Loud fonts. Quiet bloat.

Typealoud started as a side project that got out of hand. We were tired of bouncing between five different font sites every time we picked a body face, copying licence text from a sixth, and pasting performance advice from a seventh. So we built one site that does all of it: a clean catalogue, a working playground, honest editorial coverage and real respect for the typefaces and people behind them.

What you'll find here

The font library is the heart of the Site. Every face is open-source, every face previews live in its own typeface, and every face links to its upstream source so you always know where it came from. Where a font ships in multiple weights or as a variable font, we surface that information up front instead of burying it in a download dialog.

The categories page is for moments when you don't yet know what you want. Six main families — serif, sans-serif, display, monospace, script and handwriting — break out into deeper subcategories so you can drill down from "I need something" to "I need a humanist sans with a tall x-height" in two clicks.

The blog is where we write at length. It mixes short, opinionated essays with deep how-to pieces — pairing two faces, setting a real typographic scale, hinting a font, subsetting for the web, briefing a custom designer. We aim to publish material that we would actually want to read ourselves.

What we believe

Typography is not decoration. It is the operating system of every interface, every magazine page, every signage system and every piece of writing you have ever read. Choosing a typeface well changes how an idea lands. Choosing it badly buries the idea. Treating type with the seriousness it deserves is the single biggest lever most designers leave untouched.

We believe open-source typography deserves the same critical attention as commercial type, that performance is a typographic property, that accessibility is the floor and not the ceiling, and that the best site about fonts should itself be set well.

How we curate

We pull from established open-source ecosystems — including Google Fonts, Bunny Fonts, GitHub-hosted foundries and individual designer releases — and we surface them under one consistent interface. Inclusion is editorial: a family must be permissively licensed (typically SIL OFL 1.1 or Apache 2.0), it must be maintained, and it must hold up under actual use. We exclude decorative one-offs that fail at small sizes, drive-by uploads with unclear provenance, and anything where the licence is ambiguous.

How we make money

Right now, we don't. Typealoud is funded out of pocket by the people who run it, and the catalogue stays free for everyone. When we eventually introduce optional ways to support the project — likely a small monthly subscription with deeper playgrounds, downloadable specimens and a private newsletter — we will keep the core library free. Sponsored or commissioned editorial content, if any, will always be labelled clearly within the content itself.

Where we are

Typealoud is operated from the Province of British Columbia, Canada. Our use of personal information is governed by our Privacy Policy, which is aligned with BC PIPA and Canadian PIPEDA, and your use of the Site is governed by our Terms of Service.

Get in touch

Have a font you want to see listed, an article you want us to tackle, a bug to report, or just want to say hello? Head to the contact page — real humans read every message.