The Velvetyne Type Foundry (VTF), founded by Frank Adebiaye, is based in France, delivering experimental free-of-charge fonts licensed under SIL OFL or Creative Commons since 2010.

Future Fonts is a platform for experimental, high-quality fonts in progress. They feature emerging type designers, and well-established foundries worldwide. You get access to the latest designs at a fraction of their final price, with free updates as they grow, and type designers control the way their fonts are developed and licensed.

Open Foundry is a FREE platform for curated open-source typefaces; to highlight their beauty, activate ideas and encourage exploration.

Collletttivo designs and distributes free Open-Source typefaces. Follow their Instagram and subscribe to the newsletter to stay updated. Write them an email or read our diary to get confidential. You might want to donate to the cause eventually.

Fontshare is a free fonts service launched by the Indian Type Foundry (ITF). It’s a growing collection of professional grade fonts that are 100% free for personal and commercial use. Their mission is to make high-quality and technically sound fonts accessible to everyone.

Hoodzpah is a collaborative branding and type studio based out of Southern California. They create to delight the disenchanted, defy the ordinary, and decipher the woods from the trees. Their unique style and Swiss-army-skillset have led to exciting collaborations with brands and companies known and unknown, large and small.

Grown from the studio of lettering artist and designer Erik Marinovich, Nuform is a type design practice that looks to the culturally offbeat and peculiar oddities to inspire and inform the creation of expressive letterforms.

This is a type foundry for creatives of color who feel that they don’t have a say in their industry. This is for creative women who feel that they don’t have a say in their industry. This is for the creative that is tired of being “inspired” by the same designs over and over again.

Vocal is for the creative that cares about telling the stories of the people we serve and not the false history of the industry we work in. Vocal is for the creative that wants to build a community—not a following.