Fonts and font foundries

Summary

A running list of fonts and font foundries I like.

Pangram Pangram

https://pangrampangram.com/

A Montreal-based font foundry with really affordable prices. License all of their fonts for personal use for $29/year. https://pangrampangram.com/products/fsp

Mostly display fonts (i.e. pretty interesting, great to blow up on a poster, but too wonky to write long paragraphs with). There are a few that are suitable for web use:

• Neue Montreal is a great Helvetica alternative.
• I’ve used Fraktion Sans as a primary font in the 2022 iteration of bencuan.me.
• The 2025 version of bencuan.me features Eiko and Pangaia.
• Mori, Rader, and Frama are cool too.

Atipo

https://www.atipofoundry.com/

Pay-what-you-want foundry and creator of Novela, one of my favorite serif fonts. Currently live on the 2024 iteration of bencuan.me.

Hanoded

https://www.hanodedfonts.com/

Huge collection of affordable handwritten style fonts from a guy named David in the Netherlands.

I currently use The Cat’s Whiskers in the garden banner and seed-stage text (Garden Design) and Crowd Pleaser as my banner for notes.bencuan.me.

NerdFonts

https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads

An aggregator of open source developer fonts with proper ligature support. My favorite monospace fonts include:

• Fira Code (my current choice of editor font)
• Source Code Pro
• Iosevka (featured in elenapan’s dotfiles)

Phosphor Icons

https://phosphoricons.com/

An open-source and lightweight alternative to Font Awesome.

Butterick’s Practical Typography

https://practicaltypography.com/

A textbook about typography. Comes with font recommendations (like Charter).

Google Fonts

https://fonts.google.com/

Huge collection of open-source fonts. Great default place to start looking!