Fontshare

Spec sheet

What it does

Fontshare is a free font service created by Indian Type Foundry for browsing, testing, downloading and embedding typefaces.Read 14 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Audience

Fontshare aims to help brands and individuals without large budgets access high-quality typography.Read 1 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Support

Indian Type Foundry has no obligation to provide updates, upgrades, maintenance, technical support or other support services under the license.Read 1 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Headquarters

Ahmedabad, IndiaRead 28 Sep 2026 · fontshare.com

API catalogue data

An independent API check recorded 100 families, with 64 tagged ITF FFL and 36 tagged SIL OFL on 4 October 2026.Read 14 Oct 2026 · tmhsdigital.github.io

API delivery

Fontshare may deliver font software through the Fontshare API directly from Indian Type Foundry servers without the licensee downloading or hosting it.Read 1 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

API liability

The licence says ITF is not responsible for API downtime, malfunction or interruption.Read 14 Oct 2026 · github.com

API limitation

The Fontshare API is provided as a convenience, with no guarantee of availability, performance or continued operation, and may be modified, restricted, suspended or discontinued without notice.Read 1 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Browsing tools

The Fontshare site provides category, property, personality, size, city, excerpt and name filters plus sorting by new, popular, hot and alphabetical.Read 1 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Catalogue size

The live homepage lists 100 font families, 100 pairs and 59 licenses.Read 14 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Categories

The catalogue supports categories including sans, serif, slab, display, handwritten and script.Read 14 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Commercial use

The service advertises its fonts as free for both personal and commercial projects.Read 14 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Company founded

LinkedIn lists Indian Type Foundry as founded in 2009.Read 14 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Company headquarters

LinkedIn identifies Ahmedabad, India as Indian Type Foundry's headquarters.Read 14 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Company ownership

Crunchbase describes Indian Type Foundry as a private typeface design studio and lists Satya Rajpurohit as co-founder.Read 14 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com

Company size

LinkedIn lists Indian Type Foundry's company size as 11–50 employees.Read 14 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

CSS delivery

Its public API can return CSS that loads selected families and weights from an API URL.Read 14 Oct 2026 · codepen.io

Documentation depth

The live Fontshare pages are JavaScript shells to text crawlers, so detailed API and help documentation is difficult to access without a browser.Read 14 Oct 2026 · tmhsdigital.github.io

Download formats

Fontshare offers downloadable desktop and web packages containing OTF, WOFF and WOFF2 files.Read 14 Oct 2026 · idevie.com

Filtering

Users can filter by style count, weight, width, contrast, x-height, personality, city and other properties.Read 14 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Font collection

Fontshare offers a growing collection of professional-grade fonts that are 100% free for personal and commercial use.Read 1 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Font formats

The ITF Free Font License covers font formats including OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2 and variable fonts.Read 1 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Independent assessment

Snapp characterizes Fontshare as a no-tracking, no-data-collection service built by Indian Type Foundry.Read 14 Oct 2026 · snapp.world

ITF licence scope

The ITF licence allows free personal or commercial use across print, websites, applications, advertising, video, broadcasting and games.Read 14 Oct 2026 · github.com

ITF releases

Every fourth Latin font family designed by ITF is released through Fontshare for free.Read 1 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Launch news

ITF announced Fontshare's launch on 22 March 2021 with 50 families and a plan to release every fourth Latin family for free.Read 14 Oct 2026 · indiantypefoundry.com

Licence mix

Fontshare distributes proprietary ITF Free Font License families together with families under the SIL Open Font License.Read 14 Oct 2026 · github.com

Licence restriction

The ITF licence forbids modifying the font software and redistributing or re-hosting the font files without permission.Read 14 Oct 2026 · github.com

License types

Fontshare offers Closed Source fonts governed by the ITF Free Font License and Open Source fonts governed by the SIL Open Font License.Read 1 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Limit: CDN performance

A review says Fontshare's API is less widely cached than Google Fonts and recommends self-hosting for maximum performance.Read 14 Oct 2026 · madegooddesigns.com

Limit: redistribution

Designers Academy warns that downloaded files cannot be re-hosted or redistributed on another site under the ITF terms.Read 14 Oct 2026 · designers.ac

Limit: smaller catalogue

Independent coverage notes that Fontshare has far fewer families than Google Fonts because it is curated rather than universal.Read 14 Oct 2026 · idevie.com

Multilingual expertise

Typeyeah lists ITF coverage spanning Latin, Devanagari, Cyrillic, Greek and Arabic scripts and about 300 typefaces overall.Read 14 Oct 2026 · typeyeah.com

Pairing

Fontshare provides font-pair browsing alongside individual families.Read 14 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Permitted uses

The license permits use in print, websites, mobile or desktop applications, digital images, advertising, social media, ePublishing, video, broadcasting and games.Read 1 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Praise: contemporary selection

An independent directory highlights modern families such as Satoshi, Switzer, Sora and Space Grotesk and calls the licences clear.Read 14 Oct 2026 · uwarp.design

Praise: design quality

An independent review describes Fontshare as a curated collection whose average quality is higher than many Google Fonts offerings.Read 14 Oct 2026 · idevie.com

Preview editor

The site lets visitors replace sample text directly while previewing a family.Read 14 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Privacy statement

ITF says Fontshare does not ask for, track or store users' personal data.Read 14 Oct 2026 · indiantypefoundry.com

Publisher curation

Fontshare distributes free fonts from other publishers and reviews, fixes design or technical bugs, and publishes their latest versions.Read 1 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Rating on Product Hunt

Fontshare has a rating of 5.0 out of 5 from 1 review on Product Hunt.Read 14 Oct 2026 · producthunt.com

Relationship to Fontstore

ITF says Fontshare and Fontstore were split into complementary services, with Fontshare free and Fontstore paid.Read 14 Oct 2026 · indiantypefoundry.com

Self-hosting

Users can download the files and host the web fonts on their own infrastructure.Read 14 Oct 2026 · idevie.com

Support terms

The ITF licence states that the licensor does not provide software support services.Read 14 Oct 2026 · github.com

Usage limit

Users may not modify, edit, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise alter the font software without prior written consent.Read 1 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Variable fonts

The catalogue identifies families that include variable-font files as well as static styles.Read 14 Oct 2026 · fontshare.com

Plans and prices

Every Fontshare plan and price →

Where Specifiction places it

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