Unicode Free Fonts

This page is for listing Unicode-compatible free fonts. Please put link to the site/download link if possible.

There are those who claim that if you embed a GPL font inside your document, (for example, in PDF, PostScript or LaTeX documents), it might mean you release your document under GPL. The FSF suggest adding an exception to the GPL license to better fit fonts. For more information see the FSF FAQ

More about fonts for free software can be found in font guide note though that some of the fonts there are under various non free licenses.

There appears to be a similar page to this on freedesktop.org, at Software/Fonts.

GPL licensed fonts

ToDo: Which of these fonts have the font licensing exception?

ToDo: Check if LGPL licensed fonts affect the licensing of the document

ToDo: Go over debian's font packages and add missing free fonts to the wiki

Culmus project provides basic collection of Unicode Hebrew fonts Download

Wen Quan Yi project aims at developing bitmap/outline fonts with complete coverage of all unicode CJK characters (70,000+). The WenQuanYi Bitmap Song (v0.6) contains about 22,000 characters at 4 pixel sizes and 2 weights. The yhunifont font contains 40,000+ characters including Latin, complete CJK Unified Ideographics, Hangul glyphs and 10% CJK Extension A characters. To contribute to this project by drawing a CJK character, please follow this link, thank you! [GPL with font licensing exception for next release]

Mattt's free fonts is a set of English fonts Download

Khotot project aims at increasing the number of available Arabic free and open source fonts. Download

The Tamil Linux Project has Tamil OpenType fonts Download

Free UCS Outline Fonts aims to provide a set of free outline (PostScript Type0, TrueType, OpenType...) fonts covering the ISO 10646/Unicode UCS (Universal Character Set). Download

The Free Bangla Fonts Project provides Bangali fonts Download

Dark garden is an intresting English font it's released under the GPL with the experimental font exception Download

GnuMICR -- A free Type 1 MICR E13-B font by Eric Sandeen.

Brahmi Project provides opentype indic fonts Download

artwi-zaleczapka project provides artwiz Europian fonts Download

Libertine open fonts project try to give free alternative to fonts like Times New Roman Download

Pakistani Typography open source OpenType fonts under GPL supporting Arabic code page ranges Download

Saab is the first ever freely available, Unicode 4.0 compliant, OpenType, Gurmukhi (Punjabi) font. Download

Computer Modern Unicode fonts OpenType fonts. Various licenses check on site for more information Download

Junicode (short for Junius-Unicode) is a Unicode font for medievalists. Download

The FarsiWeb Project has a set of standard Unicode OpenType Pesian fonts for Download. Different fonts has different license check on the site for more details.

John Stracke has two english LGPLed fonts Download1 Download2 There is also ps version and sources on the site.

Font dudes created a LGPLed hindi font Download

It seems the yudit site has the latest version of Unifont I could find and can be downloaded from Download if someone has more info please edit this.

BSD licensed fonts

Bitstream Vera Fonts While the license is very close to BSD it's not exactly it. More information on the homepage. Download There seem to be few fonts which are based on this font a list is maintained on the dejavu wiki

Font Forge has various font samples mostly English and some in other langauges Download

Dejavu has English fonts based on the bitstream versa fonts Download

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html had few fonts including including Asian one Download

CJKUnifonts has CJK fonts which are under the Arphic Public License Download

Electronic Font Open Laboratory has fonts for various langauges (like Japanise and English) Download

http://www.abyssiniacybergateway.net/fidel/unicode/ seems to have public domain Ethiopic fonts some of the download links seems to be missing and the license need to be verified.

MgOpen Greek Unicode fonts are four font families (proportional) with support for Latin and Greek. One of four also supports Ancient Greek (polytonic). They are distributed with the same licence as Bitstream Vera.