15 August 2026•Font Guides
Free alternatives to Helvetica that actually work
Helvetica is expensive and everywhere. Here are the free, open-source fonts that fill the same role, and when each one makes sense.
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How font identification actually works, which free fonts stand in for which paid ones, and what a licence really allows.
15 August 2026•Licensing
Font licensing, explained without the legalese
What "free for commercial use" actually means, what the OFL allows, and the licensing mistakes that cost designers money.
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20 August 2026•Engineering
How image font identification works behind the scenes
An inside look at browser shape vector extraction, stroke contrast measurement, and letterform fingerprint matching algorithms.
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24 August 2026•Font Guides
Free alternatives to Futura, Gotham, and Proxima Nova
The best geometric open-source font families (Jost*, Montserrat, Outfit, Plus Jakarta Sans) to replace premium commercial typefaces.
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