Buyer guides
Editorial roundups ranking the best open-source typefaces for the jobs designers actually do — twenty fonts per guide, real design commentary on every entry, live specimens for all of them.
5 guides · 100 ranked typefaces
The 20 best Google Fonts for headings
A working designer's shortlist of open-source heading typefaces — chosen for presence, range, and reliability across web and print work.
Read the guide · 20 typefaces ranked →The 20 best Google Fonts for body text
Open-source text typefaces engineered for sustained reading — vetted for digital legibility, language support, and print-grade typography.
Read the guide · 20 typefaces ranked →The 20 best Google Fonts for display
Statement typefaces from the open-source catalog — designed to be looked at, photographed, and remembered.
Read the guide · 20 typefaces ranked →The 20 best monospace Google Fonts for coding
Fixed-width typefaces that make sense to live inside for eight hours a day — chosen for character clarity, weight range, and editor-grade rendering.
Read the guide · 20 typefaces ranked →The 20 best Google Fonts for UI design
Neutral, high-coverage sans-serifs purpose-built for product interfaces, dashboards, and design systems.
Read the guide · 20 typefaces ranked →Why ranked guides
The TypeCraft category and use-case pages give you the full open-source catalog filtered by category or job. The buyer guides collected here do something different: they take a strong editorial position on which twenty fonts in each category are worth your time, and they explain why. They are the single page we wish existed when we sat down to choose a typeface for a real project — a working designer\'s shortlist with the rationale included.
Each guide ranks twenty open-source families against the same evaluation framework: presence at the size the use case demands, weight range, language coverage, performance characteristics on real first-paint connections, and the unspoken question of "would a working studio actually ship this." The result is closer to an editorial review than a search-result page. If you want the raw filtered catalog instead, the use-case hubs give you everything that matches each job, in alphabetical order.