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Fifteen curated CSS font-family stacks using only system-installed typefaces, with per-stack Unicode coverage tables and live previews.
Why it’s a gem
Zero-download typography with documented Unicode coverage — the fastest possible type layer.
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.
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.
Drop a font file in and get every OpenType feature, variable axis, glyph and language it supports, with live testing.