Google Fonts vs Typekit

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What is Google Fonts? Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography. A library of 915 free licensed fonts, an interactive web directory for browsing the library, and APIs for conveniently using the fonts via CSS and Android.

What is Typekit? An online service offering high-quality fonts. It is an online service which offers a subscription library of high-quality fonts. The fonts may be used directly on websites or synced via Adobe Creative Cloud to applications on the subscriber's computers.

Google Fonts and Typekit belong to "Fonts" category of the tech stack.

According to the StackShare community, Google Fonts has a broader approval, being mentioned in 35 company stacks & 19 developers stacks; compared to Typekit, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

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    What is Google Fonts?

    A library of 915 free licensed fonts, an interactive web directory for browsing the library, and APIs for conveniently using the fonts via CSS and Android.

    What is Typekit?

    It is an online service which offers a subscription library of high-quality fonts. The fonts may be used directly on websites or synced via Adobe Creative Cloud to applications on the subscriber's computers.

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    What are some alternatives to Google Fonts and Typekit?
    Font Awesome
    You can get vector icons and social logos on your website with it. It is a font that's made up of symbols, icons, or pictograms that you can use in a webpage, just like a font.
    Typography
    It is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. This term is also applied to the style, arrangement, and appearance of the letters, numbers, and symbols created by the process.
    Heroicons
    It is a set of 450+ free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for you to use in your web projects. Available as basic SVG icons and via first-party React and Vue libraries.
    JetBrains Mono
    It is the free and open-source typeface for developers that makes it easier to read code.
    FreeType
    It is a free, high-quality and portable Font engine. It is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images) of most vector and bitmap font formats.
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