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24 alternatives to Hype for Type

25,000 beautifully handcrafted fonts from top designers

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hype for Type launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Fonts In Use▲103

   Type in the real world: an amazing archive of typography.

   2014 · fontsinuse.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Type Genius▲158

   Find the perfect font combo for your next project

   2014 · canva.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Type to Design▲233

   An Instagram-generated font

   2015 · typetodesign.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   2015 Design Tools▲237

   Results from survey of 4,000+ designers on their fave tools.

   2015 · its alternatives →

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   FontPark▲125

   The web's largest archive of free fonts

   2014 · fontpark.com · its alternatives →

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   Input▲97

   Fonts for Code

   2015 · its alternatives →

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   Fonts in the Wild▲213

   Find the perfect free or paid font for your next project ✨

   2020 · fontsinthewild.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Discover.typography▲88

   Discover great fonts through themes.

   2014 · typography.com · its alternatives →

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   Just My Type▲65

   History of Fonts from Origins to Our Days

   2016 · templatemonster.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Handy Fonts▲133

    Hand drawn fonts for your designs & products

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Font Inspiration▲176

    A hand picked gallery of fonts type & lettering

    2017 · fontinspiration.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Font Awesome▲173

    A font of scalable vector icons

    2014 · fortawesome.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Type Detail▲120

    A detailed look at fonts (e.g. Apple's new "San Francisco")

    2015 · typedetail.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Metaflop▲172

    Design your own fonts for free

    2015 · metaflop.com · its alternatives →

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    Typendium▲111

    Discover the history behind the world's greatest typefaces

    2014 · typendium.com · its alternatives →

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    Typographic Project▲141

    Offers inspiration for using Google’s font library

    2014 · femmebot.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Mononoki Typeface▲148

    Font for programming and code review

    2016 · madmalik.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Fontstore▲74

    A font subscription service for designers

    2017 · fontstore.com · its alternatives →

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    FontFont▲92

    World’s largest library of original contemporary typefaces.

    2014 · fontshop.com · its alternatives →

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    Fontstand▲144

    Try fonts for free or rent them by the month for desktop use

    2015 · fontstand.com · its alternatives →

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    Type Foundry Index▲98

    I started type.lol in 2015 with a friend as a simple list of independent type foundries — basically a styled airtable doc. I'm a designer and I kept running into the same problem: I'd want to explore type beyond the usual distributors, end up with 30 tabs open, and lose track of what I'd already looked at. The list helped but it wasn't enough. I've since rebuilt it from scratch as a proper app. It now indexes 800+ foundries from 61 countries, 14k typefaces, and 1,500 designers. No signup required to browse. No ads, no sales, no commissions — it embeds actual foundry websites in iframes so…

    2018 · type.lol · its alternatives →

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    fonticons▲113

    Web fonts made easy from the makers of Font Awesome

    2014 · fortawesome.com · its alternatives →

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    Beautiful Web Type▲6

    The best typefaces from the Google fonts directory

    2016 · hellohappy.org · its alternatives →

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    TypeRider▲69

    Uncover the history and secrets of Fonts & Characters.

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →