with excitement and contributed so much. We are very thankful to everyone who has shown up along the way.

We are now FONTLIBRARY ⚓

To make our branding more clear, we are now changing globally to FONTLIBRARY and we ask you to use this in referring to our project moving forward. Thank you.

Fontlibrary 2024 Logo Seed ⚓

It is a new year and we thought a symbol change is important to move the project forward. We asked Openclipart artists if they might do better at making an improved symbol. Let us see!

We Have a Plan ⚓

Fontlibrary is being rebuilt with simple technology that may be easily updated. The original code for the website was built with technology built by the late Bassel Khartabil, called Aiki. We are replacing this code in honor or our late friend with pure Fontlibrary code.

Right now there are two servers, one is with the old code and database, all safe! Then there is the new server that is updated with all that we have learned over the years. You are reading this news from the new server.

The next step is we are replacing the login and accounting management code so that fontographers may update information about their fonts.

You cannot believe how much bandwidth is being used by people who are serving fonts directly from our pages, and several of these fonts are out of date! We are working to improve this situation.

We are considering our next steps on the project after the login page and account management. That is why we want to hear from you.

Follow FONTLIBRARY on Nostr ⚓

We are now using Nostr for social media. Please follow our active updates there. It is free and open social media that Bassel would have loved!

FONTLIBRARY on Nostr

FONTLIBRARY Donated to the Community ⚓

FONTLIBRARY existed in an amorphous state for a number of years. With the establishment of the Fabricatorz Foundation as a 501(c)3 non-profit, FONTLIBRARY, is officially a hosted organization. We look forward to working together with community and patrons to improve this project.