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TypoPRO [Ralf S. Engelschall]

TypoPRO is at once a repository of free fonts and a site that offers recommendations. Started in 2013, it is continuously updated by its founder, Dr. Ralf S. Engelschall (Munich, Germany), b. 1972. Dr. ret. nat. Dipl.-Inf. Univ. Ralf S. Engelschall is the the founder of the popular Open Source software organizations Apache Software Foundation, OpenSSL, OpenPKG and OSSP. He is an active developer in Apache, FreeBSD and GNU software development projects. He studied computer science at TU Munchen (class of 1999) and obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Augsburg in 2018.

In 2020, TypoPRO consisted of 1613 individual fonts or 182 hand-picked font families. He provides this table of his favorite fonts in the collection:

Sans Serif:	Slab Serif:	Serif:	Monospaced:	Script:	Display:
Fira Sans	Roboto Slab	Merriweather	DejaVu Sans Mono	Handlee	Bebas Neue
Roboto	Aleo	Droid Serif	Source Code Pro	Journal	Overlock
Source Sans Pro	Bitter	Lora	Anonymous Pro	Delius	Yanone Kaffesatz
Open Sans	Andada	Source Serif Pro	Latin Modern Mono	Kalam	Poetsen
Lato	Crete Round	Libre Baskerville	Fira Mono	Nautilus Pompilius	Quando

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