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Aesthetics

Texts

  1. fontforge/designwithfontforge.com

    An open book on designing typefaces with FontForge, from sketches to finished fonts.

Datasets

  1. meodai/color-names MIT

    A large hand-picked list of named colours with hex values, in JSON, CSV and other formats.

  2. skishore/makemeahanzi

    Open stroke-order vector data, component decompositions and etymology notes for common Chinese characters.

  3. MuseumofModernArt/collection CC0-1.0

    Catalogue records for MoMA's artworks and artists as CSV and JSON, released under CC0.

  4. metmuseum/openaccess CC0-1.0

    The Met's open-access object records in one CSV: titles, makers, dates and public-domain status.

  5. BlakeRMills/MetBrewer CC0-1.0

    Colour palettes taken from paintings at the Met, packaged for R and Python charts.

  6. NationalGalleryOfArt/opendata CC0-1.0

    Collection tables of the U.S. National Gallery of Art: objects, constituents and image links, under CC0.

  7. kfcd/chaizi

    A dictionary of how 17,803 Chinese characters break into components, in traditional and simplified versions.

  8. tategallery/collection CC0-1.0

    Tate collection metadata for artworks and artists, in CSV and JSON.

  9. parsimonhi/animCJK

    SVG files animating stroke order for Chinese hanzi, Japanese kanji and kana, and Korean hanja.

  10. Smithsonian/OpenAccess CC0-1.0

    Bulk metadata from Smithsonian museums and archives, released under CC0.

  11. kanjialive/kanji-data-media

    Kanji data, stroke-order animations, stroke images and audio from the Kanji alive project, under CC BY.

  12. howl-anderson/hanzi_chaizi Apache-2.0

    Python library and lookup table that break Chinese characters into their component parts.

  13. cooperhewitt/collection

    Object, people and exhibition data from the Cooper Hewitt design museum's collection.

  14. BlakeRMills/MoMAColors

    R colour palettes based on artworks in the Museum of Modern Art.

  15. art-institute-of-chicago/api-data

    Sample records and a full downloadable dump of the Art Institute of Chicago's public API.

  16. MuseumofModernArt/exhibitions CC0-1.0

    Records of MoMA's past exhibitions and the artists who took part, as CSV.

  17. ClevelandMuseumArt/openaccess CC0-1.0

    Open-access collection data of the Cleveland Museum of Art in CSV and JSON, under CC0.

  18. artsmia/collection CC0-1.0

    Object metadata from the Minneapolis Institute of Art collection, one JSON file per work.

  19. whitneymuseum/open-access CC0-1.0

    Artwork and artist data from the Whitney Museum of American Art, under CC0.

  20. mplusmuseum/collection-data CC0-1.0

    Collection records of M+, Hong Kong's museum of visual culture, under CC0.

  21. w3c/type-samples

    W3C collection of photographed typographic features in many writing systems, indexed by script and feature.

APIs

  1. harvardartmuseums/api-docs

    Documentation for the Harvard Art Museums API, which serves object records and IIIF images.

  2. WaltersArtMuseum/api-thewalters-org

    Documentation for the Walters Art Museum API, which returns object data and images.

Typefaces

  1. tonsky/FiraCode OFL-1.1

    Fira Mono extended with ligatures for common programming symbols.

  2. subframe7536/maple-font OFL-1.1

    Rounded monospaced font with ligatures, also offered in a version with 2:1 Chinese-Latin widths.

  3. lxgw/LxgwWenKai OFL-1.1

    Open-source Chinese kaishu-style typeface derived from Klee One, suited to reading and body text.

  4. be5invis/Iosevka OFL-1.1

    Slender monospaced and quasi-proportional family for code, built from configurable source.

  5. google/fonts

    Font files of every family in the Google Fonts library, mostly under the OFL.

  6. adobe-fonts/source-code-pro OFL-1.1

    Monospaced companion to Source Sans for code and interfaces.

  7. rsms/inter OFL-1.1

    Inter, a sans-serif family designed for screen text, with variable font builds.

  8. githubnext/monaspace OFL-1.1

    Five interchangeable monospaced families for code, with texture healing for even spacing.

  9. adobe-fonts/source-han-sans

    Pan-CJK sans-serif family covering Chinese, Japanese and Korean in seven weights.

  10. source-foundry/Hack

    Hack, a monospaced typeface for source code derived from DejaVu Sans Mono.

  11. atelier-anchor/smiley-sans OFL-1.1

    Chinese display sans-serif with slanted, condensed forms, suited to headlines.

  12. JetBrains/JetBrainsMono OFL-1.1

    JetBrains Mono, a monospaced typeface for code with an increased x-height.

  13. be5invis/Sarasa-Gothic

    CJK sans family combining Source Han Sans with Inter and Iosevka, including monospaced variants.

  14. IBM/plex OFL-1.1

    IBM Plex superfamily: sans, serif, mono and condensed styles, plus several non-Latin scripts.

  15. adobe-fonts/source-han-serif

    Pan-CJK serif family in Song/Ming style for Chinese, Japanese and Korean text.

  16. TakWolf/ark-pixel-font MIT

    Pixel typeface covering Latin and CJK scripts in several sizes, in a sans-serif style.

  17. uswds/public-sans

    Neutral sans-serif family made for U.S. government websites, free for any use.

  18. notofonts/noto-cjk

    Noto Sans and Serif CJK, the Google-distributed builds of the Source Han designs.

  19. arrowtype/recursive OFL-1.1

    Variable family spanning mono and sans styles, with casual and linear axes.

  20. adobe-fonts/source-sans OFL-1.1

    Source Sans, Adobe's open-source sans-serif family for interfaces and text.

  21. orioncactus/pretendard

    Korean sans-serif family made as a cross-platform alternative to system interface fonts.

  22. TrionesType/zhuque OFL-1.1

    Open-source Chinese Fangsong typeface project aimed at body text and TeX use.

  23. TakWolf/fusion-pixel-font MIT

    Pixel typeface that merges Ark Pixel with other open pixel fonts for wider CJK coverage.

  24. rastikerdar/vazirmatn OFL-1.1

    Persian and Arabic sans-serif family with variable weights.

  25. lxgw/LxgwNeoXiHei

    Chinese sans-serif typeface derived from IPAex Gothic, for screen and body text.

  26. notofonts/noto-fonts OFL-1.1

    Earlier home of the Noto font families for world scripts, other than CJK and emoji.

  27. adobe-fonts/source-serif OFL-1.1

    Source Serif, a text serif family with optical sizes, companion to Source Sans.

  28. lxgw/kose-font OFL-1.1

    Xiaolai, a Chinese handwriting typeface derived from SetoFont, for informal text.

  29. ButTaiwan/iansui OFL-1.1

    Traditional Chinese typeface for learners, adapted from Klee One to Taiwan's standard forms.

  30. nicoverbruggen/libron

    Serif reading typeface reworked from Readerly and Newsreader for e-readers.

  31. welai/glow-sans MIT

    CJK sans family reworked from Source Han Sans, with weight and width series.

  32. floriankarsten/space-grotesk OFL-1.1

    Proportional sans-serif derived from the Space Mono family.

  33. weiweihuanghuang/Work-Sans OFL-1.1

    Work Sans, a grotesque sans family loosely based on early grotesques.

  34. cormullion/juliamono OFL-1.1

    Monospaced font with very broad Unicode coverage for technical and scientific text.

  35. LingDong-/qiji-font OFL-1.1

    Typeface built from glyphs in Ming-dynasty woodblock-printed books.

  36. lxgw/LxgwWenkaiGB OFL-1.1

    Simplified Chinese edition of LXGW WenKai whose glyphs follow mainland China's standard forms.

  37. alerque/libertinus OFL-1.1

    Libertinus serif, sans and math fonts, forked from Linux Libertine for book and TeX typesetting.

  38. justfont/open-huninn-font

    Traditional Chinese rounded typeface designed for use in Taiwan.

  39. lxgw/LxgwNeoZhiSong

    Chinese Song (Ming) serif typeface derived from IPAmj Mincho.

  40. ichitenfont/I.Ming

    Ming typeface built on inherited character forms, for Traditional Chinese and Japanese text.

  41. georgd/EB-Garamond OFL-1.1

    Digital revival of the Garamond types shown on the Egenolff-Berner specimen sheet.

  42. Buernia/Zhudou-Sans OFL-1.1

    CJK punctuation and symbol font in Noto style, for correct marks in mixed-script text.

  43. lxgw/LxgwWenkaiTC OFL-1.1

    Traditional Chinese edition of LXGW WenKai, with glyphs adjusted towards inherited forms.

  44. ButTaiwan/genyo-font

    GenYo and Genki Serif, Ming typefaces derived from Source Han Serif, in Taiwan and inherited-form versions.

  45. ButTaiwan/genryu-font

    GenRyu Serif, a slender Ming typeface derived from Source Han Serif with a lead-type feel.

  46. Fitzgerald-Porthmouth-Koenigsegg/Plangothic_Project MIT

    Supplementary font filling CJK extension blocks missing from Source Han Sans, with mainland glyph forms.

  47. takushun-wu/WenJinMincho

    Large-character-set Songti typeface covering rare and extension CJK characters, under the OFL.

  48. clauseggers/Playfair OFL-1.1

    Playfair: open-source high-contrast serif family with optical sizes, covering Latin and Cyrillic.

  49. skosch/Crimson OFL-1.1

    Crimson Text, an old-style book typeface for setting long passages.

  50. cyrealtype/Lora-Cyrillic OFL-1.1

    Lora, a variable text serif with Latin and Cyrillic, suited to books and long reading.

  51. aliftype/amiri OFL-1.1

    Arabic Naskh body-text typeface modelled on the Bulaq Press type, with a Latin companion.

  52. takushun-wu/WenYuanFonts

    Sans, serif and rounded fonts reworked from Source Han for Simplified Chinese and TeX typesetting.

  53. GuiWonder/Shanggu OFL-1.1

    CJK fonts based on Source Han with inherited, old-style character forms.

  54. klepas/open-baskerville GPL-3.0

    Open revival of Fry's Baskerville, an eighteenth-century English book type.

  55. ayaka14732/FanWunMing OFL-1.1

    Ming-style font that displays Simplified Chinese text as Traditional, handling one-to-many character cases.

  56. MaruTama/Mengshen-pinyin-font OFL-1.1

    Open-source Chinese typeface that sets pinyin above each character, with the tools used to build it.

  57. rosettatype/yrsa-rasa OFL-1.1

    Yrsa and Rasa: open text typefaces for Latin and Gujarati, designed for long-form reading.

  58. chiron-fonts/chiron-sung-hk OFL-1.1

    Traditional Chinese Song typeface balancing Hong Kong standard forms with printing conventions.

  59. l10n-tw/cwtex-q-fonts GPL-2.0

    Corrected TrueType builds of the cwTeX Chinese fonts: Ming, Hei, Kai, Fangsong and Yuan.

  60. noirblancrouge/Formera OFL-1.1

    Digitisation of an early Futura lead type held by La Cambre's typography department.

  61. GuiWonder/MoonStarsKai OFL-1.1

    Old-form kaishu typeface derived from Klee One, modelled on a Ming edition of Hongwu Zhengyun.

  62. lxgw/Pengli OFL-1.1

    Pengli Kai: open kaishu typeface derived from LXGW WenKai, with glyphs following China's standard for printing ancient books.

  63. Tsao-Tung/Chienchia OFL-1.1

    Jianjia Kai: traditional Chinese typeface based on Klee One, following the standard glyph table for printing ancient books.

Tools

  1. fontforge/fontforge

    Free desktop font editor for drawing glyphs and generating OpenType and TrueType fonts.

  2. fonttools/fonttools MIT

    Python library and command-line tools for reading, editing and subsetting font files.

  3. chanind/hanzi-writer MIT

    JavaScript library that animates Chinese character stroke order and runs writing quizzes.

  4. zerosoul/chinese-colors MIT

    Web cheatsheet of Chinese traditional colours with their names and colour values.

  5. nevertoday/zhongguo-traditional-colors GPL-3.0

    Swatch browser for Chinese traditional colours, with notes on their names and sources.

  6. adobe-type-tools/afdko

    Adobe's command-line toolkit for building and checking OpenType fonts, used to build Source Han.

  7. fontra/fontra GPL-3.0

    Browser-based font editor for drawing and editing type designs, including variable fonts.

  8. shanleiguang/vYinn MIT

    Tool for designing Chinese seal impressions of the kind stamped in classical books.

  9. NightFurySL2001/CJK-character-count MIT

    Counts the CJK characters a font covers against Unicode blocks and Chinese encoding standards.

  10. garywill/cc-visualize MIT

    Shows simplified, traditional and variant relations between Chinese characters, using OpenCC and Unicode data.

  11. sxzz/hanji

    Compares how the same Chinese character is printed in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Korea.

  12. cihai/cihai MIT

    Python library for looking up CJK characters in Unihan and other dictionary datasets.

Lists

  1. ubuwaits/beautiful-web-type MIT

    A guide to well-made open-source typefaces, with specimens and pairing examples.

  2. wordshub/free-font

    Free fonts for commercial use, mostly Chinese, each traced to its licence source.

  3. jaywcjlove/free-font MIT

    Free Chinese and English fonts cleared for commercial use, each with licence notes.

  4. brabadu/awesome-fonts

    Curated links to free fonts, type foundries, font tools and typography reading.

  5. Jolg42/awesome-typography CC0-1.0

    Curated links on digital typography: font tools, specifications, type design and web type.

  6. georgeblck/art-datasets

    Curated list of art datasets for machine learning and of museum open-access collections.

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