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Fontsource

An open-source collection of free fonts packaged as npm packages for self-hosting in web apps, with a CDN that serves the same fonts by URL.

What Fontsource is

Written from its maker's own pages, read on 28 October 2026.

Fontsource is an open-source project that packages open-source fonts into individual npm packages, so that a web application can host the font files itself instead of loading them from another company's servers. npm is the package registry of the JavaScript ecosystem. The site lists 2,103 font families, from the Google Fonts collection and from outside it.

A developer installs a font package and imports it in the app's code. The package holds the font files and the CSS @font-face rules, so the fonts ship with the app, stay at a fixed version like any other dependency, and load offline. Self-hosting also removes the extra DNS lookup and TCP connection that a third-party font CDN needs, and avoids Google's tracking of font use. For cases that need a stable link, Fontsource also runs a CDN (content delivery network) through jsDelivr that serves versioned CSS stylesheets and font files by URL.

The project's code is under the MIT license and free to use. Each font keeps its own license; most use the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Made by
The Fontsource project (open source)
Price
Free and open source (read 28 October 2026)
Free plan
free

Who uses it, and for what

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StoryWhat it does thereWhenCost statedGradeSource
SkillryFont CDN from which Skill templates load open-source typefaces.CSkillry Third-Party Notices, dated 31 August 2026

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