Type in Motion: A Gallery of Experimental Typography Projects

Type Projects

Here are some type projects that feature or generate experimental open source typefaces. Read more about each project by browsing through their sites!

• https://www.eliashanzer.com/phase/
• https://www.yourtypeface.com
• https://www.redaction.us
• https://kampanjat.hs.fi/climatefont/index.html
• https://github.com/lascuolaopensource/freak-grotesk-next
• https://github.com/weiweihuanghuang/Times-New-Bastard 
• https://github.com/flegfleg/Paranoia-Sans 
• https://github.com/rosettatype/handjet 
• http://giuliaboggio.xyz/helloboris 

Typefaces for Code

There is a huge intersection between coding and type design because typefaces often need custom programming to make sure it works well across interfaces. Here are some type families published as open source coding fonts.

• https://input.djr.com/download/
• https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/
• https://www.recursive.design
• https://github.com/chrissimpkins/codeface
• https://github.com/source-foundry/Hack
• https://github.com/rubjo/victor-mono/tree/master/public
• https://github.com/NNBnh/bmono 
• https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

Some Github Finds

Git things must share! Open source fonts shared by their type designers on GitHub. Try poking around their project library to see their documentation.

Sans: 

• https://github.com/uswds/public-sans
• https://github.com/anewtypeofinterference/Optician-Sans
• https://github.com/carlenlund/techna-sans 
• https://github.com/tokotype/PlusJakartaSans
• https://github.com/weiweihuanghuang/Prodigy-Sans 
• https://github.com/jhuashao/norm-sans 
• https://github.com/pietrogregorini/aldone 
• https://github.com/carlenlund/helmet 
• https://github.com/marcologous/Open-Sauce-Fonts
• https://github.com/noponies/Kulim-Park 
• https://github.com/noirblancrouge/Panamera 
• https://github.com/noirblancrouge/LilGrotesk 
• https://github.com/violetoffice/violet_sans 

Mono:

• https://gitlab.com/Alune/snap-it-mono-font

Serif:

• https://github.com/noirblancrouge/YoungSerif 
• https://github.com/lorene-cn/zarathustra-typeface 
• https://github.com/klepas/open-baskerville
• https://github.com/BlackFoundryCom/InriaFonts (with a Sans!)

Display: 

• https://github.com/andirueckel/undefined-medium
• https://github.com/djrrb/Bungee
• https://github.com/hyvyys/Tektur 
• https://abrudz.github.io/APL386/
• https://github.com/Interstices-/Manifont-Grotesk 
• https://github.com/defharo/secuela-variable 
• https://github.com/basementstudio/basement-grotesque 
• https://github.com/sevmeyer/oxanium
• https://github.com/tokotype/Mohave-Typefaces 

Type Designer:

• https://github.com/psb1558
• https://github.com/dharmatype

Non-Latin:

Chinese: https://github.com/justfont/open-huninn-font

Chinese: https://github.com/LingDong-/qiji-font

Traditional Chinese: https://github.com/chiron-fonts/chiron-sans-hk 

Traditional Chinese: https://github.com/hfhchan/hkcs 

Hangul: https://github.com/orioncactus/pretendard

Vietnamese: https://github.com/bettergui/BeVietnamPro 

Cyrillic + Vietnamese: https://github.com/cyrealtype/Lora-Cyrillic 

Indic Scripts: https://github.com/clauseggers/Inknut-Antiqua 

Sinhala + Tamil: https://github.com/mooniak/stick-no-bills-font 

Sinhala + Tamil: https://github.com/mooniak/yaldevi-font 

Sinhala: https://github.com/mooniak/gemunu-libre-font 

Burmese: https://github.com/AungMyoKyaw/Myanmar-Unicode-Fonts