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2025Reliable (and Open) Source
At the overlap of the Venn Diagram of a few recent conversations in our Linked section — on proprietary typefaces, on Google Fonts selection, and on TikTok Sans being available on Google Fonts — comes an in-depth post from the team at Google Design on the benefits of brands — for the brands and for users — making their proprietary typefaces open source and available to all to use, modify, and tinker with. Google Fonts boasts 17 of them at the moment.
Closest kin
Now You Too can TikTok like TikTok
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Now You Too can TikTok like TikTok
On the Rise of Proprietary Corporate Typefaces
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On the Rise of Proprietary Corporate Typefaces
Keep Calm and Gorton
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Keep Calm and Gorton

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Velvetyne creates first open-source font between a type designer and band
Elizabeth Goodspeed on why design studios are making fonts
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Elizabeth Goodspeed on why design studios are making fonts