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+title: a list of lists of fonts to use on your website
+date: 2025-02-07
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+- personal-websites
+- fonts
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+Somebody asked me for a font. I don't know much about fonts. I do know a whole lot about [*making* fonts](https://alifeee.co.uk/fonts/). I also know a whole lot about surfing the web.
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+Sometimes, you choose to buy a pastry or a loaf from your local bakery instead of your nearly-local supermarket. In the same way, instead of loading up Google Fonts, you could consider picking a font from one of the lists on this page.
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+Here are some sites that I knew of already:
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+- lots of interesting fonts: <http://fonts.tom7.com/>
+- lots of characterful heading- or otherwise-fonts: <https://about.cubictype.com/>
+- lots of crazy wacky [unusable?] fonts: <http://clofont.free.fr/Police/liste_pol.htm> (also the site is in French)
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+I also searched the web, searching for "fonts for the web" - which didn't turn up anything that good, even with Kagi's ["small web"](https://blog.kagi.com/small-web) toggled - and secondly the same but with "site:neocitites.org". From that, I found these lists which look pretty great:
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+- more easily explore your system fonts (fonts pre-installed on most people's computers): <https://luctools.neocities.org/whatsyourtype>
+- lots of web fonts: <https://humantooth.neocities.org/freefonts>
+- organised lists of Google fonts, grouped by vibe: <https://solaria.neocities.org/fonts>
+- list of lists of fonts: <https://nuxill.neocities.org/resources#fonts>
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+Never forget, you could also spend way too much time… [making your own font](https://blog.alifeee.co.uk/making-bogface/).