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Life & fun · March 15, 2014

Brick

Webfonts that actually look good.

Brick launched on March 15, 2014 with 82 votes, #226 of 1,224 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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What it does

Brick is an open-source webfont service that serves fonts in their original form for high quality rendering across all browsers.

We don’t modify or subset the font in any way, so they are rendered the way they were meant to be seen. Fonts are served through Fastly's industry-leading CDN network and supported by Linode's reliable infrastructure. Brick is entirely open source, so in addition to being free, anyone interested can contribute to the project. In the age of the Internet, we've found ourselves in yet another typographic battle. In an effort to speed up loading times, we've compressed fonts, and along the way, we've lost much of the quality of typography in found in other media. Let's change that. The fonts served by Brick are clones of the original, converted without modification to WOFF format for high…from brick.im

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