Font Squirrel
fontsquirrel.com
Free fonts hand-checked for a genuinely commercial licence
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fonts.google.com
Open-licensed font families, free for commercial work and self-hostable.
Every family here is under an open licence, usually the SIL Open Font Licence, so you can use it commercially, modify it, and host the files yourself rather than calling Google's CDN. The browse page filters by language support, variable-font axes and appearance, and shows how much weight you are about to add to a page. It is the default answer for a reason.
Questions
Works the moment the page loads. No account, no email, no trial. Quality is uneven — the popular families are excellent, the long tail often lacks italics or wide language coverage.
Yes. Google Fonts sends your input to its own servers to process it. That is fine for public material; for anything containing personal data, use one of the on-device tools instead.
Quality is uneven — the popular families are excellent, the long tail often lacks italics or wide language coverage.
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