Advice on Open Source Fonts for PDF-Based Project

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  • urw-base35-fonts

    Repo for URW++ base 35 font set

  • FiraSans

    Fira is a large Open Font typeface family licensed under OFL

  • I think you might be taking the wrong approach here. You're right, some devices (anything that isn't Mac or Windows) don't have the "base 14" fonts available, but they don't need to if you just use embedded fonts in the generated PDFs. Any OFL-licensed font can be freely distributed with your app, and can be embedded in the PDFs generated by your app. Like all licenses you should read it yourself and not take my word for it, of course.

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  • Google Fonts

    Font files available from Google Fonts, and a public issue tracker for all things Google Fonts

  • Nearly all of the ~1,500 font families in the Google Fonts library are OFL-licensed. That's a lot of options. You could also license a commercial font for a project like this, but this type of usage is called "server" licensing, and it's usually very expensive because users that haven't purchased their own license for the font will be able to generate documents in that font.

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