README.md

Dafonts Free Dataset

This is the git repository associated the dafonts-free dataset. A dataset constructed of fonts labeled as 100% Free and Public domain / GPL / OFL on https://www.dafont.com/ with .ttf and .otf extensions.

This repository includes the python code used to collect and organize the dataset.

The dataset it's self is available as a zip file containing a .csv file with font metadata including filename, base_font_name, file_format, creator, category, and theme.

Dataset is provided as-is (stated in the license) and if possible credit the creators the fonts in any project you use this dataset for.

Dataset

sha1sum dafonts-free-v1.zip
6c7897c5a3b7f1e24143bf1db19373f2d2e16393  dafonts-free-v1.zip

sha256sum dafonts-free-v1.zip
fcbc92ef45e39eec18e694d2d4a0b1c8e8fc84b004e23ec9b3708663e9b63c0f  dafonts-free-v1.zip

GitHub Release

link: https://github.com/duskvirkus/dafonts-free/releases/tag/v1.0.0

wget https://github.com/duskvirkus/dafonts-free/releases/download/v1.0.0/dafonts-free-v1.zip

Internet Archive

link: https://archive.org/details/dafonts-free-v1

wget https://archive.org/download/dafonts-free-v1/dafonts-free-v1.zip

gdown

link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CVczE86Vg3KIlXFuPOGu3Y_zGZHJ-6VV

gdown --id 1CVczE86Vg3KIlXFuPOGu3Y_zGZHJ-6VV

Kaggle

link: https://www.kaggle.com/duskvirkus/dafonts-free

Running Scripts

Setup

Install chrome/chromium

Get driver from https://sites.google.com/chromium.org/driver/

conda create -n dafont-scraper python=3.8
conda activate dafont-scraper
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

python create_font_list.py --help

python download.py --help

python dist.py --help

Citation

@misc{dafonts-free,
  title         = {Dafonts Free Dataset},
  year          = {6 March 2022},
  url           = {https://github.com/duskvirkus/dafonts-free}
  author        = {D. Virkus},
}

Other

Papers with Code Link: https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/dafonts-free