npmDesign Tools & Generators · Typography
Self-hostable npm packages for open-source fonts, including variable and subset builds, so you avoid third-party font CDNs.
Why it’s a gem
Kills the Google Fonts CDN dependency with one install. Quietly essential.
JavaScript library bringing Knuth-Plass line breaking, hyphenation, optical margin protrusion and microtypography to web text.
Archive of pictorial typography from the 1600s to 1900s: printers' flowers, ornamental borders, rule pictures and compositional type experiments.
Fifteen curated CSS font-family stacks using only system-installed typefaces, with per-stack Unicode coverage tables and live previews.
Drop-in privacy-respecting replacement for the Google Fonts API with an identical URL structure and no tracking.
Small open-source foundry producing carefully drawn free typefaces, each with full documentation of its design intent.
Archive of typography in the wild, indexed by typeface, industry and format, with editorial notes from type experts.