When you think open source, chances are you think software. You may not know that there are open-source fonts as well. Today, Google and Ubuntu have released a new free, open font to the Web: the ...

Web typography just got a shot in the arm from Google, as the company has announced a free, open-source library of 18 typefaces that Web designers will now have at their disposal. Google hosts all the ...

The nascent Web Open Font Format (WOFF) is getting a boost this week thanks to some new initiatives being kicked off by the W3C, the web's governing body. The W3C recently created a working group to ...

Official support for custom fonts came to iPhone and iPad with iOS 13/iPadOS 13, however, it’s a complex situation with one of the best (main) options requiring a ...

The company's plan calls for 10 variations of the Vera typeface will be available under a license that permits anyone to modify the fonts as long as the name is changed. The fonts may be included at ...

Stuart Gill, sfntly architect at Google, announced the release of the sfntly font programming library as open source last week in a <a href="http://googlecode ...

Adobe and Google today announced the launch of a new open-source font for Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) languages that covers 65,535 glyphs, making it one — if not the — largest font to cover ...

This new feature was introduced in 2016 by major players in the type world. Since then, it has seen rapid adoption in software and web browsers: right now, it’s supported in Photoshop, Illustrator, ...

OpenOffice is configured to automatically use the fonts installed to Windows, which works out nicely if you use OpenOffice and Microsoft Office on the same computer. However, this usually isn't the ...