ITF Offers Its Free Font Share Service to All Designers

In a site design discussion forum, a person shared a link to a site called Font Share. It is a free fonts library offered by the Indian Type foundry. The bursting collection of professional-grade typefaces is free for personal and corporate use. The group's goal is to make high-quality and technically useful fonts available to all designers around the world. This link was shared by the original poster in hope of increasing visibility of the project and getting some feedback about the site.

One person asked, "Does it actively collect data as a revenue source?" The original poster replied to say that it doesn't. Another person wanted to know if it would store any of their personal data. The original poster wrote back and said that they do not ask for collect or store anybody's personal data. When a person accesses a font through the site, they only know the name of the domain where the font will be used and the total number of font requests from that domain. If a person doesn't even want to share that much, they can download an offline font kit and host it on their own server.

One person wanted to know how this site differs compared to Google Fonts. The original poster replied that the difference is Font Share doesn't collect personal data. Google Fonts does. A person wanted to know how the project is financed. Someone else copied from Font Share's FAQ section. It stated that the whole service is sponsored by the Indian Type Foundry in order to make quality fonts available to everyone for free.

Most people liked it but seemed suspicious of it being free. One person posited that maybe it will be monetized in the future. Someone else wondered if perhaps the organization is just trying to get some of the market away from Google. An individual replied and said that they are thrilled to be able to get away from Google, even if it is just for one thing, such as fonts. Several folks commented that the fonts were very good and on par with Google. For more information click here https://www.fontshare.com/.