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Somebody asked me for a font. I don't know much about fonts. I do know a whole lot about making fonts. I also know a whole lot about surfing the web.
Sometimes, you choose to buy a pastry or a loaf from your local bakery instead of your nearly-local supermarket. In the same way, instead of loading up Google Fonts, you could consider picking a font from one of the lists on this page.
Here are some sites that I knew of already:
- lots of interesting fonts: http://fonts.tom7.com/
- lots of characterful heading- or otherwise-fonts: https://about.cubictype.com/
- lots of crazy wacky [unusable?] fonts: http://clofont.free.fr/Police/liste_pol.htm (also the site is in French)
I also searched the web, searching for "fonts for the web" - which didn't turn up anything that good, even with Kagi's "small web" toggled - and secondly the same but with "site:neocitites.org". From that, I found these lists which look pretty great:
- more easily explore your system fonts (fonts pre-installed on most people's computers): https://luctools.neocities.org/whatsyourtype
- lots of web fonts: https://humantooth.neocities.org/freefonts
- organised lists of Google fonts, grouped by vibe: https://solaria.neocities.org/fonts
- list of lists of fonts: https://nuxill.neocities.org/resources#fonts
- list of freee fonts: https://goblin-heart.net/sadgrl/webmastery/downloads/fonts
Never forget, you could also spend way too much time… making your own font.