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Fontshare
Ahmedabad, India
What it is
Fontshare is a free fonts service from the Indian Type Foundry, offering typefaces for personal and commercial use. Its collection includes ITF-designed families and fonts from other publishers that ITF reviews, fixes for design or technical bugs and publishes in their latest versions. Browsing tools filter by category, properties, personality, size, city, excerpt and name, with sorting by new, popular, hot or alphabetical. Fontshare offers closed-source fonts under the ITF Free Font License and open-source fonts under the SIL Open Font License. Formats covered by the ITF license include OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2 and variable fonts. Fonts may be delivered via the Fontshare API or hosted on a user’s own infrastructure, including with CSS @font-face. Permitted uses include print, websites, apps, digital images, advertising, social media, ePublishing, video, broadcasting and games. The license bars altering font software without prior written consent. The API has no guarantee of availability or performance and may be changed or discontinued. The listed plan costs nothing for worldwide personal and commercial use without a time limit.
For and against
For
- Fonts are free for personal and commercial use.
- Filters cover category, properties, personality and more.
- Supports several font formats, including variable fonts.
- Users may self-host fonts on their infrastructure.
- Permitted uses include apps, print and games.
Against
- Font software cannot be altered without prior written consent.
- API availability and performance are not guaranteed.
- The license does not require support or updates.
The verdict
Fontshare offers a searchable font collection with choices for API delivery or self-hosting. Review the relevant license terms, including the restriction on modifying font software and the API’s availability caveat.
Who it suits
Fontshare suits individuals and brands looking for fonts for personal or commercial work. Its collection and permitted uses span print, websites, apps, digital media and other formats.
Plans and prices
Free font library
100 font families · personal and commercial use · unlimited period
Read 14 Oct 2026 · indiantypefoundry.com
Fontshare free fonts
personal and commercial use · any media, scale and location worldwide · unlimited period
Read 1 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com
On the record
- API catalogue data
- An independent API check recorded 100 families, with 64 tagged ITF FFL and 36 tagged SIL OFL on 4 October 2026.tmhsdigital.github.io · read 14 Oct 2026
- API delivery
- Fontshare may deliver font software through the Fontshare API directly from Indian Type Foundry servers without the licensee downloading or hosting it.fontshare.com · read 1 Oct 2026
- API liability
- The licence says ITF is not responsible for API downtime, malfunction or interruption.github.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- API limitation
- The Fontshare API is provided as a convenience, with no guarantee of availability, performance or continued operation, and may be modified, restricted, suspended or discontinued without notice.fontshare.com · read 1 Oct 2026
- Audience
- Fontshare aims to help brands and individuals without large budgets access high-quality typography.fontshare.com · read 1 Oct 2026
- Browsing tools
- The Fontshare site provides category, property, personality, size, city, excerpt and name filters plus sorting by new, popular, hot and alphabetical.fontshare.com · read 1 Oct 2026
- Catalogue size
- The live homepage lists 100 font families, 100 pairs and 59 licenses.fontshare.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Categories
- The catalogue supports categories including sans, serif, slab, display, handwritten and script.fontshare.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Commercial use
- The service advertises its fonts as free for both personal and commercial projects.fontshare.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Company founded
- LinkedIn lists Indian Type Foundry as founded in 2009.linkedin.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters
- LinkedIn identifies Ahmedabad, India as Indian Type Foundry's headquarters.linkedin.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Company ownership
- Crunchbase describes Indian Type Foundry as a private typeface design studio and lists Satya Rajpurohit as co-founder.crunchbase.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn lists Indian Type Foundry's company size as 11–50 employees.linkedin.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- CSS delivery
- Its public API can return CSS that loads selected families and weights from an API URL.codepen.io · read 14 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The live Fontshare pages are JavaScript shells to text crawlers, so detailed API and help documentation is difficult to access without a browser.tmhsdigital.github.io · read 14 Oct 2026
- Download formats
- Fontshare offers downloadable desktop and web packages containing OTF, WOFF and WOFF2 files.idevie.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Filtering
- Users can filter by style count, weight, width, contrast, x-height, personality, city and other properties.fontshare.com · read 14 Oct 2026
- Font collection
- Fontshare offers a growing collection of professional-grade fonts that are 100% free for personal and commercial use.fontshare.com · read 1 Oct 2026
