beautiful-web-type

Beautiful Web Type

A curated guide to high-quality open-source typefaces. Explore each family’s history and design, available weights and styles, character and text specimens, OpenType features, and complete glyph set. The site includes responsive layouts and light and dark themes.

The original version of the site is archived here: https://beautifulwebtype.com/v1/

Changelog

4 Nov 2026

• Removed BioRhyme, BioRhyme Expanded, and Rakkas from the collection.
• Improved the feed: publication timestamps, images before descriptions, and preserved paragraphs.
• Added font search with live filtering and keyboard navigation.
• Added Commit Mono by Eigil Nikolajsen.

3 Nov 2026

• Added Geist Sans by Vercel and Basement Studio.
• Added DM Sans, DM Serif Display, and DM Serif Text by Colophon Foundry.
• Added Roboto by Christian Robertson.

2 Nov 2026

• Added Mioya by Sora Sagano.
• Added Aujournuit by Teo Gaudet.
• Added Piazzolla by Juan Pablo del Peral.
• Added Luperca by Ariel Martín Pérez.
• Added Libre Caslon Display by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida.
• Added Libre Caslon Text by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida.
• Added Libre Caslon Condensed by Ertekin Erdin.
• Added Mona Sans and Hubot Sans by GitHub and Degarism.
• Added EB Garamond by Georg Duffner and Octavio Pardo.
• Added Bricolage Grotesque by Mathieu Triay.

31 Oct 2026

• Added Newsreader by Production Type.
• Added Schibsted Grotesk by Bakken & Bæck.
• Added Zalando Sans by Jakob Ekelund of KH Type.
• Added TikTok Sans by Grilli Type, Contrast Foundry, and Type Network.
• Added Familjen Grotesk by Familjen STHLM.
• Added Strichpunkt Sans by René Bieder.
• Refreshed the design: improved font cards, specimen layouts, mobile navigation, and light and dark themes.
• Expanded typeface descriptions with background, design details, and suggested uses.
• Improved the glyph viewer with a complete inline grid and a persistent selected-glyph preview.
• Simplified font pages: clearer metadata and OpenType examples; removed pairings and comparisons.

30 Oct 2026

• Refreshed font files and glyph sets for 20 typefaces: Alegreya, Archivo, BioRhyme, BioRhyme Expanded, Crimson Pro, IBM Plex Mono, IBM Plex Sans, IBM Plex Sans Condensed, IBM Plex Serif, Inria Sans, Le Murmure, Libre Franklin, Messapia, Oswald, Poppins, Rakkas, Space Mono, TASA Orbiter, Vollkorn, and Work Sans. Updated release metadata and retired unsupported examples.

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Featured typefaces

All typefaces are licensed under the SIL Open Font License.

Alegreya	Alegreya Sans
Archivo	Archivo Black
Aujournuit	Bricolage Grotesque
Commissioner	Commit Mono
Cooper Hewitt	Crimson Pro
DM Sans	DM Serif Display
DM Serif Text	EB Garamond
Familjen Grotesk	Fira Code
FiraGo	Fivo Sans
Fivo Sans Modern	Fraunces
Geist Sans	Hubot Sans
iA Writer Quattro	IBM Plex Mono
IBM Plex Sans	IBM Plex Sans Condensed
IBM Plex Serif	Inria Sans
Inria Serif	Instrument Sans
Instrument Serif	Inter
Le Murmure	Libre Caslon Condensed
Libre Caslon Display	Libre Caslon Text
Libre Franklin	Lora
Luperca	Messapia
Mioya	Mona Sans
Newsreader	Oswald
Piazzolla	Playfair Display
Poppins	Roboto
Schibsted Grotesk	Source Code Pro
Source Sans Pro	Source Serif Pro
Space Grotesk	Space Mono
Strichpunkt Sans	TASA Orbiter
TikTok Sans	Vollkorn
Work Sans	Zalando Sans
Zilla Slab

Suggesting Typefaces

I’m happy to receive suggestions for typefaces via a GitHub issue. When sending suggestions please include an example or two of the typeface in use. This helps me to make an initial evaluation of the typeface.

Local development

Install dependencies and start the Next.js dev server:

pnpm install
pnpm dev

Useful commands:

pnpm build
pnpm test