ayuhito
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2 years ago This one is quite an undertaking and needs a lot of consideration.
For example, a lot of the Google Fonts are metafont descendants and I'm not sure how much overlap there will be and whether it makes sense to include closely related fonts.
There's a reason Google Fonts is optimal for the web since they set strict guidelines on what fonts can be integrated with them and do a lot of processing to strip out unnecessary elements optimal for websites to reduce file sizes.
I've never set a strict criteria (except for licensing) for including fonts in this project, but if we're considering something large like this, I think we'll need to figure out some clearer guidelines on what should make or not make the cut.
I'm prioritising fontsource/fontsource#244 soon which is huge for developers wanting to self host without any additional abstractions. But this now brings another interesting consideration for Fontsource and how it compares to other font sites such as Fontsquirrel, befonts or 1001fonts. The current focus has been serving web developers through NPM packages, but do we now want to serve as a font hub for everyone and everything? How far do we want to detract from Google Fonts which already sets the ideal criteria for a webfont? Does that mean we should do our own processing on non-Google fonts to make them more suitable for the web? How much is too much?
Metafont and descendents fromderivatives Ensure it is an Open Source downloadable font.
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) has a convenient mass download site @JAIST
Link to font license Most of them are fee The LATEX Project Public License (LPPL) which I think is pretty permissive.
Most of them are in TTF format, a lot are Type 1 but some the reset I assume will be trickier to convert.
Not all the fonts are free, most of the Monospaced fonts in Google's package are Metafont descendents. Maybe i've been living under a rock. I just stumbled across this, and it feels like a gold mine. This is fascinating. Computer Mondern is gorgeos is gorgeous, Latin Modern, EC fonts just general good quality fonts in there. I know there large LaTeX comunit out there, that's going to say "duh", but this stuff need to be out there.