Keep in mind that getting your hands on a premium font does not mean you have the legal right to use it. It's probably really hard to check, but I personally wouldn't use a pirated font for professional use. It should, however, be fine for personal use. I am not responsible for any legal action taken against you.
Any search engine should work with this method.
- Choose the font you want to download. Googling for specific types of fonts may help.
- You might even find that the font is free to download!
- Search the font like this:
[Font name].ttfor[Font name].otf- You can add
site:vk.com,site:github.com, orsite:onlinewebfonts.comin your search in order to broaden your search results.
- You can add
- Click on one of the links and click Download/View Raw (GitHub).
- If it's in an archive file (
.zip,.rar,.7z, etc.) you may need software to extract it. I recommend NanaZip on Windows, PeaZip on MacOS, and whatever you DE comes with on Linux. - Some may be an archive file but you'd have to rename it in order to access it (Some fonts on VK need you to do this). Enable file extensions if you're on Windows and follow what the page you're pirating the font from says.
- If it's in an archive file (
FMHY has a font CSE. You can check it out here and use it to search your font.
FMHY has a lot of sites that can be used (to download fonts). While not all of them are sites with pirated fonts, it can still be very useful for font finding. You can check it out here.
- u/Bebhio - Making the original Reddit thread.
- I made this Rentry because I felt like it could've added more options for font downloading. Bebhio has been inactive on Reddit as a whole for ~5 years now.
- FMHY - The CSE and having a list of font sites.
License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
End of guide.