Font Bundles vs Google Fonts

Font Bundles is a library of premium fonts and design resources for crafters and creators, with access listed for Android, iOS, macOS, web, and Windows. Its library contains over 3.6 million assets from over 1,000 designers, and listed font formats include OTF, TTF, WOFF, and WOFF2. Hobbyist costs $11.99 a month, billed monthly, and includes 10 downloads a month with a personal license for each. Unlimited costs $24.99 a month, billed monthly after a free 7-day trial; the trial allows up to 30 product downloads, with payment beginning on day 7. Unlimited includes downloads across every category, a Premium and print-on-demand commercial license with each download, and the Creator design suite. Creator can generate images, edit projects, or start from a prompt; Easy Edits lets users change colors, text, and layer sizes in a browser before downloading a ready-to-cut file. Business costs $97.99 a month, billed monthly, and adds a corporate license with one team login, a 31-day course, a craft calendar, and a pricing guide calculator. Downloaded fonts can be used for Cricut and Silhouette projects. Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time.

Google Fonts is a catalog of fonts for websites, released under open-source licenses for commercial and non-commercial use. A website can use a font by linking a stylesheet and referencing the font in CSS. Developers can also query the REST-based Google Fonts Developer API for font metadata in JSON; each request requires an API key. The API supports sorting by alphabet, date, popularity, style count, and trending growth, plus filters for family, subset, and category. It can return variable font files and axis-range metadata when capability=VF is requested. For projects that need specific characters, the text parameter can reduce a requested font file’s size by up to 90%. Native Android apps can use the Font Provider in Google Play Services, supported from Android Jelly Bean API level 16 onward. Fonts can also be self-hosted for redistribution under their license terms. Google says the Web API is designed to limit data collection, storage, and use, and is not used to create end-user profiles or for advertising. The catalog is free at free.